Wedding pins and buttons personalize the heck out of your wedding day

While perusing the Offbeat Bride Tribe, as I do, I often come upon brides using pins as creative ways to personalize their weddings. Tribe member Reenie (of comic book style wedding invite fame) posted in her wedding update that she's DIYing the boutenniers for the guys and has accented them with cool/nerdy pins [see right]. And it struck me that pins are definitely becoming a full on offbeat trend…

I thought of Shablis' wedding and the "Don't Panic" button that she wore on her wedding dress. And at Shannon's wedding the couple wore "bride" and "groom" buttons. They even bought a button maker and made unique buttons for their guests to wear, like "Mother of the Bride," etc. for family members and phrases like "How YOU doin'?" and "Bouquet Dodger" or "I'm A Little Drunk" for the guests.

Then there are the OBT members that found the adorable "I'd rather be smooching…" buttons from Button Empire's Etsy shop. OBT member "Deanderthal" and her husband (of "The Hitchening" fame) actually exchanged these buttons instead of ring at their ceremony! Or you can go the less nerdy route with the simplistic but equally adorable "I ♥ My Wife" and "I ♥ My Husband" buttons! You know… just in case people weren't totally convinced by that whole "wedding" thing.

Your guests can also have fun with buttons. As Ariel even mentioned a creative use of them as place settings, in her book Offbeat Bride: Taffeta-Free Alternatives for Independent Brides…

"The groom created a photo-personalized button for each guest and set them at the dinner tables to show us where to sit. We all wore our buttons the way you would wear a candidate's pin. VOTE DOUG AND SUSAN! Since the groom is politically active, it made perfect sense."

In the same vain are these "team Justin" and "team Sarah" pins that were both a great way to celebrate your alliance with either the bride or the groom and were used as favors.

We even gave away buttons as extra favors at our wedding. The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society was nice enough to send over a box of them for free when we told them that we were using our wedding as a soap box for the anti-shark finning cause.

Whether you're wearing these as wedding accessories, exchanging them instead of rings, using them as place cards, giving them away as favors, or promoting a cause, I thought I'd do ya'll a little favor and find some buttons that actually correspond with a lot of your favorite theme weddings!

Perfect for a gamer geek wedding are these Old School Nintendo Buttons:

These Alice in Wonderland pins would be fun for an Alice in Wonderland themed wedding:

 

Wear your favorite Star Wars character pin during a Star Wars wedding anyone?:

Rock 'n Roll weddings and musically inspired couples could accent their weddings with these Beatles pins. My favorites are the ones with lyrics about love: