Does this sound too out there? FI and I are both into video games, bright colors, and just fun all around. I want a fairly calm ceremony
I am going for pale gold and rustic red for colors. My dress and veil are very traditional, but I have some killer red high heels with " I do" painted on the bottom in gold. FI and I will match with me having a silver sash and a silver bow tie for him. The guys want black suits/tuxedos (haven't decided for sure yet) with gold ties. And I want knee length gold/champagne cocktail dresses for the girls (If I can ever convince them. Would these look weird? I want a little shine to them but more of a relaxed look. MOH thinks it would look weird with everything else.). They will be wearing some sort of plain black heels.
The bridesmaids are carrying brown and rust colored lanterns while I have a big bouquet of red and burnt orange dahlias and golden tipped roses. I think we agreed on some sort of large red flower and small berries with gold ribbon for the men's bouts.
Flower girl in a cute princess-like dress and ring bearer in a sweater vest and nice pants. (It will be almost Christmas and finding a suit for him was making me crazy.) The flower girl's basket it an old white basket with some gold painted on the sides and some small red ribbons. It looks very rustic. The ring bearers pillow was my mom's wedding hat that I added some decoration to, again looks very old and delicate. Oh yeah, my ring is an odd shape and FI's is an odd color.
Church decorations will include lots of candles, brass candelabras, maybe some small flowers along the aisle and a mixture of champagne rose petals and fall leaves along the aisle. I am thinking of walking down the aisle to either an instrumental version of "I've Had the Time of My Life", "Last Kiss" by Taylor Swift (I just like the music.), something by TSO, or "Turn to Stone" by Ingrid Michaelson. My dad will walk me down the aisle. His grandfather will perform the ceremony at a church I attended for a while. We are looking at a unity candle ceremony but are possibly thinking of floating candles in an engraved vase. At some point in the ceremony, FI has a song picked out that he wants played. Our vows will be mostly traditional wording I think. We want a very upbeat recessional.
The reception is going to be more of a party with the same color scheme. Champagne colored hydrangas and red roses for some centerpieces with red floating candles and more gold tone flower petals for others. I have a major candle addiction. Our plates are gold, napkins red, and glasses are clear glass, except our toasting flutes which have some red. We are having tacos and junk food for our dinner and a small cake. The music will be mostly things that reflect our tastes more than just wedding music. We are walking in to a song from Star Wars and our first dance will probably be country.
The rest is still being decided.
I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance. ~Friedrich Nietzsche