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wedding memorial ideas

Some of us choose to use our wedding days as a way to honor loved ones who have passed away. We’ve featured many touching, unique wedding day memorials over the years including wedding memorial tables with candles, signs, poems, and ceremony wording.

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Dedicate your bouquet instead of tossing it

Would you want to dedicate your bouquet to a loved one’s memory instead of tossing it to your friends? You could just quietly leave your wedding bouquet in front of a loved one’s photo at your reception or save it to place on a grave or at a shrine.

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The saddest wedding items on Etsy: 12 wedding memorial ideas to make you sniffly

Today I want to chop some onions at work and take a look at some of the saddest and most touching wedding memorial ideas I found on Etsy… including the custom silhouette candlestick shown above, which you could then light at your wedding. This entire post is maybe a little macabre, but grief is weird that way. Have your hankies at the ready.

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Trees and fishies: some of our favorite wedding memorials from offbeat weddings

A lot of weddings feature amazing ways to honor those loved ones who have left us. We have a whole archive dedicated to it. Let’s recap a few of our favorite (and some new) ways to memorialize your dearly departed family and friends including with memorial trees, boutonniere charms, gifting your bouquet, and even one “releasing of the goldfish.”

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How to cancel your wedding after the death of your partner

We’ve talked about cancelling your wedding when you decide to break up, but what if tragedy strikes and your fiancé passes away before the wedding?

This is a tragic circumstance that brings far more complexity than simply trying to explain what went wrong. Here are the steps we recommend you take if your partner has died before the wedding took place.