Rings on the car for a wedding with their own hands

The tradition to decorate the car has its roots deep in the past. When the wedding rings were first installed on the car - no one remembers. But here in Russia the wedding was usually accompanied by a triple horse, the harness of which was decorated with ribbons, flowers and bells. Their ringing, according to the legend, drove away the evil spirit from the future family and invited all the guests to rejoice over the young. But gradually the wedding troikas gave way to "iron horses", and the desire to declare to the whole world about their happiness remained. Therefore, there was a tradition to decorate the car's bonnet with rings. The rings are decorated with the groom's car, on which he comes to the bride's house, and then to the registrar's office. This car heads the wedding cortege. The design options for the rings are huge, they are made of plastic or metal, they can be bought or rented. And you can arrange yourself. How to make rings for a car for a wedding?

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Rings to the machine with their own hands

To make the wedding rings themselves, no big expense. It is only necessary to show a little imagination. We present to your attention a master class, how to make wedding decorations on a car with your own hands.

Materials for

To create the rings we will need:

• Flexible corrugated hose or pipe length of about 2 m, preferably white.
• For decoration, you need to choose suitable artificial flowers, usually for the wedding prefer white, but it is not necessary. You can decorate and live flowers, but they will quickly wither and lose their attractive appearance.
• A plate made of thick foam, measuring approximately 25 by 45 cm.
• Ribbons of different colors for color design, or you can use for this purpose a beautiful fabric, for example, golden brocade.
• Gold foil.
• Wide white satin ribbons for fastening rings on the hood of the machine.
• If desired, you can buy bells for additional decoration.
• A small piece of beautiful fabric for covering the basis of the decoration.
• Adhesive, needle with a thread, transparent scotch, scissors and other small things for work.

How

works How to make rings for a wedding car for yourself? The work progress is as follows:

• We divide the hose into two parts: one is bigger, the other is smaller.
• We connect the edges of a long and one of the short segments in such a way that two ends are obtained.

Important! To close them, you can use caps from markers and scotch.

• For convenience, the foil can be cut into strips and wrapped around it with rings and a foam base.
• On the base we attach our rings with tape in several places so that they hold tight.

Important! Dents for tapes in foam plastic can be pierced with a knitting needle.

• The satin ribbon is tied in such a way as to connect the rings to the base. Tapes must be at least 3 meters. With their help, we will subsequently attach the rings to the hood of the car.
• We attach flowers all around the perimeter of the base. We stick them into the foam and fill it with glue for reliability.
• The bottom of the foam base is preferably pasted or sewed with a cloth. This is done so that the roots of flowers do not scratch the car.
• We decorate rings with rhinestones, sequins, beads or something else to your liking.
• At the top of each ring, you can hang bells that add charm.

Important! Very impressive look fluttering ribbons, bows and garlands of flowers, but do not make them too long, as they can catch on and lose sight.

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Attaching the rings to the

When we did everything, a natural question arises: how to fix the rings on the wedding car? There are several options:

• Most often, tapes are used for these cases. We mentioned this when we made rings. They are tied to decorations on one side, and the second edge is passed under the hood and fixed there. This is the most reliable way.
• Can be fixed with a magnet. To do this, you need to purchase special neodymium magnets, which are placed in the foam base. They firmly hold jewelry, because they are strongly attracted to the metal.
• There is another option with suckers, but it's not so reliable. All the same, it is better to insure them with ribbons.
• In rare cases, use an adhesive tape.

Now in a fashion to decorate in addition wedding rings with toys:

• Very touching rings with teddies, dressed in wedding suits look. Now the store has a huge selection of such toys.
• The tradition to decorate the car with a doll came from ancient Russia, when a carnival doll was put on the wedding cortege, which symbolized the home.

Important! Such a doll was called Pancake week because most of the weddings were played on this holiday.

• In addition to bears, inside the rings are often placed toys depicting pigeons, which look very believable.

Important! Such a tradition with pigeons came from Italy, where they symbolized the introduction of a virgin bride into a married life.

Whatever the ring: classic and exquisite, with gentle pigeons or touching with bears, it's always a traditional and at the same time very modern decoration for a wedding car!

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Useful advices

To avoid unpleasant surprises, adhere to our recommendations:

• If you order a car in a specialized company, you should ask whether it is possible to decorate the car yourself. That there was no surprise in the form of a machine on which it is impossible to fix the tapes.
• If you order a whole tuple, it is recommended that they be selected in the same color. It looks more luxurious and stylish.
• Decoration should be on the car to be a contrasting color of the car. On black cars, white jewelry looks luxurious. A bright need bright spots in the form of various decorative elements.
• Jewelery should be well fixed, so that they are not blown into the blue distance or torn off the decor did not block the view of the driver at the wrong time.

Now you have an idea of ​​how to make a decoration for your wedding car yourself. Do it, it's so touching and especially nice to do something with your own hands for the most important solemn day in the life of every person!