On Friday evening I decided that I would fold a mess-load of paper cranes for our engagement shoot. Initially, I was shooting for as many as I could get. In my over-achieving brain I thought “1000,” but that was more of a… nutso idea. Somebody would have to pick up said 1000 cranes each time we used them.
Why paper cranes? They’re something we want to incorporate into the wedding, and there will definitely be (at least) 1000 for the reception. I’ve also been doing origami since I was teeny, and let’s face it, I (and we!) love color, and what better way to throw a whole bunch of color into an engagement shoot than a bunch of colorful paper cranes? I rest my case.
After almost 2 days of folding, I ended up folding, well, I lost count. But I did fold a whole mess-load. There are a bunch of tiny blue guys that are about 1.5 inches long, a whole whole whole bunch of rainbow guys that are about 6 inches long, and 5 cranes that are, no joke, bigger than the cat. It was so nice to finally MAKE something for the wedding and have it be so fun and colorful. It made me feel like a little less of a fail-bride.
I have made a photo-tutorial of how to make them, but I just realized that without matching diagrams it’s just too dizzying. I’ll get on that as soon as I can breathe correctly again. (Stuffy nose != good drawerings).
So, without further ado, THE CRANES!
I probably went a little overboard, but more after the jump…
by Lauren
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