The Big Guy and I contemplated traditional gifts for our bridal party. Then we threw that idea out the window.

We decided we were going to go with an inside joke that we had with our bridal party friends and have “Jersey Night.”

Maybe I should explain this. In college, every time we all got together for card night, we would claim it to be “Jersey Night” and we’d put on a football, baseball, basketball jersey of any of our favorite players. We decided to make our own jerseys for our friends, then we had to decide how to design them.

In college, Joe’s nickname was Tree since he is so tall, and my nickname is L-Dub for my initials.  One of our friends in college became lazy and combined our two nicknames to be Tree-Dub, which then became our jersey team name.  On the back of the jersey we used the date of the ceremony for the number and put all of our friends’ nicknames on the back.  Everyone complimented us and said they felt like they would actually reuse the gift.

My recommendation is do what you think the people closest to you would really like not what others tell you is the expected gift.

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Joe and I decided early on that we weren’t going to do everything traditionally.

My aunt and I had talked about the idea of a fake cake.  My dad and aunt started working together and came up with the idea of a Styrofoam cake with fondue icing on top.  We went with the fall theme and carried it onto the cake design with a tree forming it’s way up the sides. An “R” was shaped out of sticks and extra decoration around the cake was done with fake leaves.

Some may wonder: How do you cut the cake?  In the back of the cake is a small section were a real piece of cake is inserted. The very top dome of the cake is real, so we can put that section in our freezer and save it for our first anniversary.

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