Theme Ideas For A Wedding Made Easy

So you've decided that the rationale for choosing a wedding theme makes sense. After all, having a cohesive wedding theme does make it far easier to choose decorations, coordinate colors and wedding favors - even choose invitations and your wedding dress. If you're still casting around for a theme idea for a wedding, there are a number of places you can turn for inspiration.

History

Historical eras offer quite a few ideas for a theme wedding. History offers inspiration for style of dress for yourself and your wedding party, wedding decorations, historical wedding traditions and more. Imagine the groom and ushers in Edwardian morning coats and top hats, the bride and her ladies in elegant period silks.

The Victorian era ushered in lavish white wedding gowns, lace Valentines and the language of roses. With all that romance, it's no wonder that Victorian weddings are among the most popular of all wedding theme ideas from history.

The popularity of Renaissance Fares and the Society for Creative Anachronism have reawakened interest in the time of Shakespeare and Lords of the Manor, and interest in Renaissance and Medieval wedding traditions.

A Medieval hand-fasting can be a beautiful weddingtheme, complete with circlets of flowers in your hair, silk banners and pennants fluttering from the parapets of a castle and music provided by a trio of minstrels playing lutes and dulcimers.

More recent history offers theme ideas for a wedding as well. Any era that is instantly recognizable for its decorating and clothing styles is fair game. A Roaring 20s wedding theme dresses the bride in a chic chemise dress, and the groom in Gatsby gangster-inspired suit. The sleek lines of art deco are a classic inspiration for centerpieces and wedding favors, and the only perfect flower for your wedding bouquet is the calla lily.

Region

Another place where you can find ideas for a wedding theme is geographical region. One idea for a theme wedding based on region is the Antebellum South, with its plantation houses, mint juleps, crinoline hoop skirts and lavish parties. You can have a good old fashioned Texas country wedding , a New England beach theme wedding with a clambake, a Hawaiian luau theme wedding or a Midwestern shivaree. Step outside our borders and you can draw inspiration from leprechauns with an Irish wedding theme, or from the dusky hills of Tuscan Italy with a Tuscan theme wedding , from the Basque hills and flamenco lace of Spain with a Spanish theme wedding or from sunny Mexico for a Mexican theme wedding.

Fantasy and Literature

The fairy tale theme wedding is a modern-day favorite wedding theme - most often Cinderella. What could be more romantic than arriving at the church in a fantasy coach, and being swept off to live happily ever after by your charming prince. Disney weddings play to the happily ever after - you can even have your wedding at Disney, in one of their wedding halls. Each Disney wedding destination offers a different fantasy theme, from tropical island to Cinderella's castle. Other fantasies offer ideas for a wedding theme as well. Fairies, angels, dragons and teddy bears are all popular wedding themes.

Cultures & Trasditions

Ethnic and cultural traditions offer a rich vein to mine for ideas for a theme wedding. Asian theme weddings - Indian, Chinese, and Japanese - are favored by more than those of Asian descent. Chinese dragon and phoenix, fireworks and bright red silks to denote joy are popular parts of a Chinese wedding theme. Italian weddings offer beautiful traditions like walking the bride to church and lavish feasts. Every culture has its own wedding traditions, and many couples find meaning in basing their weddings on themes drawn from those traditions.

Seasons and Nature

Every season offers theme ideas for a wedding, from winter wonderland wedding themes to spring garden weddings to weddings on the beach or out at sea on a cruise ship to autumn harvest feasts.

Those are just a sampling of places where you can draw inspiration for theme ideas for a wedding. Choose something that appeals to you, and you'll be surprised how easy it becomes to pick flowers, decorations, dresses and favors that match the theme.