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Tips and Ideas for Wedding Themes


Wedding Themes

Bringing wedding themes to life is one of the most exciting parts of wedding planning. Even creating the simple and classic wedding with your favorite colors and flowers is an unforgettable journey. Imagine a 1920’s speakeasy or creating a Cinderella inspired princess story. These tips should help make your dream wedding a reality.


Choosing Wedding Themes


Sometimes, choosing wedding themes can be more of a challenge than creating them. When given a large number of possibilities, setting your heart on one theme can be difficult. While the wedding is commonly thought of as the bride’s day, it is important that the bride and groom work together to create a wedding theme that both will agree upon. Choose a theme that you absolutely love, and incorporate small elements that are unique to your relationship.

Inspiration for Wedding Themes

Wedding Themes are About You


Avoid creating a wedding just like the fairy tale or just like someone else. Think about your favorite books, movies, significant locations or other common interests, and choose elements to incorporate into your unique rendition. If you struggle to choose a theme, it is always safe to pick your color scheme and season. Think about your interests as a couple and what will make the magical day meaningful and unforgettable. Wedding themes should be obvious, but not exact. Wedding themes are a concept, rather than a replication. Never create expectations for an exact replica.


The Most Common Themes


Common wedding themes include The Great Gatsby, Harry Potter, Beauty and the Beast, Star Wars, Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, rustic themes, beach themes and significant locations. Not every wedding needs to be from the big screen. These are just some of the most common; however, possibilities go far beyond this few.

Creating Wedding Themes


Think about the kind of experience you want to create. Do you imagine something fun and playful or romantic and serene? Think of ways to create the experience with types of food, music, the cake, décor, wedding favors, invitations and place cards. If you and your significant other met on a vacation or had a first date at a special restaurant, you might want to recreate the vacation spot or the restaurant. Your invitations or place cards could be a passport, airline ticket, reservation at a restaurant or a menu. Allow your wedding themes to inspire your wedding day. It should be personal and significant to you. Avoid the cookie-cutter wedding. Think more about creating the concept in a way that has never been done before.

Wedding Themes at Crystal Ballroom at Veranda

Make a List


Once you have brainstormed your ideas and set your heart on a theme, create a small list of ideas to incorporate into your wedding day. Wedding themes have a color scheme. Find your base color and two accent colors that will clearly identify your inspiration. Your list should include wedding attire. You might want a vintage dress for a 1920’s theme or ballgowns for the bride and bridesmaids to create a Cinderella ball. Think about your décor. Centerpieces are a focal point in the reception area and a good place to incorporate wedding themes. Depending on your theme, you might add feathers, strings of pearls or specific blooms to your candelabras.


Wedding Cake


Your wedding cake is one of the easiest and most creative ways to incorporate wedding themes. A Cinderella inspired wedding might display sky blue fondant with pink and blue roses, gold piping with white overlay of filigree, a clock with hands inching around towards midnight and a golden carriage on top. A carriage could be substituted with a glass slipper, a Cinderella inspired castle or a bluebird cake topper. Rustic wedding themes might showcase a rustic wedding cake to match. Imagine a semi-naked wedding cake with the earthy elements of a garden. Add wild flowers to your design that match your season. Feature your cake on a log cake plate. Gather inspiring images and find the cake designer to bring it to life.

Crystal Ballroom at Veranda

Crystal Ballroom at Veranda


Rather than renting out décor, furnishings and linens to recreate wedding themes, consider an all-inclusive wedding venue. All-inclusive wedding venues have in-house designers and bundle the venue, designs and services to create affordable wedding packages. Crystal Ballroom at Veranda is an elegant wedding venue in Orlando, and the perfect destination to create your magical wedding themes. Bring imagination to Crystal Ballroom and let the professional designers create your fairy tale.

We invite you to discover the
Crystal Ballroom difference found in the unparalleled elegance and uniqueness written into the design of each of our venues. The themes are as limitless as your imagination.

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