Say Farewell With Wedding Sparklers

Have your guests use wedding sparklers when they say "Farewell" to you as you leave your reception! This type of send off really makes the guests excited and makes for fabulous photos!

Wedding Sparkler Ideas

Use wedding sparklers during your 'send off' - it gets the guests really involved and creates beautiful photos! You can give guests their sparklers as they arrive at the reception or place them in a decorative jar at each table.

A Breakfast Reception

How about an intimate breakfast wedding reception, complete with doughnuts and milk! The team at Marry This! created a fun doughnut-themed design complete with pretty Italian bottles to hold milk.

Cookie Buffet

Make some homemade cookies and place them in labeled jars. This way, your guests can choose their favorites. Set out glassine-lined bags and seals for packaging cookies to go.

Beautiful Tiers

Take your favors to the next level by staggering fabric-sealed bags filled with sweets on Styrofoam blocks of varying heights.

The packages -- stuffed with candy sticks, taffy, and grape jelly candies -- are set upon a copper tray beneath a stately arch of kiwi vines and orchids.

Beautiful African Violets

Demure and delicate, African violets are pretty little packages and, with minimal effort, can make a dazzling display.

Simply slip the potted plants into panettone molds, cluster on three-tiered plate stands or let stand solo, and tuck a handwritten note inside.

Candy Land Display for a Reception

Given as a favor, chocolate is always a big hit, and letting your guests assemble their own boxes sweetens the deal.

Create a buffet of offerings -- we used milk, white, and dark chocolates -- and label each with a printed tag. Small boxes, secured with elastic bands, are casually stacked alongside the treats.

Open Bar Cash Bar or No Bar

Alcohol at weddings is a touchy subject, with many permutations and what you serve is entirely up to you. Various factors, including budget, determine whether you choose to serve a full bar, limited cocktails, Beer and Wine, or no alcohol.

You may just get smited by other brides-to-be if you bring up having a cash bar but honestly, if the bride and groom are on a budget, and they’d like a way to have beer or glass of wine offered to their guests rather than nothing at all, then why not?  Open bar can be disastrous if you believe you will have unruly guests who can't control their intake. 

The bottom line is, do what works for you and your crowd and be responsible.

Marigold Bar

Here, the sign that identifies the bar area in marigold script is adorned with orchids and hung with warm gray ribbon, while the tabletop is embellished with cymbidium, leucadendron buds, tillandsia, and succulents.

Marigold and Pewter: Beautiful Together

Sunny and steely, dialed up and dulled down, the combination of yellow and gray makes for a contrapuntal dance that's neither too sweet nor too subdued.

Add hints of clean white to the mix for such things as china, tablecloths, and stationery, and you've got it made in the shade -- and in the sunlight.

Quilled Table Numbers

Turn table numbers into works of art with quilling paper. Print out numbers in your desired font and size and use this as a template to shape the numbers.

• For each digit, curl one end of a 1/4-inch-wide strip of quilling paper by wrapping it about five times around quilling tool or the shaft of a screwdriver.

• Using the template, form number: Starting with curled end, bend paper for curves and crease for angles. Trim paper, leaving a few extra inches, and curl end. Apply white craft glue to edge of number with toothpick, and attach to card, using tweezers; hold in place to secure.

• To create stand: Cut triangle out of card stock and glue edge to card's back.

3-D Stars Floating Centerpiece

This is definitely a unique idea! A constellation of 3-D stars becomes a floating centerpiece with the help of fishing wire and a lot of glitter. Rice-paper star lanterns, Asian Ideas, asianideas.com.

Candleholders in matching shades and varying heights set the stage for a sparkling night.

Cake Cutting Songs

Our top 3 picks for the cake cutting fun!

How Sweet It Is to be Loved by You – James Taylor
Sugar is Sweet – the Party
Sugar, Sugar – the Archies