Okay, I know that I still have over a year and 5 months before my wedding, but I'm still kinda obsessed with visiting theknot.com and checking out wedding ideas and checking my wedding month board to see what other brides sharing my wedding month are doing or have done already.
I was looking at an article on the site about wedding bouquet ideas, and one of the ideas suggested adding flowers that mean/meant something to the people you care about. For example, you could include a flower that your grandmother had in her wedding bouquet, or pick a flower that means something special to your parents, etc.
I really like the idea of incorporating a flower from my grandmother's bouquet into mine. I was always really close to my grandma, so that would mean a lot to me. I'm also considering wrapping a cameo necklace (which I got out of her jewelry box after she passed away) around the stems of my bouquet. It's nothing special or antique; it's just an Avon necklace that has the white cameo of a lady on the pendant. What's neat about this one, though, is that the background is a pretty orange color, instead of the traditional dark blue that you see with most other cameo necklaces.
Since it does have orange on it, it will tie in really well with my wedding color scheme (dark purple/eggplant and burnt orange, along with a bunch of other fall shades), but I think I would use it even if it clashed horribly, because it was hers.
I think I also would like to have an honorary bouquet made up for family members that have passed away and cannot be physically present at the wedding. I do intend to have a memory candle there, as well, but I'm thinking that a memory arrangement/bouquet would be nice.
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In other wedding planning news: I actually got Jake out to the VFW hall to check out their rental hall to see if it would suit our needs. It seems small to me, even though they say it can hold up to 180 people. I just can't envision how we would fit 150-180 people in there, plus a DJ booth, plus a dance floor, plus a head table, plus food tables. I think that we need to keep "shopping around" to see what else Wapak has to offer.
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What about the K of C Hall? I've been to fish fries there before and they can hold a lot of people. I'm not sure if they have weird rules about having to be a member to rent it, but it's something to look into. Or the fairgrounds. I know that seems weird, but when I played softball in Buckland, all the t-ball, baseball, and softball had our end of the season awards banquet in the Jr. Fair Building, so there's another idea.
I've gotten ahold of the K of C hall. It doesn't seem like you have to be a member to rent the hall, but it costs $375 (plus a $100 deposit that gets returned after the event, provided that the hall is returned in the same condition as it was when it was rented). The VFW rents it's hall for $200, which is about 1/2 of the K of C, but the space just doesn't seem big enough. So, I'm going to actually visit the K of C hall and look at it, and probably also call around to the local hotels to see if they have ballrooms or anything like that that they rent out.
I'll keep the tip about the fairgrounds in mind. :)
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