I recently saw a picture of a bride's dress lined up with all of the female attendant's dresses. Since most wedding attire pictures are just the bride's dress, I thought that the picture was super cute and that I want to have a similar picture from my wedding. Well, if all of the dresses are going to be photographed on the hanger, they need match hangers...right?!
So, since wire names were out, I had to look to another way to dress up a hanger. I got paint pens that work on wood, cherry finished hangers at walmart, and some gold tinted tulle. I played around with design ideas on 2 of the hangers- all in all, I wasted a whole pack of 5 hangers getting everything just right (spacing, design, etc.). I decided to keep mine and the groom's simple with "Bride" and "Groom", put the bridesmaid's monograms on theirs along with "Bridesmaid" underneath and make a "Mother of the Bride" and "Mother of the Groom" hanger. The gold paint pen didn't stick to the finish of the wood as well as the white (i have no idea why) so I traced over the gold a few times to get a thick enough line. After the paint was dry, I simply cut strips of tulle and tied bows around the hook part of the hanger. You could glue the bows to the hook but I want to be able to turn the hooks to hang the dresses up and I didn't want the bows to turn too.
The beginning stages of the project:
And here's my finished product! I hope that all of the ladies enjoy their hanger past the wedding to hang their dress on in their closet at home
