Can You Incorporate a Holiday Theme in Your Decor?

A holiday theme can inspire creative decor, attire, food, music, and flowers. Use the following ideas to help you get into the holiday spirit.

A Happy New Year

For a New Year’s wedding, throw a black-tie affair -- complete with a black-and-white color scheme -- accented with metallic touches. Decorate tables with miniature top hats, tiny champagne bottles filled with bubbles, tiaras, and noisemakers.

Valentine’s Day

Already a day of hearts and roses, this is the perfect season for a wedding steeped in romance. Send Victorian-style wedding invitations with embossed hearts and flowers. Choose reds and pinks for your color scheme, and include plenty of roses. Heart-shaped conversation candies and vintage-looking cupids can be strewn atop lace tablecloths. For favors, pass out homemade heart-shaped cookies or soaps in small glassine bags.

Giving Thanks

For a Thanksgiving wedding, find a reception site with a view of vibrantly-colored trees, or use an outdoor location, such as an apple orchard or vineyard. For centerpieces, dip apples and pears in sugar and display them in elegant glass bowls. Decorate the reception table with cornucopias filled with autumn leaves, pomegranates, and gold ribbon to complete the festive fall feel.

Hanukkah & Christmas

The great part about a holiday wedding is that churches, synagogues, and many reception sites will already be decorated for the season. A wedding during Hanukkah can be a true festival of lights. Use lit menorahs to adorn the room, and make your color scheme blue and white.

For a Christmas theme, you can opt for the traditional red and green, or go monochromatic with a winter-white wedding. Decorate with pepperberry wreaths and mistletoe, and fill the room with the lovely smell of eucalyptus garlands. Place cards can be presented in miniature snowglobes set on a bed of pine needles. When decorating your Christmas tree, hang tinsel snowflakes and other shimmering ornaments.