Groomsmen Gifts Blog

There’s no denying the fact that whenever I attend a wedding, I always try and look at the type of flowers used first. I’ve always grown up loving flowers, even since I was little I used to make little flower bouquets at the expense of my mother’s garden. Sometimes, I would gather up the roses, pretend I had a sweet bow flower basket on my hand and then walk down the aisle as if I was a flower girl. Of course, my mother always caught me in time and I pretty much got an earful after I left most of her flower garden bare. However, I like to think that all those years of practice in picking flowers allowed me to have a keener eye when it comes to these beautiful stems.

Picking out the colors for your wedding must be all-encompassing. It has to go well with everything — from the bridesmaid dresses, to the table settings, to the flowers and to the wedding invitations (unless you are going with a ready made DIY white invitation kit). Most couples pick one main color and one or two other colors as contrast or accent. The trick is, you have to learn to visualize how these colors would look together, before making the final decision.

Some fashion trends simply don’t go away that easily, while others disappear for a while only to suddenly reappear and catch fire again. Such is the trend of the floral wedding gowns. Over the week, I managed to attend a bridal party for my office mate. She handed each one of us a bridesmaid’s circle of friendship bracelet. It was quite lovely. We also managed to catch a glimpse of the floral wedding gown that she’ll be donning on her trip down the aisle. The whole floral trend is resurfacing after it became a hit a few decades back.

How do you ask someone to be part of your wedding entourage? I know of a bride who had to organize a little party for her five prospective bridesmaids and very early on gave each one of them a friendship vase when she asked. It was a great tactic….because you can’t normally turn down someone waiting for your answer when she has a gift for you (she wasn’t going to be turned down anyway, her bridesmaids all love her).

But what if, for the sake of discussion, the bride isn’t sure she’s going to get a yes from her prospect?

Since Valentines is considered to be one of the most romantic days of the year, most guys are thinking of popping down the question on this day. There are several do’s and don’ts that guys can follow when it comes to asking the one you love to walk down the aisle with you. I know of one guy who presented his question by getting his then girlfriend a signature picture frame with engraved photo mat. He simply scribbled down “will you marry me?” several times on the frame and wrote down several reasons why she should say yes.

My younger cousin, 24 years old, have friends and contemporaries already getting married left and right. From these friends, she will be attending her first wedding this summer. She is actually quite excited since she’s also been chosen as one of the bridesmaids. She recently helped the bride pick out some bridal party wedding favors. Because it’s summer, the bride chose to go with a personalized cabana tote bag.

If there’s one simple detail that I love about weddings, it’s always the wedding toppers. I love looking at funny and whimsical wedding cake toppers. Although I also love elegant looking ones like the rhinestone cake letters that I once saw in another wedding. It had authentic Swarovski crystals in it and it looked so gorgeous on the cake.

Last year, I was able to go to a wedding where the couple gave away two sets of wedding memorabilia to their guests. Three fourths of these guests received a CD collection of the couple’s favorite songs, while the other one fourth received a vintage wine along with monogrammed white wine glasses. While I got the wine with the glasses, I wasn’t so keen on the classification and was truthfully more interested about getting the CD instead. I don’t know how the couple picked their guests. It isn’t only the wedding favors but all throughout the wedding, we all felt like we were attending two occasions. I guess the groups and the classifications only made sense to the couple. Maybe they wanted everyone to be there, but had to work with their budget. Anyway, it is their wedding, after all.

When deciding on your wedding entourage, it is important to go ahead and consider the flower girls and what they would need. The most common choice for flower girls would be girls about 5-7 years old. You can ask any of your nieces or your neighbors daughter to actually be a flower girl for your wedding. Most of the time, you would be asked to provide for the flower girl dress, you can also provide them with a sweet sparkle flower girl jewelry set just to have a matching look or maybe give it to them as a thank-you gift later on. 

You are probably going to want to have really dramatic and romantic wedding reception. Well, what’s more romantic than dimming all the lights and with nothing but the flickers of hundreds of candles everywhere as your light source? You can plenty of personalized floating unity candles on each of your guests’ the tables, to serve both as decoration and light.

However, there’s one thing you need to remember about using candles…

More than the safey of everyone (as we all know candles is susceptible to fires), it’s the safety of your guests olfactory function that must be considered. I’m talking about noses, yes…particularly those with sensitive noses. According to Blue Orchid, if you have to have many candles, make sure you pick an unscented kind.

The other day, my cousin dropped by to borrow my vintage jewelry set to see if it would work together with her wedding gown. She’s been planning her wedding for weeks now and she wants to be able to save up as much as possible. Hence, she doesn’t mind having to borrow her jewelry. One thing that they are saving up on though, is the wedding rings.

The bride and groom is asking you to deliver a speech on their wedding day. Have you prepared for it? It’s a good idea to write down your speech in advance, read through it a couple of times over and if possible, memorize it so that the flow and gist of your speech is organized and coherent.

As you stand there, holding the gold rimmed toasting glass, remember these other tips as well, so that you don’t end up making a wedding blunder.

If there is one thing that most women need to have along with them during very special occasions, it would be a makeup bag. This is especially true if they are attending a special event like a wedding. It is important to have all the essentials that you could possibly need to glam up right inside just one bag. My sister-in-law is getting married three weeks from now and she made it a point to provide her bridesmaids a hanging cosmetic case, to make sure that all their makeup essentials will be with them.

Dying to use those gorgeous rhinestone cake letters for your big wedding day? Then why not bake or even decorate your own wedding cake? Most couples are finding this a great solution especially when it comes to the constraints of the budget. Besides, the cake has long been a staple symbol of fertility and a wedding without any form of cake is simply incomplete. When creating your own wedding cake, here are some things you might like to consider.

With one of my friends getting married, I found out that it was the groom who actually picked out these personalized men’s micro fiber toiletry bag to give away to his entourage, without any prodding or suggestions from his wife. I thought that was uncanny — a man picking out bags to give to other men? They would usually go for something hip or cool and totally useless. But then I realized, that’s actually so typical of my male friend. He is quite the practical one and probably saw something very useful about this gift, so he picked it.

As a wedding couple, it’s often a nice token to give your bridesmaids, ring bearers and flower girls some token as a form of appreciation. For instance, you can go provide a sparkling heart locket flower girl set for your little flower girls. On the other hand, you can get some little appreciation toys for your ring bearers as well. However, when it comes to giving out tokens to your guests in the form of wedding favors, it can be easy to overlook your budget and spend too much. Hence, it’s important that you plan and choose the right wedding favors that will not only reflect you as a couple, but also not bust your budget. For instance, you can give out simple Hershey’s kisses wedding favors. It’s a universally loved chocolate so you don’t have to worry about your guest liking this sweet treat.

One of the worst things to happen that could messed up your wedding preparations is when the vendors screw up the specifics of what you ordered. Like finding out they’ve delivered the wrong inscriptions on the personalized acrylic circle cake top you’ve ordered, or printing out a batch of 500 wedding invites, with the wedding date all wrong.

Finding a good wedding vendor is actually, in my experience, a matter of gut feel and careful scrutiny. It can be very overwhelming and so hard to decide because there are so many vendors out there with something special to offer.

Here’s the lowdown on what happened to my neighbor’s wedding last week. My husband and I, along with some common friends from the neighborhood, drove down to the reception. It was actually just a 20 minute drive to a small garden near the outskirts of town. It was a perfect setting for a garden wedding since it had a beautiful manicured lawn and gorgeous flowers and trees left and right. My husband and I are giving them a special weekend spa package they can enjoy as a couple, and I personally got the bride a  personalized contemporary silver plated key chain with oval tag.

There is no doubt that bridal shoes are one of the most important items in your wedding. Bridal shoes might seem to be an understated item, like your ribbon ring pillow, in the entire list of wedding requirements, but they are definitely an essential part of the celebration. We all know that shoes are important. They help make us feel comfortable and protect our feet at the same time. For brides, it’s important to not just have the shoe be gorgeous, but also pretty comfortable. After all, who would want to be marching down the aisle and experiencing a sharp pain every time you go ahead and take a step down that glorious walkway?

For a spring wedding, a friend of mine has decided to go with a beautiful backyard wedding and have picked personalized flip flops as part of her wedding favors. I am kind of looking forward to this wedding because I sense I will be really having fun as the bride and groom is making the occasion casual and laid back.

The wedding preparations, however, are a different matter. My friend is already experiencing the stress of the preparation and had been set back twice by suffering fever fatigue. We have advised her to slow it down, but I guess, with the dates getting closer and closer, she prefer not to consider taking a break.

There are many ways for you to make your wedding stand out in the minds of your guests. Most couples want nothing else than to go ahead and make their big day as memorable as possible for themselves as well as for their guests. If you want to go ahead and do this as well, then one way would be to have a unique wedding cake for your big celebration. You can also go ahead and use nice satin finish flutes & server set to serve up your cake.

Are you planning on a destination wedding? Have you already packed your canvas travel bag and are raring to go? Couple who opt to get married off a special destination somewhere far away, usually can only celebrated with a handful of loved-ones and guests. But what about those who stay behind? How can those people also celebrate the couple’s union? Is it actually even necessary?

One thing that the couple can do after getting back from their destination wedding is to organize a very laid back and very informal get together with friends who were not able to go to the actual ceremony. This can either be a backyard barbecue or a small party gathering.

Displaying and incorporating flowers on your wedding is almost a must if you certainly want to have a wonderful wedding. However, the only thing is that if you have a limited budget, this can pretty much trigger you to completely blow it off all at once. The amount of money you end up overspending on your flower arrangement or decor, can be wisely spent getting that freshwater pearl and crystal y-neck jewelry set that will go together with your wedding gown as you walk down the aisle.

Getting your wedding invites done is one of the biggest challenges for any couple setting up their wedding. First, there is the task of coming up with the guest list. Second, you have to decide on the type of invitation that you are going to have. Third, you have to consider thinking about how to send them out. This can all be a time consuming task. However, once you have decided on the number of guests as well as the people that are invited, then you can consider the actual invitations. If you want, you can go ahead and choose a DIY ivory invitations kit and then send these out.

I do not know anybody who still wears or uses pocket watches, but for one of my friend’s wedding, I was told that the groom will be using an engraved silver pocket watch as an accessory. The watch is gift from one of the grand aunts in the groom’s side of the family, and she has made a special request that the groom must use it at the wedding. I guess this is a family heirloom and the soon-to-be-wedded couple, wanting to please her, obliged.