Our Song

I found the cutest idea here on Pinterest forever ago where you take a photo mat and write out the lyrics to your wedding first dance song, then frame one of your first dance pictures with it. 

I loved the idea and since I have been told on several occasions that I have pretty good handwriting, I decided to make one for my favorite wedding photos. 

Adorable, right?

Wanna see how I did it?

Supplies: 
white picture mat
pencil
pen ( I used a fine point sharpie) 
ruler/straight edge

 I started off by measuring across the sides of the photo mat. I made light pencil marks at every half inch mark on both sides of the photo mat. 

*note: photo was edited to show marks better

 Once I had my measured marks on both sides of my photo mat, I used a straight edge to connect the lines lightly with a pencil across the mat.

Once the pencil lines are in place, it's time to start adding the lyrics. Our wedding song was Stand By Me by Ben E. King. 

 Found out that all the lyrics to our wedding song only took up half the mat, so I just started over from the beginning. 

When I had finished writing out all the lyrics, I went back and erased all the pencil lines. 

I also added our names and wedding date to the bottom, although once I framed the picture I realized that you couldn't even see it. 

Five months later, I finally have this project finished and hanging on the wall with a few other things from our wedding. 

Just in time for Valentine's Day. 

What a nice little Valentine's gift to myself! 

 (And I know Matthew would have loved it too!) 



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