Recently I made a Birdcage Wedding Card Holder on the cheap for my cousin’s wedding and I was really pleased with how it turned out. I was asked to procure a card holder of some sort for my cousin’s wedding. When she asked me to do this favor my aunt said that she trusted me to do whatever I would like, and that I could in fact cover a shoe box with pretty paper and cut a hole in the top. As a matter of fact, being a preschool teacher by trade, I am very good at covering shoe boxes with paper and making them pretty (think valentine’s day boxes x 20). But that idea was not appealing to me for this wedding. I wanted to do something divine.
From the very beginning I had birdcages on the brain. I surfed the web tirelessly, looking for ideas and inspiration, and couldn’t find a good DIY project. I did however find the “monster box”, and when I threatened to use that my cousin said “go for it!”. But no. It had to be pretty. I got pretty frustrated because I couldn’t figure out how to make this gorgeous card holder that was in my head. so I went shopping and looked at regular ol’ white card boxes that they sell in the wedding aisles of craft stores. They were $50!!! That’s crazy! They were plain white boxes with a hole in the top! It was while I was at one of these stores that I found this:
