subject: 18 Tips On Personalizing Your Big Day [print this page] Sweet memories never fadeSweet memories never fade. Thus, each bride is eager to learn how to personalize her wedding day? How to turn the day into a unique moment in your life? The following 18 ways may help you make a different wedding.
1. Use large heart-shaped cookie cutters tied with ribbon and a single flower stem as cute chair backs.
2. Create your own guest book by sticking colourful envelopes in assorted sizes onto the pages of a blank scrapbook and asking friends and family to slip messages into each one.
3. Replace bridesmaids' posies with one beautiful bloom on a wrist corsage for prom-date chic.
4. Pass out pashminas or blankets in your colour scheme for guests to wrap up on cool night.
5. Try your luck with fortune-cookie favours customised with your own messages inside - go for your names and wedding date, or even a selection of your favourite romantic quotes.
6. Display beautiful hard-bound editions of the books where you sourced your ceremony readings on your guest-book table so friends and family can have a read and get all emotional.
7. Make your own mini pots of jam or chutney as edible favours and label with tags that match your stationery.
8. Have badges customised with quotes and pictures you love and pin them to place cards - then enjoy when guests start wearing them as the party progresses.
9. Saying 'I do' outdoors? Create survival kits in monogrammed canvas mini totes packed with essentials like sunscreen packets, bottles of water and insect repellent wipes to keep your guests cool and comfy in the summer.
10. Print your menus on transparency paper so they appear to be written directly onto your tablecloth.
11. Help guests break the ice with a quiz (printed on place mats or game cards) about the two of you.
12. Channel your inner Monet and hand-paint wine glasses from IKEA with colourful flowers or designs that suit your theme (glassware and favour in one!)
13. Put a cork in it - literally - by using old wine bottles as table centre vases and corks as place card holders. Start saving them now...
14. Been together for a long time? Name each table after a specific year you've been together and create a photo collage for each one.
15. String pretty painted wicker fans on a length of coloured twine for an inspired bunting alternative with an oriental twist.
16. Pile your people into a hired VW camper van - celebrating 60 years of quirky charm this year - and travel in restro style from ceremony to reception.
17. Turn vibrant, mismatched fabric remnants into eclectic cloth napkins by folding or rolling them up and tying with muslin for a Boho festival feel.
18. Add a touch of romance to your tables and place settings with pretty heart-shaped crockery (or just an accent plate).
