Unique Wedding Theme Ideas
Posted on July 12, 2008 - Filed Under wedding
Why not let your personality shine through with a theme wedding. With a little imagination you can plan a wedding that your guests will not soon forget.
Luau Make your guests feel like they are in Hawaii.
Decorate your reception hall with tiki torches; orchids; and palm fronds. Play traditional Hawaiian music (with Ukulele).
For food and drinks serve pupu platters and mai tais.
For party favors you could give each guest a flower lei
Patriotic Wedding Choose a historic site.
Bridesmaids’ gown and accessories can be red, white, and blue.
You can have fifes and drums.
For food have an old fashioned barbecue.
Serve ice cream and cake with sparklers on top.
All decorations and table linens should be red, white, and blue.
Nautical Weddings
A nautical wedding can be on a yacht, at a yacht club or, even a beach.
For decorations use colorful signal flags.
The bride can wear a straw boater hat instead of a veil and the men can wear blue blazers and khaki pants.
For food you could serve your favorite seafood.
Seashells make delightful centerpieces.
New Orleans Mardi Gras Wedding
Hire a Jazz or Zydeco band
For food you could serve: Cajun, gumbo, crawfish, jambalaya, and an oyster bar
For drinks serve Hurricanes
Give your guests beads as party favors
Kentucky Derby Theme How about a day at the races?
The bride and bridesmaids should wear fabulous hats.
Music should have a bluegrass feel.
For drinks serve Mint Juleps
Give your guests fancy paper fans as party favors.
You may want to arrive in a horse-drawn carriage.
Medieval Wedding - Take your guests back to another time
The couple and attendants should dress in period costumes
For food you could have a carving board, featuring a variety of roasts and other hearty foods.
You can even do the traditional medieval “hand fasting” ritual - The couple face each other, cross arms and hold hands. The best man then ties their hands with a ribbon so that they form the sign for “infinity” while reciting their vows.
Christmas Wedding - What a magical time of year!
The bride can wear a white velvet gown, red cape, and a white fur muff.
Bridesmaids can be dressed in red or white velvet.
For music you can play festive Christmas music. A cute idea would be to have children pass out song sheets and have a Christmas carol -sing-a-long.
For decorations you can use poinsettias, holly and pinecones for centerpieces. A sparkling Christmas tree will put your guests in a festive mood.
The bride can carry holly and gold painted pomegranates. While the bridesmaids carry holly wreaths with tiny silver bells.
Cute Christmas tree ornaments make nice party favors.
Harvest Weddings - Great for Fall Weddings
Decorate your reception hall in cranberry, pumpkin, deep greens, and sables.
For centerpieces use cornucopias with overflowing fruits and vegetables. Pumpkins and gourds also make cute centerpieces. You could cut out the pumpkins for flowers.
The bride could carry autumn flowers and leaves.
Serve comfort food such as a Thanksgiving style-buffet.
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Posted on June 10, 2008 - Filed Under wedding
You don’t have to be having a winter wedding in order to qualify for an Ice White Wedding Theme. In fact, ice white wedding themes are becoming more and more popular for brides all over the world, regardless of their wedding date.
So, what is an ice white wedding theme?
An ice white wedding theme naturally focuses around the colour white. This colour - along with ice blue and shots of silver - should form the basis of your wedding theme. Your dress will be white with a few pearl, iridescent or silver beads sewn onto its bodice. Anything with white feathers, white fluff and white fur are key to creating this look successfully too so a shoulder wrap or bolero will complete the bridal look perfectly.
Centrepieces would look great if created with ice. There are many ice sculptors out there who can make anything you require. Swans are always a good choice or entwined hearts. Another option is to use flowers as a centrepiece. Your florist will discuss ideas with you but generally speaking white roses, white lilies or any other white blooms will look perfect especially when intermingled with silver sprays and pure white feathers.
If your budget won’t permit a stay in the Ice Hotel in Norway, then you need to bring the icy feel to your reception venue. The best way to achieve this is to cover tables with crisp white linen and cover chairs with either white, silver or pale blue chair covers. If your reception venue allows it, you could spray snow onto windows and dangle snowflakes from window frames. Cotton wool on windowsills will also give the venue an authentic feel. Scatter tables with snowflake confetti in white, silver and ice blue.
There is a great deal of choice when it comes to wedding favours. Snowflake bath confetti would be great for the ladies or ice blue organza bags filled with silver confectionery. Any chocolate favours always go down well with male, female and child guests and these could be encased in blue, white or silver favour boxes. Complete the feel of your favour boxes with white feathers or silver snowflake trims.
If finances permit, you could hire in a snow machine to create a really snowy feel outside the venue. This will give you some great photo opportunities from your ice white wedding theme.
When it comes to creating an ice white wedding theme, there are many ways that this can be achieved as outlined above. The main thing is that the stationery, table decorations, flowers and outfits all reflect this icy wintry theme and you can’t go wrong.
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Posted on April 28, 2008 - Filed Under wedding
Are you a Bride-to-Be? Wonderful! Congratulations! But what’s that enormous cloud hanging over you? Of course! It’s that insurmountable task you’re thinking about all the time: “How am I going to create a beautiful and memorable Wedding Day out of thin air?”
You have to create a unique day that everyone will admire and enjoy, and you’ve not got a clue, not a smidgen of an idea how you’re going to achieve this enormous task.
If you’re nervous about getting your wedding perfect, if you’re feeling stressed, are more than a little anxious, are worried about how to please everyone and still really-imploringly-desperately want to end up with a day that’s all about the Love that You and Your Only Man have for each other, rest assured that you are definitely going to get there! Yes, even though you don’t know how right now.
Every Bride-to-Be who’s set their Wedding date knows how difficult it is to get started figuring out how their Wedding day will look, and feel and sound and taste.
No Bride-to-Be wants a disastrous Wedding day. Sadly, they do happen often enough.
Nor do you want a day that is so nothing special that none of the guests really remembers what happened at your wedding: because there was nothing special to remember, to recount, to tell others about. Of course, the guests came. And of course, they seemed to enjoy themselves - after all, they ate and they drank. Some even danced. And then they went off to their own homes. And that was the end. Nothing. Very few of your guests had anything special to say about the Big Event in your life. Just another ho-hum wedding.
Of course, you’re thinking: “How can I put together a day that will be totally so unique, so special, so memorable that all our guests will be talking about this Wedding for years to come? Would be easy if I had a couple million for a budget: I’d just get the best wedding planner money can buy and, voila! But how is a magnificent wedding going to happen, especially with the budget we’ve got?”
Coming up with a wedding that looks, feels, sounds, smells, and tastes unique, different, memorable for everyone can be a virtually impossible, especially if you’ve not a clue where to begin.
Of course, you know what you want!
You want the colors and hues of your wedding to show off your personal favorites and make you feel ten times as beautiful as you have felt in his arms. And you want every one of your guests to enjoy looking at the wonderful choices you have made, and ooh & ah over them in honest appreciation.
You want your wedding invitations, decorations, flowers, in fact, every bit of your Wedding Day, to convey the unique emotions that you and your man alone feel. The Beauty and Love that is You and Your Man. That is the feeling you want to share with all your guests, have them drop their jaws with amazement, surprise and delight, wherever they look!
In short, you want to create your own piece of History, your own Royal Celebration in your own segment of Society.
So, where do you begin?
To answer that question, look to those who are already doing it every day for a living: the Wedding Planner. Where would a professional wedding planner begin?
She would leaf through her little black book of Wedding Themes. That’s what she’d do.
And that’s where you need to start, (especially if you’ve got other ideas for spending the massive fees that a Wedding Planner would charge.)
The What and Why of Wedding Themes:
A Theme to a Wedding is like a signature tune that plays and replays, softly, quietly, hauntingly but repeatedly, throughout a movie or opera. And then, when you walk back home from the show, you find yourself humming that same tune. And it stays with you, appears in your head at odd moments of time, and brings back the memories of special scenes from the show, time and time again.
Without a theme, a show is doomed from the start, like a movie without music, or an opera without an orchestra humming away in the pit.
A theme pulls the show together into a single Celebration, which, though it be made of many separate parts, still belong together.
A Wedding with a theme is remembered, cherished and relished in the hearts and memories of the guests who are privileged to have been invited to such an event.
A theme sets the stage for the Bridal Couple, encases the Couple’s Love for each other like an elegant frame surrounds a prized painting or beloved photograph.
So start thinking. And doing. Utilize the Power of Themes to make your Wedding Day beautiful, romantic, and historic. Put together what you need for your wedding day. Now paint it with the colors of your theme, be it a Spring Theme, an Oriental Theme, or any other. Let every aspect of your Wedding Day reflect your chosen theme, as far as is possible.
Yes, you will get excited doing all this. And think about your guests! They will be overawed at the event you have created. And they will remember. They will tell others, discuss, praise.
Most importantly they will enjoy. And remember.
Go and do it: Utilize the Power of Themes to raise your wedding celebration a couple of notches above the rest.
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