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Mrs. Green Tea, Sacramento Age and Occupation: 30, Tea Analyst Fiance's Age and Occupation: 31, Coffee Critic Engagement Date: November 17, 2006 Wedding Date: August 23, 2008 Blogging Since: June 10, 2008 Venue: Vineyard on the Delta About Me: I'm just your average obsessive compulsive, arts & crafts loving, funky-on-the-inside/boring-on-the-outside girl, who dares to say 'Hey! I can make that!' Nerdy professional by day, goofy won-ton by night. The won-ton sometimes comes out during the day when I'm fed the dollar breakfast at Ikea. Since our engagement, wedding planning has put me on high alert for bargains and I've been pushing my nimble fingers through callous building experiments!
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Tree of Love

August 21st, 2008 @ 5:05 pm by Mrs. Green Tea

I’m happy to announce the near completion of one of my favorite wedding projects - the Marriage Celebration Tree!

We requested (and sometimes begged) for wedding pictures from our married guests, along with their wedding date and a quote of their choice. Here is how we’re displaying them (a few more are still in the works, and please excuse our messy garage!):


The cards are hung with mini clothespins tied to the trees with red strings. Here up front and center is a picture I adore of my FMIL and FFIL:
On the back of the picture there is the name of the couple, their wedding date, and their quote if they provided one:
As you can kinda see, some provided short and sweet notes, others gave us whole paragraphs!
For our parents and grandparents only, I want to add some kind of indicator sorta like this lil’ hanging strip:Our idea is that our wedding is one shared with our guests. It is really important to us that it is a celebration of love and marriage, rather than just the joining of just us two. I hope this helps convey the message!

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17 Responses to “Tree of Love”

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Shawn

How fun! It’s makes me wish I was there in person so I could look at them too, everybody’s going to love it!

 
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tammi

omg i LOVE THIS! what a way to help your guests feel a part of your day!

 
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Jenny Louwheeze

Wow - beautiful, creative, and original!

 
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Miss Pomegranate (message)  956 posts, Busy bee

So genius, m’dear!

 
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Miss Sea Breeze (message)  912 posts, Busy bee

I agree with tammi - a lovely way to include everyone.

 
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StefM

Holy Moly — I swear we’re on the same page so much of the time, gt! I juuuuust posted today, like a coupla hours ago about some of our married guest photos! I love it! I bought frames at wal mart for $2 a piece and I’m just trying to figure out how to get their wedding date somewhere on there. Throughout this whole wedding planning, I keep thinking about how incredibly significant our date is to us and what that day means…it’s really important to me to include other people’s dates with their photos too…a way to recognize how long they’ve been married and how significant that day was for them! I’m also planning to give the couple the photo, framed with whatever we put on it (date, names, etc) as a little token from our wedding too…I totally agree…such a special way to include people! Since we have 180 guests, we decided to stop at parents, grandparents, bridal party, and very special family and friends…with that we’ll have 13 or so. They’ll be displayed just anywhere a framed photo can sit somewhere in our reception. Great minds think alike, I guess :)

 
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kbok

cute! i did a similar idea as this but featured my parents and inlaws wedding photos. i hadn’t considered to add guest married photos to it. what a creative idea!

 
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historykitty (message)  58 posts, Worker bee

I love the idea of displaying old wedding photos from guests as a celebration of marriage, and we’ll definitely be finding a way to work it in!

 
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Linzerella

This is a GREAT alternative to showcasing family photos - and one that celebrates the marriage of all your guests - great idea!

 
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AHotPinkPetticoat (message)  49 posts, Newbee

we’re having old wedding photos at each table. Never thought of having the date … hmmm

 
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Miss Hot Cocoa (message)  1,715 posts, Bumble bee

This is such a beautiful and creative idea!!!

 
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Miss Pinot Noir (message)  772 posts, Busy bee

So creative! I love that you are also including quotes on the back!

 
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Our Happy Wedding Website » Weddingbee » The Wedding Blog

[...] website is also how we solicited wedding photos from our guests for the Marriage Celebration Tree, which turned out quite well! Other boring pages included Accommodations, Registries, Guest Book, [...]

 
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Amanda

Hi,
I am decorating for a wedding next week and have plans on doing this project. Could you tell me the size of you photos? They look to be about 4×6 but I wasn’t sure. Also about how tall and wide is your tree? Sorry for all the question! Your tree turned out great!

 
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DIY Pop-Up Thank You Cards » Weddingbee » The Wedding Blog

[...] cards from the Marriage Celebration Tree were also included with the corresponding TY [...]

 
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The Tea Party: Our Sneaky Little Private Dinner » Weddingbee » The Wedding Blog

[...] Guests checked out details like the tree of love… [...]

 
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purpleHaze79 (message)  875 posts, Busy bee

I REALLY love this idea!! :D

 


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Mrs. Green Tea Mrs. Green Tea, Sacramento Age and Occupation: 30, Tea Analyst Fiance's Age and Occupation: 31, Coffee Critic Engagement Date: November 17, 2006 Wedding Date: August 23, 2008 Blogging Since: June 10, 2008 Venue: Vineyard on the Delta About Me: I'm just your average obsessive compulsive, arts & crafts loving, funky-on-the-inside/boring-on-the-outside girl, who dares to say 'Hey! I can make that!' Nerdy professional by day, goofy won-ton by night. The won-ton sometimes comes out during the day when I'm fed the dollar breakfast at Ikea. Since our engagement, wedding planning has put me on high alert for bargains and I've been pushing my nimble fingers through callous building experiments!
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