Help, Advice, ideas needed. Or tell me i'm stupid!
I don't even know where to begin with this post.
Right OH is a bit of a train bum enthusiast. He has been since I met him, however due to work commitments/lack of time it has really toned down lately. He's no train spotter, doesn't sit at a station wearing an anorak & camera jotting down numbers. He just has some strange love for smelly, dirty diesel trains. Typically being female I do not understand the fascination, so have never really shared his hobby. Before our venue was booked OH even suggested getting married at the National Railway Museum! Obviously my reply was 'No way!' for the fact it involved trains and being over a hours drive away.
As my head is constantly in wedding mode, I sat last night thinking about ideas for guest books/table numbers/you name - as long as it involved our wedding. The idea popped into my head to try and somehow involve trains in the day for OH as a surprise. I honestly think he would love it, and it would be so unexpected from his anti-train B2B. Especially after I told him anything train related was banned from the wedding. He has been very much involved in the planning of the day, but the decoration/little jobs he's more of less left to me. So this would make it easy-ish to keep a secret until the 'big day'.
This is probably a long shot but, have any of you hitchers/OM's/HIBs been to a wedding that had a train theme? If so what sort of things did they have?
My ideas so far are:
**Instead of the planned table numbers, to have table names of the places he likes to visit (e.g Fort William, Edinburgh, Penzance..) They're the only ones at the min I can think of. Luckily his BM is also a train enthusiast, so if I decide to do this he probably will play a big part in helping me, hopefully!
**Train cufflinks.
**Wish tree instead of guest book, with train tickets to hang on them. (preferably 'real' blank tickets - but these will be pretty hard to get hold of)
**Train place card holders for Bride/Groom place settings.
**Possibly a small train incorporated in the cake somewhere
Now I know this won't be to most peoples taste, it really isn't mine. It's just and idea at the minute as I really would like to do something as a surprise for OH. Any ideas or suggestions will be greatly received.
Anna x
p.s here a few piccies of ideas i've put together so far..
Cufflinks - They're of the Mallard not a diesel train, but it's the thought that counts
Image board of wish tree idea - it wont have purple butterflies on, but the sort of thing i'd like.
For the place setting (obviously without the 'baby' at the top - seen them somewhere without it, just can't remember where!)
