I’m getting married in March and my hubby-to-be and I both used to work at our college library. He’s got an MLS and currently works at a university as a reference librarian. We’re both raging bibliophiles and we’d like to incorporate that into our wedding and reception.
We contacted the college library but they didn’t get back to us so the wedding will not be held there. We may have some pictures taken there later but the ceremony is not an option.
How about using the Masterpiece Theatre theme as a processional or recessional? (My husband and I jokingly suggested that we’d do this at our wedding, but didn’t.)
I’ve read (in an Agatha Christie novel) that some brides used to carry a prayer book down the aisle, instead of a bouquet. You could carry a different book instead, or maybe attach flowers to it somehow?
My parents were married in 1944 and my mother carried a prayer book with orchids on it.
I’m a librarian but I have no ideas for a creative wedding. I used to live in Washington D.C. and attended a wedding at the Folger Shakespeare Library. Do you want a destination wedding? Perhaps the Library of Congress!
How about for the tables (I’m assuming there’s going to be a sit down meal), they are each catalogued using the Dewey Decimal Classification system, e.g.
700 - Arts and recreation
800 - Literature
900 - History & Geography, etc.
Have a card catalog at the front of the reception hall. When the guests arrive, have them look up their names and pull their cards, which will have their information (name, relation to bride or groom, maybe a neat personal fact about them, and their seating assignment).
Well, you ought to be reading Offbeat Bride (offbeatbride.com) for a start, as there’s tons of bookish weddings on there. There’s a tutorial for adorable book pocket card save the dates here, for example.
And you know that in Pittsburgh you aren’t allowed a groom cake because where are all those freaking cookies going to go? (What IS it with Pittsburgh weddings and cookies?)
Not sure about this, but I should think, 'Sssshhhh’ing would definitely be in order. Right before the ceremony, their entrance to the reception, the toasting. It’d be the joke that just keeps on giving!