Have you thought of decorating a birdcage card holder for your upcoming wedding? Well, here are a few steps to make your birdcage extra special.

Birdcage Card Holder DIY

#1 Choose a unique birdcage that won’t be at every other wedding in town.

Emily and Jon-Michael found this one when they were shopping at local thrift stores and antique shops. Aside from finding their Birdcage Card Holder, they will have fond memories of their day shopping together.

#2 Make sure a large card will fit through the wires or through the door.

A birdcage cardholder won’t work very well if the card won’t fit through any openings in the thing! Consider how you could modify the birdcage slightly to accommodate a larger card.

The one in the picture is a large envelope, 5-3/4″ x 8-1/4″. Initially, I had planned to cut one of the horizontal wires halfway between two of the vertical wires and bend each end back behind the vertical wires. Epiphany! It dawned on me that cutting the horizontal wire close to one of the vertical wires and bending the wire back on itself would leave an option to return it to the original position.

As a decorative item after the wedding, there shouldn’t be any stress on it and it shouldn’t be noticeable. Before the final decision of where to cut, flowers and decorative items should be arranged. Before I made the actual cut, the flowers were arranged and wired to the birdcage to be sure of the positioning of the opening.

#3 Choose some flower stems and greenery that will coordinate or match your wedding colors.

Since Emily’s wedding is this fall, her colors reflect the season, blush, fawn, canyon, Bordeaux, and olive green. You can see that the flowers and greenery we chose echo those colors. Even though there are only two greenery stems, three stems with tiny flower heads, and one hydrangea flower, they do make a lush combination.

#4 Arrange the greenery and flower stems on the birdcage.

Loosely laying the greenery and flower stems over the top of the birdcage gave us an idea of how we wanted these arranged and where the opening for the envelopes should be. Emily and I are loving this already!

#5 Loosely, place any ribbons or bows on the birdcage to decide where they would look best.

(At this point, you are just creating a composition and getting an idea of where everything should go and not securing any of the decorative items yet.) Emily did not want ribbons or bows on this display. The flowers really can stand on their own and I don’t think the ribbons and bows are necessarily needed. She wants this wedding look to be more ethereal. Sometimes a little restraint is a good thing. However, if you are adding ribbons and bows, determine the positions at this stage.

#6 Remove the arrangement, leaving it intact as much as possible, and place it on your work surface. Begin to attach the floral stems to the birdcage.

Bend the stems to mimic the curve of the birdcage. You can cut any excess stem off at this point. Using floral wire, secure the stems, one by one, to the birdcage.

Start with the greenery stems which will be underneath the floral stems.

Cut a piece of florist wire, loop under the wire of the floral stem and the birdcage wire, then, back up on the opposite side. (This wire was cut about 6-inches long. It was plenty to wrap this stem securely.) Wrap the wire around the birdcage wire and the floral stem wire a few times securely. (We are an Amazon affiliate and may receive a small percentage of any sales through this link at no cost to you. Thanks for supporting this website!)

You can bend the two ends in toward the stem and trim off any excess. I twisted the wire at the first end and laid the short end down along the stem and wrapped the wire around it, too. Try to place the wires in a position where they won’t be noticed. Where possible, try to camouflage them under the greenery. You can always hot glue some extra greenery over any visible wires that bother you.

#7 Add the smaller flower stems. These are not the focal point.

They just add some contrast color and interest. Notice that the shape of the leaves on these secondary flowers is rounded in contrast to the leaves on the greenery.

You can see that this arrangement is asymmetrical. Most of the bulk of the greenery and the flowers are on the left side. Before attaching the stems to the cage wires, bend the stems. These stems were not very pliable. Bending them slightly takes them from an artificial straight and stiff to a more natural organic-looking stem.

#8 Add the focal flower or flowers.

In this case, Emily chose a flower head that already had a gator clip on it. That made it extremely easy to place on the birdcage and reposition a couple of times. If you are not that lucky, just wire the flower stem to the birdcage, too.

#9 Choose where you want to create the opening.

You can see that the wire circling the cage at the top was cut next to one of the vertical wires. The loose wire was then bent backward with round nose pliers. You could probably use needle nose pliers, too.

Before cutting this wire, the thin wire woven around the wire circling the cage was cut halfway between the two vertical wires. Then the thin wire was looped back around the two wires to secure each on both sides.

#10 Place the vintage card or your own card creation on the top of the cage pointing to the opening.

Complete instructions on how to make this vintage-looking card can be found here◄.

The card can be hot glued, tied with a ribbon, or attached with a gator clip. I’ve been looking for one of those spiraled clips to attach to the card but to no avail. At this point, I will keep looking but may end up using hot glue or ribbon to secure it in this position. The wedding is just around the corner!

Oh, my gosh! Isn’t this Birdcage Card Holder adorable?

Make your birdcage extra special, too, by following these easy steps! Be creative!

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