The Best Things to Buy at IKEA for your DIY Wedding

There’s no match for the ingenuity of a creative bride with a tiny budget. That’s when you get brilliant solutions, like the ten included in this post that use common IKEA marketplace finds to create beautiful DIY wedding details.

These tiny plastic frames are a bargain and can be used all over the wedding to share messages (like in the shot at top from IKEA via My Little Secrets, or above without a paper insert in a wedding from Ruffled) or, you know, photos.

A child’s easel makes the perfect wedding signage, with a little shelf for flowers or anything else, like in this bash from Style Me Pretty.

Use these lacy votives as is, or embellish them with a bit of spray paint with instructions from The House that Lars Built.

A pretty little detail for a romantic wedding, made even more beautiful with a coat of metallic spray paint, like here in a Ruffled wedding.

Use these as a photo booth backdrop, ceremony backdrop, or behind the head table, like here on Wedding Chicks (just hang them from a photo backdrop stand).

For water, yes, or make colorful table numbers with this DIY from Almost Makes Perfect.

Use this ornate frame as a chalkboard, like far above from this Wedding Chicks wedding, or remove the backing and make it part of your photo booth props, like directly above on Style Me Pretty.

These look a heck of a lot more chic than plasticky rented napkins for right around the same price (you can get two dinner napkins from each towel), just check out this Style Me Pretty wedding.

→ The Easiest Way to Make Cloth Napkins: Start With IKEA Dish Towels

Chic and elegant, straight out of the box (and you’ll save some dough on flower centerpieces). Here they are (along with short IKEA votives) in a wedding on Ruffled.

Here’s a beautiful centerpiece idea straight from IKEA: Use an assortment of glassware to hold a few beautiful blooms.