This year marks my 16th wedding anniversary and our wedding was a Christmas wedding. By that I mean it was during the Christmas season. Our wedding was very simple but nice. We had finger foods for the guests, flowers, candelabras, two cakes, photographer, indoor restrooms…all for about $3000 in 1990.
Weddings, as I’m sure you know if you’re a parent of a recently married person, have become really expensive affairs. When my last employer’s daughter was married a few years back, many of us were invited. It was a country club affair. At best guess, we figured the whole thing must have run about $50,000. That includes all pre-wedding and post wedding expenses, printing, fancy meals, and of course, all the doodads and knick knacks that one must include to be on the cutting edge of wedding planning bliss.
Which brings me to a website that I wish had been around when we were planning our wedding. They specialize in wedding favors. It’s called The Knot Wedding Shop and they are the largest wedding supplies store on the Web. They have more stuff than you can imagine for a wedding. Far more than was available when we were married. You can even get personalized items such as the delightful chocolates I’ve illustrated here. Personalization of wedding items is big nowadays and I can see how it would make a wedding more fun for attendees that like to keep a little memory tucked away or scrapbooked. The Knot Wedding Shop can handle that on a wide array of items.
So, don’t miss out. I know our wedding would have been a lot more fun for the guests if we had provided a bottle of personalized hot sauce for all the men, and plantable paper cards seeded with wildflowers for the ladies. Memmmm-o-ries are made of this…
