I recently received a wonderful email from an Etsy friend. We were on the same "team" together and have enjoyed a lot group bantering back and forth over time.
In her email, she announced her engagement and also explained that she wasn't able to invite us due to large families, cost, etc. Of course we understood. But the part I really loved, was that she asked all of us, her jewelry making friends- to send her just one pearl of any type, color, etc. and that way, she would have a bit of us with her for her special day.
I'm such a girl. I still get teary eyed thinking about this fantastic idea. Friendship, jewelry, and an upcoming non-traditional wedding.... I love it all.
So her big day isn't for quite a while. I had my pearls spread out and was trying to figure out, which one to send, until she saw one of my flower beads with bees and said she would like one of those. So now I'm designing one of those to send instead.
Have you seen any great non traditional wedding ideas that you wouldn't mind sharing? I'd love to hear about them.
I have a story! :)
ReplyDeletea beadmaker friend of mind made up a whole bunch of beads before her wedding... she put them in a beautiful wooden bowl and carried this bowl as her bouquet. Everyone present at the wedding then got to choose 2 beads from the bowl (if I am remembering correctly) and one of each person's beads were used to string up a necklace for the bride and groom. Another family member made a gorgeous wood frame that holds the strand of beads and it sits on their mantel.
I am not sure if I got the details of this story completely right... the idea was based on an African tradition and I thought it was really touching. Hillary (the bead artist) was making beads for about a year to stock up enough for her wedding bouquet. It was cute to see her accumulate them all and hear about the history of this idea and then to see pictures of the framed necklace. What a fun idea eh?!
I think that's a lovely thought, Marcy! What a wonderful gift!
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