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Choosing Wedding Themes

By on May 16th, 2011

You might want a theme for your wedding, but you don’t have a clue which one will work best for you. Either that, or your brain is crowded with an abundance of wedding theme ideas that you can’t possibly fit into just one wedding.

Don’t panic! there is a perfect wedding theme out there for you and your spouse-to-be. Even if you’re clueless about what wedding theme to use, you undoubtedly have secured at least one of these wedding elements: wedding color(s), wedding venues, wedding date. Yes, we can start brainstorming wedding themes from there!

Wedding Color

Wedding colors are a great jumping off point for choosing wedding themes. Going with popular images and themes associated with a certain color, your wedding theme will be easy-breezy to incorporate along with all other wedding elements. Different shades for just one color is more than enough. For example, there are many shades of blue. Dark blue is associated with navy; pair it with red and white, ropes and sailboats for a lovely navy-themed wedding. Royal blue is, well, royal; combined with silver it is perfect for an elegant, royal affair. Light blue evokes images of sunny skies and clear waters–ideal with a destination wedding.

Wedding Venue

Wedding venues with strong identifying points can inspire great wedding theme ideas. Holding your reception at a ranch is perfect for a romantic country wedding with DIY touches here and there. A museum hall is great for a quirky yet formal affair. A school yard or hall is just the place for a school-themed wedding (and is perfect for couple who met at a school, too).

Wedding Date

Be inspired with the season. Having spring, summer, fall or winter theme weddings is a classic choice. It makes the most of Mother Nature’s free backdrop. And everything is cheaper when it is in season–you just might be surprised at how much lower your flowers will cost when you choose flowers in season.

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Essential Elements for a 1920s Wedding Theme

By admin on October 21st, 2010

Want something different for your wedding theme? How about going back several decades into the past for inspiration? To be more specific, how about looking back to the 1920s?

Get inspiration from the period of silent movies and jazz music to have an elegant wedding. Surely, a 1920s wedding theme will make your special day glamorous and fun.

To have a 1920s-themed wedding, all you have to do is incorporate some recognizable 1920s elements to your wedding and – voila! – instant memorable vintage wedding!

Pull off your 1920s-themed wedding and make it truly reflect the spirit of the era through the following essential items:

  • 1920s wedding attire
    • Bride
      • Simple straight silk dress or flapper dress with sash around the hips
      • Seamed stockings
      • Low-strapped pumps
    • Groom
      • Zoot suit
      • Ascot tie
      • Vintage shoes
  • Accessories
    • Flapper boas
    • Feather headbands
    • Vintage pearls
  • Music
    • Jazz music
    • Broadway musical-themes
  • Colors
    • Black and white (with a dash of red)
  • Venue and Decorations
    • Indoors (transform the place to make it look like a jazz nightclub)
    • Fans and feathers
    • White or pale pink roses
    • Black and white photos of 1920s movie starts
  • Menu
    • Waldorf salad
    • Pineapple upside-down cake
    • Broiled steak
    • Rice Croquettes
    • Martinis/ Champagne punch

With these items, create a sense of fun and wild abandon, which reflects the 1920s atmosphere. Remember that the Roaring 20s is all about fun adventure and simply having a good time.

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Ideas for a Beautiful Butterfly Wedding

By admin on October 13th, 2010

Butterflies are elegant creatures that many women are fond of. This is why incorporating the beauty and elegance of these fluttering creatures into a wedding makes a lot of sense. If you are thinking of having a unique wedding, why not use butterfly a theme? Here are some tips on how you can carry out a butterfly-themed wedding:

Wedding Attire

The advantage of butterfly wedding theme is that you can wear a wedding gown of any design or color. To be consistent with the theme, just have the dressmaker sew butterfly appliqués to your dress or veil. This could also be done for the bridesmaid dresses. As for your accessories, wear a butterfly tiara or headpiece. You may also choose to wear butterfly-inspired jewelries to complete your look.

Venue Decors

Butterfly wedding theme decorations are one of the easiest wedding decorations that anyone can do. Either adorn the place with lots of flowers and replica butterflies suspended in the air or choose a botanical garden as your venue where you could have real butterflies flying around between authentic flowers. Then decorate the tables with butterfly centerpieces. Butterfly accessories can also be used to decorate candles, the guest book, etc.

Wedding reception

There are different designs of butterfly-themed wedding cake available to suit any couple’s taste – you may choose a cake with colorful designs or something simple yet elegant. The tradition of butterfly release during reception can also be done. If you are not in favor of using live butterflies, you may throw out colorful flower petals instead as substitute.

The bottomline is, you can easily use butterfly designs in every wedding detail, from the invites to your wedding favors. Just use your creativity to take full advantage of the elegance that a butterfly wedding theme can bring to your most special day.

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Wedding Theme Ideas for Autumn Weddings

By admin on September 9th, 2010

Autumn is a great season for weddings. No heatstroke to worry about, no sudden shower to watch out for. The slight chilliness in the air, not to mention the gentle wind and falling leaves, provide the perfect romantic atmosphere for a wedding.

To make your autumn wedding more beautiful and exciting, you should pick a wedding theme that highlights the season. Here are some suggestions:

Harvest Themed Wedding

Celebrate the bounty of local fruits, vegetables, and flowers! Serve a delicious wedding cake of apple, carrot or pumpkin cake to complement the theme. You can decorate your harvest themed wedding cake with acorns, fresh wildflowers and other greenery. You may also want to consider a farm as your wedding location.

Apple Wedding Theme

Apple red or burgundy can be a perfect bridesmaid dress color. You may also use apples and faux autumn leaves as centerpieces. An apple orchard is the ideal place to get married if you are using this theme.

Autumn Colors Wedding Theme

Embrace autumn beauty by choosing deep shades of maroon, yellow, orange, brown and gold as bridesmaid dress colors. Wedding centerpieces may include flowers and candles in these colors. Take advantage of the natural color of the foliage and hold an outdoor wedding in a park or vineyard.

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Unleash Your Inner Goth With a Gothic Wedding Theme

By admin on August 4th, 2010

Ever thought about having a different kind of wedding? If you want a unique wedding theme, then why don’t you try a gothic wedding? Although you have to consider this carefully as this theme may not be suitable to some people. Bordering on the darker side of human nature, a gothic wedding is often associated with dark colors and ancient symbols.

Clothes

Although gothic themes tend to use dark colors, feel free to wear a white wedding dress. Use red or black as accents, instead. Or you may want something a little sweet, like a mix of pink and black. Choose between royal purple and midnight blue, or a combination of jet black and blood red as colors for your bridesmaids’ dress.

Decorations

As with a traditional wedding, flowers works well with a gothic wedding. Vivid poppies, with their red petals around a black center, are perfect for a black and red gothic wedding. For a more traditional gothic effect, spread some red rose petals around the venue. Or try some dead flowers on thorny branches. Don’t forget to incorporate gothic symbols, such as crosses, stars and ankhs, as well as skulls, bones and gargoyles in your decors.

Food

You may serve almost any dish, just keep the presentation consistent with the gothic theme. For example, you may decorate each plate with black roses. Decorate your wedding cake with red, teardrop jewels to create an impression of drops of blood.

Choosing a wedding theme is a matter of taste – yours. So if you are okay with a gothic wedding theme, then by all means, get on with it. Just let your guests know (through the invites, perhaps?) what to expect so they wouldn’t be shocked by your gothic ideas.

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The Low Down on Custom Wedding Cake Toppers

By admin on July 26th, 2010

A wedding cake, either simple or multi-tiered, is a significant part of a wedding ceremony. A beautiful wedding cake helps make a wedding memorable. Because of this, cake designs have evolved over the years. Along with this evolution is the inevitable changes in the design of wedding cake toppers.

Wedding cake toppers are necessities in decorating wedding cakes since they are meant for several purposes. They reflect not only the wedding theme but the personal style of the wedding couple. The couple may also keep the cake topper as a souvenir of the joyous event. As such, many couples prefer to have custom wedding cake toppers made to their specifications.

A custom wedding cake topper allows the bride and groom to showcase their personal style and interest through its design. There are couples who choose to design their cake toppers base on their respective hobbies. So, it’s not uncommon to see a wedding cake topper where there’s a figurine of the bride wearing a beach outfit while the groom’s figurine is wearing a scuba gear. This type of design is also appropriate if the couple is having a beach wedding theme.

There are couples who prefer to incorporate their chosen advocacy in the design of their cake topper. As an example, a couple who are into animal rights may use an animal-themed topper to drive home their message to their guests.

If you plan on having your own custom wedding cake topper, talk with your spouse-to-be to make sure that your ideas match perfectly. And remember to plan in advance since orders may take as long as one week to be prepared.

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Quick Guide to a Fairy Tale Wedding Theme

By admin on July 9th, 2010

Planning a fairytale-themed wedding involves a lot of creativity. To give you some fairy tale wedding theme ideas, use the following list as a guide.

Bride’s attire

The wedding dress should transform you into the princess you always wanted to be so choose a huge ball gown with a princess sleeve. Wear clear shoes, which can be either glass or plastic. Accessorize your attire with a heart necklace. If you have long hair, tie it loosely and wear it down. Complete the look with a tiara.

Location

The ideal venues are cathedral, a country club, or a mansion. If these venues are beyond your budget, an ordinary church and a large hall (for the reception) will do.

Catering

Choose a large buffet style menu. Have a three-tier cake with a toy castle cake topper. Customize a glass slipper ice sculpture for the center of the buffet table.

Decor

In keeping with the fairy tale wedding theme, use fairytale-related items such as red carpet, thrones, pumpkin coach, and glass slippers as decorations. You may also use red roses and ivory decorations and lots of white tulle.

Wedding Colors

Use deep blues, burgundy and purples, accented with silver of gold

Invitations

Send out scrolls as wedding invitations — written in calligraphic font for added effect.

Transport

A horse drawn carriage, preferably white, is perfect. Inquire if there are carriage rentals in your area.

Music

Either use Disney princess-inspired songs, or your own collection of classic love songs.

Attendants

Bridesmaids may wear traditional gowns that complement yours. Have them braid their hair and wear floral head wreaths.

It’s common knowledge that almost every woman used to dream about becoming a princess when they were little. That may be too fantastic, but hey, a girl can dream, can’t she? Well, the closest to making that dream a reality is by having your very own fairy tale wedding.

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Dress Tips for Your Western Style Wedding

By admin on June 23rd, 2010

A western wedding theme is one of the more adaptable wedding themes. You can either make it formal or casual and have it indoors or outdoors. Depending on the arrangements, the wedding attire can also be adapted to fit the theme. Saddle up and start planning what you’ll be wearing for your western-inspired wedding. Here are some design points to consider:

  • The Length
    • Western-inspired wedding dresses typically fall above the ankles, instead of having them flow to the ground like most wedding gowns do. Handkerchief hemlines are also common with these gowns.
  • Style
    • Prairie dress-styled, the neckline of western style dress is keyhole-shaped. The waistline is commonly fitted while the popular design for sleeves are either the full-length Gibson sleeve or the shorter Cap sleeves. A 1880’s Victorian style dress is also a great choice.
  • Materials
    • Popular materials for western-styled gowns are lace and faille, plus crepe-back satin, silk satin and satin gabardine. Whatever type of material the gown is made from, they often have outer layer of lace or lots of lace trim.

In choosing your western wedding theme gown, make sure to consider the accessories you’ll be needing. Take note that the veil and the hat should match your dress. If you don’t want a hat, a flower wreath may be enough as a headpiece. And instead of shoes, it is more appropriate to wear boots, either Victorian lace up boots or cowboy boots.

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By admin on April 24th, 2010

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How To Plan A Beautiful Atlantic City Themed Wedding?

By admin on April 24th, 2010

Chances are your wedding is something that you have been dreaming about since you were a little girl. However, now the time is here! He popped the question, you said yes, and now it is time for you to put those dreams into motion and to make them a reality.

The first thing that you want to do is decide what type of wedding you want to have. You want it to be fun, romantic, full of love, and memorable. Well, if that is the case, then why not look into having an Atlantic City Themed wedding? It’s a unique idea with a lot of charm that your guests will never forget.

The idea of Atlantic City brings with it nostalgia, romance, and the fun and life of the boardwalk in the summertime. You can encompass all of that within your Atlantic City Themed wedding. The first step is to find a location that will allow you to bring in the spirit of Atlantic City. An obvious choice is to find an outdoor location on a boardwalk by the water. This does not necessarily mean in Atlantic City, but you certainly could. However, if that is not in your budget, there are often parks or restaurants that have wooden decks next to bodies of water naturally occurring or manmade. Though it would be quite lovely for a ceremony, you could use it strictly for your reception if you would rather.

Next, you are going to want to think about the decor for the event. To keep it truly in the feel of Atlantic City, you are going to want to keep it in a seaside motif, but with the bright and eye-catching colors that the boardwalks are known for. Keep it in bright sea blues, eye-catching pinks, and emerald greens. Use these colors for your table linens, and your flowers. By coordinating the two, you will enjoy a visually pleasing event.

You will also want to incorporate some of the spirit of Atlantic City into your event, and what is more symbolic of the boardwalk than real salt-water taffy. Kids from far and wide love going to the shore to get that authentic salt-water taffy and it will make a great addition to your wedding. In fact, it really makes a great favor. Perhaps you might want to look at doing a salt-water taffy bar where you have all sorts of different flavors in different containers for your guests to pick and choose from. Or if you have a different favor in mind and a rather small budget for flowers maybe you want to use coordinating colored taffy in a clear vase to serve as the centerpiece for your tables.

From there you can really let your creativity fly. Do you want to create homage to old school Atlantic City? If so then maybe you want to incorporate some classic circus posters into your decor. Or if you would rather have a nod to the Atlantic City of today, then maybe you will want to hire a couple of dealers to come in with some tables to create your very own casino. The truth is the only limit to your options is your own creativity!

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