How to Make a Grapevine Wedding Arch Part Four

November 30th, 2013 Published by: Brittanyrio

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Step by step process of how to make a DIY grape vinewedding arch. In this how to, we made everything fromscratch. We made the steel arch and pulled the grapevines from the forest. For more information on thisproject and other projects we are doing, please visitwww.BrittanyandJustinWedding.blogspot.com

How to Make a Grape VineWedding Arch Part FourWe worked for another weekend straight and really havegotten further on the wedding arch. I did not however get anymeasurements because Justin was not with me very much. Iwill see if I can get measurements of the metal on the inside ofthe arch next weekend.

Justin's family had a camp out at his grandmother's house thisweekend. While they had the camp out, I kept working on thearch well into dark Saturday and the whole day on Sundaysince we ended up sleeping over at Mammy's due to Justinhaving too much to drink haha. It was pretty chilly outside onSaturday so progress was slow. However I managed to get adecent start. I will list the tools and materials I used to weavethe vines onto the arch.Tools and Materials Needed:

• Gloves

• Green Floral Wire

• Jute Twine

• Wire Cutters

• Pliers

• Small Hand Pruners

This part of the arch process I was in charge of and I prettymuch just figured it out as I went along.

I started by getting the longest vines and using the green floralwire and wire cutters I laid the vine along the arch the wayI wanted it and then cute approximately 4 in. of wire andwrapped it around the metal and vine as tight as possible andtwisted the two ends together. I then clipped off the excess wireand wrapped it around the metal rod.

I apologize for the quality of my pictures this week. They arenot the greatest and I forgot to take pictures of many of thesteps.

Slowly but surely I kept wrapping the longer vines onto thearch. In the beginning, I weaved what I could in between therungs of the arch. I found that it was not a necessary step sincewith out doing this I was able to sit inside the arch and attachthe vines with the wire.

Eventually as I got further along I used medium sized vinesand had to start attaching vine to vine rather than just vine tometal. The vines were attached very well so this works just aswell as vine to metal. I was using one to three medium sized

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vines at a time to get the nice thick look of the vines. Thisrequired up to 6 in. pieces of floral wire.

After dark I moved the arch into the garage and worked on itsome. This is where the top started to get thicker than the sides.Which is OK because that is where a lot of the decorations willhang from, and we want the canopy look. In the picture it lookslike the vines are sticking out all over but it is actually the pileof smaller vines I was using to weave into the top of the arch.

Sunday is where the real progress began.

Today I attached around half of the total vines to the arch. Icontinued repeating the steps above until, I ran into a smallissue with the top of the arch.

In the photo above, you can see the issue I ran into. In orderto make the cascading sides I had to make something to attachthe smaller vines to. I only had the two side posts. So I useda section of a thick vine to make two U shaped supports. I cutthem into two pieces that were long enough to bend into a Ushape and attach firmly to the posts. I attached them in thesame fashion I attached the rest of the vines.

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I then used a section of thinner vine that was sturdy to maketwo more rungs. One for each side, and then attached themto the post of the U shape. This will be where I will attach thecascading vines.

By the time I finished this step, it was time for us to go home.I did all of the work today by myself since Justin had way toomuch to drink last night and slept literally all day!!! I think Igot pretty much accomplished by my self!

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Next weekend I plan to hopefully finish wrapping the vines ifI have enough of them. This will allow them to dry over thewinter months. We will be keeping the finished arch in ourheated storage space out of the elements.

Once again, if you have any questions, please feel free to askthem here in a comment. I did not go too into detail here sinceI kind of made up a lot of it as I went. If you ask a question Ican probably give better details!

Thanks for reading.

How to Make a Grape VineWedding Arch Part FourBy Brittanyrio on September 16th, 2013

We worked for another weekend straight and really havegotten further on the wedding arch. I did not however get anymeasurements because Justin was not with me very much. Iwill see if I can get measurements of the metal on the inside ofthe arch next weekend.

Justin's family had a camp out at his grandmother's house thisweekend. While they had the camp out, I kept working on thearch well into dark Saturday and the whole day on Sundaysince we ended up sleeping over at Mammy's due to Justinhaving too much to drink haha. It was pretty chilly outside onSaturday so progress was slow. However I managed to get adecent start. I will list the tools and materials I used to weavethe vines onto the arch.Tools and Materials Needed:

• Gloves

• Green Floral Wire

• Jute Twine

• Wire Cutters

• Pliers

• Small Hand Pruners

This part of the arch process I was in charge of and I prettymuch just figured it out as I went along.

I started by getting the longest vines and using the green floralwire and wire cutters I laid the vine along the arch the wayI wanted it and then cute approximately 4 in. of wire andwrapped it around the metal and vine as tight as possible andtwisted the two ends together. I then clipped off the excess wireand wrapped it around the metal rod.

I apologize for the quality of my pictures this week. They arenot the greatest and I forgot to take pictures of many of thesteps.

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Slowly but surely I kept wrapping the longer vines onto thearch. In the beginning, I weaved what I could in between therungs of the arch. I found that it was not a necessary step sincewith out doing this I was able to sit inside the arch and attachthe vines with the wire.

Eventually as I got further along I used medium sized vinesand had to start attaching vine to vine rather than just vine tometal. The vines were attached very well so this works just aswell as vine to metal. I was using one to three medium sizedvines at a time to get the nice thick look of the vines. Thisrequired up to 6 in. pieces of floral wire.

After dark I moved the arch into the garage and worked on itsome. This is where the top started to get thicker than the sides.Which is OK because that is where a lot of the decorations willhang from, and we want the canopy look. In the picture it lookslike the vines are sticking out all over but it is actually the pileof smaller vines I was using to weave into the top of the arch.

Sunday is where the real progress began.

Today I attached around half of the total vines to the arch. Icontinued repeating the steps above until, I ran into a smallissue with the top of the arch.

In the photo above, you can see the issue I ran into. In orderto make the cascading sides I had to make something to attachthe smaller vines to. I only had the two side posts. So I useda section of a thick vine to make two U shaped supports. I cutthem into two pieces that were long enough to bend into a Ushape and attach firmly to the posts. I attached them in thesame fashion I attached the rest of the vines.

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I then used a section of thinner vine that was sturdy to maketwo more rungs. One for each side, and then attached themto the post of the U shape. This will be where I will attach thecascading vines.

By the time I finished this step, it was time for us to go home.I did all of the work today by myself since Justin had way too

much to drink last night and slept literally all day!!! I think Igot pretty much accomplished by my self!

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Next weekend I plan to hopefully finish wrapping the vines ifI have enough of them. This will allow them to dry over thewinter months. We will be keeping the finished arch in ourheated storage space out of the elements.

Once again, if you have any questions, please feel free to askthem here in a comment. I did not go too into detail here sinceI kind of made up a lot of it as I went. If you ask a question Ican probably give better details!

Thanks for reading.