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Wedding Ceremony Keepsakes – keep them safe!

Wedding Keepsakes

Wedding keepsakes are the items and documents that make your ceremony unique and special.  These precious items include your wedding keepsakes and favours, and the Presentation Marriage Certificate.  Those something old, something blue, something borrowed items, perhaps a handkerchief, a brooch, or necklace that you carry or wear for the ceremony are very special keepsakes.   Further, these keepsakes are irreplaceable.  Also, how do you explain their loss if you borrow these items?

Unique Wedding Keepsakes

I take the time and care to design unique wedding keepsakes for your ceremony.

wedding ceremony keepsakes

Wedding Ceremony Keepsakes

  • Your ceremony script is presented as a scroll inside a cover.  A hand-made decorated sleeve secures the scroll.
  • Your personal wedding vow booklets and the scroll reflect your chosen colours of your wedding theme, or your favourite colours.
  • As a special touch, I give you a keepsake to wish you ‘good-luck’ for your married life.

When can Keepsakes go Missing?

At the end of the ceremony everyone is excited.  Everyone congratulates the happy couple or gathers for photographs, and this is the critical time when keepsake items are often misplaced or overlooked.  The Presentation Marriage Certificate and your keepsakes are treasured items that are easily lost in the excitement of the day.  The Presentation Marriage Certificate is not replaceable, however if it is mislaid or damaged, you will need to apply to the Registry for advice.

You can avoid the stress and worry of locating misplaced items if you prepare well.  After all, you want to enjoy those wonderful moments of your wedding and make beautiful memories of your special day.

Appoint a Wedding Ceremony Keepsakes and Documents Official

Here is a great wedding ceremony tip!  Appoint a reliable person as the wedding ceremony keepsakes and documents official on your wedding day.  This is an essential part of successful wedding planning!  Your wedding ceremony keepsakes and documents official is someone you trust to follow your instructions exactly!

Wedding Ceremony Keepsakes and Documents Official

Following is a basic checklist of instructions to give to your appointed Documents Official.

  • Identify yourself as the appointed  ‘wedding ceremony keepsakes and documents official’ to the Celebrant before the wedding ceremony.
  • Be available and receive the ceremony keepsakes and documents immediately after the wedding ceremony.
  • Check the contents of the envelope containing the wedding ceremony keepsakes and documents with the Celebrant.
  • Take charge of the envelope containing the ceremony keepsakes and documents, and
  • Follow instructions immediately for safe storage.  (specify exactly how, when and where.)

I meet your Wedding Ceremony Documents Official before the ceremony and check the instructions carefully.  Following the signing of the marriage documents, I hand over all keepsakes and the Presentation Marriage Certificate securely and safely to your appointed Wedding Ceremony Documents Official.  You relax and celebrate the special moments of your wedding day with family and friends, confident that your precious items are safe.

Official Marriage Documents

Do you want to know more about Australian official marriage documents?  Do you know that the Presentation Marriage Certificate is not the official marriage certificate?  Although it is a legal document, it is however, not a personal identification document (ID)?  Personal identification documents show your date of birth and this information is not shown on the Presentation Marriage Certificate.

The Official Marriage Certificate shows your date of birth and is a personal identification document (ID).  You purchase a certified copy of the official marriage certificate from the Marriage Registry in the Australian state or territory of your marriage.  This certified copy is a personal identification document and serves to verify your changed legal status as a married person.  Check out the Australian government page for the most up-to-date and accurate information about Australian marriage documents.

 

 

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Blushing Bride Keepsakes

Blushing Bride Keepsakes

These sweet blushing bride keepsakes are sure to bring smiles to faces at a wedding!

Peg Doll Brides and Peg Doll Grooms

There is a rich tradition in using wooden pegs to make dolls.  Of course, no two peg dolls are alike!  That is the beauty of hand-made wedding keepsakes.  Here are a couple of darling blushing brides that I created as give-a ways at a wedding expo.

Peg Doll Brides

Blushing Brides

What fun drawing the expressions on the little faces, and dressing them!

Create your own Blushing Brides and Blushing Grooms keepsakes in your personal wedding style!

Share the love and have some fun!

Love Stories

Do you like love stories?  Worlds of imagination open up and fantastic adventures come to life in the love stories of some very special peg dolls.

Follow the trials and tribulations of Peg & Pog who meet in the Rose Garden and fall in love.  What is the Rose Garden?  What are Peg and Pog doing in the Rose Garden?  Who falls in love first?  How does Pog know he is in love?  So many questions!

Wedding announcements and wedding planning often have bumpy patches along the way, and so it is with Peg and Pog as they try to plan their wedding.  Of course, all dolls help in the planning process with mixed results.  Sometimes, hard decisions just have to made!  After all, it is Peg & Pog’s wedding.

The wedding is wonderful, and Peg & Pog  share the love with their family and friends.  At last, Peg is the blushing bride and Pog is the blushing groom.

Contact Glenda to share the love of your wedding day

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Wedding Keepsakes

Wedding Keepsakes for Very Important Brides

I wonder if many people know about the tradition of giving wedding keepsakes or charms to the Bride for good luck?  Different cultures use different charm shapes as symbols of good luck.

  • A horseshoe shape is a traditional keepsake.  Carry the horseshoe with the ‘arms’ turned upwards.  This prevents the ‘good luck’ from spilling out!  Carry the horseshoe with the ‘arms’ turned downwards, the good luck is said to spread everywhere the Bride walks.
  • A miniature shoe or slipper shape is also a popular wedding favour.  Also, place a coin in the shoe or slipper for extra good luck!
  • Tiny locks and keys are attached to the bridal bouquet.  These little ‘love locks’ make delightful decorations.  Furthermore, they are also safer than attaching a padlock to a bridge or other public structure!
  • Another kind of attachment to the bridal bouquet is that of miniature portrait charms of  family members who are not present at the ceremony.  These may include loved ones, who although having passed away, are present, honoured and loved.

Wedding Keepsakes Made with Love

I make special wedding keepsake favours or charms for very important Brides.  Book Glenda, the Really Good Brisbane Celebrant, and you are a VIB, very important Bride!

All brides should have at least one good-luck wedding keepsake or charm, and so I make my signature satin hearts.  No two hearts are the same!  I decorate each heart to compliment the style and colours to appeal to the bride.

I give these unique bridal favours to Brides as good-luck keepsakes to take into their married life.  These truly are unique wedding mementos that I make with love and care.  They are not for sale!  Book Glenda J Ashleigh, Brisbane’s Very Good Celebrant for your special bridal keepsake!

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Wedding Bells Keepsake – Celebrant Glenda J Ashleigh

Romantic Wedding Bells

A romantic wedding bells keepsake gives that unique touch to your wedding day.

romantic wedding bells keepsakeNo two weddings are the same and no two wedding bells are the same.  I hand-make each tiny bell with love.

These tiny bells come in a limited range of colours to compliment your wedding theme.

This delightful keepsake is priceless!  It is not for sale!  A wedding bells keepsake is available exclusively to my wedding clients. It represents good wishes for happiness always.

Wedding Bells

Wedding bells are traditional symbols of the happiness of the wedding day, and the good wishes for a successful marriage for the newly-wed couple.  They are used in many forms in wedding celebrations, and following the ancient Celtic tradition, become treasured keepsakes.  These wedding bells may not make any sound, however they are lovely mementos of your wedding day.

Contact Glenda, the Best Brisbane Celebrant and let these little bells ring out the joy and happiness on your wedding day!