Flower bouquets are a fantastic addition to your wedding; they let you work your colours and theme into your ceremony, they give you something to do with your hands in photos, and it’s considered socially acceptable to chuck them at people.
We’ve looked at alternative bouquet ideas before, but floral hoop bouquets deserve their own special mention.
For the last few weeks, we’ve been running a mini-series of wedding reading inspiration. We’ve covered romantic (but not cheesy) wedding readings, geeky wedding readings, readings from children’s books, and long, non-traditional wedding readings.
To finish things up, this week, we’re looking at short wedding readings you might not have seen before. Readings like…
Our wedspiring wedding readings mini-series has looked at romantic wedding readings that aren’t cheesy, wedding reading ideas from children’s books, and geeky readings, with references to zombies, time travel, and, erm, three-ways. (Edit for your own audience as required!)
Today, we carry on with some long, non-traditional wedding readings. Nothing sappy. Nothing soppy. And nothing you’ll have heard at the past five weddings you went to.
Let’s talk about children’s books:
1) They’re written to be read aloud, so they’re melodic and easy to read, even for the most nervous speaker.
2) They’re short and sweet, and give everyone who hears them the warm and fuzzies.
3) And they usually give a good, clear message about love, respect, kindness, and embracing adventure.
Sounds like a pretty good place to look for wedding reading ideas!
Continuing our mini-series of wedspiring wedding readings, today we’re looking at cute – but not too cute – children’s books you can read during your wedding ceremony.
Next up in our mini-series of wedspiring wedding reading ideas, we’re looking at geeky wedding readings to bring across your personality, your sense of humour, and your love of zombies.
I talk a lot on here (well, you knew that – but specifically) about finding ways to bring your personality into your wedding day and making it feel like you.
I’ve spoken about bringing some personality into your invitation wording, your boutineers, your wedding send-off, your table plan, even your cake topper. But I haven’t spoken about the easiest and most natural way to bring some fun and some personality to your wedding: having a ceremony reading.
To make up for this truly grevious oversight, I’m running a whole Wednesday Wedspiration mini-series on ideas for non-traditional – and non-sappy – wedding readings: long readings, short readings, readings from children’s books, readings most definitely not from children’s books, and – what we’re kicking off with today – romantic wedding readings that aren’t cheesy.
We’re doing something a little different for this week’s Wednesday Wedspiration. Instead of looking at (really fantastic) examples of how other couples have done their (really fantastic) button holes and bouquets, we’re looking at pictures from one (really fantastic) wedding – and from a new feature we’re starting on the blog this Saturday!
Carrying on from last week’s Wednesday Wedspiration, where we looked at 48 (absolutely freaking gorgeous) alternatives to diamond rings, this week we’re looking at engagement rings that are similar to diamonds in everything but the price tag.
Diamonds are the (not-so-well-kept) dirty secret of the wedding industry.
Everyone knows diamonds aren’t worth the price tag. Everyone knows a single company has a monopoly on diamond mines and has artificially inflated the cost of diamonds. And everyone knows the high costs have caused problems, with diamonds being used to finance things you probably don’t want the sweet announcement of your everlasting love to finance.
But everyone shrugs it off. Everyone thinks it sucks but it’s just how it is. Everyone thinks they don’t have another choice for an engagement ring.
Ladies and gentlemen, I’d like to introduce you to your other choice: it’s called every other gemstone, ever.
