Unique Wedding Ideas
104. My Fiancé played football in high school, so when we do the garter toss, he will place the garter around a football and throw the football.
105. Since I am a great big New York Yankee fan, I decided that I am going to make my own garters for the wedding by making them have something to do with the NY Yankees. I bought two key chain type things that you can wear around your neck and some ivory lace and some elastic and sewed the NY Yankee key chain material to the lace to make my garters. Its a great comfort to me, since I’m never caught without something of the Yankees on my person, and plus my grandfather was also a great big fan, however he passed away so its a great memory for him too.
106.When our daughter got married 6 years ago, we had an out door garden wedding. Due to the possibility of a breeze the bride and groom could not have candles. So instead they took two special champagne glasses of water and had a pretty vase in which they poured the water and placed a rose. The water symbolized purity and the rose continuing love.
107. When cutting the cake at the wedding, my best friend had a picture of her parents and her husband’s parents cutting the cake on their wedding day. The two pictures were framed and sitting on the table for decoration. It was very sweet!
108. Since my fiancé and I have a son who will be seven months old at our reception, we wanted to have him involved in our ceremony somehow. We purchased a little tuxedo (SO CUTE! Jacket tails, cumber bund, bow tie and all!) for him to wear. When I walk down the aisle, my fiancé will be holding him (please behave!).My florist will have tucked a sweetheart rose boutonniere in the back of my bouquet, and after passing on my bouquet to my matron of honor (and kissing Dad on his cheek!) I will pull the bout out and pin it on him, then pass him to my mother. Cross your fingers! I hope it goes as planned!
110. My fiancé' is a big fisherman so instead of the traditional cake top, my fiancé and I had to live fan-tailed goldfish in a small bowl decorated just like my centerpieces, as our cake top. I was something different and unique. We also had live gold fish on each table at the reception.
111. My Fiancé and I wanted to add a personal touch to our pretty large wedding instead of having everything as traditional as our parents would have liked.(he, he) Since my husband is a G.I Joe collector and I have a collection of antique Barbies we decided instead of using the regular couple on top of the cake we surprised everyone and had them use one of those miniature Barbies and a 3/4' Gi Joe on top of the cake. It really was cute to add this little unique touch to our wedding. it was a symbol pf our personalities.
112. To avoid guests feeling slighted by seating them at table with a higher number try this alternative. Have your place cards read "Mr. Smith you are seated at our table of Friendship". Or our table of Peace, Joy, Happiness, Love, Hope, etc. It is very easy to replace the number cards with your own handwritten or printed cards in the table stands.
113. I have always been the girl at wedding receptions that will fight for the bouquet at any cost! Needless to say, I have 6 bouquets to show for it! Now that I am the bride, I wanted a different way to toss the bouquet, so I am going to combine flowers from all of the bouquets that I have caught to throw for my single girls! I will have it announced that whoever catches this bouquet will have 6 times the luck!!!
114. Instead of the long, dull receiving line, we are waiting until the reception where we will give each person as they walk in a lei, we are having a luau themed reception. Our place cards will be in everyone’s Hawaiian name, with their real name under it. We have made chocolate hula girls, shells and palm trees out of molds. We are having seashells, starfish, fishnets, and pineapples, roast hog, hula girl centerpieces and much more. For our guest book table we have a dolphin picture frame for our engagement picture. For our unity candle we have a under the sea unity candle with blue candles we are putting in dolphin candleholders. We are not having any of the usual bells and floating candles. We want to make it fun and something worth remembering.
115. We are getting married next January in the mountains. Instead of using rice or flower petals to toss, we are using paper snowflakes. I used plain old computer paper (it floats the best) and 3 different sized paper punch snowflakes (at craft stores). We will put a few handfuls into small cellophane bags with the top folded over and secured with double tape. Then tape a snowflake to where the bag is taped shut. It is turning out to be a lot of work, but it will be so worth it!
116. Traditional receiving lines can be long and drawn out, but my fiancé, Shane, and I do want a chance to talk to every guest at our wedding. We wanted to do something a little different. Our centerpieces for the reception were made by my mom and have candles in the center. We decided after we were introduced as the new Mr. and Mrs. we would go to each table and light the center candle also giving us the opportunity to thank each and every guest for sharing our special moment.
117. At my wedding I am planning on having the minister at the front of the church start the ceremony with, "Marriage. Marriage is what brings us together today," in the lisp-voice of the minister in the movie "The Princess Bride." I think it will be funny and make the ceremony less uncomfortable and formal.
118. I will be getting married in November. Neither my fiancé nor I have our dads living. I wanted to do something special to honor them on our special day. I am having two floral arrangements made in baskets and they will each have the name of our dads on the ribbon. After the ceremony we will have my mom and my fiancé’s mother place them at the cemetery in honor of our dads. I will also have a lone red rose placed in my bouquet to represent my dad.
119. Traditions are such great things to pass on at every wedding. In our family we have the mother of the bride unveil the bride to her new husband. The mother takes off the bride's veil while she sits on her new husband's lap. Then the mother replaces her veil with a hand-crafted hair net that my great grandmother wore on her wedding day. After the wedding is over, the bride attaches a small pearl or sequin from her dress to the hair net. This tradition has been done in our family for over 60 years.
120. The Bride always wanted to get married "barefoot"...with a very non-traditional wedding, one with a Hawaiian Theme. Not only will the bride be barefoot, but the whole wedding party and any guest who wish to participate. We have even arranged with the photographer to get a shot of all out feet!!!
121. My fiancé and I both love marching bands; we wanted to share this love with our guests. So I hired the local high school marching band director to design the half time show incorporating a wedding right on the field! The flag and rifle lies form a tunnel through which my bridesmaids and I walk to the alter where my father-in-law (a preacher) will perform our ceremony. We are giving CDs of marching music as favors
122. I have had two cousins use this idea and I intend to use this on my upcoming wedding. Instead of using regular paper invitations, I will be sending out videotapes. The tape will begin with pictures of the bride & groom from birth till adult then pictures of the couple together. You only pick one picture from every age or age range. I will only pick pictures of myself alone so no one will be able to get upset that they were not in the video and someone else was. The tape will only be 15 minutes. This will cost about the same as a really nice invitation. At the end of the pictures you have the wedding information/invitation. The tapes you can buy for about dollar a tape on the Internet. You will just need to get a Videographer who has the right equipment to duplicate a large amount of tapes. I am doing this because I am having a destination wedding and wanted friends and family who couldn’t attend to have a nice keep sake. Plus if your family or friends don’t know your spouse it gives them a chance to see them up close and personal. You put things like graduation pictures, etc. The postage will probably be the most expensive thing. But I will drop off as many tapes as I can.
123. I am helping out to plan a wedding for my cousin. For the party favors I made 100 CD’s with wedding songs on them (Going to the chapel, Celebration, Their song etc..) I also made labels for each CD using a computer label maker. You may think this cost a lot but it ended up being about 80 cents a CD. For the programs they will be also incorporated with the CD and be the CD covers including, The Bride and Grooms picture on the front, wedding party, special note to the guest, and special thanks. I thought this was a cute and unique wedding idea!
124. Rather then having the traditional toss of the bouquet and garter we are going to sell raffle tickets to give them away. Pink tickets for the bouquet and blue for the garter.
125. For our centerpieces we are using framed engagement pictures and a vase with a single calilili of either orange or yellow (my favorite colors.) However, instead of centerpieces on our families' respective tables, we will place a picture of each of our grandfathers, who are no longer with us, along with a bouquet of white calililies (symbolizing remembrance) to honor their presence at our wedding.
126. My Fiancée and I are getting married soon. Both of our best friends were coincidentally killed in tragic accidents. We feel that they should be sharing this precious moment in our lives. So we plan to say a prayer and have a moment of silence dedicated to our friends.
