Letter Perfect
Monograms on glasses, napkins, place cards, and invitations have long been a wedding decorating trend. A new trend emerging is one that takes the ordinary monogram to the next level. Easily found at craft stores, wedding accessories dealers, or through online venues, large cutout letters are now being used to create wedding decorations that use the bridal couple's initials, that spell their names out in their entirety, or that spell out a phrase or saying of choice - like the highly popular "I Do".
Whether they are painted with your wedding colours, or covered in fabric or textured materials like moss or flowers these easy to decorate letters can be joined together with simple ribbons or twine and then used to decorate a variety of spaces. The space directly behind the head table, the head table itself, or anywhere that you feel could use a little bit of personalization.
If you are making your getaway in a boat, wagon or any other unusual conveyance that doesn't fit the regular model for car decorations, stringing the monogram, or phrase from the vehicle, adds a decorative touch beyond the norm. Continue your cutout letter theme by creating centrepiece for your tables, made of letters interspersed with monogrammed votive candles or holders and flower petals for a personalized setting that can then be used as your wedding favours.
Following one of the latest home accessory trends, another unique wedding favour idea is to use small cut out letters glued or nailed to a base. You can choose to depict decorative words like "Live" "Love" and "Laugh", and set each set of words at every table setting for guests to take home as their own home decor statements. Carry this idea one step further by creating larger versions and positioning them on your cake table, your guest table, and your head table or just behind it, which will create a unified look and theme throughout the room.
Using cutout letters no matter what their size can let you shout to the world the words that are most important to you, including the words that say it all, "I Do".
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