Showing posts with label themes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label themes. Show all posts

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Using a Heart Theme for Your Wedding

Love is a matter of the heart. So what better image or symbol to represent love but the heart itself. The human heart gives a person his life, and for most people, if not for everyone, love truly does bring a person to life. There are so many things that love and the heart has in common so it is no wonder that the heart has always been the symbol associated with love. One look at this single image and you exactly know what the other person means.

During Valentine’s Day you can see red hearts everywhere. If you get a card, it probably has at least one image of a heart. And of course most especially for weddings, the heart is always present to remind everyone about the love that fills this special occasion. If you want love to really shower your wedding, or rather, hearts at that, here are some ideas you can incorporate on your wedding day.

You can print images of heart on your invitation. You can have it embossed or simply printed out as an image. You can also choose heart-shaped invitations or the envelopes for your invitations have edges of heart shapes. You can try looking at the draft layout first to see which placement you will like the most.

For the ring pillows, they come in rectangular, round, and there are ring pillows that are heart-shaped, perfect for your heart themed wedding. For place holders, you can have them in heart shapes for that cute but lovely touch. For your heart wedding favors, you can get key chains that are heart-shaped, small picture frames, and as well as edible favors like cupcakes that can be made into heart shapes. There are cupcake papers as well that are printed with cute heart shapes.

You can consult your wedding coordinator on floral arrangements and wedding decorations that are heart shaped. If you will place your wedding favors as table centerpiece, you can arrange them to look heart-shaped as well. Have a little creativity and you will never run out of heartfelt decoration ideas.

Your wedding is that one special event where you can truly express yourself and as well as express it through the wedding set-up. A heart wedding theme is a great theme that will truly make your guests feel the love between the two of you. Let your heart speak out and let the people see it with how you decorate your wedding.

Friday, July 9, 2010

Themes for Your Wedding – Which to Avoid

All young couples wish to make their wedding ceremony special and memorable. This desire leads a lot of couples to plan a theme for the focus of the revelry. Such plans can go seriously awry. Following are several wedding themes to avoid at all costs.

Hunting/Redneck Wedding
Both bride and groom enjoy camping outside, stalking prey in turkey blinds, and their camouflage. They are likely to have a close relationship and entertaining life together indulging in their favorite pastime. But, there is a relevant environment for such stuff. The wedding celebration really shouldn’t include shotgun shells or scopes. In 30 years, would you truly want to tell your grandchildren why their grandmama was sporting camping gear to get hitched? Your wedding event ought to be wondrous and enduring. Save the ’roughing it’ for the honeymoon.

Vampire Wedding
Myriad women, and select men, find the vampire genre sexy and romantic. Even for those of you part of this contingent, there are a long list of reasons you shouldn’t include your passion for Dracula in your wedding. First, it has saturated society. Vampires are ever present in our time, so this theme really would not make your wedding unique. Next, it means death. Yes, vampire tales speak of eternal love, but it typically involves a lot of people getting killed. Nary a thing says passion like a bloody mess.

Clown Wedding
If you are not fifth generation in a clown family and are looking to take to the road with a headlining circus, omit the red nose and bowlerhat. This wedding theme truly is not as funny as you may think.

Foodie Wedding
Some people want to include how they got to meet into the reception. However, if you met at a fast food restaurant, leave out this idea. Do you truly want your wedding garments to exude the smell of French fry grease?

Medieval/Pirate Wedding
You can find plenty of romance films set in the renaissance era, or on a pirate ship, but in truth, neither of those times were romantic. Women were property, men toiled even harder than nowadays, and physical hygiene was almost non-existent. If you leave out the ugly parts and simply include the romantic parts of the period, it just seems cheesy, and surely nobody wants that for their wedding event.

Cartoon Wedding
If you really manage to railroad your invitees to get suited up as cartoon characters, they will most likely not forgive you for the rest of your life. Who desires to initiate their future with the ushers and maid of honor hurling curses at them from under the hot and itchy foam head?

Geek Wedding
This heading includes Star Wars, Star Trek, video games, and any other theme from the palette of science fiction. Sure, you know several fellow geeks. Yet it’s very probable that the biggest number of your guests are not members of that crowd. So, they aren’t party to the inevitable inside jokes and will have no appreciation for the outlandish outfits. Rather than being meant as an honor to geek love, your wedding will merely be a big, confusing mess. To be a bit safer, hold a more traditional wedding, and share a Star Wars movie session during your honeymoon.

Naked Wedding
Are you serious? Just no. Nobody thinks that’s a fun idea. Keep in mind that even if you plan your big day to be extraordinary, always take your guests into account. Settle on a theme that everybody there can enjoy.


Criss White is a professional author on bridal shower and wedding topics. For some helpful wedding themes and assorted wedding articles, visit Wedding Ideas Etc.