The Getaway Car: Tips For Decorating A Wedding Car

Traditionally, the groom's attendants sneak out to the couples' getaway car during the reception and decorate it with cans and shaving cream. While these ideas still work, a few tips and new creative pranks will add more fun and originality to the task of decorating the wedding getaway car, leaving the bride and groom truly surprised.

It is probably best to say that the most important thing to consider when decorating the wedding car is safety. You must use items that will not cause the car to be damaged or be unable to be driven. That being said, let's move on.

The most used product in traditional wedding car decorations is shaving cream. The cons of shaving cream (it's messy, it melts and runs in heat, etc.) spurred companies to create a new form of message writing. The new form, a car painting pen, is the perfect update for wedding car decoration. The marker is wide and can be used effectively on windows or anywhere else on the car. It washes off nicely in a carwash as well and does not damage the car's paint.

Anything attention grabbing is wonderful for the wedding car decorating task. Another traditional idea groomsmen love to use is to attach birth control items to the car. While this can be hilarious, it is not appropriate for all couples. Religious brides and grooms may be more offended than anything if their car is decorated in this manner.

So, in hopes of finding something less offensive, but just as attention grabbing, we turn to food as wedding car decorations. Imagine seeing a car going down the road covered with pieces of bread or snack cakes. Most people would laugh out loud at its oddity. To elaborate on this idea, groomsmen could decorate the passenger side of the car with the bride's favorite food and the driver's side with the grooms, making the gag more personalized. Just a note, string works best to attach food.

Toilet paper is still great for wedding car decorations. Wrapping the entire car with toilet paper will definitely grab the attention of others on the road. The only con to this idea is that if the paper flies off in route, it will be a littering disaster. Another wrapping idea is aluminum foil or colored saran wrap. Groomsmen could even wrap the doors so the bride and groom have to struggle and rip the wrap to get inside.

For considerate groomsmen who want to create more polite wedding car decorations, whipped cream and flower petals can be used. By covering the car completely with whipped cream and then sticking flower petals all over it, the groomsmen can create a beautiful, yet messy wedding car.

No matter what the groomsmen have up their sleeves, the wedding car decorating task is meant to be fun and surprising for all involved. By keeping a good sense of humor, the wedding couple can laugh at the wedding car decorations, all the way to the carwash.