Make your wedding a personal event...

Here is some advice on how to make your wedding a personal event...this are tid bits from some great brides and a great bridal magazine..

• For a favor that should last a lifetime, wrap a few of your favorite flowering bulbs and give them to your guest with a cute note.

• If you can incorporate your and his birth flower into your bouquet or centerpieces.

BIRTH MONTH
---January: CARNATION
---February:IRIS
---March:DAFFODIL/SWEET PEA
---April:DAISY
---May:LILY
---June:ROSE
---July:DELPHINIUM
---August:GLADIOLA
---September:ASTER
---October:MARIGOLD
---November:CHRYSANTHEMUM
---December:POINSETTIA/NARCISSUS

BIRTH SIGN
--Aries:TULIP
--Taurus:LILY
--Gemini:ROSE
--Cancer:DELPHINIUM
--Leo:SUNFLOWER
--Virgo:GERBER DAISY
--Libra:HYDRANGEA
--Scorpio:PEONY
--Sagittarius:CARNATION
--Capricorn:VIOLET
--Aquarius:ORCHID
--Pisces:ALSTROLOMERIA

• For a garden wedding , give your favorite herb plant as a lasting favor.
• Personalize your bouquet with a sentimental wrap that incorporates meaningful articles from your life. For example: a brooch, lace from your grandmothers wedding dress, or pearls your mother wore on her wedding day.
• Attach a small locket to your bouquet with a picture of a close friend or family member who has passed during your life.
• Include inside your tossing bouquet a gift certificate for a restaurant of fun place where you and your fiance have been on a date.
• In case your tossing bouquet breaks apart, include a good fortune or positive message on a piece of paper among its flowers.
• Rename and serve your signature drinks during the cocktail hour.
• Rename and serve a new signature coffee or tea during the reception.
• Present your mothers with a small posy of their favorite flowers placed in a tussie-mussie, accompanied by an engraved silver tag bearing your names and weding date.