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Creative Brides Say... I saw on your web site that you are looking for wedding favor ideas, here is mine! Use a heart shaped cookie cutter, with a pretty ribbon attach small love poem and the couple's wedding date. Small thought, nice gesture! -Lanese Belschner Concord, NC For my wedding I kept thinking about what to do about people giving us gifts. I didn't want people to buy us anything because we already have everything, so we came up with the idea of adding a separate card in the invitation requests guests to please make a donation to the children's hospital in lieu of gifts. It was a big success and it felt really good to help children who are ill with gifts that we did not need. Angie & Eric Wedding April 13, 2002 Ontario, Canada I have been to many rainy weddings and people who are superstitous such as myself think its bad luck...A 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 it won't evaporate) and present it to the bride and groom to baptize their first born child with ! My friends Mom was in tears ! Lisa New Jersey I helped both of my younger sisters plan their weddings and now I am planning a May 2004 wedding for myself! I printed all their invitations and enclosures on my own computer as one of my gifts to them with paper packages from Office Depot. They were actually quite elegant. Even though I have more money to spend for my wedding than they did, I still plan to print my own as well. One thing I found to save a little money is to have reply post cards instead of the traditional cards with envelopes. Who keeps their reply cards anyway? We saved some money on postage since post cards are cheaper to send. We saved quite a bit on the stationery because we bought plain card stock and cut it ourselves. Decent card stock is only about $10 per pack. Guests also found it much simpler to fill out the card and pop it in the mail box than to hunt for that envelope and we didn't feel we'd wasted so much on guests that did not return theirs. I think this would also be a smart option for those getting their invitiations printed by someone else. I also had a neat idea for ceremony programs. I bought elegant cotton paper for one sister's wedding and parchment for the other sister and printed them on my computer. We rolled them and tied them with ribbon. It only cost about $12 and made a nice keepsake. Dorothy Grand Blanc, MI I am having a french colonial theme wedding. Using the historical background gave us many great ideas and we finally settled on the voyageur canoes. We have unlimited access to birch bark that is on the deadfall trees and we used this for our project. Fold a square of birch bark together and trim the ends until the canoe takes its shape. We sewed the ends with sinew and filled the canoes with 3 Hershey's kisses. A very inexpensive and creative way to extend our theme. They are also re-usable or biodegradable. R. Craig Upper Michigan My friend got married 2 years ago. I was asked to make her flowers and her reception table decorations. We were on a very tight budget so I came up with the following decorations. Buy one medium size fish bowl. Any crystal clear bowl would work but the fish bowl was pretty cheap. I hot glued some elastic around the bottom base of the bowl. Then hot glued blue and white silk roses around the bottom on top of the elastic . I added short pearl strands and babies breath in with the flowers. We bought some blue colored stones for the inside of the bowl. Next add water and a rose shaped floating candle Then add strands of silver pearls, her colors were blue , white and silver.Drap the pearls from the inside to the outside of the bowl and let them lay on the table in a loop form. Add white doves inside the loops and place on the table . I had so many compliments on this simple but beautiful centerpiece and its great for those who are on a tight budget. Tammy North Carolina I am getting married in a few months and my soon-to-be tells me I am trying to have a million dollar wedding for a hundred bucks. But here goes... We both have been married before and I also have four sons so I tried to cut corners. I bought my dress and veil at a consignment shop. I made my own ring bearer pillows - both of my younger sons will carry one. I got the material from the remenant section at our fabric store. At a little used junk store I bought 2 baskets that I decorated with lace and then added silk flowers of our colors which gave me my flower girl baskets. I also bought 8 blue glasses (short ones) and added peach and white satin ribbon roses and lace, then added white votive candles from the dollar store for my center pieces. I purchased the toasting glasses for ourselves and our attendants at a flea market and painted our names on them and added flowers to the base. During the ceremony we will light a candle for each of our deacesed fathers and for my mother to honor them. We also will have a medallion ceremony for my children and I was able to find a family necklace at a limogenes web site for $9.99 each - much better than the $30 and up price everywhere else. I bought most of my silk flowers on sale and made my own bouquets and even one to toss. I wont have to worry about the wilting, and I wont have to pay ot have them preserved since they are silk. My sister in law will make my cake but I made my cake topper using a miniature gazebo and bride and groom doll, then added small flowers and pearls in our color. We will make our reception food to save even more and will have disposable cameras at our reception for reception pics. My soon to be brother in law will videotpae the day and take our pictures since he has a nice camera. The flower girl dresses I bought for $15 at an Easter clearance. The bridesmaid gowns were only $40 each at a store at our mall during an after-prom clearance. I made my own unity candle. I bought a tall white pillar candle at Walmart. Using finger nail polish, I painted the top of stick pins in our colors and then pushed them into the candle to fasten a verse and our names and date. I then added silk flowers. My invitations were also made inexpensively by going to Staples where I purhcased a software kit and blank invitation paper. I then went home and simply followed the directions. My list could go on but here are a few things to get some of you going hope I could help. Pattie and Wayne Wedding August 10, 2002 Springfield, West Virginia I am getting married on June 22, 2002 and have only had a month to plan my wedding and limited funds. We are getting married outside on a river lot at 6:30 in the evening. I have found a few ways to cut cost and I would like to share them. Maybe my ideas could be helpful to someone else. To start I made my own wedding invitations. The main flowers I am using are daisies and I found some really nice paper with daisies printed on it and used that for the invitations. Secondly my invitations were remailers. If you are not familiar with this what you do is print your wedding information on a standard piece of paper. Then you fold the paper in three section like you would to mail a letter. Then on one flap you put the address of the person you are mailing it to. On the other flap you put your address and a stamp. This way after people read the invitation they just refold the paper (but the opposite direction) and send it back to you. Another way I am saving money is on my flowers. I am using fresh flowers. Daisies and Black-eyed Susan's. I am also going to use honeysuckle. It is pretty not to mention it smells great. These things grow wild and don't cost anything! To save money on food I am having a covered dish reception. I am asking everyone who comes to bring their favorite dish. We are going to supply chicken breasts for everyone but the side dishes are up to the guests. I got my dress right after prom season and found something I liked for $40.00. I got a dress for my daughter at a consignment store and only paid $10.00. If you shop around it is amazing the deals you can find. The best advice I can give anyone planning a wedding is ask your friends and family. You will be surprised at the things they have and the hidden talents you didn't know about. My fiancé's Uncle is supplying all the tables and chairs. His Aunt is bringing the tarps we need. A friend of the family is a D.J. and is going to do our wedding cheap. My mom is making my cake and my soon to be sister- in- law is doing all the flowers and decorating. A cheap decorating tip is cheesecloth. It is inexpensive and can be used for many things. I hope my ideas help! Wish me luck! Crystal Lease Bentonville, Virginia 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 guests can sign, write, or doodle in it. We will also include what he has made tradition at holidays and special events with his family and friends and invite anyone with musical talent to bring an instrument and play. Even people who aren't musically inclined can play maraccas or dance and we've had a lot of fun this way. I am only making a double layer cake for the wedding, but I think it will be beautiful. I'm going to make swans out of cookie dough and then frost them and put them on top of the cake in the center of a blue sugar glitter pond with little dove decorations all around the edges. Daniel and Beth Escondido, CA Here is my idea for a wedding favor. My fiance and I went to thrift stores and rummage sales and found all different varieties of wine glasses and champagne flutes (glass ones). We filled them all with candies that had wrappers that matched our wedding colors. We then took white tulle, cut circles out of it, cut a slit in the middle, and fit it up and around the glass. We gathered the tulle and tied a ribbon around it. Our guests will have a unique re-usable favor to remember our day by along with scrumptious candy! Gillian P On the back of each place card have the guests write how they came to know the bride and groom or their fondest memory of the two. Then the couple can put together a scrapbook filled with cherished memories. Also, we are donating all leftover food and flowers to a local hospital. Its a nice gesture, and besides what are you going to do with them all anyway? Melissa and Ben Delaware Wedding in 2004! I racked my brain for ideas for party favors this is what I came up with: you can go have your name put on can coolers. Just go to a company that custom prints personalization on things. I think its a great favor idea... thank you for all of yours.. Carrisa Missouri I am getting married in October and I came up with a very clever idea. I am making CD's with the songs that mean something to us. The CD includes all the songs we will have at the reception, plus some additional ones that we love. I purchased vinyl CD sleeves and made my own covers. I included pictures of us on the front with our names and the date of the wedding. I also made the inside page which includes the songs and I included a little thank-you poem that I made up on th eback cover. Time consuming but worth it... each CD only costs about $1.50 to make. What a nice way for our guests to remember our special day for years to come. Katie & Norm Pennsylvania Wedding October 19, 2002 I helped both of my younger sisters plan their weddings and now I am planning a May 2004 wedding for myself! I printed all their invitations and enclosures on my own computer as one of my gifts to them with paper packages from Office Depot. They were actually quite elegant. Even though I have more money to spend for my wedding than they did, I still plan to print my own as well. One thing I found to save a little money is to have reply post cards instead of the traditional cards with envelopes. Who keeps their reply cards anyway? We saved some money on postage since post cards are cheaper to send. We saved quite a bit on the stationery because we bought plain card stock and cut it ourselves. Decent card stock is only about $10 per pack. Guests also found it much simpler to fill out the card and pop it in the mail box than to hunt for that envelope and we didn't fee! l we'd wasted so much on guests that did not return theirs. I think this would also be a smart option for those getting their invitiations printed by someone else. I also had a neat idea for ceremony programs. I bought elegant cotton paper for one sister's wedding and parchment for the other sister and printed them on my computer. We rolled them and tied them with ribbon. It only cost about $12 and made a nice keepsake. Dorothy Grand Blanc, MI Bridal Party Invite... My fiance's groomsmen live out of town (NY). We wanted to be creative in inviting them to be in our wedding. Instead of a phone call, we made each intended groomsmen a video of my fiance dressed as a hillbilly from the South. He is from New York and pretended to be a "red neck". He wore a coonskin hat, bubba teeth, and sat in front of the GA State Flag. You don't have to do a video as outrageous as ours but you can do a video for bridal party members who you do not have an opportunity to invite in person. Imagine their surprise when they view the video! We labeled the outside of the video tape with an email address and phone number so they knew to contact us right away. Everyone is talking about the video and how funny it was. Renee & Chris May 2002 Atlanta, GA I have decided to be somewhat different, Instead of the regular guest book, we have decided to have a picture of the two of us blown up to poster size and then have it matted. The guests will all be asked to sign the matting. Then the picture will be framed and we will have the picture of us that all of the guest have signed hanging on the wall forever, to remember this special day.. Don't forget to date the picture at the bottom...... Cheryl Bond and Daniel Dubois Wedding - July 6, 2002 Saco, Maine

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