Ideas on incorporating Iowa culture into an out-of-state wedding?

kelclsub

I'm from Louisiana and my FI is from Sioux City, IA...but we're having the wedding where my FI parents live, Omaha, Ne.  I want to throw in some small details to include our culture/home-state.  For mine, I was thinking of having Pralines as favors, or putting a fleur-de-lis somewhere in decorations/etc.  I'm going to have the DJ play one Zydeco song. 

I don't want to make it too "about me", but I want to have a bit of home.  I thought it would be cute to have some element to represent his home too, but all I could come up with is "corn" and that's not cute on decorations.

Does anyone have any suggestions for representing Iowa?

CRCraftsgal

At my sister's wedding a few years ago, they had the groom's cake in the shape of the  Texas Longhorn to represent his alma mater.

 If your FI is a fan of Iowa or Iowa State you could incorporate their logos into the grooms cake or even something like your card box; either the Hawkeye or Cyclone logo would be an easily recognible symbol up here.

kelclsub

Thanks!  Funny enough, as soon as we started discussing the wedding cake, he wanted a Hawkeye Groom's Cake!

ljahns

You could name the tables after bigger cities in both IA and LA or important symbols from both states.

madstaylor

you could have the DJ play In Heaven There Is No Beer

LRPJ

Play the Iowa fight song :-)

Check out Iowa Wineries/breweries (maybe some from LA, too) and see if your caterer can serve some at the wedding!

See if you can get a cake from your favorite local bakery...

Try to incorporate something from each of your hometowns.

Add special touches (jewelry for bridesmaids from your favorite local shop)!

Good luck!  Omaha is a great place to have a wedding.  I'm getting married in Des Moines, but our videographer is from just outside of Omaha: www.visualitiesvideography.com. She is fantastic--check her out!