The wedding was in March and outdoors…therefore, it was cold. I didnt want to do the typical favors – box of chocolate, silly little candle, something useless and meaningless. We decided to order pashminas from New York in the wedding colors. I wrapped each pashmina with a matching grosgrain ribbon and put them in an awesome copper bucket. The bucket was placed at the ceremony site with a little sign that says, “in case you get chilly.” They were a huge hit!!
With a three month engagement and the bride living out of state, there were just some things that got cut. Ceremony programs were one of them! I made a huge chalk board and the bride hand wrote the ceremony program information on it.
Rather than an arch, we used two matching topiary trees. Each tree was placed in a planter that I painted to match the wedding colors. The base of each tree was covered in moss and a cluster of flowers.
Each placecard was hand written by the bride, and layerd with a piece of copper cardstock with the guests table numbers on it. Each guests name was pinned to a large, velvet covered corkboard.
The large frame was on two copper easels:
The cocktail hour was set up in the gazebo for the guests following the ceremony. Each gazebo was adorned with japanese paper lanters with ribbons in matching colors hanging from each of them.
The second favor for the guests was the cookie table!! We asked each of the women influential in the brides life to make their best cookie recipe. Each cookie was placed in a large glass cookie jar. Each jar had a lable with the cookies name on it, and who made the cookie. Th
e guests were each given blue paper bags to take the cookies home with them.
e guests were each given blue paper bags to take the cookies home with them.
