Here's a unique and uplifting story to tell your grandchildren. An elderly couple in Florida received Key West wedding invitation as a message in a bottle. Walking on the beach one day on the east coast of Florida, the couple noticed a glass object freshly washed up on shore. The object contained inside an invitation addressed to "the lucky finder of this bottle... Plus one."
The couple was surprised, obviously, but they were also very intrigued. They thought it was an unusual and romantic idea to send an invite this way and to invite total strangers to their event. The date on the invite was many months away, and they were not really sure if it was a legitimate invite, but they thought they would make the seven-hour drive on the appointed day and see if there really was a ceremony to attend.
They did indeed attend the event a year later. It was held in the morning in a small chapel in Key West. The couple was happily welcomed by the bride and groom, and there was much smiling and shaking of hands and great amusement for all who heard the story. And everyone at the ceremony wanted to hear the story of the bottle where it was sent from and where it was found and who found it.
Apparently, the idea for the invitations were just a promotional thing that their event planner often does for her clients. The event planner was advertising the messages in the bottles as an extra service to be provide alongside the normal or traditional invitations.
There are lots of invitation companies in Key West which provide this type of service on a regular basis. They are more often meant as a novelty item and are sent through regular mail to the friends and family of the bride and groom. It is a lot less common for an engaged couple to actually float their bottles in the ocean and address the invitation to anyone who may happen to find it.
But in this case the groom had a terrific idea. He would literally send out open invitations addressed to no one in particular in bottles and send them on an ocean journey. The ceremony was quite a long way off, so they had time. They were planning a cruise soon, and they would take the opportunity then.
On the first evening of the cruise, they threw ten invitations in bottles overboard, and spent the rest of the year wondering if any would be found, and if the people who found them would actually attend the ceremony. On the day of the wedding, two couples showed up with bottles, and now they all have interesting stories to tell their friends about how they received Key West wedding invitation as a message in a bottle.
The couple was surprised, obviously, but they were also very intrigued. They thought it was an unusual and romantic idea to send an invite this way and to invite total strangers to their event. The date on the invite was many months away, and they were not really sure if it was a legitimate invite, but they thought they would make the seven-hour drive on the appointed day and see if there really was a ceremony to attend.
They did indeed attend the event a year later. It was held in the morning in a small chapel in Key West. The couple was happily welcomed by the bride and groom, and there was much smiling and shaking of hands and great amusement for all who heard the story. And everyone at the ceremony wanted to hear the story of the bottle where it was sent from and where it was found and who found it.
Apparently, the idea for the invitations were just a promotional thing that their event planner often does for her clients. The event planner was advertising the messages in the bottles as an extra service to be provide alongside the normal or traditional invitations.
There are lots of invitation companies in Key West which provide this type of service on a regular basis. They are more often meant as a novelty item and are sent through regular mail to the friends and family of the bride and groom. It is a lot less common for an engaged couple to actually float their bottles in the ocean and address the invitation to anyone who may happen to find it.
But in this case the groom had a terrific idea. He would literally send out open invitations addressed to no one in particular in bottles and send them on an ocean journey. The ceremony was quite a long way off, so they had time. They were planning a cruise soon, and they would take the opportunity then.
On the first evening of the cruise, they threw ten invitations in bottles overboard, and spent the rest of the year wondering if any would be found, and if the people who found them would actually attend the ceremony. On the day of the wedding, two couples showed up with bottles, and now they all have interesting stories to tell their friends about how they received Key West wedding invitation as a message in a bottle.
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