Do-It-Yourself Christmas Wedding Decoration Ideas: The Spirit of Christmas Book Twenty

If you are trying to decide on a Christmas wedding theme that is unique, a Christmas decorating theme where indoor Christmas decorations are used to evoke an outdoors aesthetic could be the perfect wedding ceremony and reception decoration idea you are looking for.

A few bright ideas for a wedding that brings the outdoors inside can be found in The Spirit of Christmas Book Twenty (Leisure Arts, 2006). No less than six Christmas wedding theme possibilities are presented, of which three can be used to deliver the look and feel of an outdoor theme wedding.

The first of the possible outdoors Christmas wedding themes found in The Spirit of Christmas: Book Twenty starts on page 30 with a chapter titled “Snow News.” This should be a particularly appealing chapter for eco-minded couples. Its focus is on creating an “artsy assortment of snow-inspired projects, many of which are made from newspaper.”

If you want an environmentally-friendly winter wonderland wedding theme that stands out from the crowd, the “Snow News" chapter delivers mind-opening do-it-yourself Christmas crafts decorations that will solve your problems. Particularly eye-catching and refreshingly different is the “snow-white Paper Tree Arrangement” featuring a small tree and a larger tree, both made from magazines. Now you have a use for all those bridal magazines you have been collecting.

Another variation on the winter wonderland wedding theme can be found in the chapter titled “Icy Splendor.” Employing a white-and-silver wedding color theme like that shown in the book can aid in coming up with plenty of ideas for a winter wonderland wedding with an icy artic motif. Use groupings of “Etched Candle Holders that feature delicate etched snowflakes” along with an artsy bowl filled with silver, pearl white, and translucent ball ornaments as shown in the project photo on page 58 to create icy table centerpieces that fit well with this outdoors Christmas wedding theme.

Follow the lead offered in the book and add angel theme decorations in the form of framed angle pictures. Patterns for creating these angel theme decorations combined with easy-to-follow instructions for making silver leaf frames like those shown in the photos will help make quick work of these do-it-yourself Christmas crafts decorations.

Finally, perhaps a beach wedding theme that brings to mind the warm sunny days of summer is a more appealing outdoors Christmas wedding theme. The chapter titled “A Beach House Christmas” offers plenty of bright ideas for a wedding themed with a “coastal design” that help get the creative juices flowing. For beach style reception table centerpieces, turn to page 39 where the project photo shows a large decorative glass compote filled “with sand, rocks, seashells, greenery, and netting ribbon.”

Complement that beach style reception table centerpieces by strewing more “ocean-inspired accents” such as seashell shaped candles or mother-of-pearl candles, starfish, sea shells, and sand dollars as table top wedding decorations. To make a clear statement that this is indeed a Christmas theme wedding, add a few seaside swags. These do-it-yourself Christmas decorations are crafted with artificial ming fern greenery, eucalyptus, and money plant stems “adorned with various seaside treasures and a large cork star.”