Organising your wedding can be a long and stressful process, particularly if you are obsessed with always being bigger and better than other weddings you have attended. Whether you want to go down the classic route, or you want something a little more contemporary, themed weddings are a great way of combining your joint hobbies with your love for each other, and they can be great fun.
The Issue of Raising the Bar
Nowadays we are so constantly connected with everyone else in our social circles, we see everything everyone else is doing and feel a need to ‘one up’ them. Humans are competitive creatures and sometimes social media does more harm than good. If you constantly feel the need to raise the bar, you can have expectations too high for the event you are planning, which just leads to disappointment in the end.
It is a good idea to stay off social media in the months leading up to the event so that your decisions are not swayed by what ‘Mark’ or ‘Aubrey’ happened to get involved in the other week. Focus on your own wedding and put everything else to one side.
Why are themed weddings so popular?
People like being unique, but they also like to show homage to the things they love. They want to raise the bar and do something nobody has ever done before, but they also like to stick to what they know and what they know works. Themed weddings are a great way of combining these two needs and desires to reach a suitable conclusion.
Plus the fun thing about themed weddings is that they can be a real laugh. People can choose to be as subtle or go all out, it is their choice. You can also have unorthodox music and games at your wedding (Darth Vader’s theme while walking down the aisle anyone?) which makes it that much more memorable for everyone involved.
Below are a few fun ideas for themed weddings that we can really get behind (and we hope you do too!)
- Disney Princess
Who doesn’t want to be a princess for a day? Obviously more for the bride and bridesmaids of the wedding (although we can get grooms and groomsmen to be princes too), Disney is the epitome of the classical fairy tale, with beautiful sprawling gowns and flowing dresses. Whether you want to be the traditional Cinderella, someone a little more modern such as Tiana (Princess and the Frog) or someone a little unorthodox like Belle or Ariel (Beauty & The Beast, The Little Mermaid) fashioning your entire wedding after your chosen theme should be no problem, as Disney has a huge range of merchandise and themed accessories for Disney princesses alone.
- Game of Thrones
The recent popularity of the brutal TV show may have inspired some brides and grooms to be. Deck your attendees out in true fantasy gear with long trains, suits of armour and leather jerkins. You can also suit your buffet and food entertainment to the theme of the wedding, with different families assigned their own ‘House’ crests to specific tables. Just make sure not to make it too close to the show, as you don’t really want to re-enact ‘The Red Wedding’!
- Digital Wedding!
This one is a little strange, but often reserved for those who are big into their online gaming. There have been marriage ceremonies (as well as funerals – who knew?) performed on the globally famous World of Warcraft, where characters reflect their RL (real life) selves and get married ‘in game’. Of course the marriage isn’t actually official but it is a really sweet way of incorporating your love into the hobbies that you share.
Naturally weddings aren’t for everyone, but there is something exciting about getting married in general, planning the wedding, choosing your venue, even the lead up to the final day, those butterflies are an experience not to miss. However people are individuals and some prefer not to have a wedding, instead just living together as normal without proof of their dedication to one another. What matters is that you love and trust each other in the end.
At the end of the day a wedding is simply a visual and physical depiction of your love and commitment to the other person. They can be grandiose affairs or personal family events, it is up to you. The most important thing is that both of you enjoy your special day together, you don’t get too drunk, and you create beautiful memories on first day of your joined lives! Congratulations and good luck.
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