I highly recommend others to do this if you have the time. Printers are dirt cheap nowadays (relatively). I designed and printed our cake topper. We painted each other's topper which was super fun. My wife crocheted all the boutineers and crosages. It was great since they were soft enough to be handled but sturdy enough to last probably our lifetime.
I 3D-printed every bit of my wedding, including my bouquet
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Re: I 3D-printed every bit of my wedding, including my bouquet
#32I designed our wedding rings and had them 3D printed by Shapeways (they use a lost wax casting process for precious metal objects). It's pretty cool having a one-of-a-kind piece, plus knowing that if anything ever does happen to the ring, it can be easily replaced.
What software did you use to model the rings?
Re: I 3D-printed every bit of my wedding, including my bouquet
#33This is pretty much the least interesting use of a 3D printer I can think of. It's about as interesting as walking into some tourist trap souvenir shop and discovering that all the key chains and coffee mugs are 3D printed. You want me to get excited about 3D printing? Stop making me pay $1000 for cell phones. Stop making me buy expensive new data cables every 3 years because the plugs are different all over again. S…
I feel like you're ascribing a lot of sci-fi dreams to a technology that lets you work with (mostly) plastic without molds. Like these things aren't replicators.
It's more like, hey wow, look at all these little trinkets that don't really change anyone's lives.
In the long run, 3D printing just seems like a niche, elitist version of hoarding.
Fill your house with arts and crafts that serve no practical use, other than to occupy space, break up a fear of the void.
Re: I 3D-printed every bit of my wedding, including my bouquet
#34I designed our wedding rings and had them 3D printed by Shapeways (they use a lost wax casting process for precious metal objects). It's pretty cool having a one-of-a-kind piece, plus knowing that if anything ever does happen to the ring, it can be easily replaced.
What software did you use to model the rings?
I used AutoCAD, but that's mainly because I was already moderately familiar with it, and thanks to my university affiliation it was free. Gotta respect the "hook 'em while they're young" business model.
Re: I 3D-printed every bit of my wedding, including my bouquet
#35This is actually a happy story, for a moment I was worried that the person got everything 3D-printed before they even got married.
Re: I 3D-printed every bit of my wedding, including my bouquet
#36This is pretty much the least interesting use of a 3D printer I can think of. It's about as interesting as walking into some tourist trap souvenir shop and discovering that all the key chains and coffee mugs are 3D printed. You want me to get excited about 3D printing? Stop making me pay $1000 for cell phones. Stop making me buy expensive new data cables every 3 years because the plugs are different all over again. S…
To be fair, usb connectors don't change very often and the changes are genuine improvements. Even apple is moving towards usb-c on mobiles devices (see latest ipad)
I think my favorite feature of usb-c is the symmetric design. Not needing to check if I have the usb plug oriented correctly takes me from about a 50% success rate to 100% success rate on plugging things in correctly.
Re: I 3D-printed every bit of my wedding, including my bouquet
#37Cool story, but I'm still not totally sold on 3d printers. Could you not achieve the exact same effect with traditional arts and crafts like origami? I'm sure if you want to spend 75+hours building a bouquet, an origami one would probably be way more impressive and even biodegradable, no?
Re: I 3D-printed every bit of my wedding, including my bouquet
#38Cool story, but I'm still not totally sold on 3d printers. Could you not achieve the exact same effect with traditional arts and crafts like origami? I'm sure if you want to spend 75+hours building a bouquet, an origami one would probably be way more impressive and even biodegradable, no?
Presumably that 75 hours is mostly just setting things to print and leaving it. Fdm 3d printing is rather slow. But you just need to check on it periodically to make sure things haven't gone haywire.
Also, the most common 3d printing material, PLA, is biodegradable, at least with the right conditions, as it is made from bio materials like cornstarch.
Re: I 3D-printed every bit of my wedding, including my bouquet
#39This is interesting, though the environmentalist in me can't help but think about how much plastic that is...
PLA, the most common 3d printing material, is made from cornstarch and is biodegradable under the right conditions.