Artistique Photography by Nicolette
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Ideas for your Reception
I have seen many fantastic
ideas at Wedding Receptions over the last few years and thought I would share
some of these with you.
1. Photo
of you both on white mounting board.
All of my wedding photography packages offer a pre wedding photo session
and I like to do this at least a couple of months before the wedding day. A nice idea is to have guests sign all around
a photo on the white mounting board at the Reception. Later you can get this framed and put on your
wall.
2. Toast
the woman who has had a greatest impact on your life and then hand your
bouquet to her as a special tribute.
3. Honour
your parents and grandparents by having a framed photo of them on their
wedding day.
4. Framed
photos of you both as children and put them on guest tables.
5. Have
the candy bar themed to your wedding colours.
6. Special
cake topper of something special to you both, could be a hobby or a
favourite pet! Something a little
different from the traditional cake toppers available.
7. Framed
window with glass makes an excellent window of memories with all of your
guests signing the glass in permanent felt pen.
8. Put
a blank card and pen at each place setting and ask guests to jot down their
favourite memory of you or the groom.
Later you can bind all the cards into an album.
9. Surprise
your guests with small handwritten note inside a small bottle (or on each
name card) with a personal message, e.g. for John “thanks for flying over from
the UK for our wedding”.
10. Give
each table a name of a special place, street, town that relates to your
courtship, e.g. Anzac Ave, Newcastle, Sydney…
11. Instead
of traditional guest book, why not select a coffee table book, perhaps
filled with photos of you both and have guests sign on the photos or in the
margins around the photos.
12. A
trivia quiz is a great way to interact with your guests and this can be
organised by the best man and each table works as a team.
13. Print your wedding date and your name
under your wedding shoes, or have Mr & Mrs printed.
14. An
old letterbox makes and excellent wedding card box.
15. On
the RSVP card ask guests to jot down their favourite song. That way your dance floor will be packed!
16. Instead
of throwing bouquet why not give it to the guests who have been married the
longest.
17. Birthdays,
Anniversaries are good to toast to.
18. Wrap
favours in ribbon themed to your wedding colours and printed with your
names and wedding date.
19. For themed weddings, e.g. French theme,
have a bicycle as a prop with basket of baguettes in the Reception, you might
even want to ride it!
20. A
sparkler farewell is beautiful when your guests form an archway, but
remember to get the 36” sparklers.
I hope these ideas may help you with
your Reception.
Artistique Photography by Nicolette
www.ArtistiquePhotographyByNicolette.com.au
