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tululabell
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Posted: 05-10-07 08:27am
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i think that is a really good idea! and i
think most people like those too.
we made cd's with a variety of love songs
on it, one per couple or if they were
alone they got one of course! we attached
the place cards to them so the guests knew
to take them. it went over ok, i am sure
some people threw them out! that is why
the treat is a good idea because even if
they don't want it maybe there kids would
at home.
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Posted: 05-10-07 08:29am
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We had lame favors at my wedding. My Dh
is obssessed with jelly belly's so we had
little blue and silver sacks and added
allot of jelly belly's too them. The funny
thing isI had decided to not do favors but
my mom decided she wanted them at the last
minute. So the night before my wedding me
and all my bridesmaids watched "the
Perfect Man" and stuffed those little
annoying baggies.
I think some people are totally doing away
with favors. Especially if there is an
open bar at their reception.
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Posted: 05-10-07 08:29am
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My favorite favor that I gave out were
magnets.
We bought blank white magnets from any
supply store. (They're made for businesses
and normally were you buy the blank
business cards to print out your self.) We
picked out our favorite picture of us. We
printed them out on paper and adhered it
to the front of the magnet. (Get the
magnet you peel off a cover and their
sticky) It had out wedding date under it
and everyone got one. Out faces are on
fridges all across .Lockhart. We even
walked into our usual convenience store
and we were right there on the register.
One had gotten into his hands somewhere
along the line.
Just an Idea.
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Posted: 05-10-07 08:29am
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We got some tea light candles and votives
for them to go into. Then made up labels
to put around the votives that said
'thanks for sharing our special day' and
then had our names and wedding date on
them.
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Posted: 05-10-07 08:40am
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We put some wildflower seeds in a bag and
wrote a cute poem and thanking everyone
for sharing our special day. It had the
date and our names on it as well.
They were extremely inexpensive and
everyone seemed to like them.
Here's a picture - that's not our favors,
but it gives you an idea of what the bags
looked like.
http://img.auctiva.com/imgdata/1/0/9/8/1
/3/webimg/18273364_tp.jpg
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Bridget
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Posted: 05-10-07 08:50am
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those are all very cute ideas!
i've heard a lot of people are doing away
with favors and just putting a card at
each seat that says "a donation has been
made in your name to ______". that's a
great idea too.
my mom said "a lot of people give jordan's
almonds because almonds symbolize
fertility... but i think you've passed
that..."
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Posted: 05-10-07 09:30am
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| IHeartMyBostonTerrier
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my mom said "a lot of people give jordan's
almonds because almonds symbolize
fertility... but i think you've passed
that..." |
Yes, I should hope you're not wearing
white, .Bridget dear...
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Posted: 05-10-07 09:34am
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haha,when I was younger I told my mom I
wanted to wear a violet dress on my
wedding.She said no,brides wear white or
off white
I was so set on violet 
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Posted: 05-10-07 10:16am
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| PurestGreen
wrote: | | IHeartMyBostonTerrier
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my mom said "a lot of people give jordan's
almonds because almonds symbolize
fertility... but i think you've passed
that..." |
Yes, I should hope you're not wearing
white, .Bridget dear... |
o please that is so old, nowadays it
doesnt matter, all brides should be able
to wear white if they want 
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Posted: 05-10-07 10:24am
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I lived with my husband 2 years before we
got married and my grandma was the only
person who said anything about my wearing
white. Everyone else said you can wear
white if you want to!
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oh_mommy
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Posted: 05-10-07 12:40pm
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im so gonna wear white.. lol
the wedding i went to in feb they gave out
bath salts in a baggy that had couple of
sea shells in the baggy also with a
sticker on the baggy saying their names
and wedding date
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Posted: 05-10-07 12:47pm
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I think that old tradition is out the
window. Both my sister and I wore white
on our wedding day and we both lived with
our husbands before. Also, my sil did the
same thing. My other sister got married,
then divorsed, and got married again and
she wore an off white dress. She thought
she shouldn't wear white for her second
wedding.
Another good idea for favors would be
getting a small 2x3 frame and putting a
picture of you two in it for everyone.
That way everyone would have a cute
picture of the two of you to have at their
house. I love pictures and wanted to do
this, but couldn't afford it... We had
almost 150 at our wedding. If you look on
ebay or at the dollar store they are about
$0.75-1.00 each.
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Posted: 05-10-07 12:55pm
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These are all really great ideas on the
favors. I love the wildflower seed one.
I think the chocolate covered apple idea
is very original. The last wedding I
attended they had little votives with
candles and the bride and groom's name
with the wedding date. It was nice. I
still have it.
On a different note, I worked at a wedding
that had 2 disposable cameras on every
table (round ones that seated  . Guests took
pictures of the bride, groom, wedding
party, and other guests and left their
used cameras in a basket when they left.
I'm sure there were some awesome pictures.
More than a photographer could get.
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Posted: 05-10-07 13:00pm
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| Mommy35
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On a different note, I worked at a wedding
that had 2 disposable cameras on every
table (round ones that seated . Guests took
pictures of the bride, groom, wedding
party, and other guests and left their
used cameras in a basket when they left.
I'm sure there were some awesome pictures.
More than a photographer could
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We did this too. We had 6 cameras
throughout the reception area for people
to take pictures with. 3 of our cameras
ended up missing. We only got 1 camera
back that was full of pictures, the other
2 only had a couple of pictures taken on
them. If you go with this idea, put a
sticker on the camera that says return to
bride and groom or something to that
effect. I was quite upset that people
would run off with them.
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Posted: 05-10-07 13:01pm
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| Mommy35
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On a different note, I worked at a wedding
that had 2 disposable cameras on every
table (round ones that seated . Guests took
pictures of the bride, groom, wedding
party, and other guests and left their
used cameras in a basket when they left.
I'm sure there were some awesome pictures.
More than a photographer could
get. |
I had a disposable at every table as well.
All I can say is that I thought it would
be a good idea!!! 
Our friends table decided they needed to
be the funny guys and they took stupid
pictures of everyone with silly faces.
then at other tables, the kids got ahold
of the cameras and needless to say, I got
some nice pictures of peoples feet, the
backs of heads, the silverware!!
Priceless I tell you!
I did get a few good ones, but not many.
Some people didn't finish the camera and
we took the remaining ones on our
honeymoon.
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Posted: 05-10-07 13:09pm
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We had little silver bells at each place
setting. Every time someone rang a bell,
.aaron and I would have to kiss. It
actually got annoying after a while,
because people would try to be cute and
ring it while we were trying to eat, while
I was talking with someone, etc. We also
had little bottles of bubbles with our
names on them. We were supposed to do that
instead of throwing rice, but the
reception hall is attached to the church
so we never had a huge entrace/exit thing.
So they were never really used except to
goof off.
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Posted: 05-10-07 14:07pm
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The party favors we had for our 1st
wedding were handmade napkin holders and
tortilla baskets (also handmade, and I
doubt your families have any use for the
second favor....but that's just what we
had) And I don't know how/where they got
those things, as all those were done
before we got there. And for our second go
around (in the states for family that
couldn't attend the other one) we made
dozens upon dozens of roll out sugar
cookies and decorated them according to
our colors, and it was all wedding themed.
And we also did the little bubbles things.
ANd I also wore a white dress even tho I
lived with my husband 2 years before I got
married.
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Posted: 05-10-07 14:13pm
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We had square, glass, coasteres frosted
with the .l & .o on top and the .v.
& .e on the bottom!!
They're amazing!!! I'll have to take
pics!!
Then we had "save the date" maganets
made!! With a sweet little "i'm marrying
my friend" enscription with the date on
it!!!
As for the dress, you can call me old
fashioned. I didn't want white because I'm
not "pure"...but I wouldn't think down
upon someone who wants white.
Sarah
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Posted: 05-11-07 08:22am
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I'm going to be very un-traditional and
wear red on my wedding day I
love your idea as a favor. I reall ylike
what my sister's doing for hers. Her theme
colours are ivory and gold so shes getting
little ivory candles with their names and
the date of their wedding on them in
little gold bags with kinda pearl
stickbits coming out of the top of the
bag. As you can tell describing things is
not my strong point!
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