Advice!!!

Leigh822

My fiance mother passed away 6 years ago and we wanted to donate in her honor to a charity in lieu of wedding favors.  However, we have no idea how to illustrate that at the wedding.  Do we print something up?  If so, what do we say on it?  Where do we put it and how does it look as to not stand out on the table...

The wedding is rather soon so we need to figure this out soon. Any advice would be appreciated.

Thank you!

Bucket42

You can do a few things.  I had a friend that made individual scrolls for everyone attending the wedding that explained the charity they chose to donate to and why they chose to donate.  Another friend used place cards to show guests where donations had been made (there wasn't assigned seating).  I think that we are going to make up 2 or 3 bigger (5x7 or so) framed explanations of where/why we are donating and placing them at high traffic areas (sign in table, bar).  Good luck!

jcorvese

I actually heard my coworker speaking about this the other day.

I think that if his mother died of something that there is a cuase for--- like breast cancer, or als, etc.. there is usually a flower for the cause.

what her friend did was write something up on a 5 x 7 card and it had (in this icase) her favorite memory of her mother-- and how she wished she could celebrate with her, but since she couldnt be there phyiscally, they made a donation to the cancer society. they placed the card in the center of the plate- and then left the flower of the society on the plates, on top of the card. on the bottom of the card is said something like "in leiu of traditional flowers, please enjoy this n xxx flower--- the flower of the cancer society, and we have made a donation in her name"

i thought that was a really touching classsy way to do it. and i teared up a bit too

even if you dont do the flower- just leaving the cards on the plates would be good. and i think if you wanted to get crafty, you could print them up on recycled or "seed paper " which acts as a favor for guests, because when planted, it blooms-- plus whenever the flowers bloom the guests will think of your wedding and his mother

tc1016

We're donating to two charities in place of a favor. The woman who's doing our invites is also printing tent cards that are 3x4 inches. We'll place 3 per table. There's a note explaining that we've made donations to these two places, and why. The card the note is printed on matches our invitations, table numbers, and seating chart.

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those were all wonderful suggestions! If the save the date cards and invitations didn't go out yet you could place a small card in the invitation or on the save the date card