The weaponized wedding bouquet could smash your face and will break your heart
Some brides choose to make their bouquets out of brooches or buttons. Some are classicists — flowers, the kind that really lived in the ground once. Some lovingly craft their flowers out of paper. Me? I prefer my bouquet to be capable of inflicting blunt force trauma. That right there is seven pounds of bridal awesomeness, hand-forged out of motherfucking iron.
Give olive oil as favors (and use as centerpiece)
It’s pretty fantastic when wedding favors serve multiple purposes: in this case, Talia and Charles used these bottles of olive oil as centerpieces and gifted them to wedding guests at the end of the night. No dealing with the ol’ “what do we do with the centerpieces?” wedding saga, AND your invitees get to go home with something they can cook with.
Play a game to pick your witnesses at random
Each guest (of appropriate age) received a Bingo card in a sealed envelope. When we came to the signing of the registry, the guests were instructed to open their envelopes and we rolled out a Bingo cage. The two winners of our Bingo draw got to be our witnesses… and took home a lovely engraved toaster!
Check out the wedding centerpiece magic when you plant succulents inside books
You’ve seen book centerpieces. You’ve seen succulent centerpieces. But have you seen books-used-as-succulent-planters centerpieces? Thanks to Tribesmaid Aravaile, now ya’ have! They’re unbelievably gorgeous whether the books are closed, or open…
Show your guests to their seats AND give them a drink at the same time
Monica and Mike used old-timey bottled sodas that served as both favors and escort cards. This would be a great idea for a summertime wedding to let your guests quench their thirst while they search for their seats!
Why I’m making my wedding flowers out of the Constitution
I came up with a wedding flower idea that excited me quite a bit. I decided that some of my paper wedding flowers will be made out of old copies of the current Constitution of South Africa. The reason is, I love the Constitution. I don’t love it just because I’m a South African lawyer and we’re supposed to like laws — I love it because of the freedom it represents…