I know this may sound like a dumb question, but oh well, I need to know so who better than to ask than the lovely bees? I have seen many monogrammed initials sewn into a bride's gown/garter or used as cake toppers, or on towels....that's all fine and dandy, but whose initials are they...and why are there only 3 letters? Is it just the bride's? It's not the groom's....so can someone kindly tell me whose 3 initials? I don't have a middle name perhaps that's what's throwing me off...leave it to my immigrant parents to not give me a middle name like every other American kid....wth... I haven't been to a wedding in a long time...ok that's not true, but I never started paying attention to any details until I got engaged...so...yup...I wanna know whose initials....to use...thanks~
The large letter in the middle is your married last name, the small letter to the left is the bride's first initial and the small letter on the right is the groom's first initial. Don't worry, I used to wonder that myself!
There is no hard and fast rule about monograms - either the bride's or groom's name can come first. So if you'd end up with a rather unfortunate monogram, you do have options... :)
Hehe! We had the same problem. My name is Bonnie and his is Jeremy. You can easily see our delema (sp?). So whenever we used our initials such as the monogram I designed which only had our first names (and looked like j+b) I put his name first. Anytime I spelled them out I used my name first. I figured that was a pretty fair way to do it. :-) The awesome thing about monograms (and much of the wedding industry in general now a days) is that anything goes! It's totally an opportunity to be creative and let a little bit of your collective personality show through. Good luck!
Wow....good to know!! Hah B+J...hahahaha....mine is S H G if I put my initial first....G H S if his goes first...if I do it the way kourtann said....hmmmmm....interesting. THANKS!
What about if you don't change you last name? I want to use the monogram idea too but I am not changing my name, so does that mean we have to have 2? thats so not fun!!!! maybe do we just use our first name intitials only? hmmm...
I know this may sound like a dumb question, but oh well, I need to know so who better than to ask than the lovely bees? I have seen many monogrammed initials sewn into a bride's gown/garter or used as cake toppers, or on towels....that's all fine and dandy, but whose initials are they...and why are there only 3 letters? Is it just the bride's? It's not the groom's....so can someone kindly tell me whose 3 initials? I don't have a middle name perhaps that's what's throwing me off...leave it to my immigrant parents to not give me a middle name like every other American kid....wth...
I haven't been to a wedding in a long time...ok that's not true, but I never started paying attention to any details until I got engaged...so...yup...I wanna know whose initials....to use...thanks~
posted by MissPodo 44 posts 5 months agoThe large letter in the middle is your married last name, the small letter to the left is the bride's first initial and the small letter on the right is the groom's first initial. Don't worry, I used to wonder that myself!
posted by kourtann 84 posts 5 months agoYeah, it's kind of weird, but it is pretty much the only time that the bride's name gets to come first.
posted by Niki 432 posts 5 months agoThere is no hard and fast rule about monograms - either the bride's or groom's name can come first. So if you'd end up with a rather unfortunate monogram, you do have options... :)
posted by shinymonkey 18 posts 5 months agoWe actually used his name first, as our initials with mine first are abbreviations for things that we don't really want associated with us!
posted by rebecca 986 posts 5 months agoHehe! We had the same problem. My name is Bonnie and his is Jeremy. You can easily see our delema (sp?). So whenever we used our initials such as the monogram I designed which only had our first names (and looked like j+b) I put his name first. Anytime I spelled them out I used my name first. I figured that was a pretty fair way to do it. :-) The awesome thing about monograms (and much of the wedding industry in general now a days) is that anything goes! It's totally an opportunity to be creative and let a little bit of your collective personality show through. Good luck!
posted by bonniebelle101 291 posts 5 months agoWow....good to know!! Hah B+J...hahahaha....mine is S H G if I put my initial first....G H S if his goes first...if I do it the way kourtann said....hmmmmm....interesting. THANKS!
posted by MissPodo 44 posts 5 months agohaha, we would be LSD if we do it the traditional way... im still trying to figure out a nice combo of our initials.
posted by melodicsighs1 86 posts 5 months agoWhat about if you don't change you last name? I want to use the monogram idea too but I am not changing my name, so does that mean we have to have 2? thats so not fun!!!! maybe do we just use our first name intitials only? hmmm...
posted by mydogsnameisoliie 11 posts 5 months ago