Do Whatever Makes You Happy When Decorating

Depending on where you are getting married, ceremony decorations may be a very important part of your planning. If you are getting married in a church, you may be able to get away with just a few ceremony decorations. However, if you are getting married in your backyard, on the beachfront at your family cottage, or at a local reception hall, you may need to plan and budget for a significant amount of wedding ceremony decorations.

Use your wedding location as a launching point to find decorating ideas. Keep in mind that flowers, aisle runners, chairs, alter décor and more will all vary depending upon where you are exchanging nuptials. If your wedding dress is elaborate and you are getting married in a large cathedral church, you certainly do not want beach themed or comical wedding ceremony decorations.

In such a case, you want to stick with taffeta and tulle bows to decorate the church pews, fancy aisle runners for your flower girl to adorn with fresh or silk rose petals, and large spectacular floral arrangements to showcase the marriage alter. However, only about 1 in 50 brides actually has a full-blown cathedral wedding anymore. If you are in the majority and will be tying the knot somewhere unique, fun or unusual, we have assembled some enjoyable decorating ideas for you.

Fun and Unique Wedding Ceremony Decorating Ideas

No matter what you can imagine, you can make it come true on your wedding day. There are no rules written in stone about how your wedding must look or how you should or should not decorate for your ceremony. If you are mad for the colour magenta, use it… everywhere! If you have always wanted to have an oceanfront wedding where everyone comes in bare feet and beachwear, have it!

If you own an Italian restaurant, what is wrong with wanting guests to throw colored macaroni pasta instead of rice? How fun! Perhaps you work as a marine biologist or a trainer a Sea World – why not have your bridesmaids decked out in mermaid style dresses with starfish jewelry? Maybe Casablanca is your all time favorite movie. Feel free to plan a wonderful, black and white, old style wedding with a candlelight ceremony. A modern way to do this is to use luminaries down either side of the aisle for a soft, wonderful ambiance.

If your dream wedding is on the beach and you live in the middle of Idaho, you can still have a beach themed wedding. Plan your big day in the summer, find a large park, ballpark or vacant lot that you can rent or use and call a company to dump a few tons of beach sand on it. Decorate with lots of brightly coloured flowers like hibiscus, geranium, birds of paradise, and angel trumpets.

Have everyone come casually dressed and sit on beach mats for the ceremony. Add a starfish or tropical breeze wedding cake topper to your pineapple tropics wedding cake, use beach chair shaped place cards if you have arranged seating for the ceremony, and use beach or nautical signs to point everyone from the parking area to the ceremony location. Lovely beach themed paper and stationary would be ideal for casual wedding invitations or for your ceremony program.

Flowers, birds and butterflies also make lovely wedding ceremony themes. You can never go wrong with garlands of roses, an alter arbor overflowing with wisteria, a butterfly embroidered ring bearer pillow and toss garter, or a wonderful cake topper with stylized birds wrapped around the bride and groom. Dress up the church pew bows with large oriental lily blooms for a splash of fresh colour or perhaps choose silk flowers that you can keep forever.

If you are your partner are sports fans, have fun with it. Get married on a golf course with your wedding party dressed up as caddies, exchange vows on the pitcher’s mound at your favourite baseball field or centerfield on the soccer field where you met your spouse to be, or order all of your wedding ceremony decorations in the colours of your beloved basketball team.

Whatever the couple wants should be when it comes to the ceremony décor. Your wedding party should be there to help, offer advice and run errands – but not dictate or decide wedding ceremony decorations. Your parents or in-laws had their own wedding day, and this is yours! Do whatever will make you happy and give you a warm feeling of happiness when you think about your wedding day 25 years from now.