Petal Cones: Easy or a pain to make?

I never really considered doing petal cones since we're getting married indoors at our hall, but when I was there for our menu selection the BM asked me if we were throwing anything. He said we can throw anything we want and that people do it even with indoor ceremonies... so, something I never really gave much thought to is now a possibility

I'm not entirely sure how the layout formatting works for making them, but are petal cones an easy extra or a pain to make? worth it or not?

thoughts for an indoor wedding? it may easily end up being cut out for lack of time but i'm wondering if I should now be considering them...

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i just made 300,300,201 of them. they are a pain. dont bother

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soooo easy- me and my best friend did over 50 in about an hour.

pics in my album

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I bought the doilies and attempted to do them the other day. I realized that doilies are way too flimsy and people will crush them. Ladies here have told me that vellum paper works better....so does cardstock. You need a firmer paper to help the cones keep shape to them.

I went to my florist yesterday and they are going to wrap tulle around two baskets with bows and put in petals.....my BM's can hold the baskets when everyone is walking out and ask them to take a handful to throw...I'm so excited about this!

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I think they were rather easy to make...I used tulle and regular paper, a hot glue gun, ribbon and a 'bow'.

Here are some pics....

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Posted by MattandTricia07

I think they were rather easy to make...I used tulle and regular paper, a hot glue gun, ribbon and a 'bow'.

Here are some pics....

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those came out great!! how did you format the paper to print in the right spot?

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EASY- we used doilies (sp?) and just put a sticker on them and it was done (check out my album if you want to see pics)

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i made 50 petal cones out of card stock in about 2 hours ( between cutting, rolling, and pasting) its pretty easy but then again i am not really a perfectionist.....i didnt care it they were 'perfect' i just wanted them to look nice and they did! people were pointing out the fact that you can see my clear labels i put on them with our names when i posted them on here but i really didnt care....i looked at it this way.....noone is gonna be looking close enought at the wedding to see it lol

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Posted by MattandTricia07

I think they were rather easy to make...I used tulle and regular paper, a hot glue gun, ribbon and a 'bow'.

Here are some pics....

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those came out beautiful

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here is a pic of mine i ended up using double sided tape on the inside instead of the tape on the outside cause it didnt hold well enough and they kept opening up lol

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I ordered mine pre-assembled and did some DIY on the rest. I printed our names and cut them fit the top of the cone on clear sheets of label paper and added the bow. I have pics on my home computer I can post later if you'd like. The cardstock matched our linen cardstock pretty well.

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Posted by del Rio

I ordered mine pre-assembled and did some DIY on the rest. I printed our names and cut them fit the top of the cone on clear sheets of label paper and added the bow. I have pics on my home computer I can post later if you'd like. The cardstock matched our linen cardstock pretty well.

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mari,

i'd love to see pictures. also, is there a place you recommend for cardstock? i need legal-sized pages for our programs and regular for our menus

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I wouldnt spend alot of time on them...here is why.....I made 100 and not really any got thrown at us! (We got married at reception hall and aisle was pretty short.)

Anyway...I got my doilies at the dollar store and used two at a time (because they are thin) and glued together with hot glue and a heart sticker. They took me about 1-2 hours. Here is a pic.

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Posted by Jenn04

I wouldnt spend alot of time on them...here is why.....I made 100 and not really any got thrown at us! (We got married at reception hall and aisle was pretty short.)

Anyway...I got my doilies at the dollar store and used two at a time (because they are thin) and glued together with hot glue and a heart sticker. They took me about 1-2 hours. Here is a pic.

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thanks jenn,

I was originally thinking about ones with our names on the inside but it's probably not worth the hassle, doilies are cheaper and easier and they are still very pretty

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MIne were pretty easy. I did about 60ish and I do a bit each night. I used labels for the saying, a scalloped edge scissor for the trim, and then I printed the monograms on cardstock and got a round hole punch and punched them out. I just used double sided tape for the ribbon and the monogram. Good Luck.

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Posted by bluegreen08

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Posted by del Rio

I ordered mine pre-assembled and did some DIY on the rest. I printed our names and cut them fit the top of the cone on clear sheets of label paper and added the bow. I have pics on my home computer I can post later if you'd like. The cardstock matched our linen cardstock pretty well.

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mari,

i'd love to see pictures. also, is there a place you recommend for cardstock? i need legal-sized pages for our programs and regular for our menus

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For the menus I used the ones from Michael's that said Menu on them-they came out alright- and the closest find in regular linen cardstock I found was from staples. I never got around to looking for it at paper presentation.

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it was something i considered doing, like you ... especially when NRC said it was ok to do ...

but the aisle is *really* short in their ceremony room ...

and since it was interfaith, the people from my side weren't really expecting to throw anything

we also considered ribbon wands b/c i thought they were cute.

i saved it as a project for the end .... but had a miserable time health-wise the month before my wedding, so it got cut!!!

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Posted by PreshusSmurf

it was something i considered doing, like you ... especially when NRC said it was ok to do ...

but the aisle is *really* short in their ceremony room ...

and since it was interfaith, the people from my side weren't really expecting to throw anything

we also considered ribbon wands b/c i thought they were cute.

i saved it as a project for the end .... but had a miserable time health-wise the month before my wedding, so it got cut!!!

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how long does it take to walk down the aisle? just trying to get an idea for song choices

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A friend of mine used sheets of music, I loved that idea, esp if you can use your wedding song sheet music.

I love the doily idea too.

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Here are the pics!