Oh how wedding planning used to be so easy with its one basic wedding theme: tradition. Brides wore white, grooms behaved, wedding receptions were civilised affairs, everyone had a tiered cake, music was limited, and people were happy with just champagne and wine and a few nibbles.
Check out this sexy halloween marriage on Happily Ever After:
Alas this is the case no more. In the competitive world that we now belong, every wannabe-happy couple is looking to outdo the wedding of their friend/sister/brother/college/ex-partner/etc. Now this challenge has seen many couples buck tradition and move away from the standard wedding day in an attempt to create the most memorable wedding ever! And an easy way to do this is by giving your wedding a theme.
Now a theme doesn’t have to mean your whole guest list has to dress up in medieval attire and sit at a long table eating a medieval banquet of hog roast and drinking wine out of a chalice, (though if that floats your boat, by all means do it). Having a theme can be something as simple as a subtle colour scheme for your bridesmaids and the venue, themed table decorations and flowers at the reception. A little bit of colour can go a long way to create a really strong effect that is bound to be noticed by your guests. Sparkle, also, can be a theme on its own. This is your chance to look like a genuine princess after all, so don’t miss out on the chance to shine like one!
A common way to theme your wedding is by creating unique table decorations and/or naming the tables at the reception, perhaps with something meaningful from the couples time together. But if you can spare the time, take it one step further but adapting that name to what’s on the table itself. Whether it be the flowers, the colour scheme, the favours, help give whoever is sitting at that table the personal touch (everyone likes to feel special at the end of the day.)
But if churches and wedding dresses are a bit to boring for your tastes then throw out the rulebook and do it your way. The world is your provable oyster when it comes to your wedding: beaches, fields, castles, front rooms, sheds – there are venues a plenty! And if you want to dress up like Marilyn Monroe from ‘The Seven Year Itch’ and your husband to be wants to be dressed as a spaceman, then do it. At the end of the day, it’s Your Day and if you can’t be selfish on your wedding day, then we can you be?
