Wedding Shadowbox

I made a shadowbox for my son's wedding.  He got married on Saturday to a lovely girl and I wanted to give them something to remember their special day.


I made the box itself from square dowels and garden stakes. (I had run out of the dowels.) Then I covered the frame with matt-board and then wallpapered it with scrapbook paper.

I stained a Michael's Hutch and made a table.  Then I made a table cloth by fusing a piece of lace to a white backing and gluing them both onto a piece of tinfoil. This enabled me to form the tablecloth over the table so it would hang nicely.

The next step was to fill the table. The buffet dinner was to include roast beef, chicken and salmon with a variety of salads, vegetables and potatoes.  There was going to be squares tarts and cookies for dessert. I am not very experienced in making things with clay yet and food is not my specialty.  I did make the beef from clay and the macaroni and tomatoes for the salads, but the chicken was an eraser that I cut in slices and the tossed salad was buffalo snow that I shook in a bag with green paint. I used gallery glass to give the shiny wet look.  I made the squares and the cupcakes from a variety of items. 

The cake and the plate of cookies was a gift from Debbie.  I knew I would find a place of honour for this beautiful cake.  The glasses were a gift from Rosanna. Thank you  both for helping to make this table so special.

Then I made the pictures for the walls.  The main picture was their wedding invitation for over the table. I shrunk down a lot of their family pictures and used them.

The next step was the bride's bouquet and shawl.  All I knew was that her dress was blue.  So I tried to incorporate some blue in the flowers as well as do a blue shawl to drape over the chair. Again I had to use tinfoil to make the drape and this gave a shiny look to the shawl.

The next item was the hutch.  I wanted to have all the family represented, even their dog Turner. The frames are made from charm bracelet frames. The candles are beads with a thread for a wick.

The picture over the hutch is the restaurant where the reception was held.

Beside the hutch is a calendar showing the date of the wedding. I had a hard time doing the calendar as any calendar that I could find on line would only let me print it, it would not let me shrink it down to miniature size. I finally just cut the month from the back of one of my calendars, added the year above and then added a picture of their dog Turner.

And of course any wedding has to have presents, so I made some to put in front of the hutch.

The scene is now complete and all I have to do is add the frame.  I used a picture frame and velcro to hold it in place.