Wedding Themes are Crucial to Make a Wedding Stand Out
By ErikaD
@ErikaD (21)
United States
March 11, 2013 2:18am CST
Many brides and grooms choose a wedding theme to coordinate their colors, food, drink, and venue. It can be a simple as a color scheme, and as elaborate as a movie, an era, or an idea (think wedding in Tuscany). I have been to many weddings where they were simple (the colors were black, white, and red), and unfortunatly nothing else went with their color scheme. What ended up was a mis-matched color with the venue, and no real "glue" to hold their ideas together. Personally, I like to see a little more thought into the decor, colors, and food and drink choices when going to a wedding. This should be a reflection of the couple and who they are, not what package they purchased from the local wedding hall.
4 responses
@jenny1015 (13366)
• Philippines
11 Mar 13
The weddings now, in the Philippine setting has adopted the way that other people from other countries prepare them. Before the main concern was only the motif and the food and venue wasn't much of a problem. But now, a few months before the wedding, there are pre-nuptial photo shoots, distribution of the "SAVE THE DATE" infos and of course, what makes them more expensive these days is for having a theme.
I got married 19 years ago, and it was just a simple one. The only thing I requested really was to be wed by Archbishop Jaime Cardinal Sin.
My sister's wedding theme was MAFIA. She went off the tradition of wearing a white bridal gown. He opted to a moccha-colored one. And the entourage wore midnight blue dresses. Well, I was the matron of honor so I chose an "off-theme" gown!
(I just wanted to be different. I didn't wanna come looking like MA Baker!
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(I just wanted to be different. I didn't wanna come looking like MA Baker!)@jenny1015 (13366)
• Philippines
14 Mar 13
Well, actually, it wasn't that much. It is just very unlikely in the Philippines setting to have such theme.
@doroffee (4222)
• Hungary
11 Mar 13
Oh, I have the same feelings with weddings. I've went to two weddings. One seemed thrown together in the last minute, and one was so cliché... all white, gold and some weird shade of maroon, and not even all the shades matched.
I'm going to choose every single thing to the last piece of flower myself to match my color scheme. It would be peach, cream and greyish blues. I wanted something fresher yet not too bright (I hate these turquoise with orange and pink schemes, those are not sophisticated enough for me for a wedding). And no way I'm going to buy a package...
@Raine38 (12257)
• United States
11 Mar 13
I understand what you mean. But I can also sympathize with the bride and groom. I have planned my own wedding 2 years ago and it was really very stressful. From the outside, it's so perfectly executed. But on the inside, there were some mishaps and glitches that my family were able to help me salvage and fix. If the bride is just the only one doing all the planning and she doesn't get any help or support, plus she needs to work on a very limited budget, it will definitely show on the day of the wedding itself. But after experiencing the stress and the hardships, I have learned to look way beyond the aesthetics and look at the happy couple. For me if the couple who is getting married are so in love and so happy you can just see how their faces glow, then for me it is perfect. Doesn't matter if there are missing things on the wedding or mismatched colors.
