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Wedding Season 101, Part 2 - GIFTS

Last week we started a Wedding Season 101 series of helpful hints for brides-to-be. We got married in 2006 and spent an entire year preparing. These tips are just my helpful hints that we discovered along the way for those of you who aren't enlisting the help of a wedding planner.

This week I've got two more ideas for you for the wedding-day party favors. We'd been to over twenty weddings before we got married ourselves, five or six just in the 18 months between our engagement and the I-Dos, so we gathered a good deal of ideas to sort through before we came up with our own. We'd seen rice sachets, seed packets, music cds, and beer cozies, and wanted to give something that people would definitely use but would still remember our wedding by without necessarily being reminded of it with the cheesy text "Andy and Craig's wedding day" on it. We wound up compromising.

1. First was my mother's great idea from her knitting closet. She wanted to give the 3 bridesmaids a shawl in case the weather was cold. Luckily she did because we actually got snow in September! The shawls were gorgeous; black and long and warm, and we gave them to them at the bridal shower so I wasn't the only one opening gifts. We took a picture of us in the shawls as well (I got one too!) and even sent it in to the magazine that mom got the pattern from. They printed it and we all got a copy of the picture.

But if you don't have a crafty relative on hand, buy something unique for the girls that isn't a pink shirt they'll never wear or a cast-iron faery they'll regift to someone else. These are your girls, and they deserve something thoughtful.

2. Second, I wanted to give everyone a gift bag so we started trolling for ideas for those. This took us a long time and wound up being slightly more expensive that we'd have liked, but any one of these ideas is great, so no need to do them all.

We wound up giving small lotion bottles made by a friend of mine, a small sachet of lavender for their pillows at night, a waterbottle with an image of our local mountains and some cheesy text but not much, and maps of the area. Everyone was suprised for the gifts and we still see those waterbottles around too. This was before the big plastic scare of late, so now we'd have to make sure they were BPA free.

We found out where most were staying and dropped the bags off at the hotel with their names on them. For couples, we just used one bag but threw two of everything in.


Next up: Wedding day decor. Stay tuned!
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