BRONZE BUDGET BRIDE

• highlight your favorite color
• create a new monogram
• play with the date of the wedding
• create a logo or use a photograph
• incorporate a passion of yours

Highlight a Personal Favorite Color

If you love yellow – use it at your wedding. In addition to flowers, think about the linens, the paper products (invitation, seating cards, etc), maybe what the singers in the band are wearing…there are lots of ways to play up a color – and it doesn’t have to be in your face either…it could just be hints of it. We did a wedding once where the bride’s favorite color was yellow and her table linens were a soft yellow, where her menu cards were printed in a bright yellow.

Create a Wedding Monogram

This is the first day that you will be husband and wife, so have fun with it. We have had designers create monograms for the new couple and have had it displayed on the dance floor with lighting or embroidered the monogram onto the dinner napkins (which is great because the bride and groom can keep them after the wedding). But you can also do simple things and have stickers made with the monogram and use it with favors – maybe a small box of candy sealed with your personalized sticker.

Play With the Wedding Date

 If nothing else comes to mind…you can have fun with something as simple as the date of the wedding. We have had cocktail napkins printed just with the date of the wedding – very clean and very modern looking. For a wedding that was going to involve the guests being outside – as a favor, the bride and groom gave umbrellas that had the date of the wedding on them…and what is fun, you can still walk around NYC and see people using the umbrellas.

Create a Personalized Wedding Logo

Many times the feeling and theme of the wedding – is dictated by where the wedding is taking place – and this is a great way to pull inspiration on little ways to personalize the wedding. It could be creating a logo of where the wedding is – we have done welcome bags that had a logo of the islands off the coast of Maine for a wedding we did in Maine. Or it could be a photograph of the couple that is used throughout the wedding…maybe on the save the date and then again on the welcome note…or incorporated with the favor.

Incorporate a Hobby in the Wedding Theme

This is one way to really make the wedding personal. If you love a certain kind of cookie and everyone knows it – why not give that away as a favor at the ending of the night. Or for one wedding, the groom was very involved with the environment, so as their favor a tree sampling was given to each guest with instructions on how to plant it.

So these are just some ideas, but by talking to each other and to your vendors, the options are endless on ways to make your wedding stand out as your wedding.

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