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Here's a combo way of doing a photo booth and a guestbook. Get a large chalkboard for your guests to write their congratulatory and wedding wishes for you and your groom! Then, set up a photo booth or have someone from your bridal party taking pictures! Your guests could tape the pictures on a blank guestbook for you and your husband to enjoy later on.
If your vows are not enough to say all that you love about your bride or groom, then write all of it in these He and She frames. Make it big and use it as part of your cocktail hour or reception decor so your guests are beaming and raving about your love for each other!
To bring that heavenly glow to your ceremony, cocktail hour or reception, get some glow balls (about 5 inches or more in diameter). Then, put them in white stocking for this teardrop look! If you want to be more funky and eccentric, get glow balls of different diameters and put them in different colored stockings. What a way to set the mood for your wedding!!!
Want a quirky way to display your bridal party's personalities? Have your photographer take individual shots of each bridesmaid, groomsman, sponsor, junior bridesmaid, etc. Each of your honored friends could pose in their own way not only to make the shot their own but also to remind you of why you value their friendship and their help during your wedding!!!
"If your dreams don't scare you, they're not big enough!" ~Anonymous
Looking for a sophisticated and bold palette? Here's a Mediterranean color combination that's irresistably adorable! Use the blues to highlight a cool ambience for you and your guests while adding the yellow shades to give off a fun and playfull effect to your wedding!
Wedding entertainment is no longer limited to a live band, a DJ or just dancing the night away. Keep your guests entertained by having some games during cockatil hour or in between dinner and dancing. Have games such as croquet, ladders and bean bags to start the fun at cocktail hour. You could leave these out during the rest of reception for your guests to play!
Thinking of another alternative to alcoholic drinks? Why not perk up your water by flavoring them with these yummy combinations! So try pairing raspberry and lime, or watermelon and rosemary, or blackberry and sage, or pineapple and mint. Then put your flavored water in your choice of vintage punch bowls or dispensers, and you'll have the perfect thirst quencher!
Here's our wedding tip of the day! Each table will correspond to a different anniversary year. Have your guests at that table write notes, advice, wishes, etc to be opened on the first anniversary, second, third, and so on. This will have you something to look forward to every anniversary and it will always point you back to your wedding day!
Here's an idea for travel-themed weddings or vintage-themed weddings. Use vintage post cards for your guest book. Gather postcards from all over the country or the world and lay them for your guests to sign. Your guests will then write you their sweet wishes and marriage advice!
If you love all things vintage, then use this color palette as your inspiration! From bouquets to dresses, use the neutrals to give you that classic look... For that vibrant and fresh feel, use the greens then tie it all together with the subtle purple tones.
Simple and stunning, this silver plated tiara features alternating curved rows of clear swarovski crystals and sparkling rhinestones. If you love tiaras, then this bridal headpiece is the perfect accessory to complete your wedding ensemble! For a limited time, save on this beautiful tiara and find it under our Deal of the Day.
We love this color combination! If you are having a Tiffany-inspired wedding then let these colors be your inspiration. The turquoise in this palette draws out the boldness yet fun side of your personality while the neutral colors provides the perfect balance!
Remember our post about having a hot chocolate bar as an alternative to alcoholic drinks? Now we have another "bar" idea! Everyone loves S'mores so why not have a S'mores bar at your wedding reception? It could be a part of your dessert table or an end-of-the-night treat for you and your guests!
This bar is so simple to do! Just scout out different chocolates: white, milk, dark, flavored, etc. Then get some different marshmallows: plain & flavored ones! Get your favorite graham crackers and lay them all out on a table. Your guests will be loving you for this. Check out this S'mores bar from Cookie Creatives.
If you're having a barn-themed or farm-themed wedding, a great idea for place cards are these plastic animals. The only thing you need to do is to get all these small farm animals then spray paint them in the same tone or different colors for a more whimsical look!
Wedding Readings from Literature
Whether you are searching for profound words that you may not have or you just want to build on your personal vows, here are some greats works of literature!
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
“Once for all, I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. Once for all; I loved her none the less because I knew it, and it had no more influence in restraining me, than if I had devoutly believed her to be human perfection.”
Sonnet 17
Pablo Neruda
I don’t love you as if you were the salt-rose, topaz or arrow of carnations that propagate fire: I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul. I love you as the plant that doesn’t bloom, and carries hidden within itself the light of those flowers, and thanks to your love, darkly in my body lives the dense fragrance that rises from the earth. I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where, I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I know no other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you; so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep it is your eyes that close.
In One Another’s Arms – Rumi
The moment I heard my first love story I began seeking you, not realizing the search was useless. Lovers don’t meet somewhere along the way. They’re in one another’s souls from the beginning.
Jane Eyre
I have for the first time found what I can truly love – I have found you. You are my sympathy – my better self—my good angel—I am bound to you with a strong attachment. I think you good, gifted, lovely: a fervent, a solemn passion is conceived in my heart; it leans to you, draws you to my center and spring of life, wraps my existence about you—and, kindling in pure, powerful flame, fuses you and me in one. –
“The Velveteen Rabbit ” by Margery Williams
“What is REAL?” asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room. “Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?”
“Real isn’t how you are made,” said the Skin Horse. “It’s a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.”
“Does it hurt?” asked the Rabbit.
“Sometimes,” said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. “When you are Real you don’t mind being hurt.”
“Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,” he asked, “or bit by bit?”
“It doesn’t happen all at once,” said the Skin Horse. “You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.”
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”
Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins
“The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being.
Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”
The Amber Spyglass) by Philip Pullman
“I will love you forever; whatever happens. Till I die and after I die, and when I find my way out of the land of the dead, I’ll drift about forever, all my atoms, till I find you again… I’ll be looking for you, every moment, every single moment. And when we do find each other again, we’ll cling together so tight that nothing and no one’ll ever tear us apart. Every atom of me and every atom of you… We’ll live in birds and flowers and dragonflies and pine trees and in clouds and in those little specks of light you see floating in sunbeams… And when they use our atoms to make new lives, they won’t just be able to take one, they’ll have to take two, one of you and one of me, we’ll be joined so tight…”
Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer
“If there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it walls, and we will furnish it with soft, red interiors, from the inside out, and give it a knocker that resonates like a diamond falling to a jeweller’s felt so that we should never hear it. Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.”
The classic adage that love knows no bounds, ESPECIALLY WITH AGE! How cute is this couple, she's 99 and he's 87. Cheers to Dana and Bill!