How to Make Your Wedding More Personal

One of our main goals during wedding planning was to incorporate as many people close to us as possible in our wedding. Josh and I felt that it wasn’t just our day and really wanted our nearest and dearest to be honored and recognized, too, as an important part of our lives.  Some of our favorite ways we went about including others in our special day included:

• We had my dear cousin read scripture during the ceremony
• Two close friends played instruments and sang during the ceremony – one sang and played the guitar and one played the violin
• My husband’s cousin did my hair (how awesome is it to have a hairstylist for a cousin?!)
• I had a plane placed in my bridal bouquet in remembrance of my grandfather who flew airplanes for a living and passed away just a few months before the wedding (we were very close)
• The minister who married us is a close family friend of my husband’s whom he has known since he was very young

Some of our other favorite ways we made our big day more personal included:

• Our first act together as husband and wife was to take communion together and pray for our newly found marriage
• Our entire wedding party changed into cowboy boots for the reception
• We displayed our mothers’ wedding gowns in the reception hall
• We used antique trunks as decor and as a place for our guests to place gifts

 What is the neatest, personalized thing you have ever seen done at a wedding?  Leave your comments below.