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We're having a vintage themed wedding.
How did I decide on it? I really don't know. Hours and hours and hours (srsly. I had no job last summer aside from being a stay at home mama) of wedding research. Originally we were going to do an Old Hollywood theme and get married in the theatre but we scratched that idea after my fiance got in his truck accident as he can no longer get up on the stage in the theatre since its not wheelchair accessible.
Does your fiance understand your need for a theme or does he just think you're crazy for having a theme, colors, etc?
We didn't really have a "theme". When kind of have cheesy associations when it comes to themes, but then again, there are tons of themed weddings that come out beautifully. I guess we just had an overall look instead of a theme. I liked the look of whites, ivories with sparkle, crystals and bling :) That kind of look can quickly get over the top so I wanted to keep it elegant yet notable. Here's a shot of our decor behind our head table which I think captures the overall look of the wedding!
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I guess mine is an "earthy spring" theme. One thing I'm not is a pastel/ pink/purple/yellow girl. Don't get me wrong I think those colors are beautiful and are wonderful for weddings, I just don't think I could pull it off. I tend to gravitate towards more rich colors (Reds/Browns/Greens/Golds). Since we picked may I wanted something that would fit the time of year in Ohio.
I am going with a Pearl/Ivory/New brown wedding with slight green accents. I like the idea of keeping it more earthy as this time in ohio not all the blooms are out yet and mostly greenery and brown. That's literally all the thought I put into it, lol.
We didn't really have a "theme". When kind of have cheesy associations when it comes to themes, but then again, there are tons of themed weddings that come out beautifully. I guess we just had an overall look instead of a theme. I liked the look of whites, ivories with sparkle, crystals and bling :) That kind of look can quickly get over the top so I wanted to keep it elegant yet classy and notable. Here's a shot of our decor behind our head table which I think captures the overall look of the wedding!
I only knew that I wanted antique blue hydrangeas. I pointed them out while my FI and I were shopping at Whole Foods. He said, "That looks very Jane Austen." I kind of had my "aha moment" right there ion the grocery store. He looked at me like I was crazy.
He's British and we live in Austin, TX so I'm kind of doing a Jane Austen meets Austin thing. My colors are pearl and antique blue with a pinch of lavender and cream. Our venue has a secret garden feel and were totally serving BBQ. I made an idea board with magazine cut outs, fabric swatches, etc and put it up in our office. Now that he has a concrete visual he's gotten more on board with the whole theme and color shebang (although I'm sure he still thinks I'm crazy for having a theme).
We've got a sort of rustic, vintage, southern vibe going. If it's a theme it exists only in my head, I pulled from alot of things I liked.
Our colors are turquoise and yellow.
And it just sort of fell into place.
In my head it sort of looks like a big southern kinda fancy but not stuffy party.
My fiance' is rolling pretty well with it. He likes the small down home southern accents we've got (old fashioned glass bottles of coke and cheerwine in washtubs, cake buffet, mason jars) that keep it from being too stuffy.
Is it weird to say, I love my wedding??? lol
I'm with absolutbettie. I don't have a "theme" unless "wedding" and "us" counts, LOL! I also don't really have "colours". I just don't like being stuck with does this fit into ____ theme. Plus I agree, I find the idea of themes to be a bit cheesey at time. Maybe that's just my design training coming out, we like concepts ;)
To decide what our wedding would look like, I found a tabletop photo I loved and sort of went of the vibe of it. I call it rustic elegance. FI loves it, but he's leaving all the decisions up to me really. I don't think he's really seen anything I've picked out and hated it.
Um... I think that I just named the decorations I decided on vs. decided on a theme and found decorations to fit.. if that makes sense? We're getting married in February in Ohio (cold/snow!) and the venue we happened to find is a converted warehouse... very urban industrial with lots of exposed brick and concrete floors. Because of the season and budget I decided to skip floral decor and go with lots and lots of candles in varying heights and branches and I always liked jewel tones so I decided on sapphire blue and jade green. Those happened to be peacock colors so I decided to do peacock accents. Overall though when I think about brick + lots of candles + lanterns + buffet I think urban rooftop party kind of vibe... so I think thats kind of what we are.
We both love photography/pictures so we are sort of having that as our theme. It will also have a modern feel to it.
We're going with a 1940's Old Hollywood "look" for the wedding, but no real "theme"... the reception, however, will be 1980's Nintendo Themed!!
Ours is loosely lace I guess. Our centerpieces have votives covered in lace. Our wedding invites and donation cards have a lacy design on them, my dress is lace, and the cake is going to be wrapped in lace.
Right after we got engaged, FH said that he wanted a wedding that would be reminescent of his grandparents' wedding in the early 1950s. They had a fairly fancy wedding for that time - tails, big band, champagne fountain... We looked through their wedding album and immediately thought of the big party at the beginning of "Sabrina," so that is the "theme" that we have focused around. For us, this means an outdoor reception in the garden of a big house, a Grace Kelly-like dress, standards music, soft lighting and lots of twinkle lights under the stars, simple flowers, and lots of white.
I don't know so much that I have a "theme" but ideas that all kind of went together
1.) I am obsessed with plaid. Really, crazy, obsessed. I have silk plaid dresses, cotton plaid dresses, plaid shorts, plaid shirts, plaid everything. I stumbled upon this beautiful blackwatch tartan taffeta fabric on ebay that has turned out beautifully for my table runners and pew ties.
2.) FI loves golf and we met on a golf course, so his grooms cake is going to be little cupcakes that are iced and covered in fondant to resemble golf balls, which will be displayed on little golf tees. At the top will be a flag with a Masters-like logo (instead of saying "Masters" itll say our last name)
3.) when I think of plaid, I think of scotland and when I think of scotland, I think of St. Andrews and Carnoustie, both famous links courses.
So while I didnt start off with a "golf" theme, now it seems like thats kind of what it is. Being able to call it a "golf" theme has also helped with coming up with new ideas (drinks at the bar will be served with our golf flag thingie; I'm doing a guest-quilt, with our married monogram to be the center patch, but as part of the decoration, im going to hang the monogram like a banner on a child's sized golf iron...I'm also thinking of doing a scotch and cigar bar, because nothing says scotland golf like scotch.)
If we have a theme it wasn't on purpose. Everything is outdoors and we couldn't afford catering or a full meal so it automatically became pretty casual. Our venue throws in yard games for free. And we're southern. So it's turned into a backyard southern picnic.
We're going with a "starry night" theme (i'm super creative w/ my bee name, eh). Lots of deep deep blues, champagnes, ivorys, vintage yellow and CANDLES. lots of candles. I picked it after thinking of what colors I like (blues, vintage yellows, etc) and the mood I wanted - If i could have Ross & Emily's wedding from Friends I would. I swoon at candle lights.
Since the reception is outside, on a cliff, overlooking the Pacific Ocean, most of our candles are ending up being in lanterns (thanks Ikea & Pier 1) and votives. If I could, I'd do candelabras, but my planner says they'll blow out. Boo.
Our theme is 'golf' but we are trying to keep it not too cheesy! FI proposed on the golf course, and golfing is something we have always loved to do together. We are having our reception on our golf course...so the table numbers will be like little golf flags, and the favours will be personalized golf tees and balls in little organza bags. Our colours are green and white with a splash of hot pink. Our cupcakes will be green and white and we will have some sort of cake that is golf related. In order for us to kiss during dinner, guests will have to sink a putt on a mini putting green. I'm hoping that the golf theme won't take over too much, and we can still have really pretty, traditional decorations as well.
Our theme is christmas, FH thinks I am crazy BUT understands why I wanted christmas. I LOVE LOVE christmas! And why spends thousands of dollars on decor you'll never use with a christmas wedding you can use it every year :)
We decided on our "theme" basically because of where we are getting married. We are having the ceremony and reception outdoors at Brookmere Winery. So have a few things to equal our theme: vintage, garden (ceremony takes place there), and some hints of winery (such as cork place card holders and wine bottle with candle centerpieces.).
I did't want a full out theme but each one works together well and is simple, but not over the top.
We're doing 40s-vintage. We were originally going to do a Steampunk wedding until we realized how damn expensive EVERYTHING would be, so we went with the next best thing.
We didn't decide on anything until we booked the venue... because it is a bed and bread breakfast built turn of the century we set a victorian theme.
We don't really have a theme either but we are using multiple shades of aqua (turquoise, teal and peacock blue mostly) with lots of gold accents. We will also hopefully hace tins of deep yellow flowrs and tons of candles. That is really all I want.
Budget Blorange (that's blue and orange, by the way.) His favorite "color" is blorange. I started thinking of how one could pull it off for a wedding when his favorite cousin (who started a website based on blorange) sent out her wedding invites. Navy blue bridesmaids dresses and flowers similar to my favorite rose (the hard to find, color change, Rio Samba. Starts off bright yellow and orange, changes to salmon, orange and a softer yellow, and eventually fades to carnation pink and cream. We used to have one in our yard.) Also, since my parents started to freak out over me wanting to invite more people than they expected (100 people? Really? since when is that big?), also decided it'd be best to go budget. Outdoor wedding in Missouri inMay, which means citronella candles, which precludes much really elegant stuff, plus I wanted board games on the tables. So I came up with butcher paper table-cloths... Which gave rise to having crayons on the table. Some Bees came up with the idea of having framed drawings on the tables to go with the crayons. Outdoor suggested seeds as favors.
But knowing us, I kind of doubt this'll be a cohesive theme whatsoever.
My theme is Mexican/Spanish and it was decided on purely because of convenience. My FI and I are paying for the wedding and wanted to keep the budget small. We also wanted something informal that fit our farmhouse venue. I live in San Diego which is on the border of Mexico. With that said, there are a ton of taco caterers, Mexican food stores, bakeries, dry goods stores in the area that sell Mexican items for cheap. I am also part Spanish so incorporating the two was a no-brainer.
Also my colors are blue and orange. I wanted something fiesta-ish and wanted bright vibrant colors. Bright blue and orange were the first ones I thought of.
We're having a "music" themed wedding - which really just means I'm forced to limit my planning/options instead of having 5000 different things I want and crafty things to do ;) Both FH and I are lay-musicans (bass and guitars for him, drums for me ['duh!' on the bee name], piano for both of us) so it was pretty easy to pick something that would be meaningful to both of us. Plus, it fits in well with our colour palette of silver, royal blue and lavender - I'm already planning to have cute silver glittery musical notes somewhere.
No theme. Not really. We're getting married in farm country in the spring, are having the wedding at a little white church, and hosting the reception under a beautiful vineyard pavillion. Whatever makes sense with that, I guess, is the theme.
I think that we have a "feel" as opposed to a "theme". The wedding is just stuff we like. Good music, polka dots and retro-inspired colors and patterns, mixed with horror movies, Halloween and some good old-fashioned geekdom. Quirky, nerdy and fun, but still classy, just like us. :)
Whenever anyone asks me this I say, "The theme is 'wedding.'"
I chose to go with a specific look/aesthetic (modern elegance) rather than a particular theme. I find that themes can sometimes end up looking too contrived and just get taken too far (in some, not all, cases).
I think the key with themes is just to use them in a few key areas, but not to go overboard with them.
Our theme is "medieval/fantasy/d&d". It was really easy to choose, since we both game (dungeons and dragons and a few other that a friend runs, but mostly D&D), we write fantasy ina medieval world.
Choosing the outfits was easy (I'd given him a costume for a early christmas present one year, already), and I've been drooling over an underbust corset since last year. And I have a wedding gown that was given to me years ago from a cousin (it was on consignment and didn't sell and the person never came back for it...it's also a vintage gown, so it'll appease all the traditionalists -my family & his- when I have pics taken in it. they'll despise the corset, though, lol)
The colors were easy to choose too: we both love purple and black, and silver is a color we use as a family color in our novels. (also my most FAVORITE character EVER lol).
The gaming comes out in the guest sheets that'll go in a book and the dice the kids will get. Also hoping to have custom dice (20 sided type dice) for the adults, too.
the wedding is outside, since neither of us wants a church involved and it's pretty close to where we currently live.
My favorite color is pink and though I knew my FI would not be happy with a pink wedding (though he said if I had my heart set than I could) I tried to figure out another color to go with it. So I just went to my second favorite color which is brown. We both love brown because we both look great in brown. So I said, "Honey, how would you feel if I tied in brown with the pink and did a pink and brown wedding?!" He was thrilled, haha (for the brown and not just pink or pink and another girly color)
Then I got to thinking ... what is brown and pink?! Cherry Blossoms! And bing! We are having a cherry blossom wedding.
I didn't have a theme or colors... we just figured it would morph as we planned. And, guess what - it didn't. We used silver for our invites and my dress has silver accents in it...
When people ask me what our color or theme is - I say 'silver' and "wedding". They say: oh, that makes sense ;) haha
@Zinzerena: That sounds AWESOME! Wish I could talk my guy into a medieval wedding...
We are having a very grown up version of knights and princesses at our wedding. I always have called him my knight in shining armor and he thinks of me as his princess. We both love midevil literature and everything so we want to encorporate into our wedding without being overly cheesy.
My FI is picking out swords for all the groomsmen and himself. He is then going to have them engraved with a name that stands for why he thinks they are his "brothers" (he is going to call all his groomsmen his "brothers", so no best man) and they will wear these swords during the ceremony. I will be wearing a big floofy skirt with a lace bodice and the men will be wearing silver tuxes that "look like a coat of armour" as my FI says.
I'm currently on the scout for a knight and princess figurine I can use as our cake topper for our wedding. I'm probably going to make my own base for it.
Our theme was "Hey we are committing to spend the rest of our lives together, let's all have a freaking awesome day/night."
I didn't feel it was necessary to come up with a theme in the sense that I define a theme, but our decor was inspired and bound by our colors and by the inspiration that I found in our venue. It was a winery. Our stuff all was chosen and designed to look good in its surroundings; so, somewhat on the more natural side, with some corks and wine barrels and wine bottles incorporated as well. Our venue was so stunning that it really would have been distracting to try to compete with it by theming our decor as a like 40s theme or something. Beauty in what already is, that's how our wedding ended up being stupendously gorgeous.
Our wedding "theme" is seaside elegence! It is not "beach theme," because I don't like how cheesy it sounds...so it's seaside elegence...:D
I'm pretty lenient with the colors. They are sky blue and sea green with lavender accents...but as long as it all goes together it works :D
I picked it because it's my dream to get married on the beach (which I am) and I wanted something a little elegent but goes along with us...we do live on the east coast of fl...so the beach is our second home..
What I think that we are going with is something of a antique/woodsy/country feel with some modern unconventional touches. We both believe is some traditions, ( more him than me) and we really beileve in family. So those will play important roles. We both love being in the outdoors , so I bet that will make a show some how. :)
We have a chess theme. Subtle, but it's there. I have kept it on the STDs' and the invites but the only thing chess at the reception will be one cake.
You have to be careful themes don't take over!!
Here is a blog post about our chess theme:
My original theme was hydrangeas (my favorite flower), and I was going to put each couple in the bridal party in different colors to match the different colors of hydrangeas...but hydrangeas really only come in four colors (pink, blue, white, green, with variations on those four colors), and we have 5 attendants on each side.
So I just made the theme "blue" and we're using blue hydrangeas as our flowers. Everyone will be in a different shade of blue, and I think it will look awesome. It's easier for me to DIY stuff when the theme is "blue."
Our "theme" is Japanese Cherry Blossoms. I wanted to find an interest that FI and I shared. My first choices would have been music or chocolate, and his would have been video games and computer networking 
. But he loves Japanese culture and I adore cherry blossoms. Voila, we have a style that represents us both. Cherry blossoms won't be the sole flower. We'll incorprate other asian style flowers and bamboo, too. Colors-cream, dk. brown, red, pink accents.
@Scottielass: We will have to share stuff along the way. :) I am doing simply cherry blossoms without the Japanese part. I would love to see how something similar yet different turns out! Keep me updates! :)
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