- Megan Frederick and Lawson Builder got married in May.
- Frederick created custom cocktail napkins for their wedding using love notes they wrote each other.
Megan Frederick and Lawson Builder got married in May, celebrating their wedding in Spain with their family and friends.
As the newlyweds shared on their social media, they decided to include a sweet nod to their relationship at their wedding, like many couples do today.
In a TikTok shared Thursday, which already has over 1 million views, Frederick showed off the "most commented on" detail at their wedding, which was the napkins available for guests during cocktail hour.
It's trendy to have custom cocktail napkins at weddings today, but Frederick and Builder, who are high-school sweethearts, took it one step further by giving their loved ones a glimpse into their relationship.
Frederick scanned love notes they had written to each other throughout their relationship onto the napkins so guests could read them at the reception.
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Frederick told Insider notes have always been significant in her and Builder's relationship.
"My husband and I began dating when I was a sophomore and he was a senior in high school. We would write each other letters and notes once he left for college and we were temporarily long distance and from then on, writing notes, cards, etc. were a part of our relationship," she told Insider, adding that she still has every note Builder has ever written her because she's sentimental by nature.
"I thought that using little snippets from them on our cocktail napkins would be a sweet and sentimental way to honor the years of love we have shared," she said.
"We both chose our favorite quip from the notes, mine being, 'Meg, I could be with you forever, that's how happy you make me,' from a letter written in 2012, and his being, 'I love, love, love, to laugh with you — It's what we do best,' from a Valentine's Day card I wrote him in 2016," she said of the notes.
Because the letters were scanned, they appeared in Frederick and Builder's handwriting.
As Frederick explained in a follow-up TikTok, she also also added the date each letter was written to the corner of the napkin, highlighting the length of their relationship.
"These were such a hit at our wedding," she said in the second TikTok. "I've never gotten so many compliments on something."
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The napkins ended up being a big hit at the wedding, as Frederick went on to tell Insider.
"Our guests were so in love with the sweetness and thoughtfulness behind these," she said. "I think having been together for over a decade and having a destination wedding, our guests were very close to us and loved having a glimpse into our life together."
As she went on to say in her follow-up video, Frederick made the napkins by taking an iPhone photo of each note, applying a black-and-white filter to the image, and increasing the contrast. She then used the editing app Canva to crop the image as needed, and she used Vista Print to get the notes printed on napkins.
Frederick said in the first video that the project only cost around $100, but it made a huge difference at the wedding.
"I originally was not really into the custom cocktail-napkin thing, but I had this idea and I was like, 'Alright, I gotta do this,'" she said in the TikTok. "This was my favorite thing at our wedding."