Are you planning a wedding and don’t want it to be just like your sister’s or your best friends wedding? Over the past 18 years, I’ve seen many “cookie-cutter” weddings, but some events stand out from the others even after years have gone by. Let me share those with you.

Theme weddings always tend to stand out. One couple had a medieval wedding. Not only were the couple dressed the part, complete with sword at side, but all the guest were also attired accordingly. We’ve also seen Hawaiian wedding theses, a country wedding where the bride taught line dances to her guests and a very elegant Victorian wedding where all of the wedding party’s outfits were recreated down to the tiniest of details off of sketches from the era.

Transportation is also a great way to individualize your wedding day. From riding a “Harley Hog” to the ever romantic, horse and carriage, you can set the mood with your arrival. One couple left their reception in a hot air balloon. How could you ever forget that? I’ve even seen a party bus where the entire wedding party is kept together for the ride between church and reception location.

Uniqueness does not just have to be in the physical sense. It can also be in the way things are done. When you and your husband are on the dance floor for your 1st dance, you could have all your guests circle around you and blow bubbles. You could hand out bells for every table to ring instead of clinking of the glasses. If you decide to avoid the clinking glasses altogether, you can do what one couple did. They arranged for everyone in the wedding party to have a little story or funny fact about the couple and whenever their guest's clinked their glasses, another person from the wedding party stood up and told their story. This had to be one of the most personalized weddings and hardest to forget events that I’ve ever done.