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I and Ben decided to celebrate the twenty fifth wedding anniversary of our parents in a grand way. We wanted to give them a surprise and secretly planned for this big day.
We had finished all our shopping for the jubilee celebrations and we also wanted to invite all our family friends and relatives. We were thinking hard to come up with unique invitation design for our parents. As we were unable to come up with something on our own we made an online research to find a suitable company that will help us in designing a unique invitation. We came across Papersinharmony.com and we were impressed with their handmade wedding invitations that can be customized for silver jubilee celebrations.

They gave us very good ideas and suggestions on how we can make the invitations unique. We wanted the invitation to reflect the theme of the celebration, though we didn’t know on how to implement it. We just gave them hints on what we are looking for and they gave us many good ideas like having pictures of our parents on the invitation. We liked it very much and got the invitations with their photos. It was really different and our parents were thrilled with all our arrangements and in particular they were taken up by the invitation design. We could see the happiness in their face and that they were proud of us.

So this person I know online from Australia was telling me about the latest chic "thing." It seems that Central Coast weddings are "the" way to go if you want to do it up big. Since I’ve never been to Australia and a surprising amount of English spoken there ends up puzzling me because it doesn’t always sound like English, the whole conversation was lost on me. I don’t even know where the central coast is.

But I do know that weddings are big, big business no matter where in the world you live. A friend of mine says he and his family have been joking for years about starting a family business providing wedding services. He is a church organist, his sister is a vocalist, both his parents are retired Presbyterian ministers, one of his two brothers is a caterer and the other brother is a disk jockey - or was when he was still in college. I keep telling him, their family would make a bundle!

I am a very crafty person. I have always loved making crafts and was thrilled when I was old enough that it became more than just scissors and a bottle of glue. I teach arts and crafts at a local summer camp and I love coming up with new ideas of making different things. Many people are amazed at my ability to make something cool out of junk.

When my friend came to me and asked if I would be interested in making her something unique and creative for wedding favors, I jumped at the chance. To me, this was the opportunity of a lifetime and I knew that it was going to be a lot of fun. I started coming up with ideas right then and it was suggested that I should write a book with all of these ideas. Maybe someday I will because I could come up with ideas until the cows come home.

I ran several of my ideas by her and she immediately loved one of them. I got busy making my creations. I knew it would take some time as she needed one hundred and fifty of them. They were such a hit at the wedding. I had one of her aunts tell me that I should go into business with a wedding store. I might just have to try it.