If your planning an outdoor wedding or even if you want to "romanticize" your guests' walk from the parking lot to your reception venue, this is an easy, beautiful way to create a soft glow.  We stumbled on this simple yet stunning project on the Martha Stewart Weddings website and thought hey, we could actually do this!

As Martha notes, these diy lanterns are especially gorgeous at dusk as you can see in the photographs but they can be used anytime.  We could even see customizing them in some way like adding small paper flowers to the outside that match your bouquet or color scheme.

Let's get started!  Here is what you'll need:

Tools and Materials
Strings of full-size Christmas lights with clear bulbs (remove every other bulb)
Light-colored paper bags about 7 inches wide (for each lantern, you'll need two the same size)
A utility knife
A ruler
2-inch round self-stick labels
2-inch-wide single-face satin ribbon (one 48-inch length for each lantern)

Paper Lanterns How-To
1. Trimthe tops of each bag to make straight edges. For the top of eachlantern, stick a label on the inside bottom center of one bag toreinforce. Reaching inside the bag with a utility knife, cut two 11/2-inch slits, making an X on the label.

2. To attach bags to lights, first remove a bulb, and slide the socket through the X, and then screw the bulb back in.

3. For the lantern bottom, slide a second bag up over the first one.

4.Lay the center of the ribbon on top of the wire at the socket; wrapribbon snugly down sides of bags. Knot at bottom and let ends hang.

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