If you've chosen to have a religious ceremony, a wedding at Christmas-time gives you the perfect opportunity to sing carols to your heart's content. Choose your favorites, and you can guarantee that your guests will sing along loudly too.
Here are some tips that will help you with planning for your Christmas Wedding:
Wedding Reception:
Think of everything you associate with Christmas and consider how you can incorporate it into wedding reception. Here are a few ideas:
Think of everything you associate with Christmas and consider how you can incorporate it into wedding reception. Here are a few ideas:
- Have a Christmas tree with plenty of decorations. Favors can hang from the tree, or be placed underneath
- For favors, give crackers, tree decorations or gift bags filled with sweets
- Sprinkle tables with snowfetti or metallic confetti;
- Give each table a Christmas name (Santa, snowman, sleigh etc) or name them after reindeer (Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donna, Blitzen and Rudolph)
- Give each child a stocking filled with toys and sweets to entertain them for the day.
- Add to the party feel with sparklers, Christmas trivia and champagne bubbles
- Have Santa or snowman placecard holders.
The Cake:
In order to emphasize your Christmas Wedding Cake, you should have the cake table decorated as well. It is important to make sure the ornaments blend harmoniously and do not overburden the cake.
Having each tier look like an individually wrapped package is a popular look that is perfect for a Christmas Wedding.
The Bride's Dress:
A Christmas wedding dress needn’t be that different from any other kind. Wear the one that flatters you most, and top it off with a long red velvet cape. Or embrace the trend of color in wedding dresses by adding a beautiful red silk sash to the waist of your gown. You could also seek a dress with lots of sparkly beads and sequins to evoke the snowiness of the season.
Invitations:You’ll want to reflect the season and your theme, but you won’t want it to look like a holiday card. The solution? Forgo a folded card, opting for the traditional thick white card, with a border and engraved or thermo-graphed text. You can highlight the Christmas wedding theme in the border with white snowflakes or an elegant holly trim.
Since people make plans for the holidays early, and often have many parties and events to attend at this time of year, you’ll want to send your invitations a little bit early – about 12 weeks before the event. You might also consider “save the date” cards in addition to the invitations, which will ensure that those most important to you will be able to attend.
Flowers & Decor:
Since people make plans for the holidays early, and often have many parties and events to attend at this time of year, you’ll want to send your invitations a little bit early – about 12 weeks before the event. You might also consider “save the date” cards in addition to the invitations, which will ensure that those most important to you will be able to attend.
Flowers & Decor:
Since flowers can be more expensive at this time of year, think creatively. A mirrored platter with pillar candles and sprigs of holly is both elegant and romantic. Buy ornaments in bulk and create centerpieces of bowls or vases of ornaments. For a simple but elegant look, put pots of poinsettia with a ribbon trim in the center of each table. Fake snow used to be tacky, but there are now very good products available. Set candles or small flower arrangements in the middle of snow. And for my favorite touch, use fake snow instead of an aisle runner really make your Christmas wedding a winter wonderland.
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