Ways to Personalize Your Wedding
Follow these creative ways,maybe to infuse your Wedding with elements that are distinctly you.
1. Creative Invitations
Write your own Wedding Vows, Readings, Poems,decide on your colour and theme, and be sure to run these ideas through the entire event, including invitations, the order of service, place cards and thank yous. Nothing puts that special personalized stamp on a ceremony quite like vows and readings prepared by the bride and groom themselves. These spoken words expose your mind and your heart to each other and to your audience. Get started with these tips on writing your vows and a list of popular wedding ceremony readings in this complete wedding readings and wedding speech guide.
2.Make Your Entrance Grand
There are other ways to make your entrance beyond the traditional march with your father. Ride in on a horse. Or be escorted by both parents, a close uncle, brother, friend-even a pet!
3.Customize Your Programs
Summer brides - how about programs in the shape of a fan? Or keep the shape and style traditional, and include a personal letter or poem to add some interest to this often overlooked detail. This list of ideas for wedding programs has even more suggestions to get your creative juices flowing. Many guests will not know all or any of the bridal party, so it’s a good opportunity to share how they came to be standing next to you on your wedding day. It makes the wedding party feel a bit more special and is a simple way to introduce them to your guests.
4. Utilise or modernise wedding traditions
Add a personal twist to age-old traditions, incorporate your own cultures or borrow others and add a bit of fun and flair to your wedding.
Light a unity candle (symbolising your unity and commitment to the marriage) that you’ve made yourselves or take inspiration from Latvian weddings and throw your veil instead of your bouquet. In many European receptions, male guests pay to dance with the bride by placing money in her shoe or pinning it to her dress - sometimes the bride is even ‘kidnapped’ and the groom must pay a ransom to get her back! Or in the French tradition, let your bridesmaids pack you a trousseau full of ‘goodies’ for you both to enjoy on your honeymoon!
5. Refresh Your Guests
Welcome and refresh your guests by serving lemonade, iced tea or water. It′s a nice touch, and your guests will appreciate the gesture. Depending on the season or nature of your wedding, you can use your refreshment of choice to tie in the theme or style of the day.
6. Make the Wedding ceremony and Location Memorable
Who says your ceremony decorations must be floral? How about draping framed photographs of the bride and groom tied with ribbon over the ends of each row? This wedding flowers and wedding decorations guide can help you create a unique and memorable decor scheme for your ceremony.
Not every wedding ceremony must take place in a house of worship. Outdoor locations and other types of ceremony sites can make for ceremonies that are both spiritual and memorable. Consult this list of unique wedding ceremony sites for inspiration
7. Special Glassware
There is a host of unique glassware available, which can be engraved and titled for the wedding party, parents or other special people. The bridal party will be delighted to be seated at the table and find their own unique “Groomsman” or “Bridesmaid” champagne glass, engraved with your name and wedding date.
8. Say thank you to your guests
Say thank you with wine
For a smaller and more intimate wedding, personalized wine bottles make perfect bonbonnieres.
More wine companies are offering this option, and will print up a specially-designed label, featuring your names, the wedding date and a thank you message, put on a small bottle of your favorite wine.
Say thank you with perfume
There are companies who make small perfume bottles as gifts for the guests or bridal party.
You can choose your favorites scent, and the labels can be personalized to match the stationery and have your names and wedding date on it.
9. A Thank you for the Parents
A personal thank you note to your parents left on their seat before the ceremony or reception.
It can say whatever you like: a simple thank you for their influence on your life, your hope that your marriage may be as successful as theirs, or a quick note of thanks for their help for the wedding plans.They will be moved by your thoughtfulness, which doesn’t have to take a lot of time or effort.
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