Theme ideas for wedding
Elegance is in the details, and providing a theme to tie your wedding details together can create beautiful results. Here are some topics to consider when choosing a wedding theme for your wedding and reception.
Period:
Depending on the time frame you choose, a vintage theme can be a very elegant and formal wedding or an eclectic and fun one. Choose a Victorian wedding theme set among gazebos and rose gardens with lots of lace and gold. Try a fifties wedding theme with hoop skirts, socks, and old-fashioned rock and roll.
Country:
This theme can be decoration or fashion. Choose butter yellow, cornflower blue, and maroon for the colors. Put stylish chickens on everything from invitations to tablecloths to cake to gifts. You could even organize the reception at a farm or barn.
Butterflies, unicorns and stars:
Take any cute animal, icon or image and make it a theme. For a butterfly wedding, sew butterflies to your gown bodice with gold or silver thread or wear chiffon wings, garnish the cake with sugar crystal butterflies, and release live butterflies after vows and rings are exchanged.
Cultural and ethnic:
Weddings that are highly religious or ethnic adopt a theme automatically. Play threading it throughout the entire wedding process, from the invitation to the reception. Place sacred herbs on your wedding invitations, cover the ceremony with Bible verses, and serve food from your homeland at the reception. Weddings for people who are very political or dedicated to a cause can have natural themes. Gay marriage ceremonies can be accompanied by rainbow colors or other cultural elements that are important to the wedding couple.
Candlelight and fairies:
An evening wedding could turn into a fairy paradise with colored lights, tulle, and floating candles. Fountains, lanterns, and flickering glass could decorate tables. The bride and groom could pass under a lighted gazebo amid the tinkling of wind chimes.
Sand, waves and fairy tales:
Destination and fairytale weddings can create their own themes. Beach weddings or even weddings where the couple plans to honeymoon on the beach can have a beach theme throughout the wedding experience with gifts of sand or boat in a bottle, Hawaiian pizza appetizers , fruity drinks and sounds of waves. Fairytale weddings are often held at amusement parks. The bride can choose to be Sleeping Beauty or Cinderella for a day and find Prince Charming in her groom. Bring the magic by designing fairy tale invitations and gifts and inviting guests to come dressed as their favorite characters.
Masquerade:
Add drama and intrigue to a wedding by throwing a masquerade. Invite the fantastic by asking guests to attend in masks, ball gowns and tuxedos. Instead of lifting a wedding veil to kiss the bride, the bride and groom could remove their masks.
Any wedding theme adds a continuity of experience to a wedding and reception. It can release a sense of play in both the attendees and the bridal couple. With a theme, it is important to remember that the elegance may be in the details, but the joy is in experiencing them. Pick a theme, have fun implementing it, and enjoy your special day.