I am sure you can make a wonderful contribution to the wedding, but I wouldn't do table arrangements, if I were you. I am now professionally trained as a floral designer and have been growing flowers and greens for make at home arrangements and I would not even take that on, especially not in September, when so many flowers and greens will be struggling from the heat. Don't forget if you want to enjoy the wedding, you would have make the arrangements ahead of time which means conditioning flowers and greens and then cool storing the arrangements. Now if you are talking something more countrified than formal arrangements than you could certainly throw zinnias and some other flowers in something like iced tea glasses and it would be really cute. You could also use potted plants as centerpieces. You could make up "arrangements" with the potted plants well ahead of time so you wouldn't be time pressed like you would with fresh-cut flowers. You could even buy annuals inexpensively at a garden center while they are in bloom and then plant them afterward. Or let the guests take them home and plant them. When I got married 7 years ago, in November I wasn't professionally trained but I still wanted to decorate my own backyard wedding "garden" wedding. I used a florist for the actual table arrangements but then also did a lot myself. I grew roses in pots. Roses can be pruned in order to force them to bloom at the right time, although September blooms wont be spectacular. I used the potted roses on both ends of the aisle. In addition to the formal centerpieces, I themed each table as a different herb, (My tables names were rosemary, sage, thyme etc.) I spray painted little clay pots to match my linens and then grew the herbs in them. Of course for a September wedding you would either have to grow some of the herbs inside or have less choices since so many herbs wont make it through the hot summer. The other thing I did was place a long stem rose in each napkin. In order not to take chances, and because I wanted to keep my roses on the bushes, I ordered them straight from a grower, and just had to cut off the thorns and they were ready to grow. Grower's roses smell so much better than florist roses. I got them from 2groses.com. Hope this helps. Let me know if I can provide any more info. Michelle

not sure if you could use some of this poem to make a poem to suit your doll...i gave my little girl a box of worry angels this year when her father passed away and this is what it said on the inside of the box: 'This box is for your worries, the aches within your heart; a place to tuck away your fears, where love and hope can start. So keep this box beside you, and know how much they care. For when you need peace and joy, the angels will be there.' maybe replace box with doll etc...

Sharon that is an awesome poem.. thanks I think I will send on one of these ornaments to my neice who has been transferd to Idaho with her husband and their new baby boy .. he just came home for Araq..I think this would be something special for them. Their first Christmas tree together and all.. He was overseas most of their married life and got home just in time for the baby.. They are short on money so I am making up a care package for their Christmas this year.Lavender sachets, potato bags, rice heating pads. a Guardian Angel ornament and now this ornament..I am putting little things in for the baby.. but mostly things for them to know we all love them and miss them here at home.. little special things.. Adult Journal jar. along with a nice Blank Journal..I hear it gets pretty cold out that way.. so I am making a few nice warm hats for them all too. Thanks again you guys for giving me some good Ideas.. Huggy

Don't know if it is too late to help you, but we bought a frame after we were married that had a place for a baby picture of me and one of my husband and then a picture from our wedding day. On that frame it said "From Long Ago, And Far Away...Love Brought Us To Our Wedding Day". Hope this helps!