Creative Personalized Keepsakes: Wedding Theme Ideas

From wedding invitations to wedding favors, use our wedding theme ideas to make your fairtytale wedding dream come alive!

Your wedding theme can be centered around favorite colors or flowers or favorite places or even historical eras that you want to re-enact. Or maybe you're a part of an particularly creative subculture like punk or Goth. Your wedding theme is a part of you and how you convey yourself or what you've always dreamt your wedding day to be.

medieval-church Any of the wedding theme ideas you're considering will include every element of your wedding for example your settings, your invitations, the decorations, ceremony programs, and your wedding favors. So regardless of where you choose to have your ceremony and reception, all other aspects of your wedding should blend effortlessly and flawlessly to create the of your dream come true.

Ideas for Themed Wedding Invitations
Your theme could be a particular color of paper or even the kind of paper the invitation is printed on. The wording and even the font selection will be particular to the wedding theme as well.

Ideas for Table Decorations
If you're having table place cards or table numbers, the place cards can clearly be a part of the wedding favors and the table numbers can be the special table centerpiece that some lucky guests will win during the reception and take home. There are hundreds of ideas on what place cards and table numbers can be, whether fashioned in a unique pattern or created in your color scheme.

Ideas for Ceremony and Reception Décor
Whether your ceremony is being held in a church or chapel, outdoors or on a beach, your pews or seats may have pew ribbons or bows, or any number of special decorations fastened to the seating to line the aisle that you'll be walking down.

outdoor-wedding-chairs For an outdoor or beach ceremony, a decorated wedding arbor or arch or a gazebo is a charming accent; imagine repeating your vows under an arbor or in a gazebo that's been elegantly embellished with flowers, greeneries and tulle in your wedding theme colors.

Ideas for Your Food Menu
Your selections of foods should reflect your theme as well. For example, if you're planning a beach or Hawaiian theme, you may want to go casual and have a pig roast or barbecue. An afternoon garden wedding may include small sandwiches and pastries. An early evening event may include hors d'oeuvres and wine.

Ideas for Wedding Favors
Your choice of wedding favors will be among the things that will certainly be an expression of your wedding theme. Favors can be easy and low priced and you can personalize them with your names and wedding date. Whatever choices you make, be sure you're selecting favors your guests will want to take home and keep, not something that will get thrown away at the end of the night.

Here are some unique wedding theme ideas to consider planning your day around: