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A DIFFERENT FAMILY TREE

submitted by: Erin Kerr

My husband and I got married in our backyard and with limited funds. We went very non-traditional and I was having a hard time decorating such a vast space. In the center of our yard, and right where the arch we were to married under was situated was a beautiful large tree. I had heard that many people use photo boards at their reception hall and really wanted to do the same but with a twist.

I found many pictures of my husband and I from infancy to adulthood, along with both our parents and grandparents on their wedding day. I then found suitable short poems that express love and devotion and marriage and pasted them to the back of the photos which I then laminated. I then strung them up in that tree for all to read during the day. It was a big success. It became our “Family Tree”.