Wedding Vows Engraved into Rings

20 Unique Wedding Ideas

Here are 20 unique wedding ideas that will make your wedding more memorable, meaningful, and personalized.  Enjoy!  And if you have unique wedding ideas of your own, leave a comment and share your brilliance with our other readers! Unique Wedding Idea #1: Consider having your rings engraved on the inside with your entire wedding vows, […]

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DIY Wedding Favors - Floral Goblet

DIY Wedding Favors – Goblet

  Photo Credit: The Dow Chemical Company Project Edited by: Linda Kevich DIY wedding favors are fun to make and are a lovely way to put your personal imprint on your wedding. Featured here are DIY insstructions on how to make pretty & unique wedding favors for a wedding or bridal shower. This do it […]

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Wedding ideas from brides

Creative Wedding Ideas from Real Brides – Part 30

I am planning a Winter Wonderland Themed wedding. I have been exhausted trying to come up with some original ideas and so far I have thought of the following:  The ceremony and reception will both take place in the Crystal Gardens at Navy Pier (Chicago). I chose this venue because it is encased in glass […]

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Creative DIY Wedding Ideas from Real Brides

DIY Wedding Ideas from Real Brides – Part 28

My wedding is still 17 months away, but the ideas are definitely starting to flow! I want to have candid photos of the reception to experience the moments of my guests in which I miss, so we will be having disposable cameras at each table. But we won’t have to go through the expense of […]

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Outdoor Wedding Ideas - Picnic Wedding in Park

Creative & DIY Wedding Ideas From Brides – Part 29

My fiance and I are planning our wedding on a really tight budget. We decided to have our wedding in a beautiful local park following with a picnic style reception. I am an artist and he is a musician, so we are bringing a large, nicely bound sketchbook instead of a guest book, so our […]

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Wedding Table Centerpieces - Hot Pink

Cylinder Wedding Centerpieces – So Easy to Make!

Cylinder Wedding Centerpieces Look Stunning! Cylinder wedding centerpieces create a powerful visual punch through the use of color, in this case, bright pink.   DIY cylinder centerpieces are super-easy to create, and with the right use of color and other decorative elements, they’ll look spectacular on each table. You can display cylinder centerpieces one at a […]

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Unique Wedding Ideas - Rain Bottle

Creative Wedding Ideas from Brides – Part 27

More Wedding Ideas From Real Brides… In Case It Rains… I have been to many rainy weddings. People who are superstitious such as myself think its bad luck.  An idea for nice way to turn that luck around… catch the rain water from the wedding day and put it in a nice bottle or jar (airtight so […]

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DIY wedding favors - heart cookies on a ribbon

Creative Wedding Ideas From Real Brides – Part 26

Here is my idea for DIY wedding favors Use a heart shaped cookie cutter, with a pretty ribbon attach small love poem and the couple’s wedding date. Small thought, nice gesture! Cute and sweet!  ~Lanese Belschner, Concord, NC For my wedding I kept thinking about what to do about people giving us gifts. I didn’t […]

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DIY Wedding Ideas - Tree Stump Centerpiece

Creative Wedding Ideas from Brides – Part 25

  Centerpiece ideas for an outdoor/country / rustic  wedding:   Find someone who sells firewood and purchase a stump/piece of wood with thick bark, enough for one on each table & about three for the head table. Cut a hole in the middle that goes about 3/4 of the way down, place a plastic cup inside […]

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Ring Bearer Book instead of Pillow

Creative Wedding Ideas from brides – Part 24

I have a nephew whom I care about like he is my own son. He is 10 years old and would be embarrassed to be a ring bearer and carry a cute fluffy pillow. But, I wanted to give him a role in the wedding. I created the role of  “Keeper of the Vows”. My […]

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String of Lights With Silk Flowers DIY

Creative Ideas from Brides – Part 23

I actually got the basic idea from Martha Stewart, but altered it to my tastes. Take a string of Christmas lights (any color, but clear lights show up best). Then take silk flowers in your wedding colors (make sure they are the kind that can easily be taken apart and reassembled again – whites, ivories, […]

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DIY centerpieces using cans and bottles for holding flowers

Creative Ideas from Brides – Part 22

I have been extremely blessed with DIY creativity and frugality through out the planning of my wedding – which turned out beautiful! on a very realistic budget.  Just to share a few ideas: For the invitations, I used the paper that some may use for wedding bulletins (programs). It was quite beautiful with blush roses […]

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