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What's the nicest/most unusual touch, tip, whatever you have seen/experienced at a wedding?

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McDreamy · 16/03/2008 16:36

My little brother gets married soon. They are both the youngest in the families so both sides of the families have been to a few weddings in the past couple of years and they are struggling to try and do somethings/touchs a little different or unique.

I just wondered if anyone could give me either a few ideas I could pass onto them OR come up with something I could do for their big day.

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McDreamy · 16/03/2008 17:37

Anyone?

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CarGirl · 16/03/2008 17:38

some friends attended a wedding in a yurt thing and everyone camped in the same field - they said it was fantastic.

Dottydot · 16/03/2008 17:39

Don't know how unusual this is, but friends of ours wrote small individual messages to all their guests and left them in envelopes on the dinner tables with their place settings - it was so personal and lovely to receive one. When I came to get married I wished I'd done the same and was full of admiration for them finding the time to think of what to write and get them all done!

moondog · 16/03/2008 17:39

I think barn dance type things are brill and bring together old and young far more than some dirge by a 'pop' star.
Seriously,even if you don;t consider yourself to be that type, it is such a laugh.

beaniesteve · 16/03/2008 17:39

My brother had a rose ceremony, he cried and they got all the rose swapping mixed up.

He also had the date of the wedding embroidered on his sleeves.

They danced to a ramones song as their first dance and no one knew but they'd had dancing lessons for weeks beforehand and had a whole routine worked out.

Dottydot · 16/03/2008 17:40

We had our wedding reception in Pizza Express, which I suppose is fairly unusual...

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McDreamy · 16/03/2008 17:43

I know what you mean Moondog, we had a Ceilidh and it was fantastic. I like the little note idea.

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moondog · 16/03/2008 17:46

That is so sweet Beanie.
Your brother sounds fab.

newgirl · 17/03/2008 19:05

my friend had a cheese cake - which was rounds of cheese that we all ate after dinner with crackers etc - yummy

Maidamess · 17/03/2008 19:06

At my friends (posh) wedding, at the end of the evening when everyone was pissed and knackered from dancing, 10 waiters appeared with bacon sandwiches in white bread with ketchup already in! God we stuffed our faces.

elfsmummy · 17/03/2008 19:08

I went to a wedding recently where the bride and groom had left blank CDs on the table (under the flower arrangements) with a small note and a stamped addressed envelope asking people to send them copies of their digital photos after the event.

Thought that was a really good idea

brookeslay · 17/03/2008 19:11

You can get a special plate that has the bride and grooms name and date and a special pen that everyone signs with . You then bake the plate to seal it. Lovely everlasting gift, we did one for my partners 40th birthday and alot of people said how it would be great at a wedding.

WanderingTrolley · 17/03/2008 19:15

Dance, fatboy, dance.

Stick with the first minute and a half - it gets better.

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McDreamy · 17/03/2008 19:17

That's a good idea elfsmummy. We put disposable cameras on our tables but only got a few back. I like the cd idea - sign of the times!!

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eandh · 17/03/2008 19:21

If children are attending this may be good
when we got marries we had 5 under 3 year olds to the day so I made them a goody bag for the meal, 4 layers one to be opened between courses and during speeches, small quiet things like colouring pencils/pad/sticker book/small jigsaw and last present was a toy appriopriate (sp) to that child. Parents loved it as kept child amused plus something new every 30-45mibutes releived the boredom!

Also my cousin had lottery tickets as 'favors' and the hotle put the lottery numbers up on whiteboard during the evening reception I'd won £10

FairyFay · 17/03/2008 19:21

Instead of favours we gave each guest a clear plastic bag with a selection of retro sweets (foam shrimps, flying saucers, black jacks, etc) and a couple of novelty toys each - flying foam spitfires, those whizzy balloons, fortune telling fish, etc. It really set the mood that we wanted (and broke the ice for people who didn;t know each other) as everyone whizzed balloons and threw spitfires everywhere. We got the sweets in bulk online and the toys were cheap from Hawkins Bazaar. It was much more fun than the usual favours and loads of people commented on them.

We also hired a selection of giant games and a couple of play casino tables, which guests played in the time between the ceremony and the meal, while driniking jugs of cocktail. Again, it made things a bit more interesting. We were lucky though that we had a venue which allowed us to pretty much do what we liked and bring our own alcohol with no corkage charge.

I hope they have a lovely time

eandh · 17/03/2008 19:24

oh forgot we went to a wedding last year where bride and groom had young children therefore lots of young children at the day, they organised with the church to open sunday school so bored children went in there to play (some lovely ladies who were parishners looked after them!) and they had an entertainer at the reception (all the children had their own 'section' at back of teh room where we were eating with few toys/colouring etc and entertainer was there throughout the wedding breakfast (dd1 loved it and dd2 slept through the whole thing was so stress free!)

Whizzz · 17/03/2008 19:27

we went to a wedding a good few years back which was just before a Xmas - where the bride made little fabric / twig angels for all the female guests - they were place tags at the meal. We still hang ours on the tree every year, its a lovely keepsake

Whizzz · 17/03/2008 19:28

and went to another evening do - where there was a really good magician doing card / coin tricks around the place

anorak · 17/03/2008 19:31

25th wedding I went to recently had disposable cameras on all the tables for the guests to take candid shots and leave behind for the couple.

SittingBull · 17/03/2008 19:32

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didindan · 17/03/2008 19:45

At a friends wedding the favors were wild flower seeds to encourage butterflies to your garden( butterflys were a theme of the wedding)

I like the CD idea

I think a child friendly area is a great idea if children are coming

No19 · 17/03/2008 19:50

I was at a wedding where on the way in to the reception one of the groomsment took a Polaroid of each person / couple / group arriving. During the drinksy bit it he (presumably with some helpers!) stuck the Polaroids into an album leaving the facing page blank.

Then on the way in to the meal the album was on a sort of music stand and you found your picture and wrote a little message for the bride and groom on the facing page. I thought it was a lovely idea.

frasersmummy · 17/03/2008 19:55

We went to a wedding where each of the kids was given a disposable camera and asked to take a specified list of photos

eg your gran sitting on your grandad's knee, or a lady with a hat on etc...

not only kept them busy but was a good ice breaker for parents that were there

Yorky · 17/03/2008 20:13

Our wedding was December so flowers were costly and limited so we had balloons and candles for our table centre pieces, and also personalised ones for the children. Everyone loved them and so many walked past me as we were saying goodbye to people the next morning! And DHs uniform cap got floated to the ceiling on them while we were ceilidhing. Great fun!
I wish we'd had a guest book at the church as we didn't see everyone who only came for the ceremony and not the reception, what with me being late, then photos etc.