Wedding reception themes

Well the wedding is set and now you are on to planning the reception you want, and you have to decide on a theme. There are various themes you could choose from or you could simply make your own. This could be as simple as a colour theme where everything is in matching colours like lavender and silver. The flowers could be in multi shades of lavender and purple. Table clothes can be dark purple with a lighter lilac colour on top. The wedding invitations should continue the theme by using lilac card with silver writing, flowers can follow through and the cake could have silver decorations whilst the cake topper can be a vase of cascading lilac, mauve and purple broken with white flowers cascading down the cake.

Another good choice is using the bond theme for your wedding reception theme. You could decorate the hall in a casino style using the colours red, black and white (this is the poker chip colours as well). The tables could have a sprinkling of poker chips, the wedding cake could be designed to resemble a roulette wheel, the guest’s place cards could have their name followed by number like 007 on it. Music should include bond themes. For your favours, you could give the men tuxedo boxes with chocolates in and the women could have bikini boxes. The head table could have a golden gun centrepiece or an ice sculpture of an Austin Martin DB5. The drinks offered to welcome guests could be martini and ice.

You love Egypt so why not have an Egyptian wedding reception theme? This could be lots of fun, with plenty of coloured ribbons, in gold and silver to represent the pharaoh’s wealth. Gold and silver dragees scattered on the tables. The cake you could have made as a pyramid with gold trims and a sphinx guarding each corner. Place cards could be decorated with Egyptian symbols, as could the wedding invitations. The tables could have rich blue covers resembling lapis lazuli, which is the most treasured gem of ancient Egypt. 

If your wedding is on Halloween then this could be a real great party, with pumpkin heads on each table, and skeleton sweets dotted around, and of course cobwebs hanging from the ceiling. All guests could be asked to dress accordingly, make the venue as much like a haunted house as you can. Flowers should be red, as should table cloths be the same. The groom could be Dracula and his bride one of the undead.

Every girl dreams of a Cinderella wedding. You could make you wedding reception theme a fairy tale ball. Sprinkle tables with glitter, as this represents fairy dust. You could get phone holder slippers as table decoration and they would also act as the favours in multi colours representing the glass slipper. The wedding cake could be a fairytale castle, with a horse and carriage waiting outside to take the bride and groom off to their fairytale life. For the music, you should rather use a real band instead of a DJ. As the guests arrive offer a fairytale punch.

Or why not have a medieval banquet with bunting decorating the hall. You could look to see if the bride and groom’s family names have a coat of arms and use it on invitations, place cards etc, but if not you could design your own to give some authenticity. You could have a hog roast and the court jester there to greet guests as they arrive. Music could be a quartet playing appropriate music. Have jugs of wine on tables. Then watch the jousting or take on the black knight to win the fair ladies pleasure.

If on the other hand your budget is tight you could have a room in the local pub, decorated with helium balloons, the table covers could be themed to match the bride and bridesmaids, you could make small silk posies for the tables and you could also make your own invitations, and place cards in your chosen theme.

If you want something a little different and your passion is sci-fi why not have a star wars theme, the men could dress as Jedi knights and the women as princess Leah. Have Yoder greet your arriving guests. The tables could be split in to two halves the rebels on one side and on the other the galactic empire the groom could be Darth Vader, and the bride Padermai. The colour scheme would also match if you chose to make it red and blue to match the light sabres.

You may like one of these ideas but if not you can always come up with a theme that suites the mood you want to set on the day and it is not too difficult to work out the matching effect that you need to put your dreams into reality. After all it is your day.