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This week's giveaway comes to us from the Etsy shop La Cintre Boutique, which specializes in creating personalized wedding hangers. Take a look:
These hangers are a hot wedding trend right now because they're easy to pack, perfect for hanging your wedding gown, and a lasting (and useful!) souvenir from your big day. The winner of this week's giveaway will win a wedding hanger from La Cintre Boutique personalized to say whatever you would like! (Note: this is also a fun gift that fits the "what to get the person who has everything" category and Christmas is coming up, so even if you're not a future bride, you might want to enter this one...)
To enter the giveaway, think of some small thing you'd add to your wedding bouquet to make it personal and then share your answer with the group. Don't worry about whether or not you actually added something or are planning on adding something...we won't hold you to it! I'll announce the winner on Saturday. Good luck!
UPDATE: We have a winner!
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I'm a simple girl so I just want to had those cute little crystal hidden mickeys. Only myself and bridal party will know that they are there. :)
Ooh! I actually have a good answer for this! We have a 1.5 year old papillon (a dog) who we love but we won't be bringing him to Disney with us. People always ask us, "Will Oliver be the ring bearer?" Since we can't have him there I'm going to put a charm/locket on my bouquet with his picture in it so I can have him with me when I walk down the aisle!
I plan on putting a small picture of my grandfather somewhere in my bouquet- he passed away in 2007 and it's heartbreaking to me that he won't be there with me on my day, so this is a way that he can be there with me... another small detail I plan on adding is for my fiance. His father passed 10 years ago and I plan on making him a pin with his father's photo that he can wear next to his heart inside of his tux jacket so his father will be there with him. I will have this sent to him on the wedding day so he won't know about it until then.... I think that he will be so touched and it will make his day.
"The Rules" was the hot book when DH and I were long-distance dating and I'd read him passages from it over the phone as part of our goofy courting ritual. I'd definitely have to add the ribbon bookmark I've saved.
I plan to add my grandmother's rosary in my bouquet when I get married. It will be hidden, but I will know she is with me!
A small yellow butterfly for my grandfather
I decided to make my own brooch bouquet. I have lost both of my Grandmothers and they both had such great costume jewelry that I couldn't pass up on the chance to have them walk down with me on my wedding day.
I'm squirreling away brooches from other family members too, I think it's a small personal touch that I can keep forever. Makes me want to cry thinking about my Gramma's HUGE gold sparkly star earrings being in front of me on that day. :)
I would put my grandfathers ring somewhere on my bouquet :)
I'd like to use some of the jewelry that I got from my grandmother to add a special touch, like a brooch pinned to the lace wrapped around the flowers. :)
I made a six inch wide swarovski crystal ribbon I'm going to have wrapped around the stem of my bouquet :)
My grandfather died 5 years ago and I always thought he'd be here for my wedding. I'd like to incorporate a piece of the jewelry that he bought for me into the stem wrap to help remind me that he is here no matter what.
we've got one (just one!) hidden mickey requested for my bouquet, but i am deciding between a family rosary to add around the stems or pictures of mom and dad (neither with us) in a locket......
I would use a piece of my grandma's wedding dress to wrap around my bouquet. This way I'd carry her with me, even though she can't be there in person.
I have a rose I've saved from our first anniversary which would be very cool to fit into my bouquet.
I'd like to put a shamrock in my bouquet. Our ceremony is going to be at the Germany Pavilion since my fiance's family is German. This will add a little Irish for my side!
Of course I like the whole hidden mickey thing with the pins...but I also like it when people hide little family mementos. Personally, I went for the easier hidden Mickey approach, lol.
I made a "blingy" Mickey Head charm and put my Mother's wedding picture in the center/head portion & tied it around the front center of the bouquet stems. My Mom passed away 2 years before I married so it was important to me to feature her there in some way.
When the day comes, I plan on putting my grandmother's rings into my bouquet somehow.
I'm getting married in January and the one piece I would like to add to my bouquet is a trinket of my great-grandmother. I was very lucky to have my great-grandmother with me until my senior year in highschool, and she passed away that year from Dementia. She was a strong woman and a true role model for all the women in our family. She was a very simple woman with little jewelry, so a ring or a necklace would be impossible to find. I am hoping to find a hankerchief or a rosary to add.
I have a promise ring that Wayne gave me when it first became apparent that we were meant to be. I don't want to wear it on our wedding day, but I think it would be lovely to tie it to my bouquet so it's close.
I was going to have a little picture of my dog because he passed away 2 years ago and I still wanted him to be there on the day.
I would use little photo tiles tied to my bouquet to have my late grandparents with me as I celebrate our big day.
My grandmother passed away before I was born but I have heard nothing but wonderful things about her. I plan on carrying her lace hankerchief in my bouquet.
What makes it most special to me is that my mom carried it in her bouquet when she married my dad in Maryland, my cousin carried it when she got married in Georgia, my other cousin carried it when she got married in Denmark, and soon it will be my chance to carry it down the aisle with me in Florida. My grandmother may not be with us anymore, but she has a special way of traveling with us EVERYWHERE
I'm getting married in November of 2011 and have been dating my fiance for about 4.5 yrs now. When we first starting going out we used to talk online all the time while I was in college, one night I slipped and said "goodnight love ya bug" instead of "love ya bud" (we were still in the awkward "i love you" stage") and since then he has been my "Lovebug"...not but a short time after I got one of those lucky charm necklaces where you make a wish when you put it on and it eventually shreds and falls off, it was of a "lovebug" or a ladybug, I lost the charm about a month after i got it.
I moved out of school at the end of the year and while I was packing up, I found the charm in the back of my closet and have kept it ever since.. four and a half years later my wish was to marry my lovebug is going to come true :)
I'm part of a running group called Running of the Ears and we have the travelocitymouse, it is the mickey garden gnome. A bunch of us have them, each with their own name. He travels and we take pictures of him in all different places and locations. I don't really want him in wedding photos but I have a mickey gnome pin and I'm going to put that in my bouquet in Feb! A hidden mickey gnome, and my favorite runners can be with me in spirit!!
I love all of the ideas to add a grandmother's jewelry somewhere to the bouquet. I wish I had something treasured like that from my granny. One thing that I have seen in some people's pictures is that they have added a special Disney pin to the stem part of their bouquet. My hunny would love to have a Star Wars wedding and I REFUSE to go there. :) He loves Stitch too so I think I would surprise him by adding one of the Stitch pins that are dressed as a Star Wars character. I think he would love it and it would be a small way of giving him his Star Wars. :D
Thank you for this blog-post. It really got me thinking since my wedding is this December at the Wedding Pavilion. I have my bouquet all picked out but I never thought to make it personal. My bouquet is already going to include several hidden mickey's but I want to also add things to make it personal to me and DF. My Grandmother makes beautiful handmade crocheted doily's so I am going to wrap one around the stem and pin it with the pin that DF bought when we first met. I was a seasonal CM selling pins at Epcot and he came up to me and bought that pin. My motto for us is "it all started with a pin" and now it will be there when we become official! :)
I have a pair of gold small drop earrings my grandparents gave me for my 1st communion, they had a lot of senitmental value since they brought them over from Cuba (where our family is from). Well when I was in 4th grade I lost one of them while at school never to be found again :( So for the wedding I had the other one on my bouquet as a way to incorporate them into our special day since they were not able to be a part of it. It reminds me of my heritage and grandparents all at once.
Our wedding has a candy theme with red and blue as our colours. We both love candy...so we decided to put blue candy sticks in my rose bouquet and the groom and groomsmen will have a single rose boutonniere with a blue candy stick.
I plan to put lollipops (the swirly disney ones-goofy preferably ;) ) in mine to give it a more whimsical feel!
My fiance and I are Civil War reenactors for the 1st Maryland Battalion. Their symbol was the botany cross. Two of the groomsmen are also in our reenacting group. So the groom and those two guys are wearing the cross with their bouts. I didn't want to left out so I'm putting a botany on the stem of my bouquet.
I would like little photo of my fur kids attached to my bouquet, because they will have to stay at home during the trip.
I would love to have lily of the valley in my bouquet. My fiance included this flower in the first, hand pick bouquet of flowers that he gave me. It is the perfect accent in any arrangement and it smells amazing.
I would include either a locket with my grandmother and uncles pics in it ( they passed away when I was young) or their fav flowers in my bouquet. This way they can be there in spirit on my big day.
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