To Have and To Hold...

As you might have picked up by now, I'm kind of obsessed with little wedding day details.  So, I had this cute idea playing on the words of the traditional vows.  A while back, I saw these cute sweetheart table chair signs that said "to have" and "to hold," which I thought were adorable.

That's Italian.  Ours would be English.  :)

I thought this would be a cheap, easy, and fun little decoration, so I picked up some chipboard signs at Hobby Lobby to paint.  This got me thinking about other lines of the traditional vows that we could incorporate.  Remember those hospitality baskets I talked about?  I think this would be a great place to use "For better, for worse... in sickness, and in health."  I could design the explanation sign using that as a header and following it up with an explanation, which also helps me avoid all of those cutesy wordings.

Finally, I've seen people use scratcher's tickets as favors (another favor that you don't have to tote home and wonder what to do with).  To class them up a bit, people usually put them in little envelopes, which is a great place for "for richer or for poorer."

The first time I saw this idea, my initial reaction was, "Yuck, scratchers tickets at a wedding?," but I thought it might be a nice nod to Lance and his gambling hobby, plus I thought the envelopes were nifty.  After pitching the idea to my mom, though, she called them "the tackiest thing she's ever heard."  I'd hate to put that idea in people's heads, so those have been relegated to the "if we have time and feel like spending more money" list.  It would be a cute set of pictures if we did all of them, though (you know, except "until death do us part," because it's not a Halloween wedding!).