Lotta and Tuomo are your definition of a DIY couple. They live in a lovely old church that they have been renovating for their home for about a year now. The couple is very budget savvy and crafty and that shows in their DIY wedding with plenty of homemade food and decorations.

In the spirit of DIY wedding the crafty couple made many of the decorations by themselves. The bride crafted thousand origami cranes to be used with the painted tree branch as a reception centrepiece. Budget savvy couple also used Ikea in their decorations (Knoppa sheets anyone?). Lotta let us into the secret that the last decorations to go up were the beautiful fairy lights in the reception room after midnight the night before wedding. It’s lucky they had the party at their home so the bed was close! 

The theme color for their wedding was mint which has been favorite color of Lotta for years. It’s also very prominent color in their home decoration which of course helped to tie the wedding to the reception at home.

Mint could be found for example in bride’s shoes, grooms bow tie and suspenders and serviettes. Sweetest little detail was the couple’s dog Rudolf’s matching mint colored bow tie.

Wonderful little details were the lego couple cake topper and a social media hashtag that nodded towards Star Wars movie series.  After church the quests blew bubbles instead of rice. The lovely Hooray! wands were ordered and they were one of the bride’s favorite details. The first dance was one the most loved Finnish vintage ballade ‘Romanssi’ which was something the bride had dreamed about since she was little.