Post #213784 by LavaLounger on Fri, Feb 10, 2006 7:42 AM

We had a "luau" for our kids's wedding six years ago...(we hadn't graduated to the TIKI stage yet). We had personalized ceramic coconut mugs to give away with the bride and groom's name and date, and/or a tiki mug. If you can find one of the ceramic hobbiest in your area they can make them to order and I would think shouldn't be over $10 each.

Because I'm so CHEAP, we ended up learning to slipcast and made our own mugs after we found a company out west that had original master molds of a tiki mug. WE found that by going to some of the ceramic posting forums online and asking around. Ceramists would rather die than throw out an old mold so they are still around out there. We glazed the bride and groom's tiki mugs in white with mother-of-pearl overlay so they were really extra-special and so we could keep an eye on them from going out the door with the wrong person. The rest were in brown.

We also found white silk leis and used two to make wedding headbands for the bride and groom and stitched a little piece of white tulle (fine netting) to the back of the bride's head band (can't see the little veil in this pix).

Here's a table setting. Each table had different bright "luau" colors.

And just for fun, we built a little "wedding hut" for the bride, groom and best man and maid of honor to sit in. We lashed bamboo tomato stakes with plastic wire ties, and lashed on some grass mats we found at Big Lots for a buck each, then hid the wire ties with raffia grass.

That's the best we could come up with some six years ago before we were more into the whole tiki thing and pre-tiki central.

LavaLounger