There's so many decisions to make when planning a wedding that it's often easy to forget the little personal touches which may not cost much but can really help make your day special. Here's a few ideas that I've come across whilst helping at weddings over the years:
- Put photo frames with pictures of previous family weddings on your cake table or with your guest book
- Place a basket of flip flops near the dance floor to encourage your friends to party all night!
- Instead of the standard group shot of all your friends and family why not hand out pots of bubbles, or sparklers if it's dark enough, to make it a fun memorable photo
- Instead of taking a vintage car on your own why not travel to your reception in a vintage bus with all your guests so you to get to spend more time with them
- Instead of a guest book why not ask guests to email or text you photos of themselves at your wedding along with a message - you can then put it all together in a digital photobook. Alternatively use the digital wedding guestbook website to co-ordinate everything for you and create a personal DVD record from your guests messages, pictures and clips
- If you have friends or family who are staying a few days why not prepare a pack with details of places to visit, things to keep them occupied and nice restaurants to go to that are appropriate to them
- Make sure there are nice soaps, hand creams and perfume in the ladies toilets - it will always go down well!!
- Quite often favours are forgotten or not even taken away, despite costing quite a lot of money. Why not have favours that mean something special, so they are more likely to be remembered:
- Make them yourself, for example pots of jam, biscuits, sweets, decorated tea light holders
- Have something that relates to where you come from or where you are getting married, for example Yorkshire Lavender, Kendal Mint Cake, Whisky
- Give money to a charity that means something to you instead and put cards on the table explaining your decision
- Have something seasonal - baubles at Christmas, chocolate eggs at Easter
What's important with the details is not how much you spend but the thought that goes into it - the more personal and relevant it is to you, the more memorable it is likely to be.
