Best Wedding Ideas to Wow Your Guests in 2022

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Are you a wanderlusting pair with a travel theme? Go the extra mile and use leather luggage tags to hold the escort or place cards. For a summer wedding, consider using beach balls or seashells as escort cards.

Get Creative With Escort Cards

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Want to create an unusual color scheme? Take cues from the works of a color-happy artist such as Rothko, Van Gogh, or Pollock. "Don't be afraid to play with color, pattern, and shape," Jackson says.

Get Artsy

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"I love bold color, like a palette of jewel tones mixed with softer pastels. Also, a pop of an unexpected color—like chartreuse—can make an otherwise neutral palette really stand out."

Get Artsy

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Show your florist photos of your mother’s bouquet so a florist can design a similar one. Chat it over with your photographer first but another cool idea is to recreate a special wedding moment (like the cake cutting or the wedding exit) from your parents' nuptials.

Take Inspo From a Family Photo

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Favors are great and all, but there’s nothing like a heartfelt message to thank guests, especially when it’s displayed so beautifully. Show your gratitude by having it expressed in elegant calligraphy on a large sign for all to see.

Use a Large Sign for Heartfelt Messages

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Have your best man emcee a trivia quiz about the two of you—ask each table to work as a team to come up with the answers. A round of "I Spy" or Bingo could also be played.

Enlist Your Best Man as an Emcee

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Design your ceremony seating in a circular fashion so guests can get a 360-degree view. If you plan on getting drone shots of your wedding, then just think how cool a winding spiral will appear from above.

Try Out Different Seating Arrangements for the Ceremony

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Make guests find their seat by first locating a funny picture of them on an escort card wall. Alternatively, Jackson recommends using "escort cards that were old black and white photos of the bride and groom throughout the years for lots 

Get Silly With Your Seating Chart

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of laughs and conversation starters at the dinner tables."

Get Silly With Your Seating Chart

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Write your soon-to-be spouse a heartfelt message on their wedding shoe for a sweet surprise on the big day. If you're feeling sneaky, slip a secret message to your ring bearer or flower girl to pass along prior to (or during) the ceremony.

Let Your Partner Know That You're Thinking of Them

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Instead of the traditional three-course dinner, have your guests sit down to a family-style serving for a more intimate gathering. Use this as an opportunity to mix up couples and encourage conversations among different guests.

A Family Style Dinner Adds Intimacy

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Does your groom have a thing for bowties? Create a bow tie bar during cocktail hour where guests can swap their ties for one.

Dapper Guests Deserve a Bow Tie

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Including your pet on your wedding day? We can’t think of anything sweeter. Instead of throwing a tie or bow on them, give them their own flower crown or wreath to match your décor—florals for the girls and greenery for the boys.

Give Your Pet an Entrance to Remember

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Have the most meaningful phrase from your wedding vows embroidered or needlepointed on the ring pillow. Display in your home—it's the ultimate keepsake.

Keepsake Pieces That You'll Cherish for a Lifetime

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Anything that you get customized for your bridesmaids will also serve as a memento of your big day. Jackson recalls a Colorado wedding where custom embroidered denim jackets were made for the bride and her bridesmaids.

Keepsake Pieces That You'll Cherish for a Lifetime

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Hang a series of photos of both of you as children at the reception. Guests can schmooze and peruse during the cocktail hour.

Shake It Like a Polaroid Picture

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Decorate the chair of the person who set you and your SO up with a garland of greenery and sign that reads, “matchmaker.” Other key people who played a role in your courtship—think: age-old friends, acquaintances, or teachers that you both had growing up

Give the Matchmaker Special Treatment

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—could also receive a special seat or even a flower crown to wear throughout the night.

Give the Matchmaker Special Treatment

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Your engagement can play a starring role in the décor; one bride included blueberries at each place setting because her husband proposed to her on Blueberry Point (a notecard at each table explained this).

Sneak in References to Your Engagement

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