Wine Box and Love Letter

EmilyL113

Has anyone heard about this or planning on doing this at your ceremony??  I just heard this idea the other day and fell in love with it!  I'm trying to find officiant wording for it.  Let me know!

shytownkelly

What is it?  I hadn't heard of this before.

waterous.m

Yea what is this? Sounds like it could be cute from the title!

Orchid2011

I haven't heard if it. What is it???

breaness

Haha seems like none of us know what you're talking about!

EmilyL113

Ok yay I'm glad I wasn't the only one who had never heard of it....

Ok, so you have a box with a bottle of wine and 2 wine glasses.  You and FI write each other love letters, don't read them and you lock them in the box at the ceremony.  You choose an anniversary to open the box, drink the wine and read your letters to each other!!  The only exception to opening it before the agreed upon date is if you find your marriage enduring serious dificulties, you promise to open the box, drink the wine together and go into separate rooms and read your letters to remind you of why you fell in love!

Josh and I are going to put a little different spin on it... we're going to do it on our 5th anniversary and replace the wine and write new letters.

I'll try to find some links that describe i better, but that's the jist.

What do you guys think?

EmilyL113

Here's a link....

http://www.celebrateintimateweddings.com/ceremonylovebox.html

I have been researching alternatives to sand ceremony and unity candle ceremony and just stumbled upon this.  Thought it sounded super cute!

shytownkelly

I like the idea of it - but do you have to do it in the ceremony?

I mean - it might be even more special if you planned a night - say a week before your wedding - and just do a nice dinner, put your letters in with the wine and such. 

(I'm thinking about logistics - I'm not going to haul a bottle of wine to Mexico and then back again.)  But I like the general idea. 

And I like the idea of a nice night together - share a bottle of good wine, then put another bottle of the same wine in the box....

risa1818

 That is such a cute idea! I love it! I would probably do it on our legal wedding day, since we already have so much stuff to bring with us to Aruba, that I can't imagine bringing that back too!

I think it is such a great idea though and very romantic

Starfishbride5

I love the idea. We actually did something very similar, we bought a special bottle of wine on our yearly wine tasting get away last year just for this purpose.

Dimplz1401

I love this idea! Thanks for sharing!

breaness

That's so sweet! We aren't wine drinkers but we were planning on doing something similar anyway

Dancerppf

I'm doing it. I brought the box and wine set already which was engraved. We thought the sand is overly done and as guest we've found it slightly lackluster, even though the concept is sweet.

The phrasing we're using is as follows:
 In my hand I have a box, a bottle of wine and two glasses
The bride and groom have prepared sealed love letters to each other
The letters describe the good qualities the find in one another,
The reasons they fell in love, and their reasons for choosing to marry.
Neither the bride nor groom have seen what the other has written
Dawn and Derek
Should you find your marriage enduring serious hardship, as some marriages do
You are to, as a couple, open this box, sit and drink wine together,
Then separately read the letters you wrote to one another on the day you united
By reading these love letters, you will reflect upon the reasons
You fell in love and chose to marry each other here today
And share a new resolve to strengthen your relationship
The hope is however, that you will never have a reason to open this box,
And if that's the case,
You are to open it to share, enjoy and celebrate
On your 25th wedding anniversary
Dawn and Derek, please seal the box

sparklegirl84

Aww I love it, such a sweet idea. I wonder if I could get my so-not-mushy FI to get on board. I'd do it at home as well so that we're not lugging more stuff to HI.

AKWinterBride

I love it, it's such a cool idea but I'm not too keen on having to haul it to a DW!!  We opted to do the hand ceremony instead....

chosen175

Very cute, although we're not drinkers either.  Can you put a couple bottles of water in there instead?  lol

We're doing the rose ceremony.  Basically, you exchange a red rose during the ceremony with the red rose being a symbol of love.  Then you take the vase home and display it in a prominent place in your home.  Every year on your anniversary, each person is supposed to put a red rose in that vase as a symbol that you're still committed to the marriage.  If, at any time, your marriage is on the rocks, you can put a red rose in the vase to say the words that you can't say yourself for whatever reason - I'm sorry, I still love you, I want to work this out, etc.  And that will show your partner that you are just as committed and just as in love as the day you married, and hopefully open the door to fixing whatever needs to be fixed.  It's sweet and fits perfectly with our garden wedding.

waterous.m

That is such a cute idea. I might do this with FI, prob not at the ceremony though maybe the night before in our room. The rose idea that Lisa said is wicked cute too!!

mae1564

Oh I love this idea!!!!!!!! I just told FI about it and he asked if we could put a bottle of tequila in the box instead and have margaritas, lol. Actually thinking about it would be appropriate since we are getting married on the beaches of Mexico, that and we love margaritas I never liked the whole sand ceremony thing and think that this is great!