Visit our advertisers to find everything you need to have a perfect wedding. Contact a travel agent to get great ideas. It's the small things that can make a wedding memorable. Unusual table decorations, flowers, and party favors give a wedding that special touch that reflects the unique personalities of the bride and groom.
Ideas abound in magazines, craft and fabric stores, florist showrooms, and on the Internet.
To greet the guests, especially for an evening or outdoor wedding, use luminaries to line the path to the door, or to highlight the aisle the bride walks down for a garden wedding. The paper bags are embellished with decorative cut-outs of hearts or other special symbols, or they can have a special message or the couple's names written on them using calligraphy. Add a scoop of sand to weight the bags, and then put a votive candle in a holder inside the bag. For the reception, place a basket near the entrance to the reception area, and fill it with small bottles of bubbles to use instead of throwing rice when the bride and groom depart. Little net wrapped packets of birdseed are a popular alternative to the traditional rice.