Quickie DIY: Wedding Song Prints

Michael and I are coming up on our fourth anniversary this week so I’ve been remembering our wedding and flipping through photos a little each day. It’s hard to believe we’ve been married for four years already. And even harder to believe we’ve been in Ireland for nearly that long! Who would have thought?!

I’ve been wanting to turn snippets from the songs we danced to at our wedding into artwork for a while now. Michael and I danced to By Your Side by Sade, which is a little cheesy, but we love that song! I asked my father to choose a song for us to dance to, and he broke my heart by picking Love and Happiness by Emmylou Harris and Mark Knopfler. I cry every time I think of that song, especially since we moved so far away from home after the wedding.

I decided to do the quickest barely-DIY ever. I found the quote I wanted from each song, picked a font and a color I liked, and made a blank document in Photoshop (you could easily use Microsoft Word!). Then I added the words, centered them, and sent them off to the local print shop to be printed! I printed two copies of one (to send to my dad) and one copy of the other – and it only cost 4 euro!

I haven’t quite decided how I’m going to frame or hang them (which is why you are getting photos of them on my bed), but I’m thrilled with how they turned out. I love that both songs have a message about home, since I’m a pretty homey type gal. I actually think they’d make lovely prints for a nursery some day!