What special touches are you adding to your wedding?

Congrats on your upcoming wedding! When my cousin got married, he arranged to have the cocktail "hour" last longer if they ran late with their photos. I thought it was a nice touch to let the guests continue eating and drinking so they didn't notice the bridal party's absence.

To make my FH laugh, I am secretly having the officiant begin the ceremony with the following movie quote "Mawaige is what bwings us togethaw today" from the Princess Bride =)

Lol tiedaknot - too funny

We aren't doing anything really unique, but my mom actually thought midnight snacks were a good idea, so we will be having a touch of food there in addition to the hors'dourves at the beginning. We are also making sure to have a Memorial table for all our loved ones who passed away.

My wedding keepsakes will be a special touch. The wedding is in barbados and my mom lives there so she has phycially made a few trips to the beach to collected sand to filled in mini bottles. It is so everyone comming in can take a little bit of barbados back with them when they leave and also remmeber our special day. Not really a big thing..but thoughtful and special none the less thanks to my mom

Wow Kiwana... I lived in Barbados for 18 years.. small world

Really.. WOW... awesome Shelly it really is a small world

For the ceremony, we are doing something called the Apache Blessing instead of a final prayer. FH's family and my family both have Indian heritage, so that was important to us. For the reception, FH and I adding little things to include our shared love of football. We are making our entrance with flags of our favorite teams, we have a football cake topper, my garter is of our favorite teams, and when FH does the garter toss, my garter will be around a football and he will toss it.

Great ideas ladies!

I don't think we are doing anything really that different. My wedding will be the first wedding that I have attended to have the Cord of 3 strands ceremony, but I am not sure how unique that is. Oh, we are also having blue signature drinks which are a spinoff of the Blue hawaiian, but they have been named "Heart of the Ocean"

Kiwana I love the sand bottle thing and Beth your mom had a great idea about midnite snacks, after all the drinking and dancing, I am sure it will not go to waste.

We're doing a dove release after our ceremony (in memory of my dad and younger brother) - we did this at their funeral, so we thought it would be a nice way to "include" them without having their pictures everywhere. Some people will know why we did it, others will think it's just something we wanted to do. I decided that I didn't want to leave empty chairs for them or have a table with their pictures on it - it's already going to be an emotional day and I think by doing those things it would make it even harder for me.

Thanks @heavenlyyoyo

@Kelly that is an amazing idea about the dove release ceremony

IDK if these count but this is what I thought was a special touch or different about our wedding...

1) We greeted guests as they arrived, we were actually out there at about 2:30 and the ceremony started at 3:30 because most of our guests were staying at the same resort as us.

2) Our ceremony was outside and almost everyone had their drink in hand soda, water, or alcoholic beverage plus it was only 12 min long

3) We skipped all traditions such as garter toss, cake cutting, 1st dance and so on we hate those parts of weddings weird old traditions that most people don’t know the origins of

4) I didn’t carry any flowers and the wedding party didn’t either but our tables were decorated up nice

My wedding is far away so I haven't really thought much about special touches.

-Our wedding is a DW in Puerto Rico, so that's different. Everyone we know usual has big Long Island (NY) weddings.

-We will dance a bit of salsa. I am part latina and I think everyone around me forgets because I'm dark and (as everyone says) "I look just black" (whatever the hell that means), but my latin culture is a big part of me, so this is important and special to me. FH (Italian) wants to learn to salsa too!

-I want to do something special for our relatives who are no longer with us, but I want something original....something that won't make us cry sad tears.

One special touch we are adding to our reception is... we have a dual sided fire place inside our room. The one side of the fireplace is our main reception area (dinner/dancing etc), the other side has a forma iving room/comfy feel to it (with large leather sofa's and chairs). So to dress that area up and make it more personal, we are adding wedding photo's of my parents, grand parents, his parents, grandparents, my sister... etc.

Greg (secretly) learned to play two songs for me, which he sang to me at the reception, when most of the guests had left for the night. He had been spending every free moment learning them over the five months we took to plan the wedding. I still feel so guilty about how many times I tore him a new one for not helping as much as I wanted him to...There wasn't a dry eye in the house after that. He's such a softie. :-) I think that moment literally made the wedding. Everyone was clapping and crying...

We are cutting our cake with an axe (hubby is a firefighter) and I am getting those hand stamped forks that say "A fire chief" and the date on the handle and the other says "marries his flame" and the date. Our son is also carrying the rings in on a pillow on a fire truck.

We are not cutting a cake (having cupcakes). Instead, we decided to do something we have done since we started dating. FH's favorite cocktail is a Manhattan (as was his grandfather's who is no longer with us). FH has always ordered his Manhattan with 2 cherries and given me one. Finally one day I asked why he always made/ordered his cocktails with 2 cherries when he only wanted one. He said his grandpa taught him to make them that way - "You should always include 2 cherries - one for you and one for the woman you love." Since it's something we do all the time we thought it would be an appropriate way to honor his grandfather since he can't be there on our wedding day. (We plan on telling this story before dinner, so people know wth we are doing when we do it... )

This is a top secret fun thing to our wedding... my fiance is HUGE YANKEES fan and so am i...he told me he's going to start his vows with Lou Gehrigs famous words " today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth. "

FIRST of all GO JETS GO!! (Fellow Winnipeg-er very rare on here!!)

We are having a Memory Table- Pictures of each sides anncestors wedding days.

A Photo Booth- with a bunch of home-made props

Bathroom Basket- For the laaadies

Candy Buffet- Honestly, just because my FH is a huuuge sweet tooth

Wishing Tree- A Manzanita Branch tree with crystals haning from and little cards to fill out and hang on it that say "Well wishes and Advice for the new couple"

and I reaaaallly want out dogs in the wedding pics, and found an ad. on Kijiji for a service that offers to bring them and keep them over night too. - so i'll have to look into that I guess

Hmmm....I haven't really thought too much of special touches but some that I consider special to me is:

On my bridal bouquet I will tie a mini picture frame to it with a picture of my grandparents from both sides of my family since they are no longer with us

Our vows might be special because we might be writing our own

Our invitations will be a special to me because I'm designing them myself along with the STD's

We might have certain people singing at our wedding

And that might be it for now

We're having a bilingual ceremony -- FH will do his vows in English, I'll do mine in Spanish, and everything else will also be split between the two languages. I have family coming from PR, so I wanted them to understand everything, too.