This post may contain affiliate links. Please see my full disclosure and privacy policy for details.
It’s hard to believe that it’s been almost 7 years since David and I married! I love looking back at our wedding, and I find that rather than the normal questions people ask like, ‘how much did you spend on your wedding’, or ‘what was your wedding theme’, they usually ask me one thing: ‘how much wedding crochet did you do?!’
My answer is simple, literally everything! I crocheted until I could crochet no more. I was awake until 1am on my actual wedding day glue-gunning and ribbon-tying to make it all happen.
I’d love to share some of our wedding crochet ideas and inspirations with you! I’m also offering a free pattern for the crochet wedding favor pouches that I had planned to make (but I ran out of time!).
This post may contain affiliate links. Please see my full disclosure and privacy policy for details.
Click here to Pin this post for later.
Our Wedding Crochet Ideas
When we were planning our wedding, we decided against a real ‘theme’ and instead aimed for a sophisticated wedding. Having everything and everyone we loved all together was the most important aspect of the day.
When we sat down to plan the wedding, crochet really wasn’t an initial part of the plan. It was about the big things like venue, food, music and guests. We decided that if we got those right then we were all good.
The idea to add crochet into the mix came as a bit of a joke when I had a quick look at the average cost of wedding flowers. Oh my gosh. I couldn’t believe it! I think I said something like ‘well I’ll just have to crochet them instead!’
Little did I know David would take me seriously. I think he was mostly excited about saving the money and not the idea of wedding crochet!
We didn’t want to spend money that we didn’t need to. We were really keen to reuse and repurpose things as much as possible. All of the yarn was from my stash, the beads and brooches from my Mum and I, the ribbon from a charity shop and the music manuscript from my old music collection.
As I said, our aim was for a simple, sophisticated wedding and so I decided to keep the colour palette fairly neutral and just to add a few embellishments to some of the pieces. My wonderful Mum produced a collection of my grandmother’s costume jewellery that was perfect for this and made it so special too.
I was so happy with the results. David saw some of the elements beforehand, but I kept my bouquet a secret from him. Weirdly, I think I would have rather had him see my dress before than my bouquet! It was wonderful because he knew how much it meant to me and he supported me every step of the way.
It might sound like it here but by no means was it a ‘crochet wedding’ – there were loads of other aspects that we made and included. But crochet was certainly an important part of it, since it’s an important part of my life.
1. Crochet Wedding Bouquet
My bouquet had cream and white crochet roses all embellished with a button or bead from my Grandmothers collection. It had music manuscript flowers, family heirloom brooches and more.
It was the item that took the longest and typically I left it until last as I wanted to make sure I had finished the others first! It was worth every second though and is a fantastic lasting memory of the day.
How to Crochet Flowers:
The flowers themselves were so simple to make. I used both acrylic and cotton yarn from my stash but would recommend either a beautiful cotton and linen blend like Cotlin from WeCrochet or perhaps something silky and luxurious like Lion Brand Truboo which is 100% Bamboo.
The great thing about a wedding bouquet of crochet flowers is that you don’t need that much yarn! You’ll be really surprised with how far it goes. You can definitely go for a more expensive yarn as you won’t need that much of it.
I crocheted a random length of crochet chain. Then I crocheted a treble (UK)/double crochet (US) in the 4th chain from the hook and in each chain to the end. I twisted it into a spiral and secured with a little dab of glue. They literally took no time at all to make.
I secured each flower onto a strand of florists wire and then used some dry foam in a bouquet holder to put them into. I added the beads, brooches and jewels and then finally wrapped the bouquet stem in ribbon and glued in place to finish.
My 5 top tips for making your own crochet wedding bouquet:
If you’re thinking about creating your own crochet bridal bouquet then here are my top tips and recommendations:
- Don’t overthink it and plan too much – go with your instinct and just create.
- Make loads and loads of flowers in different colours from your yarn stash and see how they work together for you. Then you can decide on your final arrangement.
- Think about adding other textures and craft media into the bouquet – I added music manuscript flowers as I love singing and jewels from my family too. What else do you love? What could you add?
- Give yourself time! Don’t do what I did and leave it until the last minute. Give yourself time to enjoy the process of putting it all together.
- Get all of your materials ready before trying to assemble it. It will make life a lot easier this way!
2. Wedding Crochet Buttonholes
For the buttonholes, I used exactly the same simple crochet flower design but added some dried leaves at the back for them to sit against. Again, they were all just attached to florist wire that I disguised with ribbon once I was happy with the look of them.
The wedding party all had 2 flowers in theirs but I added 3 to David’s to make it a bit more special for him.
3. Crochet Bridesmaid Bouquets and Flower Girl Hearts
We had 3 adult bridesmaids and 2 little flower girls. For the adult bridesmaids I made a much smaller version of my bouquet and added some coloured flowers in to change the look slightly.
For the little flower girls I thought a bouquet might be tricky to carry so I found some cute willow hearts and just added a few crochet flowers and ribbon to them.
They turned out brilliantly apart from the fact that I intended them to just loop them over their wrist but they spent most of the day swinging them around! Everyone found it amusing though and the flowers stayed on so they were a success!
4. Wedding Crochet Decorations – The Cake Topper
Our cake topper was another little collection of glue-gunned crochet flowers but this time in a little terracotta plant dish I already had at home. I tried to buy as little as possible to make everything and so searched high and low for things that might be useful!
I made sure that the flowers spilled over the side enough to cover the terracotta dish and literally just plonked it on top of the cake. It was so simple!
5. Crochet Cake Collar
I really wanted a sophisticated wedding cake and so felt like ‘less is more’ would be the way to go. Again, to save money we made the actual cake ourselves and my Mum and I iced it with plain white roll out icing a couple of days before the wedding.
Icing the cake was easily the most stressful part of the entire wedding process! We both ended up in tears and still can’t talk about it now. We didn’t argue at all, we both just wanted it to be perfect but icing is so tricky if you don’t know what you’re doing!
My best advise would be to practise on a smaller cake ahead of time…
6. Crochet Wedding Centrepieces
After deciding not to have any fresh flowers at the wedding we had to think of an alternative for the table centrepieces. In the end we just opted for a really simple silver candelabra and I crocheted a mandala to sit underneath them to add a little bit of colour and for another pop of wedding crochet.
They really added to the whole look of the reception and meant that we hardly spent a penny on decorations. The candelabras were our only expense that we hired from a company for the day at a really reasonable cost.
I’m honestly not sure if I ever wrote the pattern down but I definitely have the mandalas still so plan to dig them out and work out what I did for them one day to share with you!
7. Wedding Crochet Patterns – Favour Bags
I so wanted to make some little favour bags for our wedding but just ran out of time! I had the idea all set in my head and so when Simply Crochet Magazine asked me to design one for them I was delighted – I could finally make one!
It’s a simple thread mandala that you sew onto a hessian pouch, add a button and it’s done!
If you’d like to find the free pattern for the wedding crochet favour pouch then you can find it here.
Tools and materials I used for my crochet wedding decorations:
Over the years the thing I’ve been asked most about is not how I crocheted all the items, but how I constructed everything. With that in mind, I’ve put together a list of the things that I used and what I used them for.
- A hot glue gun – I used one of these for just about everything I made. I had lots of blisters to show for it too!
- Florists Wire – I used this for pretty much everything too. It was perfect for attaching each individual flower too and for joining things together.
- Dry florists foam – I used a piece of this for each bouquet I made and they are still fine now almost 7 years later!
- Bouquet holders – I also used one of these for each bouquet and then covered them with some ribbon so that you didn’t see them.
- Wire cutters – I raided the tool box for these!
So that’s it. My top 7 sophisticated wedding crochet ideas. I really hope you like them. I’ve enjoyed sharing them so much with you and hope I’ve given you some inspiration and courage to have a go at making something for your wedding or for someone else’s.
In recent years I’ve missed my wedding crochet., so every time we get invited to a wedding I’m most excited about what I can make for us to wear. I made and wore my Cynthia crochet dress to my brother’s wedding last year. I’ve made and worn many wraps and shawls to wear at weddings. And last year I made a little peacock bow tie for our boy Elliot to wear at a wedding and it was such a hit!
Join HanJan and Share Your Crochet!
It’s an honour to be able to create and share my free crochet patterns with you. I’d love to stay connected and send you regular discount codes and free patterns! Please sign up for my subscriber list to get a free gift right now!
I look forward to seeing your finished crochet projects, especially this easy crochet pattern, so please share them with me in the HanJan Crochet Facebook group or on Instagram and tag #hanjancrochet.
