Wine Box and Love Letters... Jason and Casey style!

For our family and friends who will be at our Rehearsal Brunch, if you want to be surprised, stop reading now!

For the rest of you...

We are planning a Wine Box and Love Letters ceremony.  What is that?  You've never heard of that?  Well, I hadn't either until I stumbled upon it on the WeddingBee site.  Man, I love me some WeddingBee!

from Nicole Bertucci

Here's the ceremony in a nutshell:
We will each write a love letter to each other before our wedding day.  It will say all the reasons we love being with the other person, why we want to get married, etc... You know, all that sappy, mushy stuff. 

from Doodle Dog Blog

We will each seal our letter, not letting the other person read it.  Then, you put your letters, along with a bottle of wine and two wine glasses into a box.

from Marvelous Girl

As for the "ceremony" part, you would seal it during your wedding ceremony (nail it closed).  The thought is that you don't open it until either a significant anniversary (I've seen both 5th and 10th) or if you are considering ending the marriage, it's a good reality check to help you remember why you got together in the first place.

from Wedding Channel

Very sweet, but too corny for us... So we are adding a little fun to it:

In addition to our love letters, wine, and wine glasses, we are going to give our guests a chance to add their own items to our wine box.  We will have 4 types of cards:

Cards were my own creation

(The last one is my personal favorite!)

We will add these items to our box and make it almost "time-capsule-esque."  I think it will be fun to read through these in 5 years (...if I can wait that long!  It'll be like Christmas... I'll just want to open it right away)!

I'm thinking we will have it out during our Rehearsal Brunch, and encourage everyone to fill out one of each.  Then we can just leave it out during the reception if anyone wants to add anything to it.  Maybe put a few of each card on the tables (?).

So, what do you think?  Would you add your own Advice, Well Wishes, Predictions, and Random Thoughts/Quotes/Drawings to our wine box if you were at our wedding?  Or is it still too cheesy?