Ideas and personal touches from Kathleen Eagle
For My Daughter's Wedding
The Life of the Story is in the Details 
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It's one of my favorite bits of writing advice. The life of the story is in the details. We found so many ways to personalize Elizabeth and John's wedding with special touches. Using my trusty scanner and lots of family photos, we create several copies of this album, which we put out at both the groom's dinner and the reception for guests to enjoy. More casual and conducive to conversation than the newly popular slide show, and they're nice keepsakes. Also pictured here: packets of Kleenex were scattered about the pews. The wrappers said, "For our wedding guests, from John and Elizabeth. Express Yourself." Chocolate Year 2000 coins were scattered about the dinner tables. The 3 tall candle holders decorated the cake table. I purchased brandy snifters for centerpieces rather than rent plain old rose bowls, then gave sets of them to the couple and family. Centerpieces featured a Sterling rose floating in the snifter on a mirror tile strewn with rose petals and twinkling with 3 votive candles. The florist did the setup, and we rented the other items.
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Favors for the guests became a family project. John's mother and I decorated craftstore nests and used the traditional candy coated almonds as eggs. On the tables we alternated nests with pretty bundles of 2 "Purple Passionale" tulip bulbs. Here you see this spring's blooms in my yard. I planted a bed of them in the yard of Elizabeth and John's new home while they were on their honeymoon in October. Elizabeth used a couple dozen of the nests on their first Christmas tree. The gift cards on the favors were printed on my computer.
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Remember the trout on the groom's cake? We continued the fisherman's theme in the foyer near the punch table and the bar by surrounding the groom's cake with glass fish, blue netting, the ceramic pickup full of gummy worms, and this huge goldfish bowl. It's hard to see them, but a large white fantail and a big black moor--yes, a bride and groom goldfish--were right at home in this pretty setting.
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No ordinary Stretch for this couple. A shiny, deep blue, chauffeur driven 1949 Packard limousine served as the coach for this regal pair. The bride's dad--also 1949 vintage (ah, yes, it was a very good year)--poses with them here. According to the chauffeur, this limo originally belonged to a Chicago gangster. We don't care whether it's true. We Eagles relish a good story.
And we love to embellish with lively details. |
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