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You can forget about ordinary, traditional weddings when planning a Halloween themed wedding. We put together some tips and advice for you to plan a unique, fun, and elegant halloween wedding.
Attire:
Bride and Groom
You can make it real simple by the bride wearing a plain black or red slim fitting wedding dress while the groom wears a black tux with black shirt and tie. If that is too plain for you, you can add a black cape with red lining and a high collar for the groom, black veil and long, sleek black gloves for the bride. Or, if you are the romantic type, shop for costumes as a Renaissance lord and lady, or Cinderella and Price Charming.
Bridesmaids
Black gowns in materials such as velvet, crepe, or chiffon with black velvet cameo chokers, or black lace shawls. Or another option would be slim fitting black, red, orange or yellow dresses with matching capes with high, stiff collars.
Groomsmen
All black tuxes, shirts and cumberbuns with tails. Undertakers traditionally wore swallowtail coats.
Flowers:
Flowers with fall colors and mix in some leaves or blood-red and black roses.
Or, you can choose Orange Hawkweed, Day Lily's, Tiger Lily's, Orange/Yellow Freesia's, Orange Roses, Orange Poppy's.
Church:
Choose an old gothic church
Invitations:
Choose a fall look, with pumpkins, leaves, or a black cat
Reception:
Choose a historic mansion. Decorate the tables with black table cloths with orange napkins and under the centerpeices, scatter lights that are black and orange large pumpkins, jackolanterns, and cornstalks throughout the rooms. Have candy dishes filled with roasted pumpkin seeds on each table. Place wrought-iron candelabras in the corners. Don't forget to use tombstone-shaped placecards and dry ice behind the table to create a smoke effect for the entrance into the mansion.
Centerpeices:
- Wrought-iron candelabras
- Jackolanterns with a candle inside or pumpkins filled with flowers as centerpeices. You can add a little more to the arrangement, such as small scarecrows, plastic pumpkins, small ghosts, gold stars or moon.
- Orange and black pillar candles in varying heights placed on small round mirrors. Scatter some autumn leaves around it.
Wedding Cake:
Pumpkin cake with black, white and orange frosting.
Music:
Suggest your DJ play Halloween themed music such as:
Nightmare Before Christmas soundtrack, Monster Mash, Ghostbusters, Thriller.
As added entertainment, throw in a fortuneteller to dress up as a gypsy and give short readings.
Favors:
- Votive candles in orange, red, gold and black wrapped in black or orange cloth, cellophane or tulle.
- Halloween treat bags filled with Halloween candy.
- Chocolates or iced sugar cookies in the shapes of ghosts, pumpkins, witches, sun, moon, stars, tombstones, etc. Package several together in black or orange cloth, cellophane or tulle.
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