what I should have tried first

I believe in going big or going home, so my first project for our wedding was one that will be pretty visible for our guests: our cake topper.  I should have started small, but I've never been one to follow logic.  I did do something rather small after our wood painting adventure: I bought and snazzied-up (it's a word) the glass containers for our sand ceremony.


I got the glass at Michaels (naturally) for a total of about 15 or so bucks.  I chose these particular ones for three reasons:
1) The smaller ones are made out of recycled glass- score!
2) When placed next to the middle, larger vase, they seem to "fit" together, indenting in all the right places.
3) It's what they had.


Using my brand new, first ever glue gun (also see: mini, lime green glue gun):

I gathered my shiny green and brown ribbon and most-amazing-invention-ever glue dots:

and created this:

I bought some fun rhinestones I had planned on using to snazzy-it-up even more, but Topher said KISS- keep it simple stupid.  I'm not sure if I agree though- what do you think? I want to add the rhinestones on the brown ribbon, like this:

Should I leave it as is, or make it more fun?  And what's a witty retort for your fiance when he inadvertently, somewhat intentionally, calls you stupid?