If you are getting married and don’t want to use traditional wedding cake toppers you can now have your choice of many creative themed wedding cake toppers. Today it is perfectly acceptable to have a non-traditional wedding theme. The choices of themes for today’s wedding are limited only by your imagination. Wedding toppers are one of the few items that can be treasured for years after the wedding. The flowers will wilt, the cake is going to be eaten and you will probably never wear your wedding clothes again. But the topper can be placed in a special place in your home to always remind you of that very special day. However if you want to use fresh flowers as a wedding topper there is no reason why you can have them.

Your topper should reflect your personalities and likes. This is your special day and it should reflect the things that are important in your life. Wedding themes are as varied as people’s imagination, in other words, limitless. Any thing can be used as a topper. If you are having a Hawaiian themed wedding, a small pineapple would make an appropriate and interesting topper. Hobbies make a good choice for your wedding topper. A pair of horseshoes tied together with ribbon or a horse figurine is a good way to celebrate a western themed wedding. Wedding toppers can be anything from a Styrofoam ball covered in flowers to a dragon figurine with two dragons on it. It is all a matter of personal choice.

Brass, glass, polymer clay and acrylic are some of the materials used in toppers today. Polymer clay is one of the most popular mediums for creating wedding cake toppers because you can make anything out of it. There are many artisans today that will design creative toppers. When contacted, the artisan will ask how you want the topper to look and if you want a couple that looks like you. Since it takes time to create a custom designed cake topper, be sure and contact the artisan in plenty of time for the topper to be completed. An internet search will easily result in a vast variety of toppers to choose from that can be delivered conveniently to your home. Whether you choose an already made cake toppers or have someone design one just for you, your creative themed wedding cake toppers will reflect on your individuality on your wedding day.

A groom’s best man holds a position of honor in a wedding. As such, the best man also has major responsibilities. Some of the best man’s responsibilities are to help the groom in choosing the wedding ring, helping to decide what the groom and groom’s men will wear and getting the groom to the church on time. The responsibilities do not end there as the task of toasting the bride and groom is also given to the best man.

Giving the best man speech is hard enough, but making it funny can make the position even more difficult. You don’t want to be so serious in a wedding reception or you’ll be making the guests cry. You also don’t want to be so funny that all the attention is turned on you. A best man speech should be prepared way ahead of time, taking into consideration how much the best man knew the bride and groom. By all means, include candid ideas and memories about the couple, but stay away from risqué jokes that will be inappropriate to say in weddings.

Here are a few examples of one-liners and clean jokes to include in your funny best man speeches:

“By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll be happy. If you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher”     - Socrates

“You know, if men and women don’t get married, men would live their lives thinking they have no faults.”

“If I’m the best man, then why is she marrying him?”

There are many things you can do to give funny best man speeches. Hopefully, the tips and jokes here can give you a good start.

A maid of honor speech will traditionally be delivered during the wedding reception and is generally a little different from the best man speech or bride and groom toasts. With this speech you will be giving slightly different sentiments and you should be aiming to get the words and tone just right. Here are some tips for getting the speech right. Read the rest of this entry »