What is a Wedding Theme?
An idea, design or style that flows through out your wedding! This can be from choosing your favourite colour or destination to your favourite movie! You can also choosing a theme based on a specific style such as rustic, classic or your favourite decade!
A theme can run throughout the entire wedding, from your dress, make up, grooms attire, venue styling, cake and your wedding venue. Even the finest details, all should pull the theme together in harmony!
Tips for choosing the perfect Wedding Theme for you.
- A Wedding Theme should be personal to you and your partner and reflect your personalities! Think about what you both love as a starting point!
- Your theme should stand out and your guests should be able to guess your theme!
- Unsure on a theme? Try to envision how your wedding day would look! Close your eyes, what do your guests see as they walk into the wedding venue? What impression do you want to give your guests?
- Research popular wedding themes and colours! Blush pinks have been a huge trend in 2020 and even black cakes have become a trend for the more daring couple
- Pin on Pinterest, read up blogs, visit wedding fayres, and chat to your wedding suppliers! They are the experts in your field after all and they are there to support you through your wedding prep journey!
- Your save the dates or wedding invitations are usually the first glimpse to the guests of your wedding theme! Make sure you decide on a theme before sending these out!
How to choose a Wedding Theme!
Unsure on a theme to choose, ask yourself some of these questions and make a note of your answers for some ideas to choose from!
Where did you and your partner meet?
Where did you get engaged?
Perhaps you have had a holiday to a special place you can base your theme on?
Do you have a favourite movie, song or book you both love?
Favourite food?
What is your fashion or style trends?
What is your dream wedding like?
How is your house styled? Modern, vintage, classic?
What if your favourite colour?
Do you have a venue in mind? If yes what style is it?
What hobbies do you both love to do together?
Do I really need a wedding theme?
A wedding theme gives you a good starting point to help you make decisions when planning your wedding day! It can help choose the colour or theme for your flowers, cake or venue decor! Try to keep to one set theme in mind so not to create a confused mixture of themes! Remember the theme should flow throughout your entire wedding!
Here is some of our inspiration and mood boards! Once you have chosen a Wedding Theme creating a mood board will help bring your vision more to life. Pinterest is a great place to start and you can also share these with your suppliers so they know exactly your vision!
Rustic Weddings
A Rustic Wedding Theme is all about bare woods, table linen, natural colours, flowers and greenery! Rustic Weddings are perfect in a barn wedding venue, outdoors or in a forest!
Bohemian Wedding Theme
Bohemian is all about loose hair don’t care kinda vibes! Sparkle up with tons of jewellery, long flowing dresses and sleeves, dream catchers, flowers in your hair and floral crowns, and a casual look for the grooms too! Bohemian has a hippy vibe and is suited to a more laid back couple! Oversized bouquets are a must with floral backdrops.
Retro Wedding Theme
Retro is all about clashing bold patterns or making colours pop! Include old school games like pacman or donkey kong and outdoor games to entertain your guests! Big neon signs scream retro, bright colors, vinyles are perfect for centre pieces. Think American Diner feels (or grease the movie!). Retro depicts 1970’s style, short mid-knee wedding and bridesmaid dresses, colorful socks for the grooms and bold coloured shoes for the bride with colourful bouquets!!
Vintage Wedding Theme
A Vintage Wedding Theme has and still is one of the most popular wedding themes! From 1920’s through to the 1970’s this wedding theme covers everything from Holywood glamour, art deco to 1970’s flower power! The vintage theme will highlight feelings of nostalgia from your wedding guest is a fabulous romantic theme to play with! This is also a perfect theme for the DIY couple who might love car boot or antique sales. Old furniture, suitcases, tables, bicycles, vintage crockery, cake stands all depict a certain time period! Empty bottles with flowers or candles covered in lace or pearls make simple but effective vintage centre pieces. The venue decor touches on mix and match, lace finishes, rustic venue styling, shabby chic and soft lighting! Warm colours are perfect for you wedding bouquet too!
Modern Weddings
For the contemporary bride and groom! Think geometric shapes, sharp lines, minimal furniture and decor! Add some greenery or bright colours using unique flowers! Choose a cool venue like a warehouse, art gallery or car park! Make a statement with geometric backdrops and simple lighting!
Desert Chic Wedding Theme
Desert Chic oozes natural colours such as rich browns, terracotta, greens with soft golden or copper touches! Dried flowers and cactuses are a must with natural furniture made from woods, bare brick and stones! Tipis, wigwams with carpets, cusions, macrame backdrops and candles!
Whimsical Wedding Theme
Whimsical is a perfect theme for a playful couple who doesn’t want to be restricted with boundaries! A quaint theme that can be appealing and amusing to your guests! Boosting bright colour palettes, rainbows colours, unique details, big balloons, swings, castles this all ties in nicely with a fairytale type wedding too! Perfect for fantasy couple!
