1960s Theme Wedding: Groovy Mind-Opening Ideas

Have you ever found yourself thinking about the love, peace, and flower power of the 1960s? Reminisced about Woodstock days, or wished you were around ten so you could have been a part of it? Then, you should choose to celebrate your big day with a groovy 1960s wedding theme.

Invite the guests to a far out 1960s wedding celebration with invitation cards decked out in hippie themes. Send out invite cards with colorful, tie die designs, peace signs, or bright yellow happy faces. Or you can cut out a shape of a daisy with bright colored petals. Or, you can send the guest buttons with the wedding invite decorating it. Be sure to tell them that they are invited to a groovy 1960s theme wedding celebration.

Wedding attire for a 1960s theme wedding was influenced by the classic, fashionable Jacqueline Kennedy O'Nassis who was wed in an A-line dress with short selves and a covering bodice. Opera length gloves and pillbox hats are also a must have. Grace Kelly and Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra also added another choice for the brides of the 1960s with an Egyptian and Victorian influenced wedding dress.

For the bridesmaids, choose the more popular styles of the young, from later in the decade. Short skirts, dye tie, or flower patterns, fake eyelashes, beaded head bands, hair pieces made of real flowers, peasant blouses, buttons of peace, love, and no war, and platform go-go boots are just a few of the things that the bridesmaids can wear.

While you may choose for the groom to wear a more traditional tux, the ushers can wear tie-dyed t-shirts, bell-bottom pants, beaded or fringed vests, moccasins, headbands and a wooden peace-sign necklace and play an important part of the decor.

The soundtrack of the 1960s wedding can follow the soundtrack of Woodstock. Jimmy Hendrix, Santana, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Joe Cocker, Janis Joplin, The Who, and the Grateful Dead can provide the music to bring a Groovy feel to your wedding. Psychedelic was also big in that era. You can provide drums and tambourines as 1960s wedding theme decorations, and so the guests can become part of the entertainment.

The best setting for a groovy 1960s theme wedding would be outdoors. The 1960s was a time to celebrate being natural. Throw blankets on the ground, wave banners, and post slogans of love, peace and happiness. Don’t forget to have chairs for the guests unable to enjoy floor seating. If you can, rent an old VW bus or a little buggy and decorate it with 1960s symbols.

If the weather won’t cooperate, then try to have the wedding in a tent and be able to commune with nature. If that doesn’t work and you are forced to go indoors, then decorating it will be fun. Hang banners of posters that are a replica of the Woodstock invitations on the wall. You can hang schedules from Woodstock, and anti-Vietnam War slogans that were a key part of the 1960s.

On the tables, use battery operated lava lamps as a centerpiece. You can also set up a large clear vase, with floating pastel colors, flower shaped candles. These centerpieces should be covered with wildflowers, daisies and chrysanthemum rings.

On some of the tables scatter love beads, buttons and peace signs. Provide each guest with temporary tattoos similar to the ones that they had in the 1960s. Or send them home with a piece of the groovy 1960s theme wedding decorations.