Welcome Bags: Guestination Weddings

These welcome bags are great for anyone having a guestination wedding!

Since your family and friends have to come to you for the wedding, show off your city with items unique to where you live along with some of your own favorite things!

A wedding welcome bag doesn't have to be a gift bag with a bottle of water and a bag of M&M's make it something your guests will remember, with Jack Daniels, Coca-Cola and your favorite candy bar.

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Unique Groomsmen Gifts

When thinking up fun and thoughtful gifts for your wedding party, the bridesmaid gifts are a snap! There are so many adorable and perfect gifts that your closest girls will love, cherish, obsessed over, etc.

...but what about the groomsmen?

Thanks to this unique and delish idea we found over at Floridian Weddings, that question is easily answered:

Via Floridian Weddings

A DIY Groomsmen Goodie Box full of food and booze (for these are a few of their fav-o-rite things)!

Via Floridian Weddings

This gift box is not only super fun and full of wonderful treats like brownies, Maker's Mark (which is my husband's favoritest in the whole wide world), and a miniature flask that your groomsmen will surely appreciate, it's simple to make as well! Floridian Weddings gives you complete DIY instructions on how you can create this giftbox (and those delectable looking brownies) yourself.

{This post is in honor of the wonderful John DiStefano (ahem, that's my hubs) and his love of Maker's Mark}

Bridal Party Gifts

As a tradition, brides typically purchase a little something for their bridesmaids as a token of thanks and gratitude. There are so many fun ideas out there that would be perfect for your bridal party...

What about a spa day?

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Spend a day at a spa getting facials, manicures, pedicures, a deep massage and hair treatments. Girls love to be pampered and love it even more they are with their best friends. Add a bottle of champagne and you have yourself the perfect girls day out and bridal party gift!

Or how about an adorable clutch to use on the wedding day? It is definitely something they can use again in the future. Try looking on Etsy or picking out fabrics and bringing them to a seamstress to create something perfect and personal.

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What about a personalized hankerchief the girls will keep forever? Let them use it to dry their tears for not just your wedding but their own as well.

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And lastly, what about dressing your ladies in something cute and similar on the wedding day?

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Whatever you give your bridesmaids, make sure it is personal and genuine. Your girls will love you no matter what so have fun with it and get creative!

Bridesmaids Foodies

I found this great jewelry from Laura Lobdell inspired by all of those fun macaroni necklaces we made in kindergarten! But now with an adult twist! I am love with this fun play on jewelry!!! Take a peek at her website, check out the candy necklaces!

What a great gift for your bridesmaids! (or me me - ahem!):)

Save the Bridesmaids Gift, Save the World!

Okay so that's a little Heroes'ism...

Oprah and Macy's have teamed up and have these fantastically beautiful O Bracelets! Gorgeous gemstones and exclusive designs are just the beginning of the O Bracelets' appeal. Each is handmade in Rwanda by women whose lives—disrupted by poverty, HIV/AIDS and the 1994 genocide—are changing dramatically because of the income earned while making the bracelets.
Born out of a unique partnership between O, The Oprah Magazine, Fair Winds Trading and Macy's, the first O Bracelets were introduced in May of 2007 to an immediate, overwhelming response.

The new collection includes exquisite designs by jewelry designer Christine Brandt; artist and AIDS activist Mary Fisher (who designed the first O Bracelets); and artist and president of Fair Winds Trading, Inc., Dean Ericson. Fair Winds Trading—the same talented, compassionate bunch behind the Rwandan Path to Peace Baskets—are involved throughout the entire process, working directly with the beaders from training through production and beyond.

I think they are just beautiful! It would make a great gift, and you'd being doing some good - which is what it's all about right?

Boys will be Boys!

I was just peeking through the new In Style Weddings Magazine, and they had the cutest thing in there!

For the Groomsmen that are the Ultimate Sports fan, how about cuff links that are made from wood salvaged from stadium seats and placed into beautiful square pressed Sterling! They are available through Red Envelope. What a unique gift for the boys in your wedding, and they are pretty handsome if I might say so myself!