20 Ways to Personalize Your Day
Unity Sand
Love the beach? Consider extinguishing the unity candle idea and instead combining symbolic cups of sand from your respective hometowns.
Hung Out to Dry
Amuse your guests by stringing your childhood photos along a clothesline for their viewing pleasure.
Bribing the Bearer
Is your ring bearer a little aisle shy? Bribe him with candy. From the altar, the groom can flash a bag of jellybeans to coax the little fella down the aisle.
Send and Deliver
Along with including details about the wedding party in the program, also list your new contact information for guests to keep in touch!
Ceremony Cheers
Give guests glasses of bubbly garnished with strawberries as they enter the ceremony space.
Exceptional Pets
Animal lovers: Outfit your four-legged friends with flowers and have them escorted by one of your attendants down the aisle.
Homemade Huppah
Are you a crafty bride? Sew together old handkerchiefs from all of your grandparents to create a sentimental wedding canopy.
Holiday Spirit
Ebenezer Scrooge won’t make the cut on this guest list. Before the start your Christmas-time celebration, welcome guests with hot cocoa, holiday cookies and Christmas carols.
Fountain of Youth
Stock a child’s red wagon with monogrammed water bottles and tie a glass to every seat at your outdoor ceremony.
Bug Off
Make sure guests are well equipped for an outdoor ceremony with a welcome basket filled with bug spray.
Sound the Horns
Hand guests personalized kazoos and party horns to blow on the steps of the church as you exit the ceremony.
Heirloom Detail
Ask a florist to delicately weave your deceased grandmother’s handkerchief into the wrap around the stems of your bouquet.
Seasonal Sprinkle
Having a fall wedding? Let your flower girl scatter dried leaves to pave the way for the bridal party.
Streaky Cheeks
Prepare your guests for emotional wedding tears by providing tissue packages wrapped in vellum and printed with inspirational quotations.
Tandem Takeoff
After exchanging vows, circle your loved ones on an old tandem bike decorated with roses before riding off to the reception.
Crowd Pleaser
After your ceremony, ask guests to linger for a group photo that you can later use as the cover for your thank you cards.
Wise Words
Recite the same personalized vows that your parents exchanged on their wedding day.
Relay Race
Will you have a long, winding ceremony path? Let your brothers and father, standing at various intervals, escort you to the altar one by one.
Artsy Aisle
Walk down the aisle on a runner hand-painted with flower vines, as well as your and your groom’s names.
Surprise Kiss
After the groom kisses the bride, let a bridesmaid pull a popgun out of her knee-high stockings and shoot a burst of confetti to mark the end of the ceremony.
