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No, this is not a post about THAT! (I’ll leave that to you Miss Cheese!)
What I’m talking about is a little tradition that started in my group of friends back in 2006 when my friend L got married. I arranged to steal the key to their hotel room and set Mr. Tiramisu up with the task of decorating it for them. He set up rose petals, bubble bath, and candles in the room for them, and gave the hotel staff a bottle of champagne to put on ice and place in their room right before they got back. Take a look at his handiwork:
L. and her husband liked it so much that it’s become something that we try to do at every wedding that we get to be in. I talked Mr. Tiramisu and a fellow fiance-of-a-bridesmaid into decorating my friend Carolyn’s hotel room in Philadelphia last May with rose petals, and she and her husband loved it as well. In September, my friend Kate was married in Maine, and a group of us covered their bed in flowers in a crazy heart pattern with their initials in the middle. I’m so mad that we didn’t get a picture!
Given my history in this department, I wasn’t surprised at all when we walked into our hotel room after our wedding and found balloons, streamers, flowers, and candy decorating the place. Across the bed was a carefully crafted message to us made out of daisies and Twizzlers. Again, I can’t believe I didn’t get a picture!
Here are the ones I snapped the next morning:
We almost missed this little treat left out on our balcony!
I think what I love the most about this tradition is that while it’s always the girls behind the idea, due to the fact that they are busy being bridesmaids, it is their significant others who carry it out! It just cracks me up to picture a couple of guys coming up with how to best make a romantic display.
Any crazy hotel room decorating stories out there?
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Are you going to do a honeymoon recap? Id love to hear details about Bora Bora since it’s such a popular honeymoon destination.
Such a great tradition & you really have some awesome friends!
I know exactly what you mean about how cute it is that the guys end up doing the decorating! My fiance was so proud of himself and the other guys when we had them do it for a friend. Apparently they spent quite a while in the store figuring out what would be best to get. I would have liked to have heard that discussion. I didn’t see the results myself, but the bride and groom really liked it.
That is adorable…. and I’m picturing Mr. C and his friends trying to make a “romantic” arrangement in someone’s honeymoon suite and it is cracking me up!
What a cute idea…I think we’ll do this for the wedding I’m in this May. Thanks for the tip!
that’s adorable. There is no way you’d catch my fiance arranging petals on a friend’s honeymoon bed, but this is way too cute!
I love this idea! 
Hope I’m lucky enought that one of my friends thinks to do something similar.
oh i REALLLLY hope you blog about your honeymoon to bora bora soon!!! my fiance and I are going there right after our wedding- on july 27th- which is around the same time you must have been there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So cute! You are so lucky… and your gonna make lots of ladies jealous about bora bora. Enjoy!!!!
I do love that it is the men who end up being in charge! Our DOC set this all up for us as well as putting all of wedding gifts and cards in our room…very sweet!
We did this for my at my BF’s wedding! We placed all the bridesmaids flowers in vases throughout the room, and made a trail of condoms leading to the bed
My friends and I have a tradition of leaving roast beef sandwhiches and champagne! Sounds odd, but after my wedding that was the best thing ever! I’ve tried to do it for the weddings I’ve been to since– it’s such a nice treat after such a long day!
I love it!! I don’t think the men in my group would be able to pull off something quite as great. Cant wait to see your honeymoon recaps!
The honeymoon recaps are coming! And yes it is lipstick on the mirror- the boys left behind a tube of bright red “wet and wild” with the “99 cents” sticker still attached:)
Aww!! That is too sweet! (The rhyming is cute too!) I wish our honeymoon suite wasn’t half a world away!!
That’s a really sweet message, but my practical side cringed when I saw the lipstick on the mirror! The poor hotel staff who have to scrub that…yikes. I really like the rose petals and hershey kisses!
@BD: We left a really big tip and an apology… hopefully they weren’t too mad!
Awww, how cute! And Mr. T did a great job with your friend’s room!
Aww that is so sweet! I love that you mentioned it was the guys who carr it out. It’s amazing what they can come up with when they have a little encouragements
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Mrs. Tiramisu, Annapolis, MD/Maine
Age and Occupation: 26, Eye Doctor
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 26, Project Manager/Real Estate Management grad student
Engagement Date: May 15, 2007
Wedding Date: July, 2008
Blogging Since: March 4, 2008
Venue: Oceanfront lawn and tent
About Me: I was born and raised in Maine, now living in Annapolis, Maryland and planning a hometown wedding from afar. I’m nothing short of obsessed with wedding planning, and am loving the do-it-yourself madness that has now taken over my life! As for me, I’m a craft-loving, martini-drinking, girly-girl who loves traveling, photography, my schnauzer, and above all, spending time with Mr. Tiramisu.
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