A beautiful winter wedding can be breathtaking, elegant and cost effective if planned properly. If you love the romance of Fall, a snowy background, crackling fireplaces, and warm friendships, then you can pull off a winter wedding using elements of fantasy or traditional Christmas themes.

Winter Wedding can include traditional Christmas themed colors such as red, green, burgundy, gold and touches of evergreen and pine cones. Or you can create a winter fantasy theme with tulle, velvet fabrics and twinkling lights accented with crystal glittered trees, tiered silver platters and plenty of candles to set the mood.

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When it comes to a wedding style, there are many things to keep in mind. Such as family traditions, season of your date, and even personal choices like themed weddings.

Some couples base their entire design and theme for the wedding around family and cultural traditions. Others choose a style based on the location of the wedding. traditional ceremonies are usually held in churches, themed weddings are mostly affected from when and where you choose to have your ceremony. Some like outdoors weddings or waterfront, then base the whole style of colors and accessories around that theme.

If you’re trying to decide if a themed wedding is something for you or not, consider all your variables. Think about season and where you choose to have it. Then the style of your wedding can be based upon these details. Colors can then be picked to compliment those in the surrounding area.

Wedding style and wedding theme go hand in hand. Once you decide one, the other sort of falls into place.

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Summer weddings are the most popular weddings of the year, usually falling between May- August. This is the perfect season to take advantage of the long summer days with an afternoon ceremony, or saying your “I Do’s” with the warm sunset falling behind you during a beach wedding ceremony or a Fourth of July backyard gathering complete with a tent, a grill and fireworks for romance.  

Decorate your Summer Wedding with a bountiful selection of flowers, never having to worrying whether they are not in season. Fill your menu with a wide selection of seasonal fresh fruits and vegetables or suprising your guests with a dessert of snow cones or fresh granitas. Create a casual backyard rehearsal dinner for your out-of-town guests and offer a variety of grilled fish, corn and tomatoes. Click here for Summer Party Fun!!

Send your guests home with a variety of summer wedding favors. If it’s hot and sunny garden wedding offer your guests wooden or silk hand fans or parasols, chocolate covered sunflower seeds in a clear box tied with ribbon, a starfish magnet from your beach theme wedding, or fresh peaches or pears at the peak of their season with a tag saying “the perfect pear”.

Whatever you choose for your Summer Wedding Theme, whether it’s a garden theme, beach wedding or casual outdoor affair, rest assured you will be gathered with family and friends to share your love and lifetime commitment.

Ah Springtime. The time of rebirth, renewal and the time of year when summer is only a few months away. If you, like almost a million brides nationwide, want to get married when the grass is green, the sun is shining, your flowers of choice are in bloom and the smell of spring is in the air, then a Spring Wedding is just for you.

Spring Weddings are perfect for brides who want an outdoor wedding and their favorite flowers are in season like roses, tulips, hyacinth, lilies and Gerber daisies. Popular color combinations this year are light pink and chocolate and light blues and chocolate.

Spring Wedding favors  can include a variety of wedding favor boxes in pastel colors, wedding favor cookies, wildflower seed favors, and tea favors. Decorations can include anything found in nature from bird’s nests, terra cotta pots, fresh flowers, and mini favor tins.

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Having an outdoor wedding can be a lot of fun. But the hardest thing about having this style wedding is, you can’t predict mother nature. There are a lot more avenues you have to consider rather than your normal indoor ceremony.

You have to be prepared for anything with an outdoor ceremony. Rain, wind, bugs, birds, leaves… pretty much anything in nature! If you have a certain spot in mind, be sure you scope it months before and try and see what sort of issues you could possibly run into, such as noise and surrounding buildings and traffic.

Another thing you need to think of is are you going to move your reception indoors or are you going to stay outside? If you’re planning on staying outside, you need to be sure your caterer knows how to plan all your food for an outdoor environment.

One thing people rarely remember to do, if you’re having your wedding in a park, is to contact your local parks and services and see if a permit is needed for your wedding. Some things you need to ask about is occupancy, trash, candles and lighting, and photography. They’ll be able to give you any information you might need.

Oh and one last thing, with an outdoor wedding… always have a back up plan, just in case!

A formal wedding is typically a black tie event where the bride is dressing in that classic Cinderella gown. Flowers are usually classic and white, and favors can range from a bottle of wine to personalized gifts with the Bride and Groom’s names and their wedding date. Music at a formal wedding is either a band or an orchestra. Invitations are usually on think paper and have some form of embossing or engraving. Typical places for a formal wedding are that of a country club, a dance hall, or an elegant city setting.

If you are someone who values elegance and radiance, a formal wedding might just be your ticket. If you don’t have a huge budget, you can still make a formal wedding look like it cost a million bucks with the right accessories and setting.

Fall weddings are a wonderful time of year to take advantage of family returning home for the holidays, beautiful rich and warm colors to decorate your theme with or a rustic location to plan your event such as an apple orchard, a vineyard or even a barn.

Set the tone of your Fall Wedding with rich colors of red, brown, orange and gold. Hot color trends for fall this year are chocolate and light blue.

Casual weddings can be a great choice for a style of wedding. Think about it, simple and stress free. How perfect is that? From the gown to the invitations, casual weddings are focused primarily on simplicity. Handmade invitations are always popular since casual weddings tend to contain smaller crowds.

Casual weddings are more for those people who don’t want to spend a ton of money and who would rather just have close friends and family rejoice with them! Attire for a casual wedding can be as simple as jeans or khakis and a sports coat; or even a pre-owned sun dress. These details are completely up to the Bride and Groom and should be shared with the guest either through the invitations or word-of-mouth. One thing you’ll be sure of when having or attending a casual wedding is that instead of stress and nerves, you’ll be surrounded with the mere feeling of comforting love.

Beach weddings can be a romantic wedding and honeymoon destination wrapped in one. For those who want the elements of a tropical setting, beach weddings are a perfect choice! If you’re not as lucky to have the perfect beach in your back yard, popular locations include; Hawaii, Florida, and Mexico. Or if you want to go a bit further, even Carribean destinations like Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, Jamaica and the Virgin Islands can be perfect settings.

Aside from the beautiful location, Beach weddings have to be planned carefully. You can’t forget to take into account the weather; windy beaches, rainy afternoons, hurricane season,  and possible heat depending on the time of day. Other aspects people don’t think about when having a beach wedding are; sinking chairs in the sand, sand in shoes and possibly in the food. The surrounding environment such as; mosquitos, traffic- if beach is close to a public road, and if you are having your wedding on a public beach then you also may have a crowd of locals watching. When planning a Beach Destination Wedding keep in mind that most destination weddings are small affairs, usually less than 50 guests. You may want to consider having just the ceremony on the beach with a few close friends and family, and then moving to an indoor location for the wedding reception.

There are many decorations and ideas that you can incorporate to give the reception area a perfect beach themed setting without having to be outside on an actual beach. Choose white or pastel linens, tealights or tiki torches, tropical floral centerpieces or tropical potted plants like banana trees, exotic birds, or nautical themed centerpieces. In addition, you can decorate the table center pieces to be completely edible with brown sugar or chocolate pebbles to replicate the sand and add chocolate seashells and starfish to finish off the look. Don’t forget to tell your guests to ‘dig in’!