The product featured in this week’s contest allows you to personalize your wedding space and enhance your wedding theme by unifying your ceremony and reception spaces with unique typography. It’s such a simple touch that can add so much! {Wonderful Graffiti} is composed of very thin pieces of matte vinyl that look printed when applied to most smooth surfaces. We love the professional look it creates, even though it’s so simple to do and won’t harm underlying surfaces! You can use your personal “logo” on church and reception doors, restroom mirrors, dance floors, and even your getaway car. Be sure to peruse their special {Wonderful Graffiti Wedding} site for more inspiration!
Win: A set of six monogram transfers: two small, two medium, and two large! Perfect for creating continuity between separate spaces.
To Win: Leave a comment on this post describing a unique detail or activity that will be included in your ceremony or reception that reflects a special aspect of your relationship or your personalities. My favorite weddings aren’t necessarily over-the-top, but are simply true to the couples’ backgrounds and interests! What will set your wedding apart?
Contest ends Tuesday, April 28 at midnight.
I’m having an FSU garter because we are both alum and it’s also where we met.
I’m entering for my sister’s wedding. Her and her fiance love video games and will be have a Mario Brothers Cake! It will look like a white castle with Mario and Peach as cake toppers.
I would like to use baseball parks for out table numbers since my man is a huge fan. I also want to use photos that I have taken of local spots in our area as favors. I am still thinking about that one but think a lot of people would enjoy the art work.
I’m baking our cupcakes and will include recipes on the back of the menu cards since I’ve cooked for nearly all our guests before and my cooking is how I won my fiance’s heart ;)
We got engaged at a winery, and our wedding is going to be at a winery, so we are going to try to tie little wine details into the whole weekend. For instance, in the welcome bags we will have a list (and maps) of our favorite wineries in the area for guests to visit during their down time on Saturday with our personal ‘tasting notes’ included.
My fiance and I both live in Atlanta and are getting married in Southwest Virginia in the town he grew up in, which is very small and very southern. We wanted our wedding weekend to have small southern touches that reflect his childhood and the area that we are getting married in, but I also wanted it to be personal to me and my family as well. When thinking of ideas for favors we came up with the idea of having my mom make her very special coated pecans that she only makes during the holidays since they were very personal to my family, yet they have a soutern flair since Georgia is known for its pecans. Hoping that they turn out great!!
How awesome! As for what’s unique and personal about my own wedding…we’re having a multi-cultural celebration and trying really hard to incorporate both Indian and American aspects to the wedding ceremonies. We’re doing this through our ceremonies (back to back Christian and Hindu), our reception (fusion food and music), and of course our guest list. I hope that our wedding reflects who we are and is memorable for our friends and family!
We are getting married at the church where my fiance grew up and where my parents were married 35 years ago. Their 35th anniversary is actually 2 days after our wedding, so we plan to honor them by recreating some of their wedding photos and having a special announcement at the reception. my fiance’s parents have also been married for many years, and to show our parents how much we appreciate all they have taught us about love and commitment, we plan to display their wedding photos at our reception. We are incorporating our monogram and our silhouettes on various items to make everything truly "ours." The best thing we’ve done so far is use our two dogs and my fiance’s 1968 Winnebago for our amazing engagement shoot – totally us!!
My fiance and I are including the "Breaking of the Glass" in the ceremony. This is a Jewish tradition but neither of us are Jewish. However, we both believe in the symbolism that "Breaking of the Glass" represents. We fully believe that relationships experience frailties (divorce rate anyone?) and that they truly must be worked at.
a lot of the wedding is based on something special that we have shared over the course of our relationship…but i think the one thing that really sticks out in my head is the rosemary confetti. long ago, when we first started dating, i would cook for him and i..and occasionally i would ask him to go to the garden and cut me a sprig of rosemary. these were some of our favorite times and the smell of rosemary always brings us back to those days..in the small apartment with the large kitchen window .. where we would watch our little garden grow.
We’re going to use photos of us as kids and as a couple for table numbers!
My fiancee’ and I are both huge poetry and quote lovers. Our entire relationship we have slipped little poems and quotes, both famous and original, into each other’s lunch boxes, shoes, pillows and more! My fiancee’ proposed to me with a poem in a jewelry box. At our wedding we plan on incorporating poems into our vows and the reception tables will be named after famous poets with our favorite poems from each at the tables.
Our ceremony will not talk about how we were destined for one another, or how we’re soul mates, or how we were so lucky to find one another, and such things. We’re realist who met in grad school to become psychologists. We will say " I CHOOSE YOU" and we will openly talk about the hardships we expect to go through and that we choose to do the work to be together. It’s very us.
My fiancé, Ryan, and I are planning a simple southern wedding in the small town where we grew up. We are having the reception in a restored southern house where we will have a simple, but elegant dessert buffet with some of our very favorites. We will even have banana pudding in mason jars with black and white polka-dot ribbons tied around the tops. Our colors our black and white with a little pink tied in. The pink comes from my sorority color, so it is important to me. I think the monograms would add the perfect southern charm touch. I love the idea of placing it on the mirrors in the restroom!
When my fiance and I first started dating we were both surprised to discover we each had a love for reading. So the first book he gave me of his to read was "A Prayer for Owen Meany" by John Irving. Since then I have made it a game to read every single book he has ever read. Since he is an English major that means I still have a long way to go! For the wedding I am going to surprise him by having the grooms cake made to look like a stack of books. The book on top will be a replica of "A Prayer for Owen Meany." It’s a symbol of the start of a new relationship to us.
Good afternoon,I’m going to be married in a green wedding gown…because that’s the colour of my beloved eyes :) ~Allyson
My fiance’ and I knew each other for many, many years before we finally fell for each other. One hot July day, we were sitting in my best friend’s living room with 6 of our closest friends listening to an audio clip of comedian, Brian Reagan. He was performing a funny bit about snow cones and baseball, and at that moment Ryan and I clicked. Now…this July, 6 years later, we’ll be walking down the aisle to say "I do," with our 6 close friends serving as our wedding party. And the detail we’re looking forward to the most at the reception…snow cones!!
I have been looking for something like this! I want to have a uniform look but most importantly I want to take a few pictures with the logo, on the reception door and "getaway: car so that I can have it incorporate it into our thank you and holiday cards. I just think these would be perfect!
We are inspiring journalists so we will shoot and edit a video of weddings from our families o show at the reception. A great way to incorporate our guests and the marriages that have inspired us!
Because I am a true southern lady who loves her family. I have incorporated a baby’s bible given to me as a baby from my great aunt. Well I am going to hold it with my bouquet as I walk down the aisle. She wrote a poem that is inside the bible about one day being part of my bridal bouquet!Then a special bible verse will be read from it! shsh! This is a surprise to my great aunt!We lost both of our grandmothers so we are honoring them respectively. His grandmother won the lottery so our favors are lottery tickets!My grandmother’s fav bible verse is "Psalms 23 The Lord is my Shepherd" and I will line my entrance down the aisle with beautiful shepherd hooks in her honor:)
I love their stuff. Perfect for High WASP weddings. As in: http://amidlifeofprivilege.blogspot.com/2009/04/high-wasp-wedding-country-club.html
True to form, our two Cavalier King Charles Spaniels will serve as ring bearers. We wouldn’t have it any other way.
For our wedding my husbands god daughter will be wearing the dress I wore at my first communion!
My fiance and I love to sing karaoke and so do all our friends. So of course we’re having karaoke at the reception! We’ve even started practicing which songs we want to sing to and with each other on the big day. :)
My fiance and I spent 4 amazing years at the University of Miami. We have unforgettable memories of soaking in the sun at the beach, strolling Lincoln Road, admiring the Art Deco architecture of the hotels on Ocean Drive, and of course, enjoying the diverse cuisine. We had the opportunity to return to Miami last March for our engagement photo session at these same landmarks that we frequented as undergraduate students. We plan on naming our tables after these landmarks along with a description, with the hopes of sharing South Beach’s rich history, and the cherished memories we have there.
we are setting aside a moment during the ceremony for my fiance and I to step aside and pray alone together for the first time as a married couple. During that time our officiant is going to lead our guests in prayer to keep it from being an awkward moment and making it truly special. :O)
My fiance and I went to a friend’s wedding shortly after we got engaged and the bride was telling us about how her husband wanted cheese cakes for his groom’s cake and she said absolutely not…she insisted on the traditional chocolate cake with choc covered strawberries. Later that night, my fiance said "Can I have a cookie cake for my grooms cake?" (insert puppy dog face here)….I replied "of course!!!" (cookie cake is his favorite "cake"). Our baker is making us a 3 tier chocolate chip cookie cake, just like at the mall!!!
My fiance and I come from large families that are "tied to the south" and really tied to one another. I fell in love with my future husband on the night he expressed his genuine love for his God and family while we were walking hand-in-hand on the historical brick streets of our small home town. Head over heals… all I knew was that his devotion and faith in family was the perfect match for my own love of family.We are including black/white photos of our parents’ beautiful wedding portraits at our wedding reception, 35 years later. I would love to add monogrammed decals to the tops of each framed picture. I am convinced that monogramming transforms the ordinary into extraordinary on any given day and makes a southern bride’s world a better place!Soon to be… j S j !!!
Our wedding favors will be chamomile tea sachets with a customized stickers that say: "Patty & Richard". One of the ways that my now fiance would get to know me was to hang out with my roommates and get invited over to our place. It was a cold Friday night and he was "sick", so my roommates invited him over for tea. I was there and we ended up talking most of the night. Even after we began dating, we would have "tea dates" to commemorate him pursuing me :). I would make chamomile (our favorite tea) with honey and milk in a huge mug. We would cuddle and drink tea and talk about our day. We would like our emcees to explain to the guests the special meaning behind the tea favors.
I’m wearing a heirloom mantilla that has been passed down from my Grandmother’s aunt. During the cocktail hour I will have a history of the mantilla and as many wedding day pictures of it being worn by the women in my family.
My guy is a writer so on the back of each table number we will be including a different love poem that he’s written to me over the years. Also, I have a love for all things vintage so we will be adding vintage touches all over the place, on our clothes, decorations and gifts.
We will be asking our guests to include a photograph of them on their wedding day along with their RSVP. We will use these pictures as escourt cards for our reception…
My fiance has children from a previous marriage. The oldest son (10) will be singing a solo at our wedding that he has chosen for us.
For my wedding instead of a unity candle we decided to do a "tree planting". We are going to have a baby tree in a pot and each add a handfull of soil from the garden of the house we each grew up in to the pot. We wanted this to symbolize parts of our individuality and our past coming together to create a new life together. We are going to then plant the tree in the yard of our first house together. And we are chosing a tree that blooms each year around our wedding anniversary.
I just absolutely love these – what a wonderful way to personalize a wedding! For our event we are trying to incorporate as much of our personalities as possible. The wedding will be held at our favorite ski resort, Deer Valley and we will be incorporating family traditions and baked goodies throughout the entire weekend!
We’re incorporating many personal elements into our wedding, but one of my favorite is our exit. My fiance loves golf (as does my father and grandfather) and we’re getting married at Kiawah Island Golf Resort, so when we leave the reception for the night all of the men in the wedding will stand in two lines facing each other and hold up a golf club to send us off. Bubbles and sparklers are great, but this is much more meaningful and it will be a complete surprise to my fiance. So, no telling!
My fiance and I are looking forward to Jumping the Broom. It’s an old African American tradition that symbolizes legally crossing over into our new chapter of life together as one. :-)
My fiance is planning to learn Pachelbel’s Canon in D on his acoustic guitar, record it, and have it play as I walk down the aisle. He has been playing songs for me on his guitar for years, and it is so special to me that he is wanting to learn this song and play it on our special day! It’s the little things like this that make weddings so personal!
This one is for my brother and soon to be sis-in-law. They are big music fanatics (love concerts, live music, anything). They are going to make a wedding soundtrack with some of their favorite songs over the years to give to their guests. My brother is a graphic designer and is going to design the CD cases. It is going to be a sweet, personal touch for all their guests since it is such a part of who they are.
We’re planning an intimate winter wedding. We are very close to our family so they have all blessed us with being a part of our ceremony. His dad will perform the ceremony which is already the part I’m looking forward to the most. Also, we both love winter (in texas) which made a wedding in january feel very us. We hope it will be very warm and are planning some special details to celebrate our 9 year relationship.
Our special twist to our wedding includes all of my friends and family. Because my fiance recently broke his ankle and will possibly be in a cast on the wedding date, we have had to tighten our budget due to medical costs. So all of my friends and family have gotten together and offered to bring a bouquet of flowers for the center of the tables. They are all trying to stay in my pink/green/ and brown color scheme but will all have a special touch and different element since they will be created by someone different.
Alec and I both have a serious sweet tooth!! We bring our own candy to movies and always have dessert :) So, we knew our wedding reception needed a fun sweet addition to the traditional wedding cake. After brain storming together, we decided we wanted to have an old fashioned table with root beer ice cream floats! We figured there wouldn’t be many other times where we could eat good food, cake, and have an ice cream float!
Our reception is being held at Camden Yards since my fiance is a HUGE Orioles fan. We didn’t want to go too over the top with the baseball theme, but besides the location, our guest book is a customized jersey with our last name and the number 10 since we are getting married in 2010. Everyone is going to autograph the back of the jersey and we’re going to have it framed for display in our game room. I keep teasing my fiance that he will never have an excuse to forget the year we got married with that hanging up!
My fiance and I met the day after we ran in the Philly Marathon, a mutual friend hooked us up. Ever since then running has been a constant in our relationship and we’ve been running together ever since. It helps us relax, unwind, and its a hobby we can enjoy together. I thought it would be fun to incorporate that into our wedding by using Mile Markers as our Table Numbers and using Sneakers on our Stationary…"Megan and Marc are Going the Distance!"
My fiance’ and I are getting married in the Catholic church by the same priest that married my sister and brother-in-law almost 18 years from our wedding date. My family is filipino so we’re incorporating the veil, tying of the cord, and giving of the coins in our ceremony, which is common in filipino Catholic Nuptial Masses. We’re also keeping things rather simple by inviting close family and friends only and having a cocktail hour and sit-down dinner without the dance party since my fiance’ and I are not into dancing all that much. We also don’t plan to do a bouquet and garter toss but we will definitely have a cake and cake cutting ceremony since I think that is the best part of the reception!
We are serving individual ice cream cups that are made at NC State University, where Jeremy (and my dad) went to college! We are huge Wolfpack fans!
We are also getting married at a summer camp that I attended as a child, and worked at as a college student. It’s the only thing that has not changed since I was a child. I have so many wonderful memories there, I always knew that’s where I would get married.
i completely agree with you! a wedding really is all about the special little details, the personality and spirit, that represent the two people coming together on that day. so our wedding was just that.. all about the simple touches of "us." i’m originally from new orleans but when my family was scattered around the country after hurricane katrina they asked not to have the wedding there because everyone was still shaken up and looked forward to celebrating together in a new place, so together we all decided on newport, ri — the spot where my husband had proposed. but when it came time to take the floor and dance to your first song as husband and wife, we chose What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong, because nobody represents and celebrates NOLA like Louis! laissez le bon temps roule :)
A unique angle that we are having in our non-religious wedding is: we have asked a few friends to read any passage that symbolizes "love" to them. It can be song lyrics, a passage from their favorite children’s book etc. We know it will be special!
My fiance is a musician and we met through a mutual friend at one of his shows. With both of us having a love of music and all things vintage, we are having our guests sign old vintage vinyls which will be framed and hung in our recording studio at home. We can’t wait!!!
My fiance and I are getting married at the Golf Course Country Club where we met (through my dad!) and had our first date playing a round of golf (ok he played, I watched) We have convinced the golf pro to let us make a personalized flag that will be placed in the hole the 18th green.
We will be using pom poms from our favorite sports team, the University of Alabama, for our send off. We love Alabama football and it is a huge part of our life. We love to spend time together at games.
We are naming our table names after significant aspects of our relationship. Our first date, favorite trip together so far, & other favorite memories. We feel it will allow our guests to get to know us even more as a couple and for us to cherish the memories that led to our wedding day!
One little touch at our reception will be glass bottles of IBC root beer and cream soda. We’re having an outdoor, late afternoon wedding, very southern. In 2 large galvanized tubs we’ll have "Lauren’s Pick" (Cream Soda) and "Bobby’s Pick" (IBC Rootbeer). We’ve always joked about which is better and our friends kind of know us for it!
I want my wedding to be all about details! We don’t have a lot of money so details are what we are going to focus on to help our day sparkle even more! I want an outdoor ceremony & reception where the natural beauty is the backdrop. I want the ceremony to be comfortable enough that people take their shoes off and walk around in the grass as they sip from specialty mojitos, berry cocktails and different beers from breweries that we have visited over the past year of our long distance relationship. Our wedding will probably be during college & nfl football season, so I really want to set up a lounge area with cocktail tables a couple flatscreen tvs where people can openly enjoy their team and enjoy the wedding.
We are getting married under a pecan tree and will hang from its branches three candles in memory of my parents and my fiance’s father. I will also have three white roses in my bouquet. Just simple touches to honor them. They will be in our hearts all day.
Although we live in the Charlotte area now, I am from a very small town in the mountains of Virginia, and my fiance is from the Bavarian region of Germany. We are getting married July 18, in an outdoor ceremony at my grandparent’s summer place, "Peachbottom". As favors, we will have peach jam. We want to have some of Andreas’ German culture, so we plan on having a Schnapp’s ‘tasting’ table in addition to the cocktail bar. It will be decorated with the handblown glass Christmas balls I have collected on my trips to Germany. A small American and German flag will also be displayed. Several weeks after the Virginia wedding we will have another ceremony in a chapel in Regensburg Germany.
We choose our wedding colors by picking two of our favorite things. Mine was the color of a sapphire – my birthstone and part of the wedding band I will wear. My fiance chose a light grey/blue – the color of my eyes. Also, we chose our reception menu to highlight the best fare from the areas that each of us grew up in. Therefore, we will be having crabcakes (I’m from Maryland) and pork bar-b-que (he is from Alabama).
Winston and I met in the British Virgin Islands while we were staff at a summer camp. We really enjoy local food and our favorite dish of the Caribbean is a Chicken Roti with Mango Chutney. This will be a station at our wedding along with other foods we have eaten in our travels.
He first told me he loved me over a soft serve ice cream twist with rainbow sprinkles. We rented a soft serve machine for our reception and will have a whole bar filled of delicious toppings!
My fiance and I want to have a casual, Southern wedding, complete with Cornhole at the wedding reception! Our wedding favors are going to be a selection of tomato plants, tomato seeds, and canned tomato relish.
First of all….I am obsessed with monograms! I could think of a thousand places I would like to put our logo! At our reception venue, there is a beautiful glass wall overlooking the grounds and our monogram would be perfect there! Also, in the room where my cake will be, there is a beautiful fireplace with a mirror above the mantle, and again that would be a perfect place. For my 5th birthday, I wanted more than anything to have a "marrying cake". So for my birthday my Meme had a "marrying cake" made for me. It had a 2 layers, with the columns in between and a plastic bride and groom on top. I still have the bride and groom and a picture of me with cake. I am going to display them both on the table with my cake with a place card that says…"The Bride’s First Marrying Cake".
I have known my love since elementry school. We both attended a DOD school in Heidelberg, Germany and little did we know, sitting in our fifth grade class that we had found our soul mates. Our friendship blossomed junior/senior year of high school as our circle of friends melded together. We attended many events at the Heidelberg Castle, including both junior and senior proms (with different dates – not each other). Our friendship remained platonic until one New Years Eve when we returned to Germany from our first year of college. I took the first step and they had their first kiss on the stroke of midnight. Fireworks went off [literally], catching my pants on fire. That kiss was the sign of the future to come, with the Heidelberg Castle as a backdrop. After Christmas break, we went our separate ways, but kept somewhat in touch back in the United States. Years went by without contact. Of course he was always in the back of my mind. We both had serious relationships with other people until our 10 year high school reunion. It was fate. 10 years later, a friendship was rekindled and sparks ignited. There is truth to the saying – you may already know your soul mate and you just don’t know it and Heidelberg is where it all started. With that being said, a monogram with the Heidelberg Castle is most unique to us and nothing that I have ever seen before.
We are having our first song sung by a friend (he is the writer and original artist) – we got engaged to that same song just a few months ago. We are getting married in August!
My fiance and I got engaged in the same rose garden where we’ll be getting married and the reception will be in a big white southern plantation-style house. One thing that is unique about us is that our first and middle initials start with the same letter, and once we’re married we will have the same initials. I want to unify the decor with our monogram, and these are perfect! I can’t wait for our southern garden wedding!
For our groomsmen gifts we are giving the Limited Edition Oakley Frogskins. This reflects us because they are very similar to something that would be in Back to the Future which is my Fiance’s favorite movie. I love the quirky details that will set our wedding apart from everyone elses.
We are trying very hard to make every detail of our wedding reflect us in some way. Here are 2 of my favorites! Our overall theme is sunflowers because the first gift I ever received from my fiance was a vase of fresh sunflowers waiting on my porch. That vase will hold the sunflowers on our cake table at the reception. We are also using a tip-jar donated from our favorite college bar as a vase for an arrangement on our bar.
My fiance and I met in an airport gift shop and were subsequently on the same plane! Really, true story, and now 6 years later, we’re getting married. So, we’ve incorporated some elements of the way we met into our wedding. First, our save the dates were replicas of Airport Boarding Passes which were enclosed into sleek folders with a cute poem on the front about how we met. As favors, we’re giving everyone silver luggage tags, which will also duplicate as placecard holders. We also took some engagement photos at an airplane museum, and we’re going to put some of those photos in silver frames on the cocktail tables. And finally, we hope to have a plane ice sculpture where the bar tender will pour the martinis through!
We are planning a fall wedding since it is both are favorite season and to reflect that theme we are taking an rusted old radio flyer wagon filled with grass. Instead of writing in a guest book they will write a wedding wish or something they remember about us and place it in wagon! Also, we are going to have a candy buffet that will be served in the new line of mason jars that are decorated with our colors and theme…a new twist on contemporary rustic.
For Clay, music has always been an important part of his life. He marched with the Carolina Crown Drum Corps in high school and even worked for the number one high school marching band in the country last year. All of our groomsmen (with the exception of my cousin) were fellow corps members of his. Clay is arranging all the music for the ceremony and the groomsmen will be playing the prelude music and one will play trumpet voluntary when I walk down the aisle.Clay refuses to play, though. He thinks he’ll be too nervous. :-)
My fiancee and I will be leaving straight to the Port of Charleston for a cruise immediately after the wedding. We’re having our reception the night before, so all of our guests will get to know each other before the wedding day.
my fiance and i met through our local film festival. we are both on the planning committee. besides film, we also share a huge passion for music and pop culture. i freelance in music and film and he’s a book editor – we’re both creatives. at our reception, we are going to recreate the atmosphere of belden place in san francisco (our first trip) and have a "soul night" – playing classic R&B and soul music (a nod to my record label days) to dance to and project short clips of some of our favorite silent films, black & whites, classics and also obscure concert footage from some of our favorite artists on the wall during the reception. the guests will sign vinyl LPs, instead of a guest book. we are also going to set aside a photography area for us and our guests that will look like a minature film set – basically, lights! camera! action! kind of vibe.
My fiance and I meet 5 years ago in Nashville, TN and have lived 3 years apart between the cities of Indianapolis, Chicago, Dallas, and Grand Rapids. He was born in Liberia, but his family left the country when he was 6 years old, and he hasn’t been back since. A year later his mother passed away. We are going to incorporated parts of his African traditions and my African American traditions into our ceremony. Making sure we keep the memory of his mother alive but making our own memories and traditions at the same time.
My fiancé and I are candy addicts! We decided to have a candy buffet at our wedding reception instead of traditional wedding cake, which speaks to our personalities in a big way. I am going to collect scraps of fabric from relatives and hand sew "favor" bags so that our guests can take candy home as a favor. Each bag will have monogrammed tag!
I’m from the Bahamas, he’s from Orrville, Ohio (where they make smucker’s) so our favors are tropical flavored mini jars of smucker’s jam.:)
We love our downtown so we’ve decided to get married in a beautiful alley in downtown, rain or shine. My fiance is a Mustang fanatic so his special wedding request is we be driven to the reception in a classic ’66 Ford Mustang convertible.
My Fiance is a chef and for our wedding he will be creating every aspect of the menu and we will have menus at every place setting so our guests know how much creativity went into their meal. Also, I am a nurse and we will be donating to the local childrens hospital in lieu of favors. Personal touches are what will make our wedding so special:)
Instead of a slideshow of photos of us, we’re planning to do a wedding video a la When Harry Met Sally, featuring "how we met" stories from the special couples in our life, including our parents.