Wedding theme and design

Peo­ple are some­times scared by the word “theme” as they pic­ture full blown scenes from a west­ern, star wars movie or Hawai­ian beach! It is really not like that at all (well maybe for a few of you!) and works best when touches of your cho­sen look are used through­out the wed­ding and echoed sub­tly through­out dif­fer­ent aspects of the day, rather than going over­board and hav­ing absolutely every­thing pink for example.

You will usu­ally take inspi­ra­tion from some idea or con­cept, and then develop and per­son­alise that idea, whilst work­ing out how to inte­grate it into your wed­ding.  Your wed­ding plan­ner will be a great help here, as they will have lots of expe­ri­ence in pro­vid­ing inspi­ra­tion and com­ing up with beau­ti­ful themes and design con­cepts to suit each indi­vid­ual couple.

Do not feel pres­sured to con­form to the lat­est trends or even your nag­ging Mother – just remem­ber that it is your day. Every cou­ple will have a dif­fer­ent inter­pre­ta­tion of any idea or con­cept, and that is what makes every wed­ding so won­der­ful and unique! A few things to think about -

Where to start?!

Just think about the things you both love, or do together and per­haps make a list or do some brain­storm­ing as your start­ing point. For exam­ple – dif­fer­ent cul­tures, films, winter/Christmas, a cer­tain colour, music, travel or a par­tic­u­lar place you have been to?

From here you can decide together which is your favourite and to what degree you would like to reflect this in your wed­ding. You will prob­a­bly find that, to a cer­tain extent, this is dic­tated as you go along, depend­ing on your other deci­sions (such as type of venue), inspi­ra­tions and finds!

Style and feel?!

You will find that this nat­u­rally reflects your per­son­al­i­ties so just think about what kind of day you both want – tra­di­tional and for­mal, mod­ern and fun or a mix of the two? Noth­ing is set in stone when it comes to design­ing your theme – so just go with what you want! Think about what is most impor­tant – glam­our and opu­lence, chic but inti­mate, relaxed and com­fort­able? The choices are endless!

Some theme/design ideas

Your theme could be based around a par­tic­u­lar sea­son, for exam­ple a win­ter wed­ding could incor­po­rate beau­ti­ful fes­tive colours and flow­ers, fairy lights, can­dles and an open fire with mulled wine for your recep­tion drinks. Cou­ples often base their theme around their favourite colour – pink, tiffany box blue or even black. Did your fiancé pro­pose in Dubai or Morocco? An east­ern theme can be fab­u­lous and offer so many choices. Other choices could be – Eng­lish coun­try gar­den, vin­tage chic, sim­ple and ele­gant, romance, dia­monds and pearls, nature, green, Paris or New York?! A few of these can be seen below -

Wed­ding inspi­ra­tion board by Rebecca from Tem­ple Gregory.

Wed­ding inspi­ra­tion board cred­its:
1 – Tiffany Post­box seen on Project Wed­ding, 2 – Farmer style mar­quee with hay bale seat­ing, seen on Bridesmaid.com, 3 – Win­ter wed­ding pho­tographed by Image­Text, 4 – Coun­try gar­den wed­ding, seen on Daisy Pink Cup­cake, 5 – Ele­gant Orchids seen on Project Wed­ding

Huge thanks to Rebecca, direc­tor and main wed­ding plan­ner at Tem­ple Gre­gory for sub­mit­ting this help­ful arti­cle, first pub­lished on her own wed­ding blog (of which I’m a big fan!). Tem­ple Gre­gory are wed­ding plan­ners based in Hamp­shire but cover wed­dings across Lon­don and the whole of the south east.