This just may be the most unique story to tell your friends and family. An older couple living in Florida received Key West wedding invitation as a message in a bottle. They were on the beach when they happened to notice a shiny object wash up on shore. Inside was an invitation specifically addressed to whoever happened to find it, plus one guest.
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 did indeed attend the event a year later. It was held in the morning in a small chapel in Key West. The couple was happily welcomed by the bride and groom, and there was much smiling and shaking of hands and great amusement for all who heard the story. And everyone at the ceremony wanted to hear the story of the bottle where it was sent from and where it was found and who found it.
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.
So, the couple took a cruise and decided to throw ten bottles with invites in them over the side of the ship. They spent the next months wondering how many of the messages would be found and how many of the finders would actually show up. When the time came for the ceremony, it turned out that two unknown groups of guests showed up: two couples who had found the messages, produced their invites, and it was quite a spectacle to behold as they told their stories of how they received Key West wedding invitation as a message in a bottle.
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 did indeed attend the event a year later. It was held in the morning in a small chapel in Key West. The couple was happily welcomed by the bride and groom, and there was much smiling and shaking of hands and great amusement for all who heard the story. And everyone at the ceremony wanted to hear the story of the bottle where it was sent from and where it was found and who found it.
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.
So, the couple took a cruise and decided to throw ten bottles with invites in them over the side of the ship. They spent the next months wondering how many of the messages would be found and how many of the finders would actually show up. When the time came for the ceremony, it turned out that two unknown groups of guests showed up: two couples who had found the messages, produced their invites, and it was quite a spectacle to behold as they told their stories of how they received Key West wedding invitation as a message in a bottle.
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