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Adding Special Touches to Your Wedding

Here are some beautiful ideas that can make your Wedding more special and give you lasting memories:

1. Select a Bible that you can comfortably carry down the aisle with you. At the completion of the ceremony, you and your groom can sign your names and your wedding date in the front of the Bible as well as the location and time of your marriage. As each future bride and groom uses it, their names will be added.

2. Using Your Mom or Grandma's Wedding Dress

If you decide not to use your mother’s wedding dress, what about using her veiling and attaching it to the headpiece you have selected? This gives you the “something old” to use with your wedding attire.

The kneeling cushions and ring-bearer’s pillow used during the ceremony can be made from the wedding gown of one of the bridal couple’s mothers or grandmothers or from fabric selected for the occasion, and then passed on to future generations of family brides and grooms.

Many brides choose to carry a family memento during their wedding. A handkerchief made from the lace of a family member’s gown or veil can be easily carried with your bridal bouquet.

Your wedding garter can be made from satin and lace used by other family members in their wedding attire. Just make sure you have a backup garter for the groom to throw at the end of the reception.

3. A Flower for Moms: Instruct your florist to design your bridal bouquet with two detachable flowers that you can give to your mother and mother-in-law as you return down the aisle.

4. Passing on: Since the first toast at the reception signifies the celebration and coming together of two families as well as the beginning of a new one, silver or Pewter toasting goblets make wonderful gifts to be passed on to future family brides.

You cake knife and server are something you will want to save and pass on.

5. Plant: The day of your wedding, plant a tree or a rose bush that you can watch grow throughout the years of your marriage.

6. Charming Gifts: A Perfect gift from the groom can be a charm bracelet. With each year, in celebration of your wedding anniversary, a new charm can be added.

7. Store Your Wedding Treasures: When you’ve returned from your honeymoon and have packed away your dress, you’ll want to get a special box in which you can carefully pack all of your wedding treasures. Someday you can share them with your daughter (s) and future daughters-in law.