Wedding Wishing Wells

A wedding wishing well is a gentle way of encouraging your wedding guests to leave an envelope of money in lieu of traditional registry-type wedding gifts.

With many of today’s couples already owning the material things they might need to set up a nice home together, it is often preferred that guests simply drop an envelope into a wedding wishing well with whatever dollar amount they would like to give. Then, right before jetting off to their long-awaited honeymoon, the new husband and wife can sit together in front of the wedding wishing well and open up each envelope.

Wedding wishing wells come in many shapes and sizes and can be built instead of purchased as well as rented if the couple so chooses. As the name suggests, a wedding wishing well looks exactly like an above-ground old-fashioned well one might find “way back when” – the kind where water was hoisted up by a bucket from inside the well. For a wedding, the wishing well usually is set up at a central location – typically by the guest sign-in book – at the wedding reception. As the guests arrive after the ceremony and before happy hour at the reception venue, each can sign in and then drop an envelope into the wedding wishing well on the way into the dining and drinking area.

Wedding wishing wells actually do more than serve as a place for dropping in monetary gifts for the happy couple. First of all, the housing of the wedding wishing well is usually very sturdy – especially if it is made of wood – and the money is instantly safe and secure on it’s own without supervision. Second, today’s wedding wishing wells are quite beautiful and will do much to enhance the wedding décor of the reception hall or location as well as to the overall magic of the day in general.

Although many of the wedding wishing wells pictured in catalogs and on websites are white and frilly and look exactly like an old-fashioned well, a wedding wishing well can actually be any color and any type and shape of structure that you would like it to be.

If you are a bride-to-be and you’ve been considering having a wedding wishing well on your wedding day, take the time to browse our site and to learn a little more about the options available to you. You’ll find ideas for sizes and shapes of wedding wishing wells as well as bargains and specials on renting and making your own.