How To Find Your Perfect Wedding Day Theme With Ease
Choosing a theme for your wedding day is not essential, but many brides find that having a theme makes the planning and creation of their wedding day far easier. It gives you a cohesive backdrop that reflects your personalities and tastes as a couple, while also bringing more creativity and fun into your wedding day. You can find ideas and inspiration for your theme online and in bridal magazines ranging from 1920’s prohibition to coastal luxe. But with more and more theme ideas surfacing each year, it can be challenging to find one that is just right. Regardless of the overwhelming choice on offer, choosing a theme isn’t as difficult as it may seem. Use the following guide to choose a wedding theme that will enhance your big day even more.
Make it fun
Neither of you are going to enjoy choosing a theme if it feels like hard work, so make this initial part as enjoyable as possible. When you start brainstorming ideas, try to make it upbeat and fun. This will make it easier to get the creative juices flowing and ideas will naturally come to you. If you treat this process as something that is chore-like, it will be much harder to start coming up with theme ideas, so put on some music that you both love or look for inspiration in films, books and online. This will create a positive vibe that makes you both feel relaxed. Grab a notepad and pen and jot down ideas as they come to you. Even if the themes you come up with sound silly and are unlikely to work, still write them down. You never know, these ideas you overlook could actually make an original theme unlike any other.
Consider what you both like and enjoy together
Your theme should reflect the key aspects that define you as a couple, which will make your big day more unique, so it’s important that you make it as personal as possible. The easiest way of coming up with personalized themes is by considering what you both like and enjoy together. You could use where you met as inspiration or a recent holiday destination, or you could think about shared passions you both have such as art, food and sport. You could make it something general such as music, or something very specific such as a favorite book or song. You can even use your personal fashion sense as a theme such as vintage or geek chic. The possibilities are truly endless - just make sure they are realistically achievable. It’s essential that you both have a say in what your theme entails and that it isn’t one-sided. Otherwise, you may be creating a wedding that only showcases your own personality and vice versa. You should also consider the venue for your wedding and if you intend to have an indoor or outdoor wedding. This can also be a great source of inspiration as well as making it easier to see your theme come to life.
Don’t go over-the-top
There are no rules to how much or how little you incorporate your theme into your wedding day, but often the most successful themes are the ones that are discreetly executed in the smaller details. For a shabby chic theme, for instance, you can have rustic wedding invitations, table centerpieces, and favors. This will showcase your theme far better than having it included in every single aspect. Therefore, choose a theme that is versatile and get creative with how you involve it in your wedding day. You could use photocopied pages from your favorite book and use them to make paper flowers for your bouquet or table pieces, or you could even use old maps to create bunting or tablecloths for a travel theme. These finer details will show off your theme and tie all the aspects of your wedding together. Once you’ve chosen your desired aesthetic, research and create ways that you can tastefully include your theme. Spend some time experimenting and getting creative! This too will make the process a lot more enjoyable and it gives you some quality time together.
As you can see, choosing a theme doesn’t have to be a complicated matter. While it’s useful to use bridal blogs, magazines, and websites for theme ideas, try to stay true to yourself. Don’t choose something that is the opposite of your personalities and style. Create a theme that encapsulates everything you love and enjoy and you can’t go wrong!
