REAL WEDDINGS | Gwendolyn & Cliff
What do-it-yourself projects did you do? Red Wooden Box where we placed our wedding rocks for our guests to sign. Cliff painted the box red and glued on a wrought iron H to the front of it and designed some of the rocks as examples for our guests. There was a white canvas that indicated what we wanted our guests to do with the rocks that was painted by one of our friends. Our Wedding Programs – we designed and printed them and then threaded the ribbons at the top as well as applied Fray Gone so that the ribbon would not fray. Our Mr. & Mrs. fans – we had to glue on the handles. The UGA Garden Dogs – Groom’s mother glued on a top hat for the Groom DAWG and a veil for the Bride DAWG which we displayed on a table during our reception. The vases with the rocks & floating candles that aligned the ceremony aisle. The big vases with many floating candles on the high top tables around the bar in the garden. The red Japanese lanterns in the bar garden area. For our guests staying at the hotel we created a guest welcome bag where we created a Wedding CD with all the songs played during the ceremony and the special reception songs such as our First Dance, Mother Son Dance, Father Daughter Dance, and Last Dance Song, etc. We also personalized the Wedding CD with a special wedding label with our names, wedding date and a picture of a bride and groom stick figure. Created a welcome card where I put a photo taken by Zoomworks of us under the Arch with facts about us in Athens. We had candy, water bottles with a wedding label which we made, etc.
We wrote our own wedding ceremony and incorporated a poem (“reading”) that my Great Grandfather wrote and published. The Judge that married us was an old friend of my husband’s family. We requested that he would say “Go Dawgs, Sic ‘em” at the end of wedding. And of course that statement was followed with the only response known, to all Bulldawgs… “Woof, Woof, Woof”. It was very memorable! Since we met at City Bar in Athens, we contacted the owners and asked if we could get Beer Koozies and that was one of our favors at our wedding. Also, we picked up some matchboxes and had them at our wedding as party favors as well.
We had garden rocks that our guests could sign instead of a guest book. We had a message that went with the rocks letting our guests know that we would place their messages in the garden of our first home.
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