Historical Period Wedding Theme Ideas
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A wedding theme that uses a historical period as the main idea embraces the classical nature of specific and distinguished time periods of the past. The unique and fascinating histories with exquisite retro clothing styles that mark this theme, your wedding will be one that is unforgettable. Historical period wedding theme covers from ancient to recent history up to the Victorian era.
Popular choices of historical period wedding include Elizabethan (1558-1603), Shakespeare (1564-1616), Ancient Rome (9 BC-5 AD), Ancient Greece (750BC-146BC), Medieval (5AD-14th century), Renaissance (14th-17th centuries) and American Colonial (1776-1849). Before you start diving into your wedding plans, take a little time to enlighten yourself about the history behind the era of your choice. To make the wedding theme more believable, you may want to find out about what are the styles of clothing famous for that period of time, their style of eating, and the unique way of wedding celebrations of that time.
Though it is not expected of you to copy the exact details of every single thing that those people in the era did, it is always a good taste to incorporate the little unique aspects of the time period into your own wedding plans. This will give your wedding an authentic touch that you, your significant other and guests will appreciate.
For instance, if Elizabethan wedding theme is your choice for your wedding, you will want to use abundant of herbs which reflect the Elizabethan notion that these plants had magical properties and mythical qualities. The variety of herbs that you can include is rosemary, thyme, lavender, chive, marjoram, sage, or parsley. You may use them to decorate walkways or the entire wedding area.
The Elizabethan wedding typically uses color schemes like soft gold, dusty pink, yellowy creams and sage green much like the tapestries of that era. Bring your wedding back in time by using pomander, instead of the modern bridal bouquet. The pomander is a flower-ball which is close to double the size of the bridesmaid’s posies. Besides using colors and herbs that are unique of that time period, you can maintain the theme throughout the wedding through the banquet style, music, clothing and hair style.
Historical period wedding can be fun especially when you take the time to do a bit of historical research and write down grand ideas that impress you. There is no need for you to copy to the exact details of the time period of your choice for your wedding. What you need the most is a general ambience of that era to be included in your special wedding day for it to be worth remembering. Have fun!