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Fall Wedding Ideas

March 2, 2009 By Jennifer Leave a Comment

Giving your reception a fall theme is one way to capture the essence of the season without having to incorporate Autumn into every aspect of your day. Fall wedding favor ideas allow you to inject the theme of fall into your reception, but not in a way that dominates. Often a few carefully chosen Fall wedding favor ideas, mixed with the natural beauty of the season are enough to give your event a flavor that is hard to forget and very peaceful and enjoyable.

For special guests, a fall leaves handkerchief sets a mood and is a functional gift that the recipient will be wowed by and treasure. Fall leaf candles presented on a brown or burgundy cloth napkin or enclosed in an orange, yellow or red box will be sure to impress virtually everyone in attendance. Maple Candy tucked inside a miniature pail or "Thank You For Sharing Our Joy" miniature flower pot is one way to wow both children and adults. Another idea is to provide Autumn themed appetizers for your guests with their favors as they wait for the reception to begin.

With fall, your options are endless. By using creative Fall wedding favor ideas, you can make sure that your theme is as much of a hit as your special day. Like the season, Fall weddings symbolize a lot and mean something positive to virtually everyone.

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Wedding Tears and Handkerchiefs

February 1, 2008 By Nicole Leave a Comment

Weddings are sentimental events. You get people grinning from ear to ear. You will see some of your single female friends turning green with envy because you managed to snatch one good looking guy. The single male friends would have a typical demeanor. A look of terror which spells commitment phobia. If your reception provides free flowing alcohol, you would have red faced guests who will have a problem walking straight. In this situation, it is advisable for you to pry their car keys away from them.

Among the situations above, nothing beats the scene of your guests actually shedding a few tears. Your mother definitely would. Your dad, who wishes to keep his ego intact, may come up with lame excuses like having something in his eye. Undoubtedly, to see a loved one actually crying for the right reasons is a sign that you are being loved and cared for. The first tear which flows down on your mother’s cheek may signify that her daughter would no longer be staying under the same roof with her. Your constant presence will be missed by her as she is being stripped away forever from her mother-daughter bond. No longer would there be arguments about curfews or how to clean the house. It is gone, forever. Alright, I may have gone a bit overboard but you get the idea.

The tears that hide itself beneath the wrinkles and the eye bags of your father carries a whole new different meaning. From the moment he walked you down the aisle, he is reminded of how his precious little girl would be begging him for another bed time story. The same little girl who asks her dad to chase away the monsters in the closet and under the bed. The same daughter that he brought back from a party, drunk from too much beer. It is the same little one who has turned into an elegant lady clad in a gorgeous wedding gown beside him. At this time, he has to be able to accept that his precious little girl has finally grown up.

Apart from your parents, there will be close family friends, relatives, church members who have seen you grow up and the sensitive new age guys who will be suddenly having the sniffles. It is at this very time where wedding handkerchiefs may come in handy. Kleenex and facial tissues will be more hygienic of course but I guarantee you that the pews will be having additional “decorations” snug tightly between the chairs and the hymn books. Your priest would not be happy. It would be highly ungrateful to the man who has just given both of you the wedding blessings.

Handkerchiefs have always been used for quite a while back. The men would carry a linen one which is solid and plain. The ladies would be using one that is made out of very soft material, such as silk or light cotton. The dainty pieces of cloths that the females carry would be embroidered and in most cases, scented. It used to be a custom for them to drop their hankies accidentally (yeah right!) to attract the men. Men, being men, would pick it up the hanky and hand it back to them with a complimentary smile and a wink. Thus, the budding of a new relationship has begun.

However, handkerchiefs are not being widely used as it was last time. These days, it is only being used by middle aged men and for wedding purposes. Wedding handkerchiefs do not only make provide relief for those who have cried during you weddings, but it makes great wedding favours too. It is uncommon for the bride or the groom to give their wedding guests wedding favours in the form of a handkerchief. Normally, it would only be reserved to their loved ones and family members. As such, wedding handkerchiefs are typically embroidered with a poem dedicated specially to the person who plays a significant part in their lives.

Choosing wedding handkerchiefs are not hard but it is neither easy too. This piece of irony is supported by the fact that handkerchiefs are no longer limited to a few samples only. With technologies being upgraded daily, it is not possible to make wedding handkerchiefs according to the style, cloth and pattern that the clients may one. Next, they would have to choose which kind of embroidered poem they would prefer. The availability of so many choices may do a good job of confusing the buyers.

Nonetheless, wedding handkerchiefs are something that you can and cannot live without.

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Personalized Wedding Handkerchiefs – A personal Gift From The Heart

January 18, 2008 By Nicole Leave a Comment

Fall Wedding Handkerchief

Nothing is more special than a gift given by someone who is special or important to you. And nothing could be more special than a gift that someone has taken the trouble to personalize and given to you. The fact that they went through all that trouble just to have a gift personalized just goes to show that you must be an important person to them after all. Even if it is a gift as small as a handkerchief perhaps, because the fact that it is personalized is what makes all the difference.

Personalized wedding handkerchiefs are a great gift option if you want to give the few select people who helped and supported you through your wedding; small, yet personal that they could treasure for a very long time. And they could be given to your bridesmaids and groomsmen, your parents perhaps who were there to support you on all matters, your in-laws and maybe a few of your close friends that you just want to give something to. The bride could even give it as a present to the groom perhaps and vice-versa.

There are a few choices of handkerchief material that you could opt to go for. There are lace handkerchiefs, silk handkerchiefs, monogrammed handkerchiefs, cotton, linen, satin, polyester or a handkerchief made up of a combination of the above. There are plain handkerchiefs or handkerchiefs that already come with a design on them. But no matter what sort of handkerchief the bride and groom decide to give away as gifts, the color of the handkerchief is most likely to be white or at least a similar neutral color. Mainly because white is usually associated with weddings, and so the personalized wedding handkerchiefs should preferably be white as well, just to keep to the overall theme of the wedding.

There are a number of ways of decorating the personalized wedding handkerchiefs. For example the names of the guests could be embroidered onto them. Or the date of the wedding and the names of the bride and groom could be stitched on for keep sake purposes. Or you could really blow the recipients away by even having a poem embroidered onto the handkerchief. Now there’s something they will be sure to treasure for the rest of their lives. After all, how often do you receive a personalized gift with en embroidered poem on it given to you by some of the most important people in your life?

Personalized wedding handkerchiefs can be designed any the way bride and groom like. The bride and groom will be giving these keepsakes to the people who are the most special to them and the ones that they know best. So the best way to personalize these handkerchiefs would probably be according to the style and taste of each recipient. Since the recipients are the people whom the bride and groom are closest too, it should be no problem at all because they would know exactly what their friends and family like best.

There are plenty of online websites where you could get your ideas on how to go about decorating your own personalized wedding handkerchiefs. Some of these websites already have personalized handkerchiefs that come with poems and special sayings to save you the trouble. This could be useful if you are running out of time and still have lots to do before the wedding. Simply order an already personalized handkerchief online! Thank goodness for the internet! It seems you can find just about anything online nowadays.

But of course if you can find the time, getting your own custom made handkerchief would be the way to go. Gifts just seem so much more meaningful when you have put your own thought into them. And handkerchiefs which have your own personal thoughts or sayings on them definitely hold more meaning than something that is just purchased off the internet. It makes you feel as though you are giving the recipient a little bit of yourself.

The wedding day is not just going to be special for the bride and groom, but also for everyone present at the wedding, and especially even more so for the people who are closest to the bride and groom. They are sure to be a few tears shed on that day and it would be the perfect time to present them with those handkerchiefs to wipe away that little tear.

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