Hi T!
Just a thought to chew on. When my son got married I made
his darling bride a garter. A very dear friend of mine designed
and made a pair of wedding moths for them. (In England they
sew lace bits to the wedding dress or veil)
Our local Hallmark store (a popular greeting card co. in the US)
was showing a shadow box that was about 8 or 9" square.
Perfect! I mounted the garter in a circle with the 'wedding moths'
in the center 'flying' around the six pence that we had taped to
her shoe. So it kind of looked like a picture. She was very
happy with the whole thing and as far as I know they are still
carrying the shadow box. It came in white and I seem to remember
another color but can't remember what it was.
T, I also gave her a cheap garter to throw. ;-)
Back to packing!
bobbi
PS. I usually take a photo of the lace in process and then a finished
one and give it with the garter. Everyone that I've done that for seems
thrilled with the pictures.
> That reminds me of one of the most engaging entries at the VA State
> Fair I've ever seen. It was a shadow-box, in which several wedding
> memorabilia had been mounted. There was a smallish wedding photo
> (surrounded by lace), the groom's lapel bouquet (spell?) with a lace
>
> frill and the garter (can't remember whether the ring pillow was
> there
> or not, and I'm pretty sure that the hankie wasn't).
>
> I do remember how struck I was by the idea and how surprised -- how
> come she got too keep the garter? The recent on-and-off discussions
> of
> garters has answered my question: she must have had one (machine
> made)
> for throwing and one (hand made) "for to keep"... But, once you've
> kept
> the real thing, what do you do with it? Mounting it like that, with
> other mementos, to hang on a wall seems like a good solution to me.
>
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