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Spring is just around the corner… a time for renewal of life or starting a new life as husband and wife.
A Spring Wedding complete with elegant fresh flowers and colorful wedding favors accentuating your table. Crisp white table linens, the scent of beautiful fresh cut flowers displayed among unique wedding place card holders and candles for your family and guests! A gathering of friends and family! What an exciting day, full of life, inspiration and joy. Keep your wedding fun, don’t stress, your spring wedding will be picture perfect.
When people agree to go to a wedding, they are attending the party because they want to be there for their friend or relative on their special day. An added bonus for these guests is the fact that they’ll probably receive some sort of wedding favor. While some of these favors just end up tucked away in a drawer or even thrown away, the best tactic to take with wedding favors is to go unique and useful. People definitely want a way to remember the wedding itself, but they also want something that they can really use.
This usually means that you’ll have to get a little creative with your wedding favors. If you’re having a Vegas wedding, for example, consider giving everyone a roll of quarters wrapped and decorated in a festive manner. In this way, everyone can hop down to the casino and enjoy a few pulls of the slot machine on the bride and groom. These kinds of unique wedding favors are sure to be a big hit. And if you’re having a more traditional wedding, consider personalized wedding favors like a love-themed wine stop or champagne glasses with the date of the wedding etched into the glass. These are all useful tokens but will still serve as a great reminder of the wedding.
In many Christian denominations, baptism is a momentous rite of passage. Children might not remember many details of an event that takes place so early in their lives; for parents and extended family, however, every detail counts. Some baptismal ceremonies are performed before an entire church congregation, which only adds to the event’s prestige.
Baptism gifts should be more than ephemeral items to be consumed and discarded. The most thoughtful presents can be enjoyed as keepsakes for years to come, and they should include a personal touch. That’s not to say that all baptism gifts should be handmade, but they should at least offer some suggestion of a close personal connection.
Your sixteen birthday is a passage from a little girl to a young lady. It is an exciting time in your life to experience new freedoms such as getting your drivers license and slowing gaining independence to see the world as a young adult. Building new and lasting friendships with your friends and family.
Sweet Sixteen to be treasured for a lifetime. Sixteenth birthday a time of fun, laughter, joy shared with girl friends all learning to become young beautiful independent young women.
What month is your baby going to be being born in?
The time of the year of when a baby is born is an important factor on how to decorate for their baby shower and what kinds of favors to give out to your friends and family. Think of your babies birthstone, or the season in which they are going to be born in, along with whether the baby is going to be a boy and a girl. Incorporate the respective colors of their birthstones and the pink and blue for either a girl or a boy. Glean the colors associated with the season associated with the baby’s date of birth. This will make the baby shower experience feel personal and more in tune with the baby girl or baby boy about to be born!
Special occasion keepsakes don’t always have to be made of glass, silver, ceramic, plastic, or cloth. In keeping with today’s ecological campaigns about minimalism and reducing clutter and waste, it seems a better, more realistic idea to give away edibles and beneficial items during weddings, parties, reunions, and other momentous happenings.
A few sensible couples have already put this in practice. Rather than have an oversized cake made for the grand event, one newlywed pair opted for several little cakes which they then presented as wedding favors to guests and loved ones. The petite cakes were packaged in cute cartons that carried the colors and motif of the bridal entourage, as well as a personal message from the husband and wife. Of course, the recipients of the boxed cakes were thrilled with their booty and went home with smiles on their faces.
Another couple contributed to the Earth’s cause when they tied the knot. They did this by giving everyone bookmarkers made of recycled paper. More significant though was the message in the keepsake which stated that a mahogany tree has been planted in the name of each guest/recipient, and that this move will benefit more than just a community in the years to come.
I have worn some really ugly bridesmaid dresses, but the last wedding I was in was the worst. Belinda was getting married, and I was her maid of honor. We had been best friends since we were in nappies, and I would do anything for her. That includes wearing the most hideous dress I had ever laid eyes on. The thing was horrible. First off the colors included cotton-candy pink, baby blue and lemon yellow. Some could have mistaken me for an Easter egg! The layered-chiffon monstrosity was ruffled around the neck and on the trim, and had a gigantic bow at the waist. Even worse all the bridesmaids had to wear white stockings with the dress. Not only did I look like an Easter egg, but I looked like a fat Easter egg.
The only thing that got me through the entire production was the thought of the expensive bridesmaid gifts I knew Belinda would give us. I participated in the wedding because I loved my best bud, but I’ll tell you what—the diamond necklace she gave me didn’t hurt.
Get inspired by the old adage, “something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue.”
At your wedding you can give wedding keepsakes to your guests that are infused with an old classic feel with a modern twist. You can borrow from different cultures to make your wedding have an exotic feel. And of course the color blue exudes the feeling of the luxury of romance on a calm level.
Make your wedding favors unique and different, it will not only help you remember your special day, but it will give your guests tangible memories that shall hold the essence of love.
When my siblings and I were little my parents were obsessive about chronicling our development. Although this recording of our histories has continued to this day, it was most fervent in our early years. Our home is littered with childhood portraits and our own original creations.
Since I was the first child, there are a particularly high number of baby keepsakes of mine. My parents had a replica of my first shoe forged out of copper; it still sits on the bookshelf in their home. They also keep a set of handprints that I made in clay throughout the years, so that they can sentimentally remember my childhood.
The Saturday after Thanksgiving one of my college roommates is going to be tying the knot. I originally thought that it was uncustomary to have a wedding in the fall, but have found that many people opt for an autumn ceremony. For most of the wedding guests this is actually a great time to have a wedding, as most people have a vacation thanks to the holiday.
For the past week or two I have been trying to decide what gift to get them. Like most couples, they have a wedding registry, but I have a difficult time justifying paying $30 for a cereal bowl. I want to be sure to get them something good, because I am sure they will have expensive fall wedding favors.