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Designing a wedding can be a fun experience because there’s no one-size-fits-all approach. It’s your big day, so you have free reign to add as little or as much detail as you want. In fact, the best weddings are packed with personality, custom pieces, authentic details, and style.
How to Personalize Your Wedding Ceremony
Start your personalization journey by looking up wedding inspiration on Pinterest. From there, you can add your own touches, including custom signage, signature cocktails, and more.
1. Serve Signature Drinks
Work with your bartender before your big day and create a signature drink that represents you and your spouse-to-be. A custom cocktail can serve as a great conversation starter. Be sure to give your concoction a witty name and create a sign that explains your chosen ingredients.
2. Build a Photo Wall or Booth
Weddings are a huge milestone, so why not take the time to remember how you got there by displaying a few photos? You can dedicate a single table or wall just for these photographs. Be sure to include pictures of you and your spouse as kids and key life events, like graduation.
If you don’t want to display photos from the past, you could set up a selfie or picture booth where the wedding party can create new memories. These casual photographs will allow you to make a wedding album that won’t just include perfectly posed shots or highly-edited prints.
3. Make a Custom Cake Topper
Wedding cakes are typically topped with flowers, words, or fruit, but you aren’t limited to these options. You can always commission an artist to create a unique wedding topper, like a bicycle, a silhouette of you, your partner, and your pets, or you can use animals, dragons, or dinosaurs.
4. Add Meaningful Details
Flowers, draping fabric, and other traditional decor are a given, but it’s the small details that make your decorations personal. Think of objects that hold some significance to you, whether it’s a toy, piece of jewelry, or stuffed animal, and consider how you’ll add them to your wedding.
For example, you can add your toy to your wedding bouquet, take a piece of your stuffed animal and sew it to your wedding dress, or clip your jewelry into your veil. If you and your partner share a similar past-time, incorporate a part of that hobby into your decor, dress, or suit.
5. Personalize the Menu
Whether you want to add a signature dish from your culture or your relationship, a personalized menu can take your guests on a journey. If you’re not sure how to personalize your menu, pull from dishes you both enjoy, like desserts you love or snacks you always keep around the house.
6. Use Custom Illustrations
If you have an artist in the family, consider paying them to draw the guests in your wedding party or even just yourselves. If you’re the artist in your family, you can accomplish this task yourself, but we recommend getting someone else to do it, so you’ll have more time to plan the wedding.
You can also commission a portrait artist to make beautiful watercolor designs, colorful venue maps, or monogrammed initials. Once they’re done, you can attach your illustrations to wedding invitations, on tables for seating arrangements, and in personalized wedding favors.
7. Offer Personalized Favors
Speaking of wedding favors, most of them wind up in the back of a drawer or in the garbage. But when they’re done well, they can serve as a beautiful memento for your guests. Stick to useful items, like shot glasses, cookies, jam, seeds, coffee beans, recipes, or luggage tags.
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