I wanted to have a wedding that was not only full of great memories for me, but for our friends and family as well. So when I when to pick out gifts, I picked out things that they could remember it by. The gifts I bought were meant to be reminders of what an outstanding wedding day and night we had together. Eventually I got to a keepsake wedding gift after picking out keepsake gifts. There were a lot of wedding items to choose from on the internet, with suggestions of very nice items for both ceremonies and receptions. All of the things that I needed for my reception were there
I had a florist come in and make up darling arrangements to put in the middle of each reception table, and alongside them were little ceramic pots with lace that held candles inside. The place card holders, which I also discovered on the Internet, looked exquisite next to the flower arrangements.
The place card holders I decided on were beautiful beaded picture frames that the guests could all keep after the reception. As far as gifts for our guests went, I made sure I gave them all practical favors that would also make great keepsake wedding gifts. I just never saw the point to giving out wedding favors that no one can get any use out of. Otherwise, the recipient of the gift will most likely forget about it shortly after they get it. I wanted our friends and family to have something they will hang on to and remember sharing our special day with us every time they use it. So I chose bistro coffee mugs for each of our friends and family’s gift. It’s a product that any person can utilize, and the ones I got looked really cool. I bought a bunch of pretty hang tags to put on the boxes they arrived in, but the containers were so nice-looking that I just kept them in the boxes they came in.
The Internet was a treasure trove of reception ideas and products. The cake topper we got ‘took the cake,’ so to speak. I decided to go with something with special meaning to us.
When we met for the first time, it was at a friends house and we were all engaged in a little friendly game of football on the back lawn. So our first meeting was in the middle of a memorable tackle attempt on his part and I thought the topper I found with the bride and groom playing football was an excellent choice. When I look at the wedding cake topper, I think of both our wedding day and the day he first tried to tackle me. [spin]I was really surprised that I had found such a novel wedding cake topper as this one was, and not only that, I also found gorgeous wedding
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Wednesday, May 6th, 2009Almost Anything Can Be A Keepsake Wedding Accessory
Tuesday, January 20th, 2009If you’re anything like me, you like to hang on to everything that brings back precious memories of important events in your life. Besides giving birth to my children, my wedding day was the most joyous and memorable occasion I’ve known. Therefore I held on to many wedding keepsakes to look back on and remember the day we shared with all our friends and family members as we joined our hands in marriage and began our new life together. Sometimes I bring out my little box filled with all the things I held on to the past ten years and I just sit and remember that beautiful summer day that we exchanged our vows.
I saved my brides planning book, where I jotted down everything I had arranged for my wedding and reception from the band to the caterers, it’s all listed in my little book. Along with my dress and veil, I have my beautifully arranged bouquet with the satin ribbons hanging from it, my garter and even the tiara I wore with my veil. As you can tell, I have more than just a little box of memories. Along with my guest list I have a keepsake wedding invitation, my wedding guest book and reception guestbook, not to mention wedding albums, and a wedding scrapbook, and of course my wedding cake topper. I have so many photos that I had to go out and buy three more albums to store them in. There are photos of every guest that attended our wedding ceremony and our reception, plus lots of photos of the flower girl, ring boy and the other members of our wedding party. These are all very important things to a woman, and I’m just glad I was able to hang on to them through these years to look back on and enjoy the memories.
My husband jokes with me all the time about how he should probably add on another room just for all of my keepsakes. I’ve saved everything from our champagne glasses to a little bag of rice. But hey, I’m entitled. You can make anything from your wedding and reception into a precious memory. I even made sure when I bought the wedding favors gifts for our friends and families that I bought one extra, so I could have it for my memory box. So you see, I’ve got just about everything you can imagine from my wedding and reception as keepsakes.
It’s nice as time goes by to take them out and remember that very special day and all the people who shared it with us. I even had our written wedding vows put into frames and they are hanging in the living room, right next to our wedding picture. Some people may say I’m a fanatic about my wedding memorabilia, and maybe they are right, but they are very important to me and I wouldn’t part with any of it. I have three boxes and one whole dresser full of keepsake wedding gifts and I planned to have them for years to come. Maybe when my daugher finds the man she wants to marry, she can use some of my wedding accessories in her ceremony. That would be so awesome to see my daughter walking down the aisle in my wedding dress holding my bouquet, and creating memories of her own to hold on to.
Maybe some day her closet will be filled with memory boxes of keepsakes from her wedding and reception. Oh, and fyi, I have two more boxes of memories from our honeymoon.