Use your favorite book as your guestbook
Be like Kirsten and Dustin and have your guests scribble their signatures and well wishes throughout the pages of YOUR fave book in place of a guestbook.
Make your youngest guests feel welcome with a kids-only dance
Planning on having a plethora of kiddos at your wedding? Steal this idea: Dana and Sheldon (who totally made their own dance floor) set aside a song or two at their Oklahoma wedding for kids to bust a move without running into knees or getting stomped on by heels!
Level up your brooch bouquet: give it a theme!
There is no such thing as an uncool brooch bouquet. BUT. Have you ever considered building your bouquet to a theme?
Have a bow tie handfasting to complete your Doctor Who wedding
I was wandering through Offbeat Bride’s Doctor Who weddings when I came across Emma and Brian’s take on a geeky wedding ceremony. The couple performed their handfasting to a reading modeled after the Doctor Who episode called “The Wedding of River Song”. Naturally, they used a bow tie for the handfasting cord! Because, as we all know…
Let non-geeks in on the jokes with your geeky wedding program
I hate (like reeeeeeaaaaally don’t like) being on the outside of an inside joke. So I am in total love with how Karen and Terry let their non-geek guests know what was up at their geeky wedding. They drafted up a super informative geeky wedding program, with short and sweet blurbs explaining just what steampunk meant anyway and yes, the Discworld really is flat…
Boxed candy place cards: a sweet way for guests to find their seats
Belinda and Danielle had a hint of a movie theme at their wedding — like reception place cards that were personal boxes of Mike & Ike’s and Junior Mints, like you get at a theater.