Today we will present some inspirational ideas on how to customize your wedding and make it truly yours. When it comes to customization, the trick is in the details – customization doesn’t necessarily have to be expensive or difficult. Customizing your wedding decorations can be a creative, inexpensive and fun process, too!

Aisle Decorations

Aisle decorations—yes, you heard correctly. It is actually possible, even in a tropical country like Singapore. Aisle decorations could work at these venues: Changi Boardwalk, Botanic Gardens, East Coast Park or Fort Canning Park, for example.

Imagine the scene in the Botanic Gardens, or Sentosa Cove! All you need is flowers–either fresh or beautiful artificial ones easily purchased from Chinatown, or Arab Street. Don’t underestimate the power of artificial flowers—they come in vibrant colours and look good forever!

A great place to buy wedding decorations is also via online portals, such as Taobao, AliExpress or eBay. You are spoilt for choice— these portals not only offer beautiful and inexpensive flowers and ornaments but they also offer a wide variety!

Flowers used for weddings need not be limited to roses. Beautiful purple flowers in simple bottles (easily purchased from Ikea) do the trick, too.

You can also consider having umbrellas or parasols as a form of decoration for a beach wedding. Your guests can also easily use them for shade if it gets too sunny.

Pom-Poms

Pom-poms actually look like flowers, and they are very versatile. You can get them in all shapes, sizes and colours. And best of all—they are reusable, so after your wedding you can reuse them for another special occasion; perhaps your first baby shower?

Ribbons

Ribbons, when used correctly, can add a sparkle of magic to any wedding. Plus it keeps the kids entertained, too!

Guestbook

Here are some out-of-the-world guestbook ideas we have encountered:

• Have a wedding blessings tree that you can put in your living room to remind yourself of your big day. What an interesting method of decorating your house, too.
• Have your guests sign their names and messages on a wooden chair, which you can then put on your balcony.
• Get your guests to express their creative selves on a huge canvas, where they are each entitled to a block of art! Promise them you will frame it after the wedding.

Wedding Cards

Fancy receiving a credit card as a wedding invitation?

Or perhaps a passport?

Or the ultimate … a chocolate bar?

Gifts For Guests

We sometimes look at wedding receptions and wonder why couples do not customize the gifts for their guests. Too many times guests get cups with a figure of a couple on them, and too often these gifts get chucked aside to the storeroom after the wedding. Here are two ideas to make the gifts more useful for the guests:

• Mints…are meant to be, after much alcohol.
• Mini (cute) flasks of tea or lemonade to quench their thirst the following morning!

Social Media

Personalize your wedding with hashtags! For instance, if Carol is getting married to Carl, a possible hashtag can be #carolandcarlweds[insertdate]. Hashtagging on Twitter and Instagram ensures all guests participate in your wedding, since they are the ones taking the pictures and putting them on their social media platforms!


However, some couples want their privacy—we do not want to spend heaps of money on a professional photographer to take beautiful images of the bride, just for a not-so-flattering, badly angled shot by a friend to be uploaded on Facebook. So while some couples want a personalized hashtag, some couples are against any forms of social media interaction at all. The key is to make it clear to your guests before your ceremony.

Of course, when it comes to social media hashtagging, it is essential to take note that there are no overlaps with other couples’ hashtags, since Instagram is global. It would be strange if there was someone else using the same hashtags—imagine another couple’s wedding photos flooding your feed! So do take some time to think through what you want to use for your hashtag—try to make them unique, so that there are no unplanned coincidences!

Well, there you have it—many ways to make your wedding more memorable and unique! The La Belle Couture Weddings team hopes you enjoy customizing your wedding.

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_{This post was first published on La Belle Couture blog and has been reposted on Executive Lifestyle with the permission of the author. Image from La Belle Couture
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