Winter offers a breathtaking wonderland for a picture perfect wedding. Don’t let the cold deter you from planning your special day at this time.
Take advantage of the season’s beauty with these 5 tips for planning the perfect winter wedding.
1. Choose a Winter Wedding Theme and Location
Winter offers an abundance of fun themes to choose from! Let nature inspire you.
Winter Wonderland Wedding
Wow your guests with a snow theme that will melt their hearts. This theme requires lots of snow white, soft blues, and silver. A white-walled party room works well for this theme, as would a historic place, like an old museum, with cobblestone walls!
Enchanted Woodland
For a natural enchantment, go with the winter forest. Think wintery trees, woodland creatures, and snow. You can choose to actually do this in a forest clearing, dec out a knotty pine church, or celebrate in a large hunting lodge.
Ice Castle
If you pull off this theme, your guests will freeze in their tracks from the magic of it all! Crystalize the place. Also, use cool colors like icy shades of blue and silver to adorn the place.
A cathedral makes a marvelous location for a cool ceremony and celebration.
A Cozy Coupling
Think simple wood and fire with glass accents. A fireplace and candlelight will help warm up everybody’s hearts on your special day! Rent out a gorgeous ski lodge for the perfect locale.
2. Choose Simple Decorations to Match
Once you pick your theme, choose your winter wedding decor carefully. The trick is to enhance your theme without overdoing it.
Adding too many of even the most beautiful winter wedding decorations can turn gorgeous into gaudy. It will help if you pick one solid theme and not add elements from another theme to it. Stick to two or three colors and try not to overdo the centerpieces.
3. Stun Them with Winter Wedding Attire
When choosing attire for the entire bridal party, keep your theme in mind.
The bride’s snow white dress will easily match a winter theme. But, for an ice castle wedding, she may want a plunging neckline, long train, a bit of sparkle, and an icy Tierra. On the other hand, she may want to choose a lacy, higher cut top, and even long sleeves, and a white fox fur shawl for an enchanted woodland wedding.
The groom could go all white or classic black and white because any classic style will look magical in a winter wonderland.
The bridesmaid’s dresses and groomsmen’s vests should match your accent color, whether it’s berry red, icy blue, or pine green. Find amazing hairstyles to fit!
4. Opt for Top Notch Winter Wedding Photographs
Your wedding will pass in a day, but the photographs will last you a lifetime. Fun winter wedding photo ideas include:
- simple, candid snow shots
- wedding party snowball fight
- horse and carriage ride
- walking together through a winter forest
- with reindeer
- sharing hot cocoa
- beneath the mistletoe
Hire an experienced and skilled wedding photographer, like Blue Lily Weddings, to freeze your moment in time.
5. Wow with Extravagance
If you want to wow them, but stick to the rule of keeping the decor simple, here’s how. Pick one element of your theme to take over the top.
For instance, add actual woodland creatures, like white doves or reindeer, to the ceremony. Or, ride off together on horse and carriage, while everybody throws rice.
You could go really wild and have an actual snow machine set up for the ceremony!
Enjoy Planning Your Winter Wedding
Don’t fall into the trap of getting so stressed over the details that you do not enjoy it. Planning your wedding should feel fun and get you excited for your big day.
Hire professionals to help, so all of the work does not fall on you. Pamper yourself whenever it feels overwhelming, to keep you relaxed, on track, and looking good for your winter wedding.
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