We just spent the over a year DIYing our way to our destination beach wedding, and today we’re showing you ALL of the decor (and more) we made. BUT, there’s a twist: we’re not just showcasing pretty projects, we’re JUDGING them, too!
We didn’t discuss our ratings ahead of time and didn’t always agree, making for a hilarious and honest look at our DIY wedding experience.
We just spent over a year DIYing our way to our destination beach wedding, and now we’re showing you ALL of the Coastal Elegant DIY wedding decor (and more) we made. BUT there’s a twist: we’re not just showcasing pretty projects, we’re JUDGING them, too!
That’s right, in true JZ and Daniel style, we’re going to give you our HONEST opinion of whether the wedding DIY project was worth the time and effort. We didn’t discuss our ratings ahead of him and didn’t always agree – ha!
So join us for a hilarious ride as we review every one of the 30+ DIY beach wedding projects we made and offered an unfiltered opinion on whether we’d ever do it again. Expect genuine laughs, candid moments, and an abundance of inspiration for your own beach wedding.
See Which DIYs are a YASSSS and Which are a HARD PASS:
HUGE thanks to Jeff at Weddings & Events by Jeff, our PHENOMENAL planner, for walking this journey with us and bringing our vision to life flawlessly on the big day. We couldn’t have done it without you!
Also, shoutout to our AMAZINGLY talented photographer, Amber Fletcher. The VAST majority of photos in this post and in the recap video are her amazing work, (though we did have to supplement with some additional ones and alter a few for format in the video).
🛒 Tools and Materials (most links = affiliate links):
The list below doesn’t include allllllll the tools and materials we used across all the projects, but it does capture the major ones. We’ll include a detailed list for tools and materials for each project as those tutorials come out. We also included our Amazon idea lists at the end for some of our fave DIY materials and decor items we found there while planning our beach wedding. 🙂
You can get up to $500 off a Glowforge with our GLOWFORGE REFERRAL LINK. We’ll get a little something too, which will enable us to keep creating content!
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💒 Check out Wedding Central! 👰🏻🤵🏻♂️
Wedding Central is THE hub for all of our DIY wedding content, and it’s going to be growing by the week! Be sure to bookmark that page or follow our blog to get updates when we post new projects. And if you saw one in here that you want to see sooner rather than later, let us know, and we’ll prioritize the ones with the most interest!
We are a member of a few affiliate and/or influencer programs, which means that we earn a commission when you click on certain links or use our codes. You don’t pay anything extra for the items you buy; we just get credit for referring you!