Winter Wonderland Wedding Ideas & Themes

Winter tends to be a more natural time of year, and you can get a lot of your decorations from the local environment or garden centers to save money and time.

Winter wonderland wedding ideas tend to focus on either the cold and crisp weather outside or the warmth of fires and cozy lights inside.

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Choosing the outdoors as inspiration gives you a very specific color scheme. The main color should be white to match the snow and the feeling of cold. Sewing rhinestones onto dresses and decorating venues with glass, shiny silver-tone objects, mirrors and candles gives you lots of sparkle on a budget.

Other outdoor winter wedding themes to highlight are dark green to match the pine trees and blue for the color of thick ice. You should also aim to include a lot of wooden boughs to mimic tree branches.

If you decide to follow some winter wonderland wedding ideas using the warmth people seek as inspiration, you could do worse than look to a traditional Christmas tree for colors.

Gold and red will give your wedding a glamorous feel, and it’s easy to find fake gold leaf to put on glassware and around your reception room. You can also string up fairy lights as these will give you the soft glow of firelight.

Something about winter inspires more intimate winter wonderland wedding ideas. There is something special about a small ceremony with your nearest and dearest people so your invitations and guest list could reflect this.

The invites should make the winter wedding idea clear to your guests. You could achieve this by finding DIY invite kits or getting invites professionally made in your chosen colors.

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Different Venues

As crazy as it sounds, you’ll find real magic in the air if you try to hold your wedding ceremony outside.

This will of course depend on the weather that your part of the country receives and at what point your wedding is in winter.

If you live somewhere that receives a good snowfall, try and get yourself into a wooded area as the snow on the trees will provide you with natural and free decorations.

The cold in the air will mean that your guests will have to wrap up warm, but you’ll end up with a set of unique wedding pictures.

Log cabins are often pictured on Christmas cards and they will provide a beautiful backdrop for your wedding.

The main advantage of using a log cabin, a lodge, or a country inn for your wedding or reception is that they tend to be fairly small, meaning that your guest list will be small through necessity and you can save money on rental and catering costs.

Decorate the inside of the cabin with holly boughs, mistletoe and other greenery that can be found nearby. Finally, try and find one that has a log fire, in part for the romance of getting married in front of it and in part to keep your guests warm.

If you do have a small wedding to keep the costs down, be sure to organize some sort of party later on for those who didn’t attend the ceremony.

This could be as a simple as a themed house party.

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