Unique Wedding Theme: Do-It-Yourself Wedding Decorating for Alex and Robin in New Hampshire

Alex and Robin's favorite colors are pink and green, which led to a unique wedding theme with plenty of do-it-yourself wedding decorating that started a year in advance. The daytime ceremony was held in front of a rustic well house on the 270-year-old, 100-acre farm of Robin’s family, in Dunbarton, New Hampshire. The site offered outdoor wedding ceremony decoration supplied by nature in the form of lush green tree lines and a carpet of beautiful green grass, which fit the couple’s aesthetic tastes perfectly.

While Alex and the groomsmen dressed in khaki Jos. A. Bank suits and green converse sneakers smacked of bohemianism, Robin opted for something more traditional. The bride was attired in a white strapless silk wedding gown by Jasmine with a floor length skirt. It provided a classic silhouette with free-spirited flair that sufficiently conveyed spirit of the affair.

Embroidered vine designs throughout the bodice and skirt provided dreamy flourish. Robin added a waltz length veil for the perfect finishing touch. The grassy surface called for unsinkable footwear, leading Robin to wear rhinestone flip-flops. One do-it-yourself wedding decoration carried by the bride was a green and pink paper bouquet.

The couple prepared many more do-it-yourself wedding decorations for the event. Robin designed the invitations, hand-stamped escort cards, and made more paper bouquets and boutonnieres for the wedding party. For his part, Alex set up the sound system, brewed nine varieties of beer, and created centerpieces. Even guests of this unique theme wedding were conscripted into labor. The mother of Alex’s best friend and ceremony officiate was filling pink and green balloons for tent decorations. Alex’s niece roamed the property gathering petals she would strew down the aisle in her role as the flower girl.

Do-it-yourself wedding decorating for the reception included the centerpieces that Alex created, assembled using clear Ikea vases filled with green apples, pink rock candy, playful pinwheels, and topped off with personal photos. Result is, fun, affordable do-it- yourself reception table decorations. Old-fashioned wooden clothespins held Robin’s hand-made escort cards in place on strips of green ribbon. All of those clever and stylish outdoor reception decoration ideas helped create a unique wedding that left many quests thinking the couple had used a professional wedding planner.

In the end, it was unique theme wedding centered on a combination of both natural decoration provided by the location and do-it-yourself wedding decorations, all in concert with the couple’s favorite colors – green and pink. The one thing that was not a do-it-yourself wedding project for this industrious, quirky couple was the wedding cake. It was a three-tiered almond and hazelnut cake covered with green icing and accented with dark-green vine designs dotted with pink flower buds.