Themed Weddings
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Planning a Great Themed Wedding
Having a themed wedding can be a blast, but you need to exercise caution. It can also be tacky if you go overboard. A themed wedding should be a little bit of an exercise in tasteful restraint, but that’s just a little something to keep in the back of your mind. If you’re thinking of doing a themed wedding, there is no end to the possibilities you have to choose from.
First, one key to a themed wedding is that it somehow relate to the lives of the bride and groom. If the bride and groom love spending time at the beach, have a beach themed wedding. If the bride and groom met at a New Year’s Eve party, have a New Year’s Eve themed wedding. Make sure the guests understand why you’ve chosen that particular theme. You can explain in the ceremony program or at the beginning of the reception. You never want your guests to leave saying “That sure was a great party, but why did they choose that theme?”
You’ll also want to decide which aspects of the wedding you want to incorporate the theme into. If you incorporate the theme into every aspect, you may end up with the tacky wedding mentioned above. However, if you incorporate it into too few aspects, it may just feel like those aspects of your wedding are a little strange. Some great areas to incorporate a theme are the invitations, the reception music, the reception food, decorations, and favors. You may want to avoid incorporating the theme into more sacred parts of your wedding day, like your wedding vows.
Remember that if you’re planning a themed wedding, you will probably have to dispense with much of the perceived wedding etiquette. This shouldn’t make you nervous. Wedding etiquette is designed for traditional weddings, and you are obviously not having a traditional wedding. However, you need to decide for sure that your theme is more important to you than the etiquette. If you try to satisfy both, you will end up with one mess of a wedding.
Finally, get lots of input, especially from your vendors. Catering services, musicians, photographers, and bakers have all done many weddings before yours and may have some great ideas about how to use your theme in their work. Ask your family and friends if they have any good ideas. They may even be willing to put in some time of their own to further the theme. The more people you get involved in your themed wedding, the more people will be excited about it before the big day.
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