Looking for a way to make your toast completely unique? Consider your own personalized wedding beer.
Design your label and affix it to your favorite beer, and you and your guests will have a fun and memorable treat. Then as favors, your guests can take home a sample of your personal tastes and a unique reminder of your perfect day.
If you and your soon-to-be are looking for a way to give back, you may consider making a donation in your guests' names as your wedding favors.
St Judes offers a scroll or bookmark you can give to guests as a phisical representation of the generous gift, letting guests know a donation has been made to help fight childhood cancer in their name.
St Judes also offers a donation page that can be added to your registry. Guests will be able to enter in the amount they wish to give as a gift.
Visit St Judes and see how you can turn your wedding favors or gift registry into something truly generous, making your wedding all the more full of love!
Just in time for the World Series, personalized trading cards specialist Custom Sports Cards now offers Wedding Sports Cards.
Couples can order individual cards or full decks featuring their wedding portraits as well as candid shots of themselves, family and friends.
What a cute idea, especially for sports fans!
Check out CustomSportsCards.com to learn more.
Since you're so lucky in love, why not spread the wealth. Literally. Giving lottery tickets as your wedding favors is making a big slash lately, with some couples stipulating that any guests who win are to split the cash with them!
What do you think about these lottery ticket favors?
Check out more HERE.
A groom in Beirut recently planted more than 1,000 trees in honor of his wedding guests.
Nidal Khalil, the groom and his sister Zena, a Lebanese recycling artist and environmental activist collaborated with the American University of Beirut's Nature Conservation Center for Sustainable Futures to plant the 1,000 trees across Lebanon.
Zena said, "Growing up in Nigeria my brother Nidal and I developed a special connection to the land. Since we were flying people in from all around the world, I thought it would be a great idea to plant trees for each of the over 1,000 guests attending my brother's wedding. We wanted to start a trend and usually trends in Lebanon start with drinking and dancing, but we thought with the trees we could make the idea interesting enough that it would inspire others. The tree gift brochures and small wooden tree silhouette souvenirs, donated by IBSAR, aided us in raising awareness among our guests."
Click HERE to read more about this family's gift to guests and to the Earth.
Retro photo booths are becoming a popular attraction at wedding receptions.
This could be a great addition to your traditional wedding photographer, and a great alternative to leaving disposable cameras in the hands of your guests.
Prices vary depending on your location, season and other factors. Most photo booth providers will set-up and break-down the booth, and even offer attendants to help during the reception.
Say cheese!
Burning mix cds as wedding favors is a great way to add the personalized touch inexpensively. Simply create a playlist of songs on your computer that you and your groom love, and songs played at your reception (discuss with your band or dj what they will be playing in advance, so you can prepare).
Check out this cute blog and the accompanied article HERE to learn some helpful hints on burning a cd that takes the cake.
While planning your wedding your bridal party is often there to help make decisions and keep you calm. As a thank-you, gifts are often given to each member in your wedding party during the rehearsal dinner.
Your gift options are practically limitless, but we offer a few suggestions after the jump:
A personalized tote bag (pictured above) from David's Bridal filled with items they may like, such as scented candles, lotions or perfume.
Jewelry. Almost every woman likes to receive jewelry!
A gift card to a favorite store, a massage, or day spa.
Makeup bag filled with beauty supplies that would suit them.
A framed photo of the two of you together.
A jewelry box.
The gifts do not have to be the same for each bridesmaid (in fact, personalizing the gifts to individual tastes is preferable), but they should be within the same price range.
What do you plan on giving to your bridesmaids?
It's no surprise that couples in Seattle are employing the talents of local graphic designers to personalize their wedding invitations: The Washington city is known throughout the world as an indie-rock hot-spot. But these wedding invitations, like that famous Seattle Sound, are like nothing you've ever seen before.
Yesterday's Seattle Times reported that Seattle-based designer Matt Terich makes rock poster-like wedding invitations, in addition to his poster work for bands. And what are guests' reactions to the invitations?
"They thought it was the coolest thing they'd ever seen. Open it up and it's a really cool poster. ... A lot of our friends and our relatives have even kept them and left them up in their homes."
Do you or your groom have that rock star attitude? Do you think your friends and family would rock out! or just recycle this unique invitation?
Check out the story HERE.
What do you think?
There are plenty of ways of getting the whole party involved with creating new memories at your wedding. Placing disposable cameras on all your reception tables is one way, as is renting a photo booth.
It's still no replacement for hiring a photographer, but you'll treasure the fun and candid images just as dearly as you will the classic poses. You could even use the snapshots as favors for your guests to treasure too!
Do you have any cool ideas about getting your guests to participate?
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