{"id":6812,"date":"2010-05-18T07:21:06","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T11:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=6812"},"modified":"2010-05-18T07:52:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T11:52:00","slug":"book-wedding-ring-holder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=6812","title":{"rendered":"Book Ring Holder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/ringholder-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Ring Holder\" title=\"Ring Holder\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>Brittni of paper n stitch used a vintage book to hold the rings at her wedding, and has posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/papernstitchblog.com\/2010\/05\/04\/tutorial-vintage-book-wedding-ring-holder\/\">tutorial<\/a> for creating a similar book.  I like her suggestion of choosing a book that&#8217;s meaningful to the couple (I think goth couples would get extra points for using a copy of <i>Dracula<\/i>), although I quail at the idea of using a true vintage book.*<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, thrift stores usually have loads of cheap hardback books that aren&#8217;t quite as painful to deface.  Depending upon the amount of effort you want to invest (one advantage of this project is that it&#8217;s quick), you could paint the exterior of the book to match your wedding colors or even cover it with matching fabric.<\/p>\n<p>You could also decorate the page that&#8217;s revealed when the book is open to the little &#8220;ring box:&#8221; Decoupage pictures of the couple or other relevant photos, glue a printout of a medieval manuscript page over the text, or simply paint the page a solid color.  There are lots of ways to personalize this kind of project, and the book could even be displayed as a memento after the ceremony is over.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an interesting change from the traditional pillow, and it&#8217;s nice that the basic project is so simple whilst still leaving lots of room for embellishment.<\/p>\n<p><i>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.craftzine.com\/\">CRAFT<\/a>)<\/i><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<br \/>\n*I have a fairly reverential attitude toward books, and the idea of defacing one makes me quiver a little.  Shadaughter can tell you about the high school English teacher she had who thought marginalia was just wonderful and encouraged the students to write in their books&#8230;and who granted her special dispensation to use sticky notes instead because I was threatening to drop by the school and chat about the subject.  Don&#8217;t f$#&#038;k with my books, is what I&#8217;m saying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brittni of paper n stitch used a vintage book to hold the rings at her wedding, and has posted a tutorial for creating a similar book. I like her suggestion of choosing a book that&#8217;s meaningful to the couple (I think goth couples would get extra points for using a copy of Dracula), although I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-in-the-aisle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6812"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6894,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6812\/revisions\/6894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}