Five Tips For Themed Bridal Accessories.

Thursday, January 28, 2010 | 5:57 pm

Five Tips For Themed Bridal Accessories.

The first of five tips for bridal accessories is the theme. If you plan a theme wedding, you will want to plan everything down to the honeymoon. Planning a theme wedding requires a little browsing before you define the theme. If you pick a theme that is hard to shop for, you will have a hard time finding bridal accessories. You want to find something that is easy to shop for and something that is easy to put together. You do not want to pick something that will consume all your time. Planning your wedding takes time enough without adding a theme that requires any more time. Bonboniera can help you of course, with their many contacts and suppliers, so once you have chosen your dream theme, pop in and have a chat with the team, they will be a great help to you.

The second of five tips for bridal accessories is the dress, shoes, headpiece and flowers. If you are planning a theme wedding, you do not want to buy a dress and shoes that will not fit the theme of the wedding. If you plan a themed wedding, you need to also look at dresses, shoes and headpieces to fit the theme. After all, this is the entire idea about a theme wedding. Your flowers should also relate to the theme of your wedding. If you are having a tropical wedding, you are not going to use calla lilies. Match the flowers to the theme and most of all have fun with your creativity.

The third of five tips for bridal accessories is the ceremony itself. Many brides have themed wedding to move away from traditional ceremonies and have a different type of service. If you have a beach theme, you are not going to want the ceremony to be a traditional service. Your guests will appreciate your creativity more if you keep the ceremony in tune with the theme. You can have the traditional vows or some couples make their own vows, which add to the beauty of the theme wedding.

The fourth thing you want to keep in mind is the reception. Since your wedding is represented by a theme, you want to keep the reception as close to the theme as possible. You may have a country theme or a fairy tale theme, either way, you want to have table décor, decorations and wedding favors that match your theme wedding. There are twists to every theme wedding, but if you plan everything down to the honeymoon, you can be assured you will have the best themed wedding ever.

The last tip for bridal accessories is the honeymoon. Although you will be spending it somewhere other than the reception hall, you might still want to carry out the theme. Whether you have a hotel room or your own home, you can add some decorations to the room to carry the theme into the next day. Many brides plan such themes for the honeymoon right down to the type of lingerie they will wear. Keeping these five tips in mind should help you plan a great themed wedding.

From Wedding Favours, to Table decorations, Bonboniera can help with your Dream Theme.

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Deciding On a Wedding Theme

Saturday, May 9, 2009 | 10:40 am

Without a doubt one of the most fun decisions a couple will make during the process of planning a wedding is choosing a theme for the wedding. It is not necessary to choose a theme for your wedding but it can certainly help to give the wedding a more defined personality. Also, having a particular theme for the wedding can make it much more fun for the guests. This article will provide some information on how a couple can integrate a theme into all aspects of their wedding and will also provide some advice on choosing a theme.

Couples who wish to incorporate a particular theme into their wedding plans should make a decision fairly early on in the wedding planning process about the type of theme they want to have. It is important to make this decision early because most couples start shopping around for invitations, thank you cards and personal stationary approximately five to seven months before the wedding date. This will give the couple plenty of time to select these items, order them and have them delivered in time to send the invitations out at least three months before the wedding date. Selecting wedding invitations that coordinate with the theme of the wedding will give guests a sneak preview of what to expect at the wedding.

If the wedding invitations can be used to give guests a sneak preview of the theme for the wedding the favors can be used to send guests home with a memento of the wedding which will always remind them of the theme. Incorporating the theme of the wedding into the favor for the guests is a good idea because it helps to create a memory for the guests. When favors are chosen without a great deal of thought or consideration they are often discarded shortly after the wedding. However, when the favors are chosen carefully to be tasteful reminders of the wedding the guests are much more likely to hold onto these items.

From the invitations to the favors there are many opportunities for the couple to tie the different elements together to coordinate with the theme. The bride’s gown, the groom’s attire, the cake, the place settings, the music, the food and the floral arrangements can all be tailored to really match the theme of the wedding and create a sense of cohesion. The couple will have to decide how many of these elements they want to incorporate into the theme. It is possible to allow the theme to extend to all elements of the wedding without appearing cheesy but is also easy to overdue the theme. For this reason the couple should be careful to avoid making tacky decisions.

Finally, while finding ways to incorporate a theme into every aspect of the wedding may not be difficult many couples find selecting a theme to be a considerably more difficult decision. The best advice we can offer is for the couple to select a theme that is truly meaningful to them. This is important because as much as the couple wants the guests to have a good time the wedding is for the couple and they will regret their decision if they are not true to themselves. We also recommend selecting a theme which will be fairly easy to incorporate into a number of different elements of the wedding. This is important because an obscure theme may sound like a great idea but if the couple is not able to find more than a few coordinating design elements the guests may not even be able to determine whether or not there was a theme to the wedding.

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