A Winter Wedding Wonderland

While winter is not the typical season to exchange "I Do's", couples can still transform it into a winter wedding wonderland with enough preparation and the right choices of wedding essentials appropriate for this time of the year. Winter wedding themes can incorporate the colors of winter into a beautiful ensemble of decorations, flowers, the menu and favors.

In fact, winter weddings can be as magical to the guests as it is to the couple using the delightful winter wedding decorations. With most of the winter wedding theme provided by nature, such as the snow-wrapped ground and trees tinseled with falling snowflakes, nothing can be as dazzling as a winter wedding wonderland theme.

Winter Wedding Decorations

The colors of winter include white, gold, and silver. These colors may be used in the entire wedding theme. For instance, the reception tables may be decorated with simple and inexpensive, yet elegant white poinsettias, line the room with elaborate pillar candles (perhaps with gold embossed decors) or place them atop a pine-branches arrangement. You may also use will branches that are sprayed with white, and lightly sprayed with gold and silver glitters.

As winter is characterized with snowflakes, you can ask the decorator (or do them yourself) to hang white or silver snowflakes on the ceilings of the site. For a glittering effect, tables may be covered with plain white tablecloths sprinkled with silver and gold glitters around the center for a magical touch. Accentuate the site further with white, silver, or gold balloons and use white curly ribbons to stream down under them.


Winter Wedding Flowers

Let's face it – flowers hardly bloom in winter, however, the winter doesn't have to be restricted to silver, gold, and white. These popular colors can transform your winter wedding wonderland theme into an elegant setting, or celebrate the occasion with the colors of Christmas, that is, through reds and greens.

If you opt for a silver-white-gold theme, find winter wedding flowers such as dusty millers, baby blue eucalyptus, silver-dollar eucalyptus, mixed with other white flowers including football mums, roses, lilies, crocus, and stephanotis. For brighter bouquets, red roses bound with pine-tree and holly will be perfect. To save on floral decorations, use seasonal flowers such as roses, tulips, as well as ornamental berries would be inexpensive options. Your florist can help you to determine which flowers are available in your vicinity.

Winter Wedding Favors

For a pre-Christmas winter wedding wonderland theme, glittering white Christmas ornaments are perfect winter wedding favors as a token for guests who came to celebrate the special day with you. You might also order a snow glass globe, containing a bride and groom inside, or other items that resemble a winter wedding wonderland theme.

The themes for winter weddings would be incomplete without the proper attire for the bride and groom. If the bride doesn't want to deviate from the typical sleeveless or strapless wedding gown, it can be accentuated with a stylish large shawl to protect the bride from the freeze. The bridesmaids may also wear attractive wraps to complement the attire of the bride.

What is the perfect site for the wedding ceremony and reception?

Imagine a storybook winter wonderland theme you read as a child. Remember the prince's castle in Beauty and the Beast? Of course, you need not find a real castle. A historic mansion or a private club would be a perfect site for your wedding. However, as the cold might be unbearable for your guests, make sure the venue will be adequately heated throughout the entire celebration. Additionally, choose a venue with no large picture window to avoid snowdrifts getting through and melting inside the heated site.

Winter weddings might not be a typical choice of couples to exchange vows; nevertheless, you can make use of the elegant colors of winter to for a dazzling wedding like no other.