Wedding theme: how to pick?

Ooooh I love that idea!

Agreed. Maybe google Wedding Trends for 2017 and see if anything speaks to you! That might help too! Have you found anything so far?

These look really cool! Thanks for sharing. We both love the table numbers and the invitations the most!!!We actually met through a mutual friend and bumped into each other at school afterwards. I did a whole bunch of bio-anthr courses too but I might be the only person that doesn't own a single skull shaped thing! He had a great idea a for decorations a few days ago. There are a whole bunch of historical period bottles at their office that we could potentially borrow, but I haven't checked them out yet.

I just saw another theme and thought of you! Someone on the American WW used geodes for their table numbers and they were so pretty! (I'm still trying to work with making archaeology a theme ) I think they'd go really well with garden flowers and you could find ones in your colours. They make really awesome geode cakes too! And they even have geode style invitations. (I think I've seen them on Minted and if you order through them, you can get a free wedding website that will match your design as well.)

Table number

Geode cake

Geode invitation

How did you and your fiance meet? Did you work together or you both just happen to be archaeologists? (Again I'm so jealous! I studied biological anthropology in college and archaeology has always been one of my favourite subjects!)

No problem! Thanks to my venue for making me think about these things and in turn be able to help someone else. Plus they said it's a BITCH to clean up and they hate it LOLXD

I love that! It's actually funny because when I talk about things one the keywords is "simple"! But I never thought of it as a theme!Thanks for your input

Good point! Thanks

Fair enough!!

I think my wedding theme is SIMPLE...I just want it to be simple lol I picked the venue because the cermony site it beautiful and they provide chairs so I don't need to add anything. The inside reception site also doesn't require much. I am hoping to do some flowers on the tables in some mason jars and possible some paper origami cranes but not too much else. Bridesmaids are wearing charcoal and the colours will all come from the flowers. That is the plan anyway.

I would love a popcorn machine!!! Venues allow them but mine actually highly recommended avoiding having popcorn because people drop it all over and then you've got a movie theatre floor situation going on... gets a bit gross. I had never thought of it like that so I thought I would throw that on your radar

That's a cool idea! I don't think many people would say no to a pop corn machine!I'll keep you guys posted on what we end up doing

you could totally go old school hollywood theme tho ... cinema ... movies ... popcorn ..pizza ... would be one cool reception !!

That sounds great Natasha! We're very indoors stay at home with Netflix and pizza people which doesn't go well with weddings! (Except for pizza as a midnight snack)

We just went with something we both loved together and that was the country and everything that comes along with the beautiful country ... it helped with picking colours decorations etc .... very country rustic outdoors

Haha that's funny! I know you're right and he's been involved in everything so far! But I'm not letting him off easy He never actually asked me for a first date and after a while we just figured we were together. So this time he actually has to ask The ring shopping started after he asked me what kind of a stone I would like on an engagement ring, but we didn't really count it as a proposal.

Hate to break it to you, but if the two of you are planning a wedding together you are engaged!! The ring is just a bonus, not the defining moment to make an engagement official

I guess getting married is a theme! It just sounds so overwhelming when people ask you these things and throw all these terms at you like modern - chic, garden-glam or whatever other made up word that could mean so many different things!!!

Thanks Lindsey, Jasper would be our dream wedding. Hopefully we'll be able to do that! I'm glad I got the not being engaged thing off my chest! I felt like an imposter running around here ! LolIt was also very reassuring that you thought the colors sound okay I'm a bit hesitant picking a color scheme that sounds like around muffin flavor!

Hey Salume!
I'm not having a theme! Getting married is my theme! Haha

Maybe start by looking at colours and picking based on that. Or keep it neutral!
It's your day and you should stay true to who both of you are! If you don't want a theme then you don't need to do one at all.
Let us know what you decide!

Just jumping in to say that that all sounds really lovely, particularly the color combos!
Even though it's just an option... I want a hotel wedding in Jasper now...damn, would swoon so hard
Also, I totally was planning my wedding before I officially got engaged too!!. I wasn't on here but you bet I was on pinterest and talking to my friends about quotes for the reception!

There's no such a thing as over sharing on WW! Like I said, I always enjoy looking at your wedding photos and your guest book was awesome! I might actually steal that idea Still not sure about the type of venue because we're shopping around for a date! So far we've looked at a hotel with a beautiful view in Jasper and we are checking out a greenhouse and a couple of historical buildings spon. So we're all over the map! BTW, we're not officially engaged yet. We went ring shopping together a while ago and I started looking into things to figure out how much we have to save, etc. For colors, his favorite color is orange and I think it would go very well with gray. But I don't want the bridesmaid to were either of those colors so I'm thinking pairing that combo up with cranberry or forest green and have white flowers in the arrangements to pull it all together.

Haha sorry hope I'm not oversharing! That is so awesome that you two are archaeologists! I'm so jealous. You could do a lot with that actually! You could get handmade ceramic vases for centerpieces (like pottery). I love your ideas of lots of fresh flowers! If you do more common flowers like ones you would find in a backyard, it's probably less expensive than roses.

Are you using outdoor or indoor venues? What about a garden theme to incorporate the flowers? I thnk colours are a good place to start! Maybe pick your favourite colours or a colour you both agreebon and then find a scheme o accent it.

Thanks for sharing the photos Sam, I've seen them before but it's always a treat to look at them again. I think the biggest thing that we share is that we are both archaeologists. But I'm not going to use trowels as decorations. LolColor scheme is another dilemma that needs it's own discussion! One of the biggest struggle for me is that I LOVE fresh flowers and I want lots of them! Not in ostentatious high arrangements, but something simple that looks like your grandma just cut from the backyard. But I know that's probably not happening because of the prices!

That's a great starting point!
I feel like ours will be the same way. Intimate and cutesy, but at the same time metropolitan and refined.

Thanks Lindsey, that helps! I think we're leaning towards that fine line between formal and casual.

See, that's still a pretty clear idea when you say royal and elegant I have a lot of ideas but it's not easy to decide which of them would look good in real life!

Thanks Valerie! I didn't think you need a theme either and I was just startles with that question. I wonder if it has anything to do with the venue being a greenhouse!

Hi Salume! I definitely understand your dilemma but just know you don't have to have a theme if you don't want to! Many couples think that "wedding" is enough of a theme.

Ours just kind of fell into place. We went with the theme Our Story because we wanted our wedding to be very personal to us. I saw this chalkboard sign on Pinterest that had all of the important dates from the couple's relationship so I wanted to do something similar. We had our officiant tell the story of how we first met in our ceremony. I love reading and my husband has a screen writing degree so we decided to incorporate books into the theme. We collected vintage books in our colours and used them for centerpieces. I found these awesome book themed invitations on Etsy. I also fell in love with paper flowers and they were the highlight of our wedding! Everyone raved about them and they really tied the whole theme together. We also were able to find an aisle runner made out of book pages to use. Our cake designer came up with a beautiful cake design for us and made fondant books to go on it and then the background of the cake had the lyrics of our first dance on it. For our escort cards and guestbook, we printed out pictures of us with our guests. We had one copy that had their table assignment on the back (so they kept it) and on the other copy, they wrote a note for us to put in our photoalbum guestbook. This was one of my favourite ideas I came up with and it was really fun to look around at the tables and see all the memories we've made with them. It was a great conversation starter too!

We also love Disney so we incorporated a few small touches without it being a full out theme. We had a Mickey and Minnie cake topper and our uncle/niece and mother/son dances were to Disney songs.

I think a theme should be very personal to you two and make sense. Your guests should be able to look at it and think "that's totally them." Do you have any hobbies that you both enjoy or a favourite movie? Or you could incorporate things from your first date or how/where he proposed. Or even the season of your wedding can be the theme. Do you have a colour scheme in mind?

I'm seconding both Valerie and Chelsea. No theme required! Just colours and maybe a generally style (casual vs formal).

I agree with Valerie on this! When I was asked about my theme for the wedding as I got asked when I was shopping for my dress, venue hunting, or my family just asked, I just told everyone I don't have an actual theme. We have a colour scheme of purple and gold accents and I wanted things to match that way. I said I wanted things to look royal and elegant and that was the closet I could give them to a "theme".

You absolutely don't even need to pick a theme! For us, I just started picking things we liked and I noticed a trend... I still wouldn't even consider ours a "theme", it's more of a "motif". If you have your venue asking you can just tell them you don't have a specific theme and then just tell them about your colour scheme. If they want to suggest things just be honest about what you like and don't like.