Wedding candles

Wedding candles with their own hands can producea couple in love or one of the guests as a gift. A whole wedding set can be obtained if the wedding candles are decorated in the same way as wedding glasses and a wedding bottle of champagne. Such a set can be a wonderful gift for young people from the needlewoman.

Why are wedding candles needed? Candles are an accessory that is important inwedding ceremony. So, there are wedding candles: they are used during the sacrament of the wedding, and then kept by the couple for life as one of the symbols of the strength of the family union. Wedding candles are issued modestly.

Also candles during the wedding are used and for the ceremony of lighting a family hearth. In this case, the candles are decorated richer thanwedding. For the ceremony of lighting a family hearth, it usually takes 3 candles: two thinner, each of which is held by the bride and groom, and another thick candle, which will symbolize the family hearth.

To make wedding candles with your own hands, you can choose one of 2 main ways: either decorate ready-made candles, or "from scratch" to make candles from molten wax or candle mass.

Decoration of ready candles - an easier way, but in this casewe must confine ourselves to the available shapes and sizes of candles. Making wedding candles "from scratch" is a little more complicated, but the result is even more individual.

So, in order to make wedding candles with their own hands "from scratch" three forms, corresponding to the size of future candles, enough to fill these shapes with the amount of candle mass (you can get by melting ordinary white candles), as well as any decor to taste.

As forms for wedding candles suitable cardboard boxes, for example, or tin cans. In each prepared form by centerpoured a little molten candle mass, which fixes the lower end of the candle wick. The upper end of the wick is attached to the pencil, and then the pencil is placed on the mold in such a way that the wick is positioned strictly vertically.

Further in the form all the necessary candle mass pours out. Forms are left until the candles are completely frozen. After the candles have hardened, you can take them out of the molds and start decorating.

How to decorate wedding candles? The choice of jewelry is huge. So, you can use lace, ribbons, chains, polymer clay or cold porcelain, beautiful wrapping paper, cloth scraps, beads, glass beads, beads, rhinestones, various natural materials: shells, pebbles, cereals, coffee grains, etc., for decorating wedding candles. e.

You can decorate wedding candles with your own hands in many ways, for example, modeling, painting, decoupage. As a theme for decorating wedding candlesOf course, the theme of love is used, and images or small figures of hearts, pigeons, wedding rings can symbolize love. Even in the decoration of wedding candles you can use a pattern of flowers, bows.

By the way, to fasten ornaments on wedding candlesWith your hands you can use thin needles, as well as glue. To decor, "planted" on the adhesive, held tight, you can pre-surface the candles with acrylic or stained-glass paint. Paint is better to choose aerosol, so that the candle is covered with it evenly.

Wedding candles You can do it in a relatively short time, butmaterials for their decor are almost always at hand, so if you want to make them even on the eve of the wedding day. And yet, it is better to approach the manufacture of wedding candles seriously and in advance to think about the future pattern, coloring, etc. Only in this case wedding candles will turn out really beautiful and give young people great joy.