Weekly Wedding Tip: Personalized Ideas

1. Add a Collector Barbie.  Offer the special collector Barbie® to your bridesmaids as a fun and memorable way to remember the day?  The Carolina Herrera Bride Barbie® doll can be incorporated into the wedding day itself or serve as a sophisticated, yet playful accent to a gift or seating card.
2. Use a mat instead of a guest book, which guests sign and can later be framed and hung in the new couple’s home.
3. Many of today’s brides are opting for a cocktail table book of pictures from their engagement session.  Guests can write a note and sign the book.
4. Personalized gifts for your attendants.  Consider making photo books with old photos of you and your friends.  Spend some time thinking of all the things you’ve been through and give these cherished, personalized gifts to your maid of honor and best man.
5. Create a wedding scrapbook at your reception.  Have supplies for a wedding scrap book on hand at your reception so your guests can take Polaroid’s AND create pages for your book on site. What fun for the guests to create and for you to enjoy afterwards!
6. A really plush gift idea for your bridal party – have monogrammed robes made.
7. Your parents will most likely invest some of their life-savings in your big day.  Acknowledge their generosity with a personalized gift in return.  Find an eloquent quote about parenting or the relationships between fathers/mothers, sons/daughters, and have it engraved on a special plague.
8. Polished stones carry special meaning.  Find a local boutique that sells “love rocks,” and give one to each of your guests.
9. Consider making photo books with old photos of you and your friends.  Spend some time thinking of all the things you’ve been through and give these cherished, personalized gifts to your maid of honor and best man.
10. When making a video that will be shown at the wedding, include photos of family and friends – not just of the bride and groom.  Your guests will be pleased that you thought of them.
11. The thank-you cards are more meaningful than your invitation!  Yes – by acknowledging guests with hand-written, personalized notes, you are saying that it mattered that they came to your wedding and/or sent a gift.  Spend more time on this end of things and the time invested will return with gracious measure.
12. If you have out-of-town guests who are staying at nearby hotels, acknowledge them by arranging to have a refreshment package, along with a personalized note from you, in their room!
13. Wedding sheets are an extravagant keepsake.  When approached by family or a close friend, ask them to consider this as a meaningful gift, and ask them to have a set of luxurious sheets monogrammed or embroidered with your initials.
14. Plush towels are also an extravagant gift.  Towels can be monogrammed with your initials and/or names.
15. If your mother, father, aunt, uncle, grandma, grandfather, friend, et al, said something insightful, write it down.  As an extra special and meaningful touch, pull together a small book of personalized quotes and give this to them on your big day.
16. Use the buddy system for out-of-town guests. Try to assign a friendly, outgoing family member or close friend to any out-of-town guests, to act as their ‘ambassador’ for the wedding weekend. The ambassadors can greet guests at the airport, take them to the hotel, and suggest things to do. This makes out-of-towners feel welcome.