How did you personalize your wedding?

krismarie621

I'm having a hard time thinking of ways to personalize our wedding now that we're doing a destination wedding.

We were originally going to do a slide show, have photos from our engagment shoot on each page, have our puppy as the flower "dog"....haha....but now that we have to pack everything down there, it's a lot harder (and x-nays out the idea of our flower dog).

Any cute ideas you guys can throw my way on how to personalize the wedding at all?

Also, my grandpa passed away 2 weeks ago. Any ideas on how to "remember" him at the ceremony?

junebug61103

I have some stuff in my planning bio.
 
I ordered bouquet charms and have pictures of our immediate family members that have passed away in them. We sadly have lost too many relatives (my mom, both sets of my grandparents, FI grandma & FI's aunt) so Im carrying the one with my mom and my bridesmaids are going to each have one in their bouquet. We are also making programs and at the bottom we are putting a little quote about all the loved ones that passed plus my FI best friend when he was little also passed away when they were like 12 so I wanted to include him.

But I also had signs made that I am using in our ceramony

HTH : )

aerinpegadrak

You can check out my bios, but pretty much everything we did was personal to us in some way, from the filmstrip design we included on all of the stationery (because we're both filmmakers) to the flowers that were made from pages of our favorite books.  I don't think there was any one element that didn't somehow tie back into our personalities and interests.

wiwicaty

The best expression of personalization so far have been my e-ring, which is a family heirloom, and the wedding bands and FI's cufflinks that were custom made with family gold. Then we have our ceremony music selection, which is connected to specific events in our lovestory and the personalized napkins, coasters and guest towels onto which I have printed quotes and fun facts about us to make them uniquely "ours". I try to come up with original ideas and have to say that having a good amount of time between the engagement and the wedding helps. I couldn't have had many of these ideas with less time to plan. 

aegrish

We are having a unity candle for relatives/friends that passed, and we have also put them on our 'in memory' page on our wesbite (since we're not having programs at the ceremony).  We're also making a donation in my FI's Late friend's charity that was founded after he passed in our guests name - in leiu of favors.  For my shower we're making a donation in my Grandma's name to the alzheimer's association since she is currently suffering from the disease and won't be at the wedding shower or ceremony.

Also, we are making ours unique by adding inexpensive, small personalized items that will travel easily, like photo guestbook, personalized napkins/matches and mini 'thank u' cards to put on the guests plate (to thank them for travelling so far).  Not sure if that makes it super unique but it helps!

jccswl

We had manzanita centerpieces and we were able to hang mini digital photo frames which loaded we pics of our families. We also had 2 big plasmas with pics of us as well as our guests then as soon as our guests started using the photobooth, we streamed those pics on the plasma. I gave DH cufflinks of our dog. I loved how our photobooth album turned out, our guests took pics in the photobooth which printed 2 copies one for the guest to keep and the other for our guest to add it to an album and write a personal message.

pizzanfries4me

We were married at the Chapel of the Flowers and it was great for what my H and I were looking for. It went a bit fast, we wrote our own vows to personalize and the song they played at the end when we did our first kiss as H and wife, and when we walked back down the isle was a song we picked - Such a Night, by Elvis.
Writing it out it might not sound like much to some people ... lol, but we loved it 

Natrasha

These are some great ideas!

We are going to have my mom do a reading at the ceremony, and his sister is going to give a mini "sermon" about us before we say our vows.

red1115

We had personalized table numbers (pictures of girls kissing soldiers!) that I made and brought with.  The groom's cake and cake topper were special to us and our life together without having to specify a cartoon or the war.

Also to remember my late brother and my late dog I had a ribbon tied around my bouqet with his favorite ring and her nametag on it.  (I removed the ribbon before tossing the bouqet!!)  It meant alot to me to remember both of them on my wedding day, and yet it wasn't anything so obvious that it distracted from the festivies.  (Our photographer made sure to get a picture of it when I mentioned why they were there.)

thefuturemrsrumley

Pictures and details in my bio.   A couple personal touches were, we made a photo guest book on picaboo with out engagement pictures, had a custom bobble head cake topper of the two of us, and I made table numbers using pictures of my Dad and I (he passed awayy 2 years before our wedding).  We also had  Travis Allen as Elvis (just something fun) and did two signiture cocktails to be passed during cocktail hour.