Wedding Help

I have to admit, I’m a huge fan of the Today Show. My husband and I don’t have cable, but I’m able to watch the shows on the Internet and stay up to date with their news stories, special series, and other shows that they broadcast. If you’re not a big Today Show fan, then you probably don’t know that every year they throw a wedding for a lucky couple where America gets to vote and choose everything about the wedding. From the wedding theme to the wedding cake, the rings, honeymoon, wedding dress, and everything else is thrown for the lucky couple. This year the lucky couple got married with a trendy East meets West wedding theme. Personally, I hadn’t ever heard of this particular wedding theme before and I was eager to get online this morning and see just what kinds of decorations and extras they had added in to complete their wedding theme. So, if you’re contemplating an Asian wedding theme, an Eastern wedding theme, or even an East meets West wedding theme, here are some great decorating tips.

Flowers Make a Difference

One great way to capitalize on your wedding theme is with flowers. Flowers lend such a beauty and elegance to every situation, sure - but have you realized yet that your wedding flowers can also set the tone for what kind of wedding you’re going to have?

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To me, there’s nothing like a spring or summer wedding on a beautiful warm day with new blooming flowers and romance in the air. In fact, many other couples agree and want to have their weddings in the spring and summer months. There’s just something about the newness of spring and the beauty of the wild life coming back after a cold winter that makes spring that much more enjoyable. As I’ve mentioned before, there are so many different ways for you to decorate your wedding in the spring or summer that can not only be decorations, but a celebration of the season. One of those decorations that I’ve mentioned is fruit. Now you’re thinking, Sarah you’re crazy, what can you do with fruit? The answer is plenty! Here are some great examples of wedding decorations with fruit.

Submerged Fruit in Water

What a fresh and trendy potential wedding centerpiece! Just grab a bunch of lemons and limes, cut them in half and submerge them in water in a big beautiful vase. The lemons and limes will keep their vibrant color and will make a beautiful centerpiece. Any size or shape of vase will work wonderfully.

Submerged Fruit with Candles or Flowers

Another twist that you can add to the option above is to place some floating candles in the water above the fruit to add a romantic glow to your wedding reception tables. If you are not able to use candles in your wedding reception, then consider filling the vases only half full of fruit and water, and then placing a small bouquet of colorful flowers in the vase as well. I’ve seen this done before and the effect is beautiful. If you are on a tight budget, then use a vase with a wider mouth, with just a few blooms on top of the water to float. This is a truly elegant and beautiful centerpiece.

Fruit Tower Centerpieces

Another fun idea for using fruit in your wedding decorations are some fruit towers. I’m not sure of the specific name of them, but they are basically a tower of stacked fruit which sits on a flower pot vase of some kind. From what I understand, they are pretty easy to make, and you can find lots of great instructions for making them on the internet.

These are a great way to add some color and height to your reception centerpieces as well. Fruit is a beautiful and inexpensive choice for wedding centerpieces. I’ve only mentioned using lemons and limes, but you can also use oranges, grapes and whole pineapples to help create the beautiful wedding look that you are going for. If you’ve used fruit before in decorating, or have seen a particular wedding centerpiece done with fruit that you loved, then please comment and let me know about it!

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I’ve been watching The Ultimate Gift lately. It’s a heart touching movie that features a little girl named Emily who loves butterflies. She believes that butterflies are painted by the hand of God with every color, and that heaven is filled with butterflies. It’s a very sweet movie, and it kind of got me thinking and doing a little bit of research on butterfly weddings as well. Lots of little girls love butterflies, and it never really changes once they get older. But butterflies are an excellent theme for spring weddings, especially if you love butterflies. So, I’ve been doing a little bit of research on butterfly weddings, and I’ve found some really great ideas for brides planning a wedding with a butterfly wedding theme. Here are some great places to start.

Butterfly Wedding Invitations

Your wedding invitations are a great place to start. After all, your wedding invitations are the first glimpse into your wedding colors and theme that you are allowing your guests to see. So look for some wedding invitations that feature butterflies. If you can’t find any, you could buy some plain wedding invitations and emboss or stamp some butterflies on the invitation and/or the envelope.

Butterflies in the Wedding Flowers

A great way to incorporate a butterfly wedding theme into your wedding flowers is to insert some butterfly picks into the bouquet. For groomsmen or ushers, a single flower with a fancy butterfly pin is a great look. A quick searche on the Internet will result in all the tools you’ll need to accomplish the look you’re going for.

A Butterfly Wedding Dress and Jewelry

If you’re looking around in wedding dress shops for a butterfly wedding dress, then you’re not going to have much luck. Instead, start looking around for applique butterflies, or lace butterflies that you can have attached to your wedding dress. You add more butterfly accents through bridal tiaras or hairpins that feature butterflies.

Butterfly Wedding Decorations

There are many different ways that you could decorate your wedding and reception to fit in with your butterfly wedding theme. You could place small potted plants at the center of each table with butterfly picks inserted into the plants, or have a large bowl with submerged wild flowers and floating butterfly candles. You can also find some cute butterfly name card holders to place at each seat to help add to the charm of the butterflies. If you are using pillars, wrap them in ribbon or tulle and attach butterfly appliques. You could also designate each table to a different kind of butterfly, which will help with your table names as well.

Butterfly Wedding Favors

You can find lots of great butterfly wedding favors on the Internet, or find some that you can make yourself. Chocolates in the shape of butterflies are a great idea, and can be easily created with a candy mold. Another great idea is to decorate small envelopes with a butterfly stencil, and insert some packages of wildflower seeds that will attract butterflies.

A Butterfly Release?

Many brides who are wanting to have a butterfly themed wedding also tend to look into having a butterfly release at the end of the ceremony, and there is a lot of controversy surrounding it. This is because the butterflies are migratory and that once the butterflies are released, they may become confused as to where they are supposed to go, and end up dying once winter comes along. Also, many couples find that many of the butterflies arrive dead, or half dead. It just isn’t worth doing to these beautiful creatures when there are lots of other ways you can decorate your wedding with butterflies.

Butterflies are a pretty popular wedding theme, so if you are thinking of having a butterfly wedding you should be able to find lots of different decorations and ideas for decorating your wedding with big beautiful butterflies.

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One popular idea for planning weddings these days is to come up with some kind of wedding theme, and to center your whole wedding around that theme. While some brides choose to go all out with a wedding theme that is pretty extensive and really makes a statement, other brides choose a wedding theme that is simple and elegant, which could go unnoticed. Sometimes it can be hard coming up with a wedding theme that will fit both of your tastes and preferences in a wedding, as well as the workload that you are wanting to put into your wedding theme. So, if you’ve just started your wedding planning and are looking for some great wedding theme ideas to help you out, then here are some of the most popular categories for wedding themes that you can use to help you get started.

Wedding Theme Ideas - Colors

Perhaps one of the most popular wedding themes is centered around a color that the bride wants in her wedding. For me, it was peach. My bridesmaids wore peach colored dresses with small peach and white bouquets, and I had lots of other little peach accents that helped to tie everything together. This kind of wedding theme is pretty easy to pull off, as all it requires are items of a particular color placed here and there to bring out your theme. Your wedding theme ideas around color could include any color that you want. This is the easiest kind of wedding theme that you can use, as it really doesn’t require a whole lot of searching and planning to pull it off. For more wedding theme ideas with colors, check out Pink Wedding Reception, and Pink and Brown Weddings.

Wedding Theme Ideas - Seasons

Another popular idea for wedding themes is to use a nearby season for your inspiration. Getting married in February? Have a Valentines wedding with lots of pink and red and those little conversation hearts. Christmas and winter wonderland weddings are pretty popular, as are fall weddings. Springtime garden weddings can also be a beautiful theme for your wedding. The great thing about winter theme ideas that are centered around a season is that you should have no problem finding everything you need. From Christmas lights to fake fall foilage, wedding themes around seasons are a great wedding theme to go with. For more wedding theme ideas with seasons, check out Winter Wedding Ideas for Church Decorations, Wedding Planning at Christmas, Christmas Wedding Centerpieces, and Decorating for a Fall Wedding.

Wedding Theme Ideas - Ultra Creative!

This wedding theme typically involves everything else. From cowboy western themed weddings to beach weddings and everything in between, this wedding theme can be a whole lot of fun - and a whole lot of work. Depending on where you live and what is available to you, these weddings may require a bunch of planning and searching to find just what you’ll need to make your wedding just what you’ve always dreamed it would be. Other popular wedding themes in this category can include mideval weddings, fairy tale weddings, and much more. The great thing about these kinds of wedding themes is that although they may require a bunch of work, the finished result is exceptional. For more great wedding theme ideas that are ultra creative, check out Cowboy Wedding Ideas.

Your wedding theme should reflect both of your tastes when it comes to planning a wedding. There are many other articles in the Wedding Planning Category that can help you if are really looking for a wedding theme and wedding theme ideas to help make your wedding something else. I’ll be doing a lot of articles on finding a wedding theme, and different ideas on decorating with a wedding theme, so be sure to keep checking back to see whats new, else sign up for my RSS feed and get the articles sent directly to you!

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Christmas is a beautiful time of the year. I don’t know what it is about the month of December, but it seems that once the month starts, all you hear is Christmas music in the stores, people seem to be nicer to each other, Christmas decorations start popping up on houses, and people just seem to be happier. I don’t want to repeat myself from yesterday’s post, but if you are wondering if having a Christmas wedding is right for you, then check out my previous article, Should I Have a Christmas Wedding? If you have decided that you want to have a Christmas wedding with a Christmas theme, then you are in luck. There are lots of ideas for decorating your wedding ceremony and wedding reception with Christmas ideas. The Christmas wedding centerpieces you can come up with can be beautiful, and make people celebrate not only with your wedding, but with the upcoming Christmas season. If you need help coming up with ideas for your Christmas wedding centerpieces, then here are some great ideas to help you get started.

Christmas Wedding Centerpieces with Christmas Trees

If you are having a Christmas themed wedding, then you just can’t go wrong with Christmas trees as your wedding centerpieces. You can find miniature Christmas trees at many locations, that only stand about a foot tall, as well as decorations for your miniature Christmas trees. Feel free to decorate your Christmas trees with little candy canes, popcorn strings, lights, ornaments, stars, and anything your heart desires. Christmas trees are unique to the Christmas season, and you just can’t go wrong with this kind of Christmas wedding centerpiece.

Christmas Wedding Centerpieces with Flowers

Flowers are perhaps one of the most popular kind of wedding centerpieces that brides use. Don’t think that just because you are getting married in the winter season that you won’t have any kinds of flowers to use in your wedding reception, or that if you want to have flowers that you will pay a huge amount since they are out of season. This just isn’t true. Talk to your florist, but there are plenty of flowers that naturally bloom in the winter, and there is always holly, mistletoe and much more to use as your Christmas wedding centerpieces that are unique to the winter season.

Christmas Wedding Centerpieces with Candles

Christmas candles are another popular wedding centerpieces in the winter season. There are several ways to handle this. One is to get several large scented candles with some branches or holly around the base of the candle. The candle will add a romantic glow, as well as a favorite Christmas smell. The second is to place several long thin unscented candles in vases with a small Christmas wreath at the base, or candelabras.

Christmas is a beautiful time of the year to get married, and the options you have for your Christmas wedding centerpieces are endless with a bit of imagination and creativity.

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