Welcome to my newest follower, Nicolette!
I have a really exciting idea to share with you all. It is an idea that has evolved over time since our engagement (probably since my discovery of WeddingBee), and has finally come to a grand conclusion.
It began with the Love Letter Wine Box ceremony. This is a ceremony that has gained popularity recently in place of a traditional unity ceremony. The bride and groom each write each other a love letter, then during the ceremony, it's sealed into a box with a bottle of wine and 2 wine glasses. The idea is, if ever their marriage is in jeopardy, they should take out the box and drink the wine while reading eachother's letters. It's sort of a last-ditch effort to save their failing relationship.
I liked this idea, but I found it a little depressing. I definitely didn't want to do anything like that during the ceremony. Our guests would think we were planning for divorce or something.
Ryan thought it would be a better idea if we did the Love Letter Wine Box by ourselves... and just planned on opening it on a special anniversary (5, 10, 25... whatever). Better, but a little boring.
Then I thought... what if we let our guests write us notes and put them in the box as well?! We could read all their notes when we opened the box. How fun would that be!
But then.
Ohhh, wait for it.
I discovered something called the Anniversary Box. Start your brain with a clean slate and picture this: During the rehearsal dinner, each guest is given a numbered card. They are asked to write a short letter to the couple on the card and seal it in an envelope. The cards are then placed in a box. The couple may read one card at each anniversary (the card whose number corresponds with the anniversary).
Super cute!
Do you see where I'm going with this?
I'm going to combine the two!
We will have a box (which I already purchased at Hobby Lobby). It will have a bottle of wine in it and will be on display at the rehearsal dinner. Before or after dinner, the guests will write their numbered notes and leave them in the box. Then, at each anniversary, we will open the box, drink the wine, and read one card from a loved one. After the anniversary is over, we will put in a new bottle of wine, seal it back up, and wait for the next anniversary.
OMG. I can't believe my little brain came up with this all on its own! I'm excited... and it's a great way to incorporate our guests into every single one of our anniversaries from now until 50.
2 comments:
Oh Em Gee!! What a FABULOUS idea!! You're so smart! I think it's so cute.
I love your idea!!
We are doing a wine box ceremony, but I didn't like most of the sample ceremonies that I found because they refer to possible divorce. But we still wanted to include the wine box in our ceremony! So I thought about it for awhile and decided to hell with it, I'll write my own wine box ceremony. I'm almost finished with it and it has been pretty easy, since I just copied and pasted the things I *liked* from a few wine box ceremonies :) We are going to open it on our five year anniversary, and then replace the bottle and write new letters, and then open it on our 10 year anniversary..it will just keep going from there :)
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