Bubbles?

[Deleted User] · July 2012

I'm not sure if this is how everyone does it, but where I'm from the exit from the church is more of a "grand exit" than the exit after the reception - granted I'm not sure I've actually ever stayed the full time at a reception (most of them have gone well into the night.) For the church exit it seems that handing out bubbles is the most common thing to do. I'm not sure I'm sold on it because my parents alone have a stash of at least 10 half-full bottles of bubbles they've gotten at weddings over the past couple years (my mom keeps EVERYTHING, lol). I kind of feel like it is a waste. On the other hand, it's also the easiest because rice and birdseed are not allowed at our church. I've seen that some people do ribbon wands these days but I'm not really into that, again, kind of seems like a waste (what do you do with them after?)

After that book of an explanation, are you doing bubbles or rice or wands or something else? Any ideas out side of the box? I'm stuck.

LDubHawksFan · July 2012

Nope, our ceremony is at the same place as our reception. I don't think we will do a send off. I loved the sparkler idea though.

chilover27 · July 2012

We are doing bubbles at the church I got champagne shaped bubble bottles and I am going to tie ribbons on them it makes for great pictures I think in front of the church

schnugglebug · July 2012

My son is the desognated BUBBLE boy lol... we are getting married outside

we have a bubble machine that will be hiding behind one of the posts of the gazebo
so after the officiant announces us man and wife my sons job is to bend down to hit the machine (before the kiss the bride bit)

Bubbles will be handed out as before the ceremony well just because my FMIL has a bunch forgotten from the last family wedding LOL.... like 60+ so that is fine...

fishinflagrl · July 2012

We are not doing a send off. If you are doing it, I like the bubble idea the best.

music11 · July 2012

We are doing lavender.

CFM102012 · July 2012

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-club-boards_october-2012-weddings_bubbles?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20Club%20BoardsForum:56b9bcef-1e34-456e-81f5-cfaa107456b2Discussion:bbdbcb54-1988-498b-8cd8-b636a8fcdfb0Post:930eacc0-2188-43a0-bde8-e2847231fe7e">Bubbles?</a>:
[QUOTE]I'm not sure if this is how everyone does it, but where I'm from the exit from the church is more of a "grand exit" than the exit after the reception - granted I'm not sure I've actually ever stayed the full time at a reception (most of them have gone well into the night.) For the church exit it seems that handing out bubbles is the most common thing to do. I'm not sure I'm sold on it because my parents alone have a stash of at least 10 half-full bottles of bubbles they've gotten at weddings over the past couple years (my mom keeps EVERYTHING, lol). I kind of feel like it is a waste. On the other hand, it's also the easiest because rice and birdseed are not allowed at our church. I've seen that some people do ribbon wands these days but I'm not really into that, again, kind of seems like a waste (what do you do with them after?) After that book of an explanation, are you doing bubbles or rice or wands or something else? Any ideas out side of the box? I'm stuck.
Posted by marelin87[/QUOTE]

<div>Every church wedding I've been to has the "grand exit" at the church. Our church allows birdseed but I don't want to be picking birdseed out of every nook and cranny of "my girls" and my dress and hair. We'll be doing bubbles. Oriental Trading Company has about the best prices on little bottles of bubbles I've found far. I always either give them to a kid when the exit/send off is over or pitch the bottle at some point. </div>

lv2011 · July 2012

We're doing ribbon wands. They'll look really nice in photos, and we have a ton of kids coming (mostly little girls). I think they'll enjoy running around with them. So for us, we can easily give them to the kiddos. We also have a lot of cat people in the family. And anyone who has a cat can tell you what a great toy a ribbon is

We're making them, well, I'm making them myself and I only plan on making enough for about half our guests. Anything more than that would be overkill.

abricadabra · July 2012

Our ceremony and reception are on the same 10 acre estate, but I got some bubble tubes free from another bride when I bought her table runners and chair sashes, so we're going to hand them out for after the ceremony for our guests to use as we walk back up the cobblestone aisle to go take photos, then we are thinking maybe sparklers on the way back from the dock where we and our bridal party are launching 10 paper lanterns over the intercoastal.

abricadabra · July 2012

Our ceremony and reception are on the same 10 acre estate, but I got some bubble tubes free from another bride when I bought her table runners and chair sashes, so we're going to hand them out for after the ceremony for our guests to use as we walk back up the cobblestone aisle to go take photos, then we are thinking maybe sparklers on the way back from the dock where we and our bridal party are launching 10 paper lanterns over the intercoastal.

[Deleted User] · July 2012

Lavender here as well! We got engaged at a Lavender farm in Maui

I know this sounds crazy so you can just ignore me but what about noise makers? That might be fun and different

music11 · July 2012

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-club-boards_october-2012-weddings_bubbles?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20Club%20BoardsForum:56b9bcef-1e34-456e-81f5-cfaa107456b2Discussion:bbdbcb54-1988-498b-8cd8-b636a8fcdfb0Post:d507886b-bee1-48de-9518-7f46ab2c2257">Re: Bubbles?</a>:
[QUOTE]Lavender here as well! <strong>We got engaged at a Lavender farm in Maui :) I</strong> know this sounds crazy so you can just ignore me but what about noise makers? That might be fun and different
Posted by stephdi7971[/QUOTE]

<div>That must have been beautiful!! There's actually a lavender farm in our state that we got our lavender from.</div>