Water Bottle Labels & Unity Candle

So I ran some errands today and spent my afternoon doing a few WR things. My first stop on my errands was to Office Max to pick up full sheet labels. Knottie LauraR posted a great step by step instruction guide on how to make DIY water bottle labels last week and while our ceremony and reception are both indoors, I thought making my own personalized water bottles would be a nice touch for our OOT bags. So with her template she emailed me last week, the instructions, and my full sheet labels I made about 48, enough for 2 cases of water and about how many OOT bags I will be making. Here's my final product, I still need the water bottles though, but those will be bought in Vermont the week before the wedding most likely.
I also stopped by my favorite store Michael's and picked up a nifty new pair of craft scissors called Honey Bee, I used them to cut my monogram squares for my belly bands for the invitations and I am super pleased with my purchase. They were a little on the pricey side, $10.99, but I had a 40% off coupon and figured $6 or so wasn't too bad, supposedly they are stick resistant, so we'll see if they do the trick when I cut all the labels. Speaking of the monogram squares I finally got them all taped to the backing and cut them all, so now I can officially start the last phase of the invitations, the belly bands and then I will be done! All I will have left is addressing them all, although that may take me forever.

Finally, I made our unity candle. I had bought the classic linen white pillar candle and the two taper candles from Michael's forever ago, I think total they cost me like $6 all together. I then got a sheet of 12 x 12 velum paper from the open stock, about $0.59 and a spool of the $1 ribbon in pink, kind of a satin and organza. I made my layout for the velum on Publisher, knowing that the paper would be cut down to 8.5 x 11, I then measured and knew I would need the width to be about 6.5 inches instead of the 8.5, so I adjusted the margins, made my printable area 6.5 x 11 on landscape, and cut and pasted in my cherry blossom graphic and my monogram and found a good bible verse that was short and sweet to put on there. I made everything in our colors and fonts and made sure everything was centered on the page, and printed to the velum in my home inkjet printer. I let the paper dry overnight though because I have heard that it will smear if it isn't completely dried before handing. Today, I cut down the velum about an inch or so on each top and bottom and then wrapped it around the candle and taped it to itself and the candle with some regular Scotch tape. I then took my ribbon and wrapped it around the top and bottom of the velum and taped it to the velum and candle. To finish it all off I tied the same ribbon in bows around each taper. And voila! Unity candle for about $8 for the set! I also got the holder at Michael's too with a 50% off coupon for $8 a while back, so the whole set up came out to about $16, not bad if I do say so myself!