Here's a unique and uplifting story to tell your grandchildren. An elderly couple in Florida received Key West wedding invitation as a message in a bottle. Walking on the beach one day on the east coast of Florida, the couple noticed a glass object freshly washed up on shore. The object contained inside an invitation addressed to "the lucky finder of this bottle... Plus one."
Needless to say, the couple were surprised, but they were enchanted by the romantic idea of sending an invite in such a way, as a message in a bottle. The date of the wedding was nearly a year away. At first, the couple was somewhat skeptical about the whole idea, but they seriously considered driving the six hundred miles on the day in question to attend the ceremony.
They went to the chapel on the day planned and found that there was indeed a wedding and the invitations were real. The bride and groom welcomed them with open arms and everyone had a wonderful laugh discussing the story. Everyone wanted to know how the invitations came about and how and where the couple found them.
Apparently, the idea for the invitations were just a promotional thing that their event planner often does for her clients. The event planner was advertising the messages in the bottles as an extra service to be provide alongside the normal or traditional invitations.
Several event planning companies and printers offer "message in a bottle wedding invitations" but they are usually meant as a novelty, not an actual message meant to be thrown into the ocean! They are usually addressed to specific people and sent to the recipients via traditional postage and packaging channels, UPS or FedEx.
The young engaged couple had a different idea which made their message in a bottle invites a little more than just a novelty. The event was a long way off, so they thought wouldn't it be an interesting idea to toss their bottles overboard from a cruise ship. It would give the objects enough time to travel the waves and wash up somewhere and anyone finding them to make arrangements to attend the event.
On the third night of their cruise, the happy couple made and addressed exactly ten of the unusual wedding invitations and placed them in water-tight bottles. They sent them over the side of the ship and then nearly forgot about them until the day of the ceremony when two strange couples appeared with the bottles. They shared their stories about how they received Key West wedding invitation as a message in a bottle and then joined in the festivities.
Needless to say, the couple were surprised, but they were enchanted by the romantic idea of sending an invite in such a way, as a message in a bottle. The date of the wedding was nearly a year away. At first, the couple was somewhat skeptical about the whole idea, but they seriously considered driving the six hundred miles on the day in question to attend the ceremony.
They went to the chapel on the day planned and found that there was indeed a wedding and the invitations were real. The bride and groom welcomed them with open arms and everyone had a wonderful laugh discussing the story. Everyone wanted to know how the invitations came about and how and where the couple found them.
Apparently, the idea for the invitations were just a promotional thing that their event planner often does for her clients. The event planner was advertising the messages in the bottles as an extra service to be provide alongside the normal or traditional invitations.
Several event planning companies and printers offer "message in a bottle wedding invitations" but they are usually meant as a novelty, not an actual message meant to be thrown into the ocean! They are usually addressed to specific people and sent to the recipients via traditional postage and packaging channels, UPS or FedEx.
The young engaged couple had a different idea which made their message in a bottle invites a little more than just a novelty. The event was a long way off, so they thought wouldn't it be an interesting idea to toss their bottles overboard from a cruise ship. It would give the objects enough time to travel the waves and wash up somewhere and anyone finding them to make arrangements to attend the event.
On the third night of their cruise, the happy couple made and addressed exactly ten of the unusual wedding invitations and placed them in water-tight bottles. They sent them over the side of the ship and then nearly forgot about them until the day of the ceremony when two strange couples appeared with the bottles. They shared their stories about how they received Key West wedding invitation as a message in a bottle and then joined in the festivities.
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