Personalise your wedding with a few unique touches
Add a splash of personality to your wedding day by creating a few personalised effects from heart warming thoughts to a little humour.
Adding a personalised touch to your wedding day will make it memorable for both you and your guests. Here are some unique concepts that are sure to get you thinking.
Hand paint ceramic plates in a theme of your choice. Not only will your guests love the decor but you will have a treasured keepsake from your wedding day. If your wedding is quite large you can personalise the plates and send them to your guests as a memoir and to thank them for attending.
Have fun by transforming your wedding program into a newspaper. You can introduce your guests in the program so that everyone knows who is who. Your guests will enjoy the gossip as they wait for the bride to arrive!
Customised couple portrait rubber stamps are great for adding that special touch to your invites, envelopes, program and seating cards.
Both the bride and the groom can spread their love by handwriting a personal message for each guest on the back of the seating cards. Include a favourite memory of you and the guest. For example, you can write: ‘Stuart – You and I have shared many great adventures and I am pleased to be sharing this special moment with you, the Groom’.
Or why not tell your guests about your love story by adding special moments of your relationship onto your table number cards.
The first look photo is quite a new concept to the Uk market, but is incredibly popular in the US. The groom and photographer wait in a pre-arranged area just before the ceremony. Then the bride either touches the groom on the shoulder or simply calls his name. As the groom sees his bride for the first time, the photographer snaps away. This gives you a chance to relax before the groom makes his way to the ceremony area to await his bride.
You can involve your dog by training it to be a ring bearer, by placing the rings in a special collar that is worn round their neck. Obviously, you will need to feel confident that your dog will walk down the aisle on command and remain still while the best man removes the rings from the collar.
Surprise your groom and get your guests smiling before your big entrance, by giving little banners to the page boys and flower girls. They can read ‘Here Comes the Bride’, ‘Last Chance to Run!’ or ‘Here comes your babe, Uncle Mike!’
You can capture a pretty unique snapshot by buying madly bright socks for all the men in the wedding party. Ask the men to wear the socks and then get your photographer to capture all the men posing together with their socks on show. This could apply to the ladies as well, but using stockings instead.
Then lastly, arrange with your wedding planner to remove the flowers towards the end of the evening and have them divided into unique bunches. These can be left on the path exiting the venue and your guests can be encouraged to take a bunch or two on their way out.