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"Afternoon ladies! You might recognize my name from a few pages over on the fashion blog. I haven&amp;#x27;t piped up too much here on weddings central because--wait for it--much like the lovely Engagement Chick and nearly every other gal on glamour.com, I&amp;#x27;ve been kinda nutty planning my wedding too! Part of the monumental time-suck is that I&amp;#x27;d planned on making most of the decor schtuff myself (an artsy only child leads to a DIY-happy adult) including these bright little doodads: Aren&amp;#x27;t they sweet? They&amp;#x27;re festive little &amp;quot;flags&amp;quot; (these bear the typed-out initials of my fiance and I) that can be popped in cocktails, juices, etc. To whip them up, all you need is a few sheets of bright paper, some glue and a handful of those tiny wooden drink stirrers swiped from your local coffee shop. (Since the wood stirrers are, uh, complimentary, I&amp;#x27;d even say my 5-cent estimate is a little high.) I got the idea months ago from Style Me Pretty and thought that I&amp;#x27;d be able to have a spare weekend to plunk down and type dozens of &amp;#x27;em out but I haven&amp;#x27;t had a spare weekend since &amp;#x27;97--or so it seems. That&amp;#x27;s why I enlisted the help of Megan, one of my awesome bridesmaids. (She offered to help, really!) I thought that maybe she&amp;#x27;d type up a few on her vintage typewriter, but then she went all Superwoman-meets-Martha Stewart on me. Not only did she type, cut and glue hundreds of the cocktail flags for the wedding in just a few days, she made a bunch more for the bridal shower that she and the rest of Team Bride threw me this past weekend! Megan had the stirrers sitting in a cute cup by the bar so that my girlfriends could accessorize their spiked lemonade--she even stuck a few in the big-as-your-head cupcakes, which made them look extra festive. (Take a gander at the flag-accented sweets, plus a few more shower snaps here.) It was amazing what a big impact these little thingamabobs made on the party scene. Megs even created a matching pennant flag banner that cutely stated &amp;quot;Susan&amp;#x27;s Getting Hitched!&amp;quot; (Check it out below.) Sigh. She&amp;#x27;s the freakin&amp;#x27; best. That&amp;#x27;s me, taking a brief pause from my semi-embarrassing bridal shower games. Seriously, we played the Newlywed Game--the 1968 version--and I kinda sucked. I mean I don&amp;#x27;t know my guy&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;favorite kind of cobbler,&amp;quot; do you? I repeat, it was the 1968 version. Anyhow, onward: Got any good DIY ideas to share? (And by &amp;quot;good&amp;quot; I mean speedy, painless and very pretty.) Do you like the pennant flag banner or the flags better? Meanwhile if you&amp;#x27;re in the mood and have some time on your hands... *Let&amp;#x27;s Decoupage It Up *Make Your Hand-Addressed Invites Look Sharp *Wing It With Shower-Worthy Butterfly Decals *Ditch the Bouquet. Carry Hearts Instead More Ways to Get Glamour You could win $50,000 just for registering or logging in to Glamour.com! Sign up for Glamour.com&amp;#x27;s Style Tips of the Week and Beauty Tip of the Day newsletters! AddGlamour to your iGoogle homepage. Follow Glamour on Twitter. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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