If you're planning a wedding in the winter why not make it a holiday or winter theme. If you do that you can also include winter wedding favors to give to all of your guests. Depending on when you are getting married you can have those gifts tie back to theme of winter in general or to the holiday season. This time of year offers you many choices.
In this article we wanted go over a few ideas that you could use if you are planning a winter wedding.
Hot tea, hot chocolate, and coffees, our wonderful gifts to give out at your winter wedding reception. Hot drinks make excellent gifts during this cold time of the year. These are also easy to personalize and you may want to check into that when you are ordering them. This will make them even more personal and fun to hand out.
Another item you can hand out and tie back to the theme of winter is coasters. These come in a wide variety of shapes, sizes and designs. You can find them with different winter scene pictures. Coasters are appropriate when you include the theme of winter on them and they can be a very practical gift to hand out as well.
Snow globes make a great favor and are common if you are having your wedding in the winter. The snow globes can feature a groom and bride in a mountain scene. You can also find them with other winter backdrops such as snow skiing, ice skating, or snowboarding. If you look hard enough you can come up with some very unique ideas that you do not see at every other wedding.
Are you having a Christmas wedding? This is a theme that can offer all kinds of ideas for you. One excellent idea is to give each guest a ornament with the wedding date and the names of the bride and the groom. This is an wonderful gift to give as a winter wedding favor because your guests can use them every year at Christmas. You will always be remembered this time of year when you personalize it and give them out at your wedding.
Small artificial Christmas trees are another great idea for a festive wedding gift. You can decorate them with various Christmas ornaments or even add wedding bells. If you choose you can give out a plain tree and your guests can decorate them differently each year as they choose.
Other Christmas theme ideas to hand out as favors would be Santa and his reindeer, miniature sleds, Frosty the Snowman, the manger theme, and so on. Again when your guests are decorating their homes during the holiday season they will be able to use these over and over.
Having a winter wedding offers you many options that you do not get during other times of the year. These are more easily chosen because you can come up with ideas to match your budget that tie back to the theme of winter or the holiday season of Christmas.
There are probably lots of ideas you and your partner can come up with on your own for this day, however, I have made a brief outline of some of them to help you on your way.
INVITATIONS:
•You could use snowy Christmas card style invitations, covered with glitter and frost. •Fill the cards with a little snowflake confetti. •Use winter card shapes such as snowmen and snowflakes.
WEDDING FAVOURS:
•Ice cube place card holders. •Miniature wedding snow globes. •Silver bells. •White crackers with your guests names on. •White Christmas balls with your guests names on. •For centrepieces you could have bride and groom snowmen. •Hot chocolate mix with marshmallows.
ENTERTAINMENT:
•A singer who will perform all those winter favourites from the 1950’s onwards (Christmas Crooner tracks). •A DJ who is willing to incorporate something similar and possibly provide a snow machine (Check with your venue if this is OK first).
DECORATIONS:
•Lots of candle light. •Glitter! •Silver bells and white ribbon. •Hang artificial silver snowflakes from the ceiling with transparent wire. •Frame the doorways and bar area with white painted branches and lights, then finish off by spraying them with artificial snow and glitter. •Decorate the tables with white poinsettias.
THE CAKE:
•A white cake with silver fabric. •You can buy some fantastic cake toppers for the winter wedding cake if you do searching online. •You can decorate your cake with snowmen, snowflakes and other winter favourites.
THE ARRIVAL:
•Arrive by a white horse and carriage. You could also both arrive to the reception this way-wrapped up nice and warm in a faux-fur throw. •Arrive in a white limousine.
FLOWERS:
•White poinsettias, carnations, roses, lilies and magnolias. •You could carry an all white bouquet or just a single white rose. •Instead of carrying flowers, the younger bridesmaids could carry cuddly snowmen.
These are just a few of the many ways in which you can make the perfect Winter Wedding. Between the two of you, I’m sure you will find ways in which to add your own personal touches.
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