Ideas for using Tidbits of Old Emails in the wedding?

Knottie82267296 · August 2014

We met on Eharmony and I saved a lot of the emails from when we were first getting to know eachother

Some of the snippets are really funny and some are really sweet! I think it would awesome to enlarge some sections of emails and use them in the wedding, but I'm not sure how! Any ideas other than just hanging them on the wall?

holyguacamole79 · August 2014

Knottie82267296 said:

We met on Eharmony and I saved a lot of the emails from when we were first getting to know eachother Some of the snippets are really funny and some are really sweet! I think it would awesome to enlarge some sections of emails and use them in the wedding, but I'm not sure how! Any ideas other than just hanging them on the wall?

My husband & I met online, too, so I get it. I just don't see how you're going to do this. I wouldn't incorporate them into the actual wedding ceremony, and hanging them on the wall would look random. Perhaps you could post them on your website?

JoanE2012 · August 2014

Ditto PP, not sure how this would really fit in to the actual reception. I do see it being a cute idea to make in a book for your FI, perhaps adding some photos in.

ohannabelle · August 2014

You could use them in the guest book, if you have a basic kind of book style. Typically, half the pages go unused.

We're doing something similar- one page is normal guest book, the opposite page we're collaging in engagement photos taken at the venue site and old photos and ads of the same place 100 years earlier, stuff like that.

Unfinished, but you get the idea. This also gives me a chance to AW the engagement shoot, which most guests would never get to see. You could scrapbook in snippets of the emails and photos, and liven up your guest book.

lotsosandwiches · August 2014

I think this is a super cute idea! Is there a way to incorporate little snippets into your centerpieces and table decor? If you are handy with the decoupage you could somehow wrap a large vase with text from an email. Or you could put the snippets in tiny pretty frames and just set them out on a reception table, among your flowers. If you have some sort of photos-through-the-years display of the two of you, you could also print out some of the email snippets on cardstock of photo-size and throw a few in there. You could also put some snippets on the back of your table numbers.

lotsosandwiches · August 2014

I really like the PP's guestbook idea too!

lotsosandwiches · August 2014

These would be unreadable, but totally romantic anyway...

lotsosandwiches · August 2014

Or these! Haha. If you go into pinterest and search for "poetry wedding decor" a lot of good ideas come up. Just swap out the poetry in the examples with the text from your emails!

southernbelle0915 · August 2014

If you and your FI are exchanging wedding gifts, you could make him a book with this and photos.

I'm just not sure guests will 'get it' if you do this at the reception.

climbingsingle · August 2014

I'm sorry, but I don't like the idea of displaying them throughout the venue. I also feel like the guests won't "get it".

Britni&Bobby · August 2014

I absolutely love ohanabelle's idea! great place for them and I like more interactive guestbooks like this

mollyringwald15 · August 2014

I like the suggestions for guest book, or make it something private like a scrapbook to give your husband day of. I can't clearly explain why, but this would make me a little uncomfortable as a guest if it was very in your face... Sort of like the rehearsed surprise dances.

RebeccaFlower · August 2014

I know weddings are all about love, but this would probably make me a little uncomfortable. I think reading those sweet nothings is odd.

theartistformerlyknownas · August 2014

I would feel weird reading what are essentially people's love letters to each other. I'd keep it private.

Knottie82267296 · August 2014

These would be snippets that would be funny/amusing to the guests. Of course I wouldnt be sharing anything that would make someone uncomfortable

ElcaB · August 2014

Can you add them to the table numbers, perhaps?

southernbelle0915 · August 2014

Knottie82267296 said:

These would be snippets that would be funny/amusing to the guests. Of course I wouldnt be sharing anything that would make someone uncomfortable

I realize they are special to you, but I still don't think people will "get it".

I think it's a really good idea to either scrap book these or use these/some photos and make a snapfish photo book to give to him as a wedding present. IMO, that'd be a lot more meaningful.

Knottie82267296 · August 2014

Good ideas

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