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I have decided to be somewhat different in some of the wedding
details. Instead of the regular guest book, we have decided to ask
one person - a family member - to be in charge of taking a Polaroid
photo of each couple/single who is attending the wedding. The picture
will immediately be placed in a book, and the guests can then sign
whatever they wish at the bottom of the page under their picture.
This way we can not only remember who was there but what they looked
like on that day, with the background of the reception also in the picture.
Our
other 'different' idea is the reception itself. We are having our
reception on a boat cruise thought the Toronto Harbor Islands. It
will cost about the same as renting a hall, however the view is much
more exciting!
Angela Brooks and Derek Barfitt
Wedding: September 21, 2002
Toronto, Ontario
My
wedding is still 17 months away, but the ideas are definately
starting to flow! I want to have candid photos of the reception to
experience the moments of my guests in which I miss, so we will be
having disposable cameras at each table. But we are not going to have
the expense of outfitting each table with a camera. My matron of
honor is going to request that each guest who attends my bridal
shower bring along a disposable camera, instead of the usual recipe,
utensil, etc. It will help with reception costs, but more importantly
it wil allow my fiance and I to capture the candid moments of our reception.
Jamie and Robert
Wedding: August 30, 2003
Nebraska
My fiance and I are getting married in May of next year. I wanted the
big wedding with lots of people and lots of flowers... the whole nine
yards. Well, when it came down to buying everything we needed there
was just no way it would fit into our budget. So I decided that in
order to still try to have the big fancy wedding I wanted, I would
make alot of things. I made our flower girls baskets out of baskets I
found at the dollar store... got a can of white spray paint and
painted them... bought some really fancy white lace from the dollar
store along with some silk flowers and - BINGO! I had a flower girl
basket! Im not much of a crafter but I have to say it came out a lot
better then I imagined it would. So I then thought about making the
ring bearer's pillow too. I went to the nearest fabric store and
bought some satin (that was on sale to my surprise), and along with
some left over lace from the flower basket project, I made a really
beautiful ring bearer's pillow. I also found a set of ordinary wine
glasses at the dollar store. I then went to the craft store and
bought etching cream and made our own elegant toasting glasses! After
making almost everything I needed, right down to the garter, I had
saved enough money that I was able to get the dress I so wanted! So
my advice to anyone, even if you aren't that crafty, is make what you
can -- it saves money and you'll create some wonderful keepsakes.
It's also nice to know that you did most of the decorating and made
most of the things yourself!
Heather
Wedding September 14, 2002
Montpelier,Vermont
I am planning a Fall wedding and for my wedding favors my guests will
recieve a dried fall leaf in a picture frame, with our names and
wedding date written on the leaf. What better way to capture the
essence of the season?
Tiffany
I am engaged and will be marrying in one year. All of your ideas here
are very helpful. There are so many decisions to make.
My fiance and I met online, through
an online match-making service. Not all the guests know this. So we
want to incorporate that somewhere in our reception but not go
overboard. We thought for favors we will have mousepads printed with
our names and wedding date.
Anonymous
At our wedding,
which will be half Chinese, we will have both a guest signing book
and a beautiful red satin cloth. The cloth is a Chinese tradition. It
is pretty large and has the design of a phoenix and dragon on it,
which represent fertility. The guests will all sign this and
afterwards we frame it. It is a wonderful tradition that can be used
by couples of any background to add something a little different to
their day.
Stephanie Basquez
I
am getting married in October and I came up with a very clever idea.
I am making CD's with the songs that mean something to us. The CD
includes all the songs we will have at the reception, plus some
additional ones that we love. I purchased vinyl CD sleeves and made
my own covers. I included pictures of us on the front with our names
and the date of the wedding. I also made the inside page which
includes the songs and I included a little thank-you poem that I made
up on th eback cover. Time consuming but worth it... each CD only
costs about $1.50 to make. What a nice way for our guests to remember
our special day for years to come.
Katie & Norm
Pennsylvania
Wedding October 19, 2002
I am getting married this summer and am going crazy with ideas. But,
my mother came up with this one. When the wedding party walks back
out of the sanctuary (or wherever the ceremony is being held), play
"Zippidee Do Da, Zippidee Aye." It's a cute song that tells
everyone how happy you are to be married to that special person!!
Katie R.
Wedding June 8, 2002
Yellville, AR.
We are going all out with the guest book. We are purchsing instant
cameras that take smaller photos and a black paged photo album. Prior
to signing the guest book, each guest will have hisor her picture
taken. Then it will be glued into the album and the guest will sign
below or beside the picture with gel pens in a variety of colours! A
great memory and a way to remember each guest!
Anonymous
My wedding isn't until June of 2003 (1 year and 4 months away),
however I have already started planning. Some people think that I am
jumping the gun, but there is so much too do, and giving ample time
really helps with the financial end of it. We are having an outdoor
wedding and I have three flower girls. I just came up with an idea
for the flower petals the girls are to throw while walking down the
isle and thought that I would share it with anyone who may want to do
the same. I have saved all of the flower blossoms I have ever
received from my fiance from the time we met, in hopes of someday
finding a craft project to use them in that would display them
appropriately. However, just the other day I came up with the idea to
separate all of the petals from the flowers I have saved, and then
use them as the petals to throw on the day of my wedding. Although
the petals will be dried I think that this will be a memorable way to
use these flowers which I have been saving for 2+ years!!
June Bride
Manitoba, Canada
Having a spring wedding? Many of the dresses stores carry for proms
are just as nice or even better than some of the bridesmaid's
dresses. Another benefit - they have many sizes of one style and you
can take them home that day! Prices are usually better too! Check
this link for
a great selection of online prom and bridesmaid dresses.
Jody & Jamie
May 3, 2003
Providence, RI
Hello There SuperWeddings!
I am planning a Winter Wonderland
Themed wedding. I have been exhausted trying to come up with some
original ideas and so far I have thought of the following:
The ceremony and reception will
both take place in the Crystal Gardens at Navy Pier (Chicago). I
chose this venue because it is encased in glass windows - hopefully
it will snow that night! I can't imagine anything more beautiful than
that! Navy Pier also goes all out for Christmas decorations. Its one
of the most beautiful places in downtown Chicago for that time of year.
Ceremony:
6 Bridesmaids (wearing navy blue
satin dresses lined with navy blue fur) will carry a candle down the
aisle for a dramatic effect, instead of bouquets.
2 Junior bridesmaids (ages 7 &
11) will carry a white muff to accent their navy blue satin dresses.
My flowergirl will actually be a
"snow angel", complete with white dress, white wings and
glitter snowflakes in her basket.
Reception:
White cake with a snowglobe cake
topper or an evergreen shaped cake. I have been trying to find a
bakery which will do this but, so far, no such luck.
Snow Village (borrowing my mom's
collection) to be set around the cake as decoration.
Mini-Evergreens with white twinkle
lights as centerpieces.
Silver bells engraved with our
names and wedding date - will serve as alternative to rice and will
double as a wedding favor to cut costs. Just tie a navy ribbon at the
top & voila, we have an ornament!
Photography:
I'm designing a Winter scene -
White Tree with lights, White park bench with fake snow, complete
with a winter's night backdrop (available for rent from party supply
stores). I think that will be quite different for the guests.
Hope these suggestions will help
inspire some of your visitors. Thanks so much for the help you have
provided to me!
Patty M
Chicago, IL
At our wedding (a second marriage for both of us) my fiancé
and I would like to do something special to honor my parents and his
mother, who are all deceased. At the point in the ceremony where the
parents of the couple would normally be seated, we will have our two
great nieces (one his, one mine) each carry a small vase of white
roses (2 flowers in one vase to symbolize my parents, 1 in the other
vase to symbolize his mother) and place them on small flower stands
on either side of the chancel.
So that our guests understand the
symbolism of this gesture, our program will read: "Presentation
of Flowers: Given in loving memory of the bride's parents, (Names),
and the groom's mother (Name)." We thought this would be a nice
way to pay tribute to our much beloved parents on this important day
in our lives.
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I was hired to decorate for a wedding in summer 2002. As I worked
with my neice (the bride) we decided that the head table really
needed to be the centre focus and often times as seen at many
weddings, the head table has a white tableskirt, a flower arrangement
and a few candles. We wanted something very special so we purchased a
piece of nice carpet (remnant) from a carpet distributer, they
finished off the edges for us, and we placed it just under the first
12" of the headtable. Thereby, it did not affect the wedding
party pulling their chairs in and out, but colorfully accented and
defined the space of the headtable.
We were working with dark blue and
silver, (the carpet was dark blue), tableskirt was white fabric with
sheer overlay. We selected silver candlesticks, silver urns with
white flowers, silver charger plates, silver champagne flutes for all
the bridal party, (blue napkins were displayed inside the flutes),
these items were all placed upon a beautiful blue organza tablerunner.
There were two huge floor urns at
each end of the table in a weathered blue plaster and they were
filled with gorgeous live ferns. We then created a "tent"
affect above the table, with sheer white fabric that was stamped with
romantic sayings. The fabric was hung from three dowels (suspended
with fishing line from the ceiling); one directly above the centre of
the table, mounted higher than the other two which were hung directly
above the very outside of the table on each side. The fabric was then
draped over the center dowel, across and over the two end dowels (we
stablized the fabric with double-sided velcro) and then puddled on
the floor on each side of the table. (We kept the tent hung more over
the back half of the bridal table to be safer as there were live
candles burning). A garland of fresh flowers was then draped across
the front of all three dowels and attached, to finish off the front
of the tent and camouflage the dowel ends. Crystals were then hung
from fishing line from each dowel (crystals were suspended at
different lengths). Three smaller bouquets were attached to the
dowels at the back end of the tent to balance the weight of the
front. Approximately five feet behind the bridal table we brought in
live trees and lit them with white mini lights. When we lit the
candles for the bridal parties entrance the sparkle and glow was
fantastic. My neice always wanted to feel like a princess and I think
we helped her do just that.
Perhaps another lovely bride can
make use of some of our ideas. I am not in the bridal business just
yet, but am so in love with weddings that I will be discussing taking
your course with my husband this very evening. I have searched and
compared some other sites and am most impressed with yours. Thank you
so much.
Sincerely,
Bonnie Wager
Prince George, British Columbia
I looked at lots and lots of favours, but wanted to come up with
something original. As both my fiance and I are Scottish, but getting
married in America, I wanted to bring the true Scottish theme into
our wedding. For the favours, I bought a couple of bunches of white
Heather, ribbon the same as in my fiances Alan's Kilt, and printed
off sheets with his last name "Kelly" written horizontally.
I wrapped the Heather with Alan's Tartan ribbon and then attached the
strip with the Kelly written on it. I think it's a beautiful well
thought favour for the lassies - "Heather Kelly" - my new
married name!
As we have both been married
before, we didn't want to go through all the ponce and inviting aunts
and uncles we hadn't seen since the year dot, we decided to get
married in America and then have an evening reception in Scotland
when we get home for close friends (basically a good old knees up!) A
friend I met on the internet a few years ago is to be marrying us. We
are to have our wedding vows taken at the bottom of a Skycoaster
(kinda like a bungee thing?) and then go up and really "take the plunge"!!
Heather-Jane (Bride)
Alan Kelly (Groom)
Wedding 4th April, 2002
Vows to be exchanged on the
Skycoaster, Kissimmee, Orlando
Reception to be at Milton House
Hotel, Monifieth, Scotland
For
my upcoming wedding I wanted to do something different. For the
reception, when I did the guest list and the table seating, instead
of having table numbers I had table names. I had a total of 14
tables and the hall had numbered them 1 - 14, so I thought up 14
different words that would describe love, and even some that have to
do with a marriage, and put them at the tables. When my guests
checked in they were told to go to the table of "love", or
"happiness", or "promises", or
"romance", etc.
Shavon C.
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