Category: Decorating

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Wedding Favor Boxes Can Enhance Your Wedding Favors

Once you decide on your wedding favors it’s time to find the perfect wedding favor boxes to present the favors to your guests. Wedding favor boxes are a great way to set out items on the guest tables and have them blend in with the decor. Maybe you are offering leather key rings but the color of the key ring doesn’t really match the decor. By putting the favor into a box you can chose the color and presentation that is displayed and keep the color palate of the wedding intact.

Wedding favor boxes don’t have to be expensive. There are plenty options of favor boxes that are affordable and don’t’ look cheap but are quality products. You can usually find them in paper, plastic and tin. These don’t even mention other types of boxes that really are part of the favor as well and not just fancy packaging.

For example, you could place a wine stopper and coaster set inside a miniature picnic basket as a nice favor for your guests at an outdoor vineyard wedding. The picnic basket really is the favor box but is stylish and functional too! Its’ possible to find wedding favor boxes that actually enhance the favors inside, as seen in my example with the picnic basket.

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Choosing the Right Wedding Centerpieces

Wedding centerpieces set the look of your tables at the reception. The goal of the centerpiece is to have them compliment your wedding theme and style. Adding special details with your centerpieces can really carry your theme out For example, a vase with sand and sea shells would be beautiful for a beach ceremony and would bring aspect that back to the reception for the guests.

I’ve seen big giant wedding centerpieces and also small little something centerpieces. At a few of the weddings I have attended the center piece were given out to some of the guests to take home as additional gifts or giant favors.

I know some people enjoy having candles as a part of their centerpiece. Pillar candles can be added to a floral arrangement and really make the piece stand out. Personalized candles also make great decorative items on the table.

I had very simple wedding centerpieces at my wedding reception. I didn’t have much money so I got little glass candle holders or, small and fat vases I guess you could call them, and filled them with pretty glass stones. I set them on the table with things I call balloon weights or table cloth weights. They were a pretty opalescent color and had hearts and bells confetti streamers coming out of the top. They were simple and looked great for my small wedding reception.

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Crafts For All of Your Left Over Shims

Shims usually come in a pack. Ever wonder what to do with all of those left over shims? Well I’ve a few craft ideas for you to use up your shim stock.

1. Make a decorative piece of wall art by gluing the shims inside of a frame.

2. Create a beautiful sunburst looking wall mirror by surrounding a circular mirror with shims. If you turn the shims so they are stacked on each other and then lay them around the mirror it will look like a star burst. Cut the shims to different lengths for each point of the star.

3. Cover a planter box side with multiple colors of shims to add some texture and pops of color.

4. Staple a few to a piece of wood to make your own picture displays with no glass needed.

5. Stack a few shims together to make a Christmas tree and paint it green and leave the bottom shim turned vertical and stain it brown. I had to add this one in because it’s so close to Christmas. We actually made this one ourselves last year. It was quite easy to do and because shims are so inexpensive we got enough for everyone in the family to make one for themselves.

Do you have any fun ideas on ways to use up those shims you have laying around or even fun crafts to do with shims on purpose?

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Celebrating the Unity Ceremony With Sand & Candles

It is becoming more and more popular for couples to elect to have some form of unity ceremony during their wedding service. Unity ceremonies can symbolize the joining of two families into one and or the joining of the bride and groom into one flesh.The unity ceremony can be performed with candles or sand.

The candle unity ceremony consists of two long tapered candles and one larger unity candle. The tapered candles can either represent the bride and groom each or their respective families. It’s common for a representative from each family to light the tapered candles. This is usually done by the mothers of the bride and groom. During the ceremony the bridge and groom light the larger unity candle together with their tapered candles. This large candle represents the new couple and or the joining of the families into one unit that love the happy couple. The unity candle is often decorated with the wedding invitation, monogram, some inscription or a picture of the couple. These candles are more than often white in color. Depending on the representation and symbolism the couples elect to follow the individual tapered candles may be blown out or left lit.

A similar unity ceremony can be performed using sand. Instead of lighting a candle together, the couple uses colored sand from individual vessels and pours them together into a larger container. The sand can match the color scheme of the bridal party or be your classic black and white. Some couples elect to use a different color for each family member and have everyone participate, especially if there are children involved in the new marriage.

Whether you choose to have a sand or candle unity ceremony is up to you. There are many options to choose from style wise to have the perfect additions to your wedding ceremony.

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Wedding Flutes To Make Your Toasts Memorable

Wedding flutes can be a terrific item to have personalized in order to commemorate your special day. You can get fancy wedding flutes or even simple and elegant wedding flutes, it all depends on your style and taste. During my searches I’ve even come across sets of wedding flutes that sit in a stand together and share a base.  I think these types of wedding flutes are precious and really make a statement, especially when the stems form a heart together.

Perhaps you would like your wedding flutes to be etched with your new monogram or the date that you are joined in holly matrimony, all of these options are available to you. Selecting the perfect champagne flutes for your wedding reception will make each and every toast that much more memorable.

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Wedding Favor Bags Can Enhance Your Favors

Once you determine what wedding favors you are going to give your family and friends, your next task will be to determine how to present them. A great option is to use wedding favor bags. Wedding favor bags solve many problems. Maybe your favors are small, don’t come in packaging of their own, or don’t match your decor.

With the use of wedding favor bags your problems are solved. You prevent your guest from loosing their tiny trinkets, everyone has something to carry their favor in, and now you can add personal touches so that the favors blend in with your decor seamlessly.

Organza wedding favor bags are an elegant choice. They add a little flair and color but they still let your favor shine through because they are sheer. They are easy to enhance and embellish as well. Try adding ribbon in the colors of your bridal party or maybe a charm to the bags. Your guests will love the fine details. They are especially great to use for favors that you may have made yourself.

Wedding favor bags look great at every place setting at the reception. Choose favor bags that make a statement and impress all of your guests.

 

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Wine Wedding Favors For Everyone

Wine wedding favors are an excellent addition to any wedding reception because they are so flexible they can fit in anywhere. They can even fill the shoes of the last minute wedding favor because they can accommodate any theme.

Wine wedding favors include all aspects of favors that relate to wine products. These encompass wine stoppers, personalized wine bottles, wine glasses, coasters and more. Wine stoppers are one of my favorite wine wedding favors, well because I love to drink wine and I don’t want to drink a whole bottle by myself. To easily incorporate a wine stopper into your theme simply select a style or design that compliments it. For example, for a Valentine’s Day wedding maybe a stopper in the shape of hearts would be nice. For a garden wedding maybe you could offer a flower or leaf  shaped stopper. The possibilities are endless.

If glasses are more your style, try commemorating the occasion with monogrammed or personalized wine glasses or champagne flutes. Every time your guests drink from the lovely glasses they will be reminded of you.

Coasters are a nice practical wine wedding favor to give to your friends and family. These can be used by people of all ages and by those that choose to drink alcohol or not. You could have your favorite quote printed or engraved on them and everyone will love them.

Make wine wedding favors a part of your special day and your guests will thank you.

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Selecting Your Wedding Decorations

Wedding decorations can turn any location for your wedding and or reception into something special. If you have no idea what you want as far as decorations go maybe try starting out with a theme and move on from there. Flipping through wedding magazines is a great place to start to get ideas also.

Wedding decorations include more than ribbons and flowers. They encompass everything from cake toppers to wedding favors, and even accessories for the bridal party. Choose wedding decorations that invoke the style and feeling you are looking for. If you are going for a fantasy wedding theme it would make sense to romantic setting with candles and pastel colored flowers.  A fairy tale carriage would make a addition to your decorations for a story book wedding. You could have centerpieces and place holders reflect that idea at each table.

If there is something that you are looking for that you can’t find it’s always possible to hire a company to do custom wedding decorations for your wedding. This will give you the opportunity to have exactly what you want down to the very last detail. Most companies will be happy to provide you with excellent customer service so that the bride and groom are happy and are able to have the wedding of their dreams.

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Making A Statement With Flower Girl Baskets

Flower girl baskets are a great place to add details and style to compliment the special occasion. Watching the flower girl stroll down the aisle selecting rose petals out of the flower girl basket and dropping them gingerly on the floor is one a highly photographed moment. Make sure your flower girl basket stands out and doesn’t look boring and plain.

Flower girls baskets are easy to make unique and one of a kind by adding embellishments including lace, beads, ribbon, pearls, and of course the flowers. By adding just a few simple details you can take your plain and ordinary flower girl basket from drab to fab. The best part about it is it doesn’t have to be expensive. Flower girl baskets can be very affordable, especially when you embellish them yourself.

You might even consider giving the flower girl basket tot he flower girl as part of her wedding favor after the wedding. I’m sure she would love it. What little girls doesn’t like to parade around in her dress up clothes and pretend she is doing something very special. After her having the chance to be the flower girl in your wedding she will have those wonderful memories to look back on and can use the flower girl basket in all of her adventurous pretend play.

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Enhance Your Theme With Beach Wedding Favors

Wedding favors leave a lasting impression on your guests. While I was looking into different types of wedding favors I found that there really is a huge variety of favors to choose from for every theme you can imagine. Today, I’m going to talk more about Beach Wedding Favors.

How exciting would it be to have a beach wedding out by the water and be able to listen to the relaxing waves as they come crashing in on the shore. You can offer the perfect wedding favor to help your guests remember this special occasion at the beach.

Enhance your wedding theme by including the beach wedding favors as part of your decor. Use the wedding favors as place card holders at the tables for your guests. Sea shells, sand dollars, or star fish can help add a little pizazz to your table. Add these little tokens to tea light votive holders and you have an instant beach wedding favor. Include some sand  to hold the candle in and it will remind everyone of the wonderful time they spent with you at the beach.

Another festive way to commemorate your beach wedding could be to chose a functional item with a twist. A great example of this would be to give away a classic wine or bottle stopper but with a beach element on top like a starfish. Your guests will definitely appreciate the thought and detail you put into the favors you offer them.