Wedding Theme and Style

A theme or style will give your wedding continuity and give your guests a more memorable experience. When choosing an overall theme and style for your wedding and reception, make a list of personality traits and interests of both you and your groom. Are you fun loving and adventurous or do you like spending quiet evenings at home cooking and watching movies? Do you enjoy travel or certain sports? Is your passion spending time with close family members or going out on the town partying and dancing? The first party you host as husband and wife needs to reflect who you are as individuals and as a couple. You want your guests to walk into your reception and say “Oh, this just looks like ______ and ______!”

Be creative with how you incorporate your interests into your event. Your “save the date” cards and/or invitations can set the style and tone of the event. Do you enjoy or have you always wanted to get away to a tropical island but didn’t want or couldn’t afford a destination wedding? Bring the tropics to your guests with a destination style wedding using palm tree and tropical motifs on printed products and orchids and tropical flowers and greenery in flowers. Bright colors can also give a tropical feel. Or if you are a sit around the fireplace couple, choose a more intimate, personal venue and give it warmth with lots of candles and more muted, comfortable colors. If you like to travel, consider using a map motif on invitations and favors and let guests know that you are “taking the next step in your journey together” and you would love to” take them along for the ride”. Instead of table numbers, give tables names of places you have been together and set up a station where guests can give you ideas of their favorite destinations and suggest places that you might like to visit as husband and wife.

Look for subtle ways to incorporate your theme and don’t hit them over the head with it. Too much of a good thing can start looking “cheesy”. A romantic atmosphere in red, black and white can be achieved without putting a red heart on everything! Again a professional wedding stylist can help suggest creative ideas and pull together a cohesive, personal vibe that has your guests going “WOW!” from the time they open your invitation to looking at the pictures and remembering “an awesome event that had the bride and groom written all over it!”