Christmas Wedding Themes: Victorian Wedding Ideas From Christmas Styles
If you are looking for Victorian theme wedding ideas for a Christmas wedding, you need to put Christmas Styles on your check-it-out list. The book is contains a sampling of projects completed by Dr. Christmas, the two person team of Debi Staron and Bob Pranga who “…are specialists of Christmas….”
Among the many Christmas decorating themes featured in the book are three very different Victorian Christmas decoration projects the authors completed for their clients. All of these designs contain elements that can be easily adapted for Victorian Christmas wedding decoration ideas.
The first of the potential Victorian theme wedding ideas for a Christmas wedding presented in the book is a floral Victorian theme. Floral decoration pictures include a dining room overview shot that fills all of page 20 and a third of page 21.
Taking a tip from that photo, Christmas wedding centerpieces could consist principally of floral table wedding decorations fashioned with white planter boxes brimming over with combinations of evergreen branches, ivy, red kalanchoes, and pink roses, among others. As seen in the picture, placing two or three such arrangements in the center of a long table gives rise to a great wedding head table decoration idea.
Further study of the picture provides hints for additional Victorian wedding reception decoration ideas for tables. These include Santa Christmas decorations like the “Father Christmas earthenware figurine [that] is a cleverly sculpted teapot,” floral-motif lace placemats, alternating gold and burgundy chargers, and dark red satin dinner napkins. Also like in the photo, chair decorations can simply be chair wraps of appropriately-patterned deep red fabric with a rosette tied in the back echoing the floral theme.
On page 21, there is a close-up picture of one of the rectilinear “paper Victorian-motif cones” containing pink hydrangeas that were used as Victorian Christmas decorations for a tree. Such Victorian Christmas decorations would also make splendid wedding flower pew cones for wedding aisle decoration. If you want Victorian wedding flowers and decoration in the church, there you go. Another of the floral-themed Victorian wedding reception decoration ideas worth considering is silver serving trays with hors d'oeuvres or deserts nestled amid leaves and crystal twigs, similar to the one pictured on page 22.
The second of the potential Victorian theme wedding ideas for a Christmas wedding presented in the book is a toy Victorian theme, which is a perfect match since small toys were commonly used as Christmas tree decorations during the Victorian era. In the book, large collectible dolls were the central elements for the featured Christmas tree on page 25 for which a dollhouse plus related childhood activities served as the thematic framework. This concept of using toys opens up plenty of possibilities when it comes to Christmastime Victorian theme wedding ideas. For instance, combine a Christmas wedding with a baseball theme wedding or a western wedding theme.
On page 25 is the picture of another potential Christmas wedding centerpiece that is a vision of unrestrained luxury and yet elegantly simple. The assemblage features an evergreen wreath within the center of which a gorgeous beaded candle holder has been placed. Around the perimeter are alternating large clear and small ornate beaded baubles plus an outermost ring of tea lights. It is a Victorian Christmas decoration that would certainly deliver a wedding reception table centerpiece decoration with lots of panache.
The last of the potential Victorian theme wedding ideas for a Christmas wedding presented in the book is an angel Victorian theme. Again, as seen in the principal photo that spans pages 26 and 27, the authors have used dolls as the primary decorative elements; in this case, regally attired large angle dolls were used. These angel theme decorations were embedded throughout the tree plus suspended along stair rails in combination with garlands to create “an illusion of movement.” If you are looking for angel wedding theme ideas, try making use of similar angel theme decorations.