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Unfortunately, Jeff was only able to meet my paternal grandfather because my other grandparents had already passed on when he came into my life 4 years ago (now they are all passed on) and I never got the chance to meet his Papa, which kills me because Jeff has such respect for him.

Our grandparents were huge parts of our lives and we really wanted to honour them in some way. We threw around the idea of donations, a picture table or a rose on an empty seat but my parents actually told me that my grandparents would never want to take the spotlight off me and our wedding and that we should figure out a way to honour them, without being too "loud" about it.

So I made these candle holders using extra large vases from the dollar store, vellum paper, ribbon, a couple rhinestones and putting tealight candles inside. We plan on putting them on the guest book table so that as people sign our guestbook they'll see them.

SIDENOTE: One thing that I can take comfort in is that my mom's bestfriend as a child was Jeff's mom. And we didn't know that when we met. They were friends for years and years, but as they grew up they grew apart, moved to different cities and started their families. Jeff and I totally met by chance at a party and after a few months of dating my mom figured out who he was and we realized how close our connection actually was. I think if my grandmother knew I was marrying the son of her daughter's best childhood friend she would be thrilled...just as thrilled as Jeff's grandma is. :)
in memory of, memorial, candles, diy, vellum, sarahdarling
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latiao's Blue wedding
latiao
 |  Indianapolis, IN, USA  |  11/24/2009
Wow! What an amazing story on how you two seem to be meant for each other. You did an excellent job! How did you make the monogram on them?
honeybee's Purple wedding
honeybee
 |  Brandon, MS, USA  |  11/24/2009
You did a great job on the memory candles. I especially like the monogram too. You came up with a very unique idea to remember your grandparents.
sunshinebride0725's Blue wedding
sunshinebride0725
 |  Tucson, AZ, USA  |  11/24/2009
What a cute story...that's amazing  that you two happened to meet, I guess it was just meant to be! The candle holders look wonderful, you did a great job!
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3rdtimebride
 |  Ottawa, ON, Canada  |  11/24/2009
WOW  what a story  I love the idea of ppl working from the other side to get you 2 togeather
soon2bmrsv's Purple wedding
soon2bmrsv
 |  Oshawa, ON, Canada  |  11/24/2009
That is an amazing story!!
I love the In Memory of candles.
getitgoing's Black wedding
getitgoing
 |  Chicago, IL, USA  |  11/24/2009
Great job on the candles. I've been looking for a way to honor our grandparents in our ceremony!
adocherty1's Black wedding
adocherty1
 |  Drums, PA, USA  |  11/25/2009
I really like these, can you tell me where you found the design to put around their names, I have searched high and low and I am missing it..

Thanks
sarahdarling's Black wedding
sarahdarling
 |  Toronto, ON, Canada  |  11/25/2009
thanks for your comments ladies! they always make me smile...for the brides who were asking this is the frame i used:
Hosted by RockYouPhotos.com
i got it off futuremrst's blog:
http://www.weddingbycolor.com/futuresmrst/milestones/69257#comment
she has a bunch of template and damask swirls posted.
renorx's Yellow wedding
renorx
 |  Phoenix, AZ, USA  |  11/30/2009
Oh gosh, you did a fantastic job!
I really, really, really love the meaning behind all of this, though.
Hits close to home, thanks for the great idea :)
mrsfrancistobe's Purple wedding
mrsfrancistobe
 |  Torquay, Torbay, United kingdom  |  01/10/2010
That gave me goosebumps & tears... you are clearlly a very lovely, thoughtfull person your FH is lucky, as I am sure you are =)

I think the idea is wonderfull and if you don't mind, may well use the idea in honour of my grandparents...

Xxx
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Stephanie
 |  Queens village, NY, USA  |  04/06/2011
I LOVE your candleholders and think I might use a similar idea at my March 2012 wedding.  I got chills when I read your story because I had a similar occurrence - my FH and I met by chance while I was away at college.  At graduation dinner, my mom met him for the first time and was chatting about where he was from.  Turns out that his maternal grandparents live DIRECTLY next door to my mom's childhood best friend!  My mom's best friend's daughter used to babysit my FH more than 20 years ago!!!  What a SMALL WORLD!
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apple80
 |  Newmarket, ON, Canada  |  02/28/2012
Hi

Do you have a template for candleholder labels?  Also what is the best paper to use for the labels.
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