Please help: How should I honor these friends? (long)
Backstory: I received a graduate fellowship (which covers my law school tuition for all 3 years!! woohoo!!!) and have gotten really close with the other girls in my incoming class. (about 5-6 other girls, mainly PhD students).
FH and I got engaged in May, and picked our bridal party right away. I was friends with these girls but thought it would be weird to ask any of them to be bridesmaids since we didn't even know eachother a year yet. However, we have gotten really close and they are now my best friends at school.
I want to think of some way to honor them at my wedding, since they aren't in the bridal party. I don't really want to give them a job to do or anything that will burden them, just something to make them feel special.
Possible Idea: Last year when we got our fellowship pins we also took home the table centerpieces (these horrific yellow flowering plants) and we've had a contest to see who could keep theirs alive the longest. They are now kind of a standing joke among us, and I was thinking about something related to yellow flowers -- maybe a corsage (but those get itchy?) or giving each a yellow rose or daisy (?) or something else. Is that too cheesy? Any ideas?
Edit: for fun I attached pictures of the plants
FH and I got engaged in May, and picked our bridal party right away. I was friends with these girls but thought it would be weird to ask any of them to be bridesmaids since we didn't even know eachother a year yet. However, we have gotten really close and they are now my best friends at school.
I want to think of some way to honor them at my wedding, since they aren't in the bridal party. I don't really want to give them a job to do or anything that will burden them, just something to make them feel special.
Possible Idea: Last year when we got our fellowship pins we also took home the table centerpieces (these horrific yellow flowering plants) and we've had a contest to see who could keep theirs alive the longest. They are now kind of a standing joke among us, and I was thinking about something related to yellow flowers -- maybe a corsage (but those get itchy?) or giving each a yellow rose or daisy (?) or something else. Is that too cheesy? Any ideas?
Edit: for fun I attached pictures of the plants
