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While perusing the Offbeat Bride Tribe, as I do, I realized how often I come upon brides using pins as creative ways to personalize their weddings.
Tribesmaid Reenie (of comic book style wedding invite fame) explained that she's DIYing the boutenniers for the guys, and has accented them with cool/nerdy pins, like the “Saving the Princess since 1985” boutonniere pictured here.
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 these adorable “I'd rather be smooching…” buttons from Button Empire's Etsy shop. De Anne and Warren (of “The Hitchening” fame) actually exchanged those buttons instead of ring at their ceremony!
Rock ‘n' roll wedding favors to match your kick-ass wedding
Here's the next installation of Megan's series of wedding favor posts, this time it's all about favors to fit your wedding's rock 'n' roll aesthetic.
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. Ariel even mentioned a creative use of them as place settings, in 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.
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:
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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:
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When Megan's not writing, traveling, and sleeping, she's eating like the fate of the world depends on it. (You're welcome, world!) You can snoop into her personal life over on her website The Dash and Dine!
