Wedding News & Dos - May 08
FAVOURS - Our consultants have plenty of wonderful ideas for you as you consider favors for friends and family who have come to help you celebrate your big day. A thoughtful gift – a token of your appreciation and affection – can mean a great deal to the recipient. While it is standard to give a gift to those friends who are your close attendants, there are likely to be others to who you’d like to say “thanks so much” for being a part of our lives. Let’s start with the obvious – what are you planning to give as wedding favors? More and more brides are choosing to give edible items for favors. Chocolates – personalized with your names and date top the list. Some brides prefer other candies or nuts. Some like decorated cookies, brownies, or bars wrapped in a decorative box. Other couples choose to give bottles of wine – either with their own custom label or with a gift card attached to a fine local vintage. An environmentally friendly wedding theme makes the gift of
seeds, potted plants, or flowers very appropriate. Many couples are choosing to create CDs of their own special music and giving one to each guest at the reception. Consider seasonal items – tree ornaments for Christmas weddings,mugs and hot
chocolate mix for winter weddings or sunscreen for beach weddings. Choose votive candles and holders from a candle light wedding.Whatever your choice, be sure the item carries a message of thanks from you both. Arrange favors on a special
table near the exit as your guests leave or even better, group them on each guest table. Make them part of the display and they serve as the centerpiece. Stop in and see us for more special ideas.
I WANT IT PERFECT - We have been assisting brides with wedding plans for many years. And we have never been disappointed with the ceremonies and receptions that we have seen, planned and attended. In addition to all of our ideas and helpful plans, we think one of our most valuable gifts to our brides is this piece of advice. Enjoy your wedding day and everything that happens that day, but do remember that while everything may be perfect, don’t think of this as the BEST day of your life. This one will have been wonderful, memorable, charming, exciting, elegant or spectacular – the list of adjectives is long – but don’t expect FLAWLESS or think it is the best. Go through life believing that the best is yet to come – because it is. You will have a lifetime of days that you will consider “perfect”. Your wedding day will be a wonderful day, a deeply moving and remarkable day. It will be a fabulous
party and an elegant event that guests will long remember and talk about. But it won’t be the only perfect day in your life nor will it be the only best day of your life. It will be a happy day – one in a series of special moments yet to come in
your life. As one recent MOB said “It was a great party. It was the perfect wedding. But was it the best day of the bride’s life? No. There are even better days ahead for her.” We agree with this mother. Don’t look for perfection and don’t get thrown off kilter if something unexpected happens. It will.
