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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14 Responses to “Tree of Love”
omg i LOVE THIS! what a way to help your guests feel a part of your day!
Wow - beautiful, creative, and original!
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 
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!
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!
This is a GREAT alternative to showcasing family photos - and one that celebrates the marriage of all your guests - great idea!
we’re having old wedding photos at each table. Never thought of having the date … hmmm
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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!
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!
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!