Unique Wedding Inspiration: Part II
I’ve had SO much fun this week posting on unique wedding ideas–I hope you’ve found them inspiring! It’s time now for my final post on unique inspirations for your wedding. Enjoy!
A Letter (i.e. your soon-to-be last name; or your first name if you and your fiance share the first letter of your names): Think outside the monogram for this one. If your fiance’s last name begins with P, for example, serve foods that start with the letter P (pumpkin; pie; pear; pork; prawns; pasta…); include scrabble tiles or typewriter keys in the letter P with your invitations or save the date cards; dress your bridesmaids in the color purple; and use peonies for your centerpieces.
A Texture: Think of textures like feathers, silk, cotton, wheat, lace, or pine. All of these could provide inspiration for your wedding (i.e. dress your maids in cotton dresses and use fluffy white flowers; pine is great for a forest wedding and you could attach escort cards to pine cones; ivory lace is another of my favorites!). And one amazing idea for a feather-themed wedding: line your aisle with white feathers instead of rose petals and have your flowers girls toss feathers as well.
Something Abstract: Like a wish (think dandelions, fairy tales, pennies, chicken with wishbones, etc.); dreams (think white/blue/pale colors, light materials, perhaps a beach wedding), and water. For a light-inspired wedding, have the ceremony outside at sunset, show fireworks, use candle lamps as centerpieces, and give pretty matchboxes as favors.
Time of Day: Speaking of sunset, you can theme your whole wedding around a time of day! Think sunset, noon, midday, evening, nighttime, midnight, etc. You can even have a sunrise champagne wedding on the beach if it’s small and you don’t think your family and close friends will mind. For example, if you are inspired by a sunset, choose flowers in deep yellows, oranges and purples; have your signature drink be the Cayman Sunset. Dance to Howie Day’s “The Perfect Time of Day”; give guests favors of this stunning poem by Victor Hugo. If nighttime is your theme, give guests copies of the play (or movie) A Midsummer Nights Dream, have your ceremony in a forest, and dress your bridesmaids in midnight blues and purples.
An Ingredient: Sugar, chocolate, milk, vanilla, salt, nutmeg, ginger, cinnamon, thyme (could be a great play on “time”). A chocolate-based wedding, for example, would be so much fun. Use brown, cream and white for your colors. Even main courses can be served using chocolate, like chocolate-rubbed steak. For dessert, you can even serve beignets with three chocolate dipping “sauces”–white, milk and dark.
A song or a poem: I created this inspiration board based on the song My Favorite Things, which I always thought would make a beautiful winter wedding. All you have to do is pick out the images in the poem/song to do this with anything:
Other ideas? Shakespearean sonnets; Robert Frost… You could use Rilke’s poem “Time and Again” if you are marrying in a country church, and you could use clocks, have your colors be sky-blue and gray (an amazing combination, by the way!), and create centerpieces of miniature trees/branches and beautiful flowers:
Time and again, however well we know the landscape of love,
and the little church-yard with lamenting names,
and the frightfully silent ravine wherein all the others
end: time and again we go out two together,
under the old trees, lie down again and again
between the flowers, face to face with the sky.
Thanks for reading this week!! Have a great weekend!
