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August 7, 2010

Personalizing with details...my new obsession...

posted 2 years ago in Beehive
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    Rose999    April 11, 2011  

    Recently, I am obsessed with Unique Wedding Details to personalize your wedding. It is sad the amount of Google time I have devoted to this! Probably because it's too soon for me to be stressing about the practical things that I'm sure will consume the bulk of my time once I reach the 12 month benchmark.

    In the meantime, here is a list of what I have collected so far. Not that I will be using all of these, lest you think I've lost my mind, just what I've collected in my little idea file! Anyone have any other fun details to feed my obsessive collecting...err, uh, I mean...to add?

     

    Candy bar/buffet

    Signature cocktails

    Baskets of accessories like flip flops for beaches or pashminas for outdoor weddings

    Wooden signs to direct guests

    Table names instead of table numbers

    Lounge areas

    Unique exits, i.e., in a rickshaw  

    Non-traditional menus, from comfort food to lounge receptions to taco action stations 

    Cigar bars with an assortment of wedding cigars outside

    Unusual flower girl accessories, like wands or parasols

    Baby 'wagons' for itty bitty bridal party members

    Crystalized bouquets

    Colored shoes / dyed crinoline / soft non-white (pale pink or silver) dresses

    Hanging flower chains and immersed flowers

    Wish trees

    Photo booths

    Chinese lanterns

    Kid's goodie bags

    OOT guest bags at hotel

    Cupcakes

    Polaroid guest books and other non-traditional guest books

    Unique place card holders (the possibilities are so endless here I won't even start!)

     

     

     

     

     
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    MrsK2be    November 15, 2008   Ohio

    I loved using our monogram in several places around our reception.

    I put our monogram on our programs, invites and out of town bags

    I had large, wooden monogram letters painted gold  on a fireplace mantle surrounded by candles

    I got several table runners made with our monogram (cake table, sign-in table, gift table, head table)

    Our wedding favors featured my mother's homemade buttermilk cookies with our monogram

    Our guests also loved that we ordered in late-night food (sliders and pizza)

    Ahhh....I miss wedding planning :(

     
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    Rose999    April 11, 2011  

    Monograms on the cookies!!! (Hyperventilating, frenzied searching in Google on another internet tab) I can't stand it!

     
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    WindyCityBride    September 25, 2010   Chicago, IL

    I love those ideas!  I love the idea of incorporating a monogram throughout.  I am not getting married for about 15 months, but the idea of not having a wedding to plan makes me so sad!

     

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