Plan Yourself A Merry Little Christmas Wedding!
Planning a wedding is difficult, even for the most experienced planner. If you’re looking to tackle the challenge on your own, you’ll soon realize there are so many factors to consider than you first thought: venue, theme, decorations, time, guest list, cake, and much more. It can be overwhelming at times!
One early decision can make the others much easier: choosing a theme. A theme choice narrows the options for everything else, and we all make better decisions when there are fewer choices.
Let’s say you want a Christmas wedding. It offers the beauty of a winter wedding and the fond memories that come with the holiday. The beauty of this theme is that you can DIY a lot of the decorations that you’ll want at your wedding—and offer a twist on some wedding traditions. Choosing a theme can also make many of the other decisions much easier. Here are some examples of Christmas wedding ideas to show you how a theme can inspire.
Christmas-Inspired Wedding Invites
Use traditional Christmas songs or phrases as inspiration for your wedding invitations, such as “’Tis the season to be married,” “Eat, drink, and be married,” or “All we want for Christmas is you to come to our wedding.” Have your wedding invitations wrapped up like a present or showcase a simple winter scene with the event details. If you have Christmas-themed engagement photos, include your favorite photo and focus the rest of the design based on the photo. Don’t forget a matching RSVP card!
Winter-Inspired Place Cards
Time to get crafty! For a more winter-inspired place card, tie name cards to pieces of an evergreen tree. Or opt for more Christmas-y place cards by having guests’ names written on gift tags and attach them to individual “presents” filled with candy. A sweet start for the reception!
Wintry Wedding Cake
You’ll likely call in a professional to bake your wedding cake but you can offer ideas and items to use in decoration! A more rustic option includes white frosting, burlap trimming, and accents of snow-dusted pine cones, holly berries, and greenery. Get nostalgic by asking for a cake shaped like a tall gingerbread house—or ask for gingerbread man and gingerbread woman cake toppers and gingerbread cookie accents. Go full-on Christmas by requesting a cake shaped like several presents stacked on top of each other.
Easy Festive Centerpieces
Place a miniature tree in the center of each table and decorate it with ornaments and trimmings that match your wedding theme colors. At the top of the tree, place the table number (go for numbers in silver or gold). A more rustic option includes small tree slabs. Place the tree slab on the table, and place a tall glass vase on top. Put fake snow inside the vase and a white candle in the center of the vase. Add accents of holly berries and greenery to complete.
A Twist on the Gift Table
Switch up the idea of the traditional gift table by setting up and decorating a Christmas tree instead! Guests may place their gifts underneath the tree and help bring the Christmas theme home. The tree’s ornaments can be pictures of you and your soon-to-be-spouse—or make ornaments to serve as gifts for your guests. For cards and monetary gifts, set up a decorated mailbox on a post and have guests place the cards inside.
Warm Them Up With a Sweet Treat
A recent trend for weddings is to organize a candy table and let guests take home a variety of sweets. Taking a cue from this trend, offer your guests a hot chocolate table. Have a flavor station that includes peppermint and caramel syrups so guests can put their own festive twist on the drink. Don’t forget the trimmings: Whipped cream, chocolate shavings, candy canes, cinnamon sticks, and marshmallows. Offer a variety of flavored marshmallows, from vanilla to strawberry—or order marshmallows that have pictures of you and your future spouse printed on them!
From a rustic Christmas to one with traditions of gingerbread and carols and ring exchanges by the fire, your Christmas wedding is sure to be a hit with guests—plus you’ll remember it with each Christmas to come. And you’ve just read a good example of how choosing a wedding theme can make the rest of your wedding planning that much easier!
Author – Michael is the head of the marketing team at TimelessWedddingBands.com, with a primary focus on customer satisfaction. His main talking points are jewelry manufacturing, wedding planning and interior decorations.
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