Personalize Your Wedding with these Custom Ideas
These days you can incorporate personalization on everything from the bridal party gifts to the wedding reception favors. Here are some of my favorites....enjoy!
1) Personalized Bridal Party Gifts
Give your the members of your bridal party gifts that they can cherish for years to come. Some of the most well-received thank you gifts are the ones that are customized with the person's name, initials or monogram.For bridesmaid gifts, consider giving a lovely embroidered tote bag with her initials, a photo frame with a photo of the bride and bridesmaid, or jewelry such as an engraved bracelet. For groomsmen, the gift possibilities are just about unlimited, but personalized pub signs and engraved beer mugs are the most popular choices. And don't forget the kids in the wedding, the flower girl and ring bearer look adorable in personalized caps or t-shirts.
Personalized Bridal Party T-Shirts
Personalized Ladies Black Fitted T Shirts - Bridal Party Designs
Amazon Price: (as of 01/02/2010) 
Ladies White Personalized Fitted T Shirt - Bridal Party Designs
Amazon Price: (as of 01/02/2010)
Personalized Men's Text Series T-shirts
Amazon Price: $34.00 (as of 01/02/2010)
2) Custom Wedding Accessory Sets
Many online wedding shops sell wedding accessories that can be embroidered or engraved with the bride and groom's names as well as the wedding date. For embroidered items, you can often choose a thread color that will coordinate perfectly with the color scheme of your wedding.The most popular personalized ceremony wedding accessories are the ring bearer pillow, guest book, and unity candle. The great thing about accessory sets is that everything is fully coordinated for you which makes it easy to have a beautiful customized wedding.
Personalized Wedding Invitations
200 "Wedding Couple" Personalized Wedding Invitations
Amazon Price: (as of 01/02/2010)
3) Custom Wedding Cake Toppers
No wedding is complete without a beautiful cake so finish yours office with a set of Swarovski crystal covered initials or an acrylic heart personalized with your photo, names and or wedding date. These stylish wedding cake toppers will add a custom touch and modern flair to your reception.Round, square and dangling heart-shaped cake toppers are also available at many online wedding shops. They can be personalized with your monogram or initials as well.
And don't forget about personalizing the cake serving set.....
4) Engraved Cake Serving Set
The cake cutting 'ceremony' is a big part of many wedding receptions so why not add a touch of elegance and sophistication to the event by having your cake serving set personalized with your names and wedding date. Not only do they look great on the wedding day, but they also make a great keepsake that you can use for years to come.After over 15 years of marriage, my husband and I still use our engraved cake serving set on special occasions such as our anniversary and holidays. We chose a classic heart designed, but there are so many options to tie in with any wedding theme including beach, calla lily and cinderella or fairy tale designs.
Books To Help You Personalize Your Wedding
Great ideas from Amazon!
From Something Olde to Something New: A Bride's Guide to Something Unique : Creative Ways to Personalize Your Wedding Celebration
Amazon Price: (as of 01/02/2010)
Weddings For All Seasons: 90+ Ways to Personalize Your Wedding
Amazon Price: $18.95 (as of 01/02/2010)
Simply Beautiful Weddings: 50 Projects to Personalize Your Wedding
Amazon Price: (as of 01/02/2010)
Handcrafted Weddings: Over 100 Projects & Ideas for Personalizing Your Wedding
Amazon Price: (as of 01/02/2010)
Wedding Crafts: 40 Charming Ideas for a Unique Personalized Wedding
Amazon Price: (as of 01/02/2010)
5) Personalized Unity Candle
The perfect union is often signified by lighting a unity candle during the wedding ceremony. Create a keepsake that you can cherish for years to come by having a personalized unity candle. Whether you are having a traditional or more modern wedding, there are unity candles suitable for your style and color scheme. Choose from square, round or oval shapes that are personalized with your choice of names, monograms or initials along with the wedding date. Often you can even choose the ink color and a special design to go with your theme such as entwined hearts, LOVE, bible verses, beach shells and more.Many couples make it an annual tradition to light their unity candle every year on their wedding anniversary.
Wedding Cost Duel
With the average wedding now costing over $20K, do you think couples spend too much on their wedding day?
Fetching blurbs now... please stand byNo Way - It is Worth Every Penny!
Absolutely They Spend Way Too Much!
kimmer14 says:
If you are fortunate enough to have parents paying for your wedding, then by all means spend as much as your parents are comfortable offering. But if you have to finance the wedding yourself (as we did), you may want to cut back on a few items rather then starting out your married life buried in debt.
Posted July 21, 2009
6) Personalized Toasting Flutes
No wedding reception is complete without a champagne toast. Consider buying yourselves and even the bridal party and parents of the couple glasses engraved with each of their names and even the wedding date. You can create a unified and elegant look at your head table by having everyone raise a similar flute during the big toast.Champagne toasting flutes are available in a wide array of styles including stemless in a stand, trumpet shaped, heart-shaped and more. You can also get them in various seasonal themes for winter or autumn for instance. Consider adding personalized wedding ribbons in your color scheme to dress them up further.
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7) Personalized Guest Books - Frames - Platters
A great way to get your guests involved in creating a one-of-a-kind custom keepsake for your wedding is to use a signature platter, vase or frame where each guests can write their well-wishes along with their names. Many couples are using these types of objects in place of a traditional wedding guest book. Platters and frames are also often etched or engraved with the couples names and wedding date. These keepsakes can be displayed in the newlyweds new home.Another great custom idea are digital or Polaroid photo books where guests can take a quick photo, print it or develop it and place it in the book right at the reception. Then they can add their sentiments and signature along with the photo to the book.
8) Personalized Napkins and Ribbons
Customized reception napkins with your names and wedding date are a great addition to any bar service or cake serving table. Available in numerous designs and foil color options, beverage or standard sized napkins are an affordable way to get a custom look at your wedding reception.Use personalized wedding ribbon on your favors or around the stems of champagne flutes to create a custom design just for your guests. Satin ribbon in various widths is available in a wide array of colors that are foil-stamped with a custom saying or your names/date.
Planning The Perfect Wedding Book
The Everything Wedding Organizer; Checklists, calendars, and worksheets for planning the perfect wedding
Amazon Price: (as of 01/02/2010)
9) Personalized Wedding Favors
The options when it comes to personalized wedding favors are endless. In fact, I've written an entire lens about my favorite custom wedding favors - just click here for some great ideas. When it comes to selecting personalized favors, I recommend selecting something that ties in perfectly with your wedding theme or color scheme as well as your personal style.If you are a chocolate lover (like me) that is having a fall wedding, then the falling in love chocolate bars are the perfect favor. For winter weddings, personalized hot cocoa or coffee packets are a great choice. And for beach weddings, what about sandalwood or paper fans for guests to cool themselves - personalize them with custom wedding stickers for a beautiful and custom presentation.
If you are a do-it-yourselfer who is on a tight budget, consider making your own wedding favors and then just add a personalized favor hang tag or personalized sticker label that has your names along with the date. You can choose from many color and design options to coordinate perfectly with the favor that you create.
Do It Yourself Wedding Favor Guides
Wedding Favors: Fabulous Favors for the Perfect Wedding Day
Amazon Price: (as of 01/02/2010)
The Artful Bride: Wedding Favors and Decorations: A Stylish Bride's Guide to Simple, Handmade Wedding Crafts
Amazon Price: $11.10 (as of 01/02/2010)
Creating Your Perfect Wedding: Stylish Ideas And Step-by-step Projects for a Beautiful Wedding
Amazon Price: $13.22 (as of 01/02/2010)
Fabulous Favors: Handmade Favors for Weddings, Parties and Holidays
Amazon Price: (as of 01/02/2010)
Favors with Flair: 75 Easy Designs for Weddings, Parties and Events
Amazon Price: $17.05 (as of 01/02/2010)
10) Custom Wedding Keepsakes & Frames
A fantastic keepsake for the bride and groom and even bridal party gifts, custom made photo frames are a great way to display cherished photos of the big day. Even though bridal party members won't receive their thank you gift until after the wedding, frames with a photo of say the bride with her maid of honor are always well-received keepsakes.You can buy engraved frames from places like Things Remembered, Amazon (see below) and other online wedding specialty shops.
Personalized Wedding Photo Frames
Buy them at Amazon!
Silver Satin Frame Cover Photo Album
Amazon Price: (as of 01/02/2010)
RING, SHOE, GOWN FRAME - RING, SHOE, GOWN 8" X 10" FRAME, SILVER PLATED.
Amazon Price: (as of 01/02/2010)
8" X 10" Silver Plated Personalized Wedding Photo Frame
Amazon Price: (as of 01/02/2010)
Custom Personalized Wedding Collage Photo Frame
Amazon Price: (as of 01/02/2010)
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- DGGallery DGGallery Mar 28, 2009 @ 11:43 pm
- Great lens! 5*****, faved and lenrolled! Brides are always looking for neat ideas to make their day unique! I have TONS of Customizable wedding postage, Save the Date postcards and magnets, T-shirts for the birdal party and even custom KEDS shoes. You can see a few of my items at http://www.squidoo.com/theeventstamp or http://www.zazzle.com/sweetrascal*
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- CreativeArtist CreativeArtist Mar 2, 2009 @ 1:00 pm
- Great ideas to personalize your wedding. Check out Custom wedding stamps too: http://www.squidoo.com/CustomWeddingStamps Lensrolling you to it.
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- jkvkdailey jkvkdailey Jan 27, 2009 @ 5:41 pm
- I love the variety of personalized gifts for the wedding party. Great lens! 5*****
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