Tips: Winter Weddings

In the movies, everyone seems to get married in June. But a winter wedding can be terribly glamorous, cinematic and magical. With the right elements, your winter wedding will be a wonderland.

Planning Your Menu: You can have all of your favorite food but add some winter touches like a squash dish, or warm pumpkin soup. Consider serving eggnog, spiced wine, or hot chocolate (alcoholic or non-) as special treats. Look for an all-white cake, decorated with snowflake patterns, silver embellishments, or sugar sculptures.

Flowers: Decide whether you want to go for a silver and white elegant look, or celebrate the season with reds and greens. For those who like silver, look for dusty miller, silver-dollar eucalyptus, and baby blue eucalyptus, mixed with white flowers such as roses, football mums, crocus, lilies and stephanotis. If you’re looking for a brighter bouquet, consider red roses with holly and pine-tree greenery.

Favors: If you and most of your guests celebrate Christmas, an ornament makes a perfect favors. An inexpensive homemade favor is a pretty tin of spiced hot chocolate mix with marshmallows, as well as a snow globe with a bride and groom inside, or even a holiday cookie cutter with a cookie recipe attached with your names, wedding date, and that you two are “truly cut out for each other”

Dress for the WORST Weather Case scenario: Treat your feet to winter boots and bring an extra pair of socks just in case. The bride’s dress, combined with the snow on the ground, will cover her boots in photos. Choosing to not wear boots will shorten the amount of time spent outdoors and potentially ruin your formal footwear.