100 Layer Cake: DIY Festive Wedding Streamer Backdrop
Guest Blog Monday, November 28, 2011 at 9:00AM 
We’re always excited to hear about real brides and real wedding planning projects, aren’t we? Rachel‘s super super cute wedding really came together with her “statement” project ... the streamer backdrop. We’ll let Rachel take it from here!
We knew we needed some kind of backdrop for the ceremony, because the layout of the venue had us getting married in sort of an awkward location. The backdrop would serve to make the ceremony area stand out and would also hide the french doors with their cheap vertical blinds that would otherwise be directly behind us.
We thought about painting a sheet, just as we did the tablecloths, and I still think that would have been a great option. But we liked the idea of the color and movement that the streamer backdrop would give us. I’d seen some pretty photos floating around of ribbon streamers and I was imagining something like that, but with this fringey crepe paper instead.
Please note, if you have extreme color matching needs, they will not be satisfied by the usual suppliers of cheap crepe paper. And fancy crepe paper is expensive. We decided to go with a range of colors to give us the overall effect of our color scheme (which was supposed to be teal/turquoise + coral + sunny yellow but got boiled down to blue + pink + yellow in the crepe paper world).
Supplies
Wooden dowels, in the length you need to cover (we had two 5′ dowels and three 3′ dowels) – $5
Hot glue gun + glue (already had the gun) ~ $10 on glue sticks
Crepe paper folds (I used 27 packages for a lot of coverage) $40
Additional fancy crepe paper (if desired) $50 (you don’t need as much as I bought!)
Metallic gold fringe (if desired) $25
1. Choose your materials.
I bought plenty of cheap crepe paper from
