Wedding Ideas

Have you heard of destination wedding favors? I haven’t either, so, I have taken it upon myself to pioneer this phrase. Destination weddings, destination wedding dresses, and now, “destination wedding favors”. I like it!

So what is a destination wedding favor? Something affordable, something practical, something memorable, but something “packable”.

Let’s face it…you will be travelling. The last thing you need to worry about is the safe keeping of your wedding favors. You need favors that are not perishable, breakable or bulky. Something that you can easily slip into your luggage knowing that it will “make the trip” safely.

Candles and candy may melt, glass can break and larger items just take up too much space in the suitcase!

So what is a destination bride to do?

Here are a few ideas for the perfect “destination wedding favor”…

* Silver plated luggage tags shaped like airplanes and cruise ships. What could be more perfect for your destination wedding guests?

* A “scratch and win” lottery ticket tucked inside a pretty glassine envelope is a fun idea.

* Wedding CD’s are becoming very popular. Make your own. Include your wedding song, a favorite photo or two and a personal “thank you” on your disc.

* Make personalized bookmarkers. Design them to include a photo, your wedding date and a thank you note signed by the two of you. Once you are happy with the design, duplicate it, laminate it and dress it up with a tassle or an organza bow. You could use the same idea to create refridgerator magnets.

* Palm or paper folding fans make lovely favors that can be easily decorated to match any theme.

* Personalized pens, pencils or playing cards are something your guests can use.

* Flower seed favors are a happy reminder of your cherished day when planted.

* Paperweights are an attractive, useful memento.

Here is the perfect destination wedding favor - “Mini Books”. These exquisite little books come in a variety of topics from wine tasting to humor. Bound in hardcover and customized by you, these tiny collectables make a very elegant gift that your guests will treasure. Compact, unbreakable and perfectly “packable”! You can find them at FavorsandFlowers.com.

Whether you buy your wedding favors or make them, you don’t have to spend a fortune. They are an expression of your thanks to your guests for having shared your special day with you. Your guests will value the sentiment of your gift, not the cost.

I will leave you with one last thought…

Although giving wedding favors is a nice gesture, it is not a necessity!

If you find yourself needing to cut corners to stay within your budget, this is definitely a practice that could be overlooked without guilt. Few will even notice the absence of wedding favors!

Consider this…

Have you ever helped someone to clean up after a wedding? If you have, you will know that after and evening of wedding festivities, many guests do not even remember to take their wedding favor home with them!

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Cindy English is the publisher of:
http://www.All-Florida-Beach-Weddings.com
Plan your wedding celebration in Paradise!
http://www.Beach-Wedding-Themes.com
Beach wedding themes full of fun, fantasy and romance
Copyright 2005 by Cindy English

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Details on Western Wedding done very cheap
A Western Wedding Done CHEAP

Can be done at reasonable price, if you have the friends and family to help you out. If not about what you know, but rather who you know, When it comes to cost cutting corners. I’m not going to expect everyone to be able to reproduce what I did, but hopefully it will get you thinking on what people can do for you.

My wedding was simple, yet was able to accommodate my needs.

I wanted a wedding, where everyone who we wanted to attend could.

I didn’t want to worry about Drunk Driving, and worrying about the guests to get home safe.

About 140 adults and about 30 some children showed up to my wedding..

So the brainstorm started. How about an outside wedding. I originally wanted a barn dance wedding, but that was out of the question no one was willing to give me their barn.

So I opted to rent tents. To rent tents cheap, try town halls, or a place in charge of out door activities a lot of the time for fairs, they have these, and with enough time and notice you may get lucky. I paid $300 for the tents. Next Tables and Chairs. I contacted the local high school who had a cafeteria, and got the use of the chairs for the weekend for free. We hauled the chairs and tables with horse trailers.

The ceremony was a Justice of the Peace.

The dress, my mother in law made for me. Cost of material was $150.00. Although a good friend of mine got her wedding dress at the dry cleaners for $75.00. Lots of people take their wedding dress to the cleaners, and can’t afford to take them out, or either that they move, or divorce. My friend had a huge puffy dress, with tons layers and a long train. Simply gorgeous.

Brides maid dresses. I sent them all $25 each toward their dress as their Wedding part gift, and sent them all ( I had 5 ) to the nearest city to buy their dresses. I just told them black sun dresses. They came back looking identical.

Groomsmen wore black jeans, and rented Western tuxedo tops and shirts, and stuff, and wore black shoes of any sort. Instead of boutonnières made of flowers, they wore miniature cowboy hats wrapped around with colored ribbon. None of my groomsmen wore cowboy hats, as none of them were any sort of real farm boys.

Flowers - Didn’t have any. I made fans instead for everyone, including the flower girls. This was a lot of work and still cost approximately $20. 00 a piece. Doing it again, I would have opted for single white roses, for a cheaper and less hassle experience.

Supper was a cold supper, We baked the stuff previous, at different ovens. We did Turkey and Ham, all bought at the previous holiday when it was on sale. Friends of the family donated their time and money and made salads. Friends of the family also served and got the food ready to buffet style. We did purchase plastic plates, cups, spoons etc. For Dessert we did Ice cream and strawberry’s, and the wedding cake. We did Buffet Style, including the bride and groom and wedding party.

The wedding cake, my sister in law made, she had a book on making wedding cakes, and had always did kids cakes, and cakes for special occasions. So she did up a fake one, and a real one, the Real one was plain, and the fake one had the topper.

Decorations. A helium tank that cost $75 and balloons. The Wedding was White, Hunter Green, and Black. so that was the color of the balloons and ribbons. For the wedding center piece I made Wedding books. Which consisted of taking Reader Digest books and gluing the pages down so it made a permanent book fold in the middle, painted the inside white, and sides black then Glued hand made page that Read our names and date, with two little rings in the center. We then hot glued ribbon and roses on the edges, with lace, and made a small loop with ribbon to hang add helium balloons to at each table. cost about $2.00 each and a lot of time doing them. I just had bridal parties, called up the girls, drank wine, and did centerpieces.

Wedding Favors were just mints wrapped in tole and had ribbons tied on them.

Out door weddings, You have to create outdoor bathrooms. My parents house was close, as it was in their back yard, but when you have over 100 people over, you need to accommodate, so we rented one Port A Potty cost was about $75.00

While planning the wedding, Two of my dads friends offered to carry the bridal party, and groom party in their horse and wagons. After the wedding they drove all guests around as well, till the horses got tired.

The bar was believe it not, BYOB- Bring your own Booze. We only bought wine for each table at the wedding, and for the bridal party, and immediate family a Keg of Beer. We had the wedding at my parents farm. Everyone pitched a tent, or brought their holiday camping trailers, etc. Nobody had far to walk. Most people did stay over.

Pictures - I was lucky - I had a cousin who did photography as a hobby, So he was free to use, just had to pay for developing the film.

The dance. No Dj, just a great stereo, and pre-mixed tapes, done ahead of time. Which is easier to do today with current technology. Everyone just danced on the grass.

Midnight supper, was all just leftovers from the supper.

The Gift Opening was done the night of the wedding after the supper and before the dance, to get rid of the dead air space between entertainment, and since a lot of people were leaving the following morning, this way they all got to see what we got for gifts, and gave them some entertainment as well.

Everyone had a great time, and many people re created the same wedding after-wards, in near by towns, after hearing about what a wonderful way to do this type of wedding.

Hopefully this article inspired you on ways to cut costs down on your wedding for your big day, after all its not about the wedding, its about the marriage. Weddings last one day, and your marriage is suppose to last forever.

About the Author

Theresa Bruce is an online business women and has been doing online marketing on the net for over 3 years. She is happily married and has two kids.

What exactly is a theme wedding? Our definition may be different from yours but the basics are the same - a wedding tailored to your dreams.
What is a Theme Wedding?

I got asked this question the other day - what is a theme wedding?

I thought it was obvious but perhaps some clarification is needed on how I see it.

A theme wedding is no different than any other wedding you have been to or seen. The theme is the wedding.

What makes the weddings we present in our book different is that we have categorized different ideas to incorporate one consistent look and feel to your wedding.

This happens in weddings all the time. For example, traditionally, a bride selects her favourite colour and uses this singular colour throughout the whole wedding. From the bridesmaid dresses to the invitations, to the flowers, to the tablecloth’s etc.

This was my wedding. Lavender was our color so we used it everywhere but then how do use color for other things? We had it a golf course so we added a putting event for us to kiss and we were going to Africa for our honeymoon so we named our tables after African countries.

When done with my wedding, I just felt it was all over the place. Being in corporate event planning at that time, I thought why didn’t I do my wedding like I have done countless corporate events and others weddings and tie one subject together instead of having many things that didn’t correlate together.

For example, a client was having a customer conference and their message to their customers was that they had the ability to level the “playing field” between them and their larger competition. I took one part out of their message “the playing field” and ended up doing a football scheme for their conference. Invitations were done on a grass turf football field, prizes were football tickets and all decorations were down incorporating this sport.

The conference’s theme was not about football but we just added this element to tie things together. So, that is where I came about on doing the same for weddings.

My wedding just didn’t make sense, what did Africa have to do with golfing and really after awhile that lavender colour was just making me want to puke.

So, to answer the question- what is a theme wedding? It’s a wedding plain and simple with a unique subject matter tying it together whether that is butterflies, the ocean, country or whatever a heart desires.

About the Author

Kari White is an experienced event and wedding planner that has developed the Unique Theme Wedding planning guide. Helping those with their Theme Wedding through cost cutting and completely unique tips and techniques. Free Newsletter and Tips.

Wedding favors have always been a nice, personal gesture to include in your wedding preparations. Unfortunately, there are too many “cookie-cutter” type favors out there, which portray the couple’s lack of interest in providing something unique.

Here is a Wedding Favor Creator for you to use for your upcoming wedding or one that you’re planning for your best friend. You can mix and match to your heart’s content and according to the budget you have.

Small containers to use for candies, chocolates, small floating candles, decorative soaps, etc. (many of them can be purchased at your local dollar store)

- tiny wicker baskets or straw hats - egg cups
- candle holders
- flat shells (scallops) - small filigree metal boxes - decorated wooden boxes - coffee mugs
- wine glasses
- small decorative dish - tiny flower pots
- little tin watering cans - small jars
- ceramic spoon rest

Fillings to add to your favor containers

- heart-shaped candies or chocolates - Hershey’s kisses and hugs - small floating candles - gourmet or flavored coffee - enough for one pot - little decorative soaps - wild flower seed packets or small quantity of seeds with planting instructions, wrapped in colored cellophane - flower bulbs
- bath oil beads
- bath salts
- small bag of mixed spice (cinnamon/nutmeg) and your favorite apple pie recipe
- packets of specialty tea - hot chocolate and cinnamon mix - enough for one mug

Sample sayings and poems to write or print onto a small note card along with your names and wedding date (punch a hole in the card and attach a ribbon to tie to your favors)

- Please plant these to celebrate our growing love (for bulbs, seeds)
- All things grow with love (for bulbs, seeds) - Our flame of love will always be bright (for candles) - Hugs and Kisses from the new Mr. And Mrs! (for Hershey’s kisses and/or hugs)
- Heart-felt wishes from the new Mr. And Mrs. (for anything heart-shaped)
- Love lives in happy hearts (anything heart-shaped) - The best gifts are tied with heartstrings (anything heart- shaped)
- May there always be spice in your life! (for apple pie recipe and spice; for hot chocolate/cinnamon mix) - We’re suited to a ‘T’ (for specialty teas) - Nothing can wash away the love we feel! (bath oil, bath salts, soaps)
- Thanks for sharing this special day with us - Thank you for sharing in the celebration of our love (or union,
etc.)
- Thanks for joining us on our wedding day - Thanks for sharing in our special day

Other Unique Ideas

- Personalized coasters made from CD’s (see www.whimsies-online.com/cdcoasters.htm)

- Personalized CD mix of your favorite music - print out a liner for the CD case with your names, wedding date and a nice background or a photo of the happy bride and groom-to-be!

- Fortune cookies with printed fortunes that you create on your computer - or add your names and wedding date (see www.whimsies-online.com/wedding.htm)

- small picture frames that can double as place cards

- Heart-shaped cookie cutters with your favorite sugar cookie recipe

- Homemade bell-shaped or heart-shaped cookies decorated with your names and wedding date in hard icing

Finishing Details

Wrap each filled favor in colored netting or tulle to match your wedding colors or line white or glitter netting with colored tissue paper before wrapping your favors.

Wrap the favor bag with ribbon or lace and add your note card (hole-punched). Tie into bow and add a sprig of dried or silk flowers and it’s ready for your special day!

Heather Diodati is the owner of Whimsies! By DDesign featuringPersonalized Cartoon Designs for all occasions. See our unique Wedding Cartoon Designs personalized with your names and wedding date! 8″ x 10″ size with free mat, they make a truly special souvenir for the new Mr. And Mrs! Wedding favor magnets are also offered; something really special for your favor bags!

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The smell of fresh coffee brewing is a comforting aroma whether one is a coffee connoisseur or not. Let your guest savor that sensation when they open these personalized bridal coffee packs the morning after your wedding. Comes in “A Perfect Blend” or “Romantic Roast”. Each pack is good to make one full pot. Exclusively composed of a Columbian Blend.

BRIDAL COFFEE PACK