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My best friend and her fiancé held their wedding at a posh beach resort. All the guests were requested to dress up in luau costumes. Each was also presented with a lei to wear. It was a laughter-filled and colorful day.
The tables were set with a beach theme. They used place card photo frames designed like beach chairs on the tables. It made it more fun to look for one’s name in the seating arrangements. We got to take home each frame that held our names. Later, I used my chair frame to display a photo of myself during the wedding.
A garden wedding will lend well for a romantic wedding. Be sure to set up a tent to offer shade to the guests. And make sure that cool drinks are flowing freely as it can be dehydrating when you are outdoors. Hang baskets with trailing flowers around the place. Think pastel colored bows on the back of chairs and ribbon streamers around the reception area. .
Take the time to plan the china and silver that you will use. Flowered china and silver serving dishes will add to the ambience. Keep the food light and simple, but be sure to include sumptuous desserts such as Victorian kisses, cheesecake and fruit tarts. The bride might want to choose a sweet white layered cake with tiny charms for her bridesmaids. Don’t forget to set flowered ceramic cake plates beside it, together with a wedding cake server.
Beach weddings are chosen because they are casual and relaxed. They are usually set with the beautiful setting sun as the backdrop. It is a great feeling to feel the sand under your feet rather than wear a 4 inch stiletto heel to a traditional wedding. Beach weddings are the trend in the summer months. The feeling of relaxation and comfort lends itself to the décor as well as beach wedding favors.
Beach wedding favors should follow the theme of summer and nature. Here are a few simple suggestions. Keep the flowers blooming with flower bottle stoppers made of silicone. They will provide color to your wedding setup. You can also give away lovely starfish dishes. They will bring a touch of class to any table setting. Or you can keep your guest’s lips luscious and moisturized with tubes of soothing lip balm. It is the perfect place to imprint with your names and date. It will also be a thoughtful way of saying thank you.
The union of two hearts is always an amazing celebration. We want to make sure that all the special people in our lives are present to witness this unforgettable moment. This is the reason why we want to make our wedding invitations very special. They could convey our message to our invitees that we really value their presence. Therefore, it is important that you should be able to choose the best wordings to put on them.
The designs for wedding invitations are in fact, limitless. Flowers are still considered the most popular and common design nowadays. Other couple would go for more non-conventional ones such as abstract graphics or some would use recycled materials. You may also have your photos printed to give it a more personalized touch. Some themes are also used with these invitations such as Disney, beach, go-green, etc.
Coffee favors in a wedding? This is something not very common and wedding planners are always on the lookout for something new, something unique. Coffee wedding favors are appropriate no matter the season of the wedding and no matter what the theme. It will appeal to everybody as almost everyone like to drink coffee. Give each guest a sampler of different flavors and you are giving them the gift of experience.
You will have lots of packaging to choose from. Give them in a big pouch in the wedding color. Give them in small pouches in a basket. Personalize the pouches with the name of the bride and groom together with the wedding date. Team it up with a coffee flavored wedding cake. Of course, you might also want to serve your coffee in the wedding reception.
Choosing wedding favors is just one of the things a future bride will have to work on. Surely, she will have eyes on unique wedding favors, one that her guests will want to use or keep as a memento of her important day. At the same time, she will have to temper her taste and consider that she has to work on a budget. She will not want to bust half of her budget on something really nice to give to her guests. She has to find something reasonably priced yet tasteful.
Wedding favors should fit the theme of the wedding. This should not be very difficult. Just wrapping it in the wedding color will already put it in the right perspective. However, choosing just the right object will be even more desirable. Your objective is to make your guests happy about the little gift and in so doing have happy thoughts about your wedding.
I got married in September. I wanted a red color theme for my wedding. My wedding dress designer told me that since it was fall, burgundy or wine red would be a better choice. It was very easy from then on to decide on the bridesmaid dresses, the cake and the wedding favors. I chose fall wedding favors since I had a garden reception.
There are several fall wedding favors that you can choose from online. Fall wedding favors are usually in shades of brown, tan, maroon, orange and yellow. One of the best favors you can give is chocolates. You can have specially shaped chocolates. You can also choose from fall color and scented candles.
When I got married a few years ago, there were aspects of the wedding which I found tedious and others which I found to be a lot of fun. I enjoyed choosing my wedding dress, the cake and sampling the reception food. I also had a lot of fun choosing among several possible wedding favors. Wedding favors are mementos which you give to your guests to thank them for coming. It is also a way for them to bring a piece to remember your wedding day.
The new trend in wedding favors is to have them personalized. Wedding favors should reflect your tastes. If you are planning a casual and non-traditional outdoor wedding then your wedding favors should be fun and unconventional as well. You can for instance give your guests flip flops with a personalized thank you card attached if you are having a beach wedding. If you have a sweet tooth and you know most of your family and friends love food and rich desserts you can give cup cakes or mini fondant cakes as wedding favors. For those who want an elegant and classic wedding, there are numerous elegant yet affordable wedding favors in sterling silver and other precious materials to choose from.
One of my close friends got married October last year. Her wedding was the day before Halloween. Although she wisely chose not to have a Halloween themed wedding, she did give have Halloween wedding favors. She chose to give away treat baskets. The treat baskets were truly delightful as they contained cookies and candies that both kids and adults enjoyed.
There are lots of Halloween wedding favors which you can also come up with if you choose to get married in late October. There are Halloween candles; you can dress up small candles into ghosts or buy orange candles and make them look like pumpkins. You can also make pumpkin jars and pumpkin pies. You can also create your own “witches’ brew”; this brew could be brewed coffee. Whatever favor you decide, keep in mind that having a Halloween themed favor is very unconventional, the more creative you are , the more unique your favor will be.
Don’t you find the round-shaped candles passé? Today, fast-becoming famous are the square-formed pieces. Also known as the unity candles, these lighting materials are designed for fairytale weddings. They come in various designs and themes. Unity candles are also available in many colors but they can be shaded in plain shades as well for those with simple tasted and preference. Marrying couples opt for these modern and unusual candles to experience unique matrimonial rites.
There are pairs who chose to have only unity candles both in the church and reception venue as a symbolism for brighter future. As their elders would always say, candles lighten up every relationship and family life. In every household, a candle is never absent. That is why unity candles are even more useful and sensible for good luck and fortune. Even wedding organizers and planners go for these one-of-a-kind lightings for everlasting and extraordinary lovers’ occasion.