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Non-traditional theme weddings often have one thing in common. Elaborate costuming and dramatic effects. Let’s take a look at eight of the most common nontraditional weddings.

All Hallow’ Eve

Halloween is a favorite event for a lot of people including kids. It’s not odd that once your grow up that you’d want to get married on one of your most favorite occasions, right? Halloween weddings include costumes and a masquerade ball type of event. You can downplay the harsh orange and black colors of Halloween by mixing in other colors like grays, silvers and white. I’ve also seen people use pumpkins with smiley faces as table decorations. Orange and black candles also create a lively affect.

Balloons

Balloons can create the same dramatic affect that flowers cans. You can hang them in the doorway to the reception or wedding hall. You can tie them to chairs. You can even use the bouquets on the tables as centerpieces. You can take your pick, cover the ceiling with a helium blown balloon or cover the floor with a hot air blown balloon. The idea is to have balloons everywhere! This is a very cost effective theme.

Celtic

Celtic weddings are booming right now! They are similar to renaissance weddings in that you’ll need an old castle or outdoor setting in order to pull it off. The bride wears an ivory satin gown and a flowered wreath. The groom wears plaid tartans, kilts and kneed high white socks.

Country ‘N Western

Get your blue jeans and line dancing shoes ready. You’re in for a foot stomping, hand clapping good time. The food for the day is barbeque and potato salad. The reception hall is lined with red and white-checkered tablecloths. You can pull this theme off on a real life ranch or outside in a big backyard. Let your imagination run wild as far as decorations is concerned. You can use anything from cowboy hats to red bandanas. Let’s move from the old west to the south of the border.

Fiesta

Have fun planning a Mexican fiesta! This theme is for people who enjoy the culture and the people. You can enjoy authentic Mexican food including tacos and burritos. You can also have fun decorating using piñatas and paper crepe flowers. Perhaps the warmth of Mexico isn’t your only option. Try a wedding them that takes you across the Pacific.

Polynesian

Okay, so you may not be able to duplicate the Pacific Ocean for a Polynesian wedding. Any body of water will do! All you need are authentic music, tiki torches, flower leis and crepe paper flowers to get you in the mood here. The food is relatively inexpensive including from roast pork to fresh fruit.

Renaissance

Renaissance weddings are similar to a Celtic wedding in that you’ll need elaborate costuming. They also take place outside or on the grounds of an old castle. The bride wears a heavy gown similar to what they use to wear in the 14th century. It has bell shaped sleeves and a V back line. The groom and his groomsmen wear velvet doublets and shirts with billowing sleeves. A feathered hat and sword tops off the man of the hour’s wardrobe.

The Ole South

This is another wedding theme that takes place mainly outdoors. You’ll need a beautiful mansion or plantation to help pull this theme off. The bride wears a southern belle wedding dress complete with parasol. The bridesmaid’s dresses are also ball gowns. The groom and his groomsmen wear white dinner jackets and black pants. I hope you have some idea of the kind of theme wedding you’d like to have now that we’ve run through the most popular ones.

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A budget may be the first thing a wedding coordinator will want to go over with you. But, a wedding theme is the second. You don’t have to have one, however a wedding theme can give you some direction with your planning. For instance, I recently attended a theme wedding where the couple played out Cinderella complete with glass slipper and horse drawn buggy. None of the bridesmaids could fit the glass slipper. It was really cute. Take a look at these themes and let me know what you think!

Rose Riches

As it’s name suggests, roses, roses and more roses make up the theme to this wedding. The idea is to buy as many as you can afford, then fill in the gaps with lots of greenery. I’ve known people to beg, borrow and steal from relatives to get the potted plants out of homes and backyards. You’ll save a lot of money that way. You can also use ribbons in the color scheme that you’re using to tie around the plants. You can even add silk plants in with the live ones to add a dramatic effect. You can add wrought iron benches to create the garden affect as well.

In The Park

This theme is as its name suggests. You can pick a park to get married in and ship in more and flowers as needed. I’ve known couples that added everything from candle towers to portable streetlights at night to create the desired affect.

Hearts Mixed With Flowers

You’ll want to use lots of hearts all over the place with this theme. You can buy many different kinds of heart shaped items in your local party store. If you’re really looking to save money, you can make your own. I know a couple that made hearts out of construction materials like poster boards. My favorite hearts shaped items are thrown on tables for decoration. The pink, red, gold and silver like hearts are about the size of a flat pea. You throw them on the table and they sparkle.

Watch for our next article…8 Non-Traditional Wedding Themes….

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You’ve heard of them, the Bridezillas- very nice, happy, beautiful women who turn into some kind of crazed beast when it comes down to the wire on planning their weddings. Friends shake when confronted by them, men hide the women and small children from their view, and they seem larger, and scarier than life. Are you worried about turning into your own version of a Bridezilla?

Fear not, there are steps you can take to avoid alienating every single friend you ever had, not to mention your family- and still plan your very own wedding.

1) Accept that fact that you will be completely overwhelmed at times. This is a wedding you are planning, and it takes a lot of work to get it all right. It’s also the biggest day of your life, a day of immediate and drastic change that will alter the course of your life, forever. Of course there will be stress, frustration, emotional ups and downs. Embrace them, and don’t try to hold it all together when you really need to just let it all out.

2) Stop trying so hard to make everything perfect. Nothing is ever really perfect, now is it? Why do we feel our weddings have to be obsessively perfect? If you can let go and accept that you can’t control everything, that yes, your bridesmaids are not all the same height, nor do they have the same hair color and nor can they smile identically, you will be able to keep your perspective and possibly still have a few friends left after your big day. Breathe, and laugh when something silly goes wrong. It’s not the end of the world.

3) Remember why you are getting married in the first place. Connect with your fiancé, make sure he knows that he is the reason for all of this, and that he matters more than any of it. Take the time to really show him how happy you are to be marrying him, whatever happens at your wedding. You will be grateful for this perspective long after the wedding has ended.

4) Remember who you are. A great way to keep from turning into a Bridezilla is to take your wedding in stride, acknowledge the emotions you feel as you go through this process. The less stress you feel, the more you will be able to connect with the friends and family you have invited, and isn’t that the point of the wedding anyway?

Last, enjoy yourself. Once your wedding has started, it will take on a life of its own. No matter what happens, remember you have found the love of your life, and you are pledging yourselves to one another at your wedding. Don’t let anything interfere with the happiness you feel with your new partner, and you will be just fine.

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