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At the very beginning of our reception, we held a "Tea Party with the Bride" with all of the little girls who came to the wedding. I sent out pretty handmade invitations to each of the girls ahead of time. On the tea table, we put small vases of daisies, and set out the chrysanthemum tea set I inherited from my grandmother.
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My cousin Dinah took charge of the tea table, serving each girl a cup of real Yorkshire Gold Tea (with lots of milk and sugar of course) and cookies. She brought her wonderful collection of old- fashioned hats for the girls to wear. (The entrance of the hats was made particularly dramatic by their presentation from beautiful hat boxes).
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While the girls waited for the bride, they colored and cut out the paper dolls I had made for them. I had taken vintage paper doll bodies, scanned them and combined them with the faces of the bridesmaids and myself. Then I made rough drawings of our wedding attire for the girls to color and dress their dolls.
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We had a very nice time together, and spent very little money!
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Did you do anything fun and inexpensive at your wedding? I'd love to hear about it!
2 comments:
That is absolutely ADORABLE!!! I'm sure those girl's loved every miute of it and probably just adored you...as every bride should be ;)
BEAUTIFUL!!
And no, actually I wasn't very frugal 9 yrs ago...however look back now and think...we spent how much???? or my Dad rather...lol Wish I knew what I know now...but it was a spectacular fairy tale day either way!
That is a very sweet idea!
We had a very frugal wedding that was very nice anyway. One thing that my husband did to surprise me was to get a horse drawn sleigh to ride away on.
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