While there’spretty much no couple out there that wants their wedding to be ‘just likeeveryone else’s’, it’s fair to say that trying to make your special daydistinctive can be tricky to do. After all, haven’t all the best “unusual”ideas already been thought of?
But in truth,of course, adding unconventional touches to your wedding shouldn’t be justabout trying to make it distinctive for its own sake. What you’re really tryingto do, is make your wedding feel more like it is truly your own, and that ofyour beloved.
So, let’stake a look at just some of the great things you can do – alongside catering tothe more obvious basics – to make your Gibraltar wedding memorable in the rightways.
Create bespoke wedding invitations
This could be anespecially great tip for those of you who have professional designers in yourfamily or friendship group, or if you’re designers or illustratorsyourselves.
Alternatively,you could hire someone to create such invitations for you, perhaps featuringillustrations of the two of you, along with visual references to things thatare important to you – for example, the places you were born, went to schooland/or met each other.
Have a cool set of wheels
The wedding car haslong been fundamental to the visuals of any wedding – it’s one of the thingsthat many who were present will remember for years to come. So, why not takethe chance to choose a vehicle that reflects your interests orpersonalities?
Pretty muchany and every type of car has served as a wedding car in the past, ranging fromclassic Minis to high-performance Ferraris. Or perhaps a friend or relative hasa cool vehicle you could cheekily ask to borrow? Our team here at SweetGibraltar Weddings also routinely arranges wedding cars for Gibraltar weddings.
Come up with an unusual weddingguestbook
It’s easy topresume that an ‘unconventional’ wedding guestbook would be a hassle toarrange, but it doesn’t have to be. You might simply substitute the traditionalguestbook for another item that you ask guests to sign, and that representsyour interests as a couple.
If the two of youare music fans, for instance, you could set up a suitcase record player with avinyl LP positioned on the platter, and provide pens for guests to sign therecord and record player. Or maybe you could have a custom portrait printcreated, with space around the illustration of you both for attendees toexpress their best wishes?
Put board games on your guests’tables
Everyone knows thebasics of popular board games like Monopoly. That’s a great reason to set outsome on the tables at your Gibraltar wedding reception, to provide a funafter-dinner activity.
You might even makea point of having a different board game at each table, to encourage attendeesto move from table to table over the course of the evening.
Personalise your wedding vows
While there arecertain words that must be included in wedding vows for a marriage to belegally binding, there’s more scope to customise them than you mightthink.
You might doso in also to acknowledge certain aspects of your life – mentioning any kidsyou already have, for example – or you might like your vows to be moreemotional or even amusing than the traditional ‘standard’. Whatever the exactsituation for the two of you, there are plenty of ways to do it.
We’re highlycapable and experienced planners of Gibraltar weddings here at Sweet Gibraltar Weddings,with thousands of successful weddings behind us. So, why notenquire today about how our teamcould help assemble the perfect nuptials for you and your sweetheart in thesun-drenched British Overseas Territory?
