In the final blog of the Iced and Spliced wedding styling series I want to focus on how you can inject a bit of youness into your wedding by making your personal interests, hobbies and joint loves part of your wedding day.
Whether it’s your partner’s favourite Marvel characters, a mix of both your favourite films, or all things Disney, there are ways to pop your personalities and vices into your special day without it taking over the entire theme. Little nods to your (possibly weird and wonderful) interests.
So, how can we incorporate a few of your favourite things into your wedding? (see what I did there?)
Styling your wedding chairs
As always, wedding chair dressings depend entirely on the chairs supplied by your venue. Hiring in chairs that lend themselves better to the style of dressing that best suits your theme is worth considering if the venue does not have anything suitable. Full chair covers may not sit well in your carefree, festival vibe. They’re a little too straight laced for some tastes, so investigate hiring costs versus covering the existing chairs, and think about how you’d feel about the overall look instead of the cheaper option.
Once your chair style is sorted, look for ideas that suit your theme, like which colours will work to bring the styling together well.
For example, will you match your colour palette to the shade your Bridesmaids are wearing? This gives a uniform look to the room, a colour thread to tie everything together.
Or, will you pick different colours for each table? These would then compliment the theme for each table, relevant to the main feature, giving each table a uniqueness of its own, a great way to incorporate different film characters for example or elements of individual interests.
If you’ve picked a Festival/Boho theme, styling your wedding chairs can include lengths of multi coloured ribbon, tied to the back of each chair. Perfect on the Chivari style you’d usually have included with Tipi & Marquees that seem to be the basis for any Boho wedding theme. This style of chair dressing can be costly, good ribbon is expensive, so consider dressing alternating chairs to give the effect and splash of colour you want, without burning through your budget (Top tip..alternating dressings only really works when there are even numbers of chairs at the table)
A Wedding Cake for a film buff!
Your wedding cake doesn’t have to be all frills and flowers. Designing a wedding cake unique to both of your passions makes the cake a real focal point of the day. Your cake designer will sit with you, talking over the themes you want to incorporate, share ideas on the best ways to achieve what you want, in a way that looks visually appetizing as well as capturing those things you both love.
Top Tip: There is an old saying that ‘you eat with your eyes’, so give careful consideration to having your cake entirely in Hulk Green, as some colours can be off putting for a lot of people!
If you’re not 100% sold on an entirely themed wedding cake, you’ve always dreamed of a flower adorned, all white sugar masterpiece, why not consider having a ‘half & half’ design?
Christened the ‘Reveal’ Cake, this idea gives you the best of both worlds. A lovely delicate front design, which is displayed during your Wedding Breakfast, with the fun, more relaxed and personality driven back of the cake turned into the room for the Evening Reception, essentially your ‘After Party’.
These cakes can be a lot of fun! I love creating them!
Film lover’s wedding cake at Shottle Hall / Floral cascade & unique cake topper with a Disney twist at The Nottinghamshire / Floral cascade’s Marvel ‘reveal’ side at The Nottinghamshire
Wedding Table Decorations
Your table decorations are where you can really get creative!
A mix of flowers, with ornaments or figures to reflect a particular film, pastime of even your favourite football team, makes the room dressing a fun part of the day, as well as a talking point for your guests without being too imposing on the overall styling.
Raiding the loft for those toys from your childhood, you know the ones, the sort you couldn’t bear to part with (or thought they’d increase in value if you kept them safe) is great fun. You never know, you both may have the same piece and can have a laugh at who played with their toy more. ‘Mint in box’ isn’t a term we want to hear here… break that seal.
Film themed table centres at Shottle Hall / Vibrant floral decorations at Shottle Hall by The Greenery / Cheese Tower as an alternative to a sweet wedding cake at Shottle Hall
Table Runners & Top Table Dressings
Pretty much anything goes here. Opt for runners & dressings to match chair dressing shades or the main colour associated with each table’s character or film theme and genre.
Even some sequin sparkle would work under themed centre pieces, as a unifying colour across the space.
Additional decorative items
These details are where you can go really crazy.
I love the ‘Be our Guest’ signs some couples use to welcome their guests to their day. Although that phrase is mainly associated with Disney’s Beauty & the Beast, it’s a perfect way to introduce your guests to a day that will be a lot of fun.
Tone down the overall effect by using small pieces to give subtle references to your theme, and use these pieces to dress a neglected corner, window ledge or mantlepiece, making them part of the decorations and staging but being less intrusive and gaudy. These little details are perfect for your photographer to snap and can become a real talking point for your guests.
Unique Wedding Favours at The Vicarage Boutique Hotel
Hints & Tips
Although it’s lovely to use your favourite things as a theme for your wedding day, including them in a subtle way is far more effective and makes an elegant wedding with a twist rather than something that can resemble a children’s tea party!
Using items that refer to a film in a more grown up way keeps your theme at the forefront, but gets your guests thinking more deeply about each piece’s meaning, getting them talking among themselves, a real ice breaker for people meeting for the first time, when the only real link between them is knowing either or both of you.
Printing information about each table’s theme, maybe even a mini quiz, will help guests understand the ideas behind the dressing. Pop them in a frame, so they can be passed around the table, gets the conversation flowing, helping your guest feel included and may even get them to revisit their own childhood if they too owned that same toy or loved that film.
Your wedding is all about you, your coming together as one, starting a new chapter in life and I really believe that your styling can still be classy whilst packing a personality punch when done in the right way.
Using your loves, passions and memories makes for a pretty unique day.
Marriage is all about compromise. A lot of the time the Groom isn’t comfortable, bothered or allowed to talk about the ‘pretty’ things, so having his input into even small parts of the wedding makes a Groom feel like he’s been included in decision making.
Even if it’s a football stadium themed table plan, or a tiny Marvel character hidden among the delicate floral pieces on the tables or how he popped the question, let your imagination run wild & enjoy the best day of your life together by having fun.
I hope that this blog series is helping to guide you in how to choose your wedding style, one that will suit your venue, your personalities and your vision for your wedding day. Bringing all of this together in the weddings we style for our couples is such an important part of what we do and we love looking back at all of the gorgeous weddings we have been involved in.
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