A Western Wedding
I know now how to do a wedding with a Western theme. Do it because you don't want people to end up with clothes and other stuff they can't use afterward. Besides, you want things to be simple and unfussy. Especially you want it to be easy to plan and pull off. This is how:
Don't invite too many people.
Have everyone in the wedding party wear cowboy boots, even the bride who is wearing a beautiful, satiny, beaded gown (exception to western theme made here). Make the ladies' boots pink and brown to match the decorating colors.
Have the groom wear a plaid shirt and blue jeans.
Tell the groomsmen and the ushers they are to wear white shirts and blue jeans. Boots are optional for the ushers. Wrangler-type jeans are not required, which is a good thing because at least one of the ushers refuses to wear them--as a matter of principle, decided upon in his high school days when baggy jeans were cool. (That was always OK by me.)
Put a pair of cowboy boots on either side of the church aisle at the back. Arrange bouquets in the boots by inserting wheat stalks, pink flowers, and reddish twigs. Surround them with tulle and stretch it all the way up the aisle, tying it to the chairs so that no one tries to sneak in that way to be seated.
At the round tables where people are to be seated during the reception, spread out a pink bandana in the middle of the table. Put a square mirror on top of it. In the middle of the mirror, set a quart jar with an inch or two of small stones. Scatter dried pink mini-roses on top of the gravel. Stab a whole bouquet of wheat stalks into the pebbles. Put more mini roses around the base of the jar on the mirror. At the corners of the mirror, arrange small groupings of white or pink almond bark or chocolate shapes. Prepare these ahead of time by melting and pouring these substances into molds with the shape of cowboy hats, boots, or paisleys.
Play western or country music over the sound system.
Serve real food at the reception. Include homemade dinner rolls with homemade frozen strawberry jam.
Use a cupcake tower instead of a wedding cake. Use chocolate cream cheese frosting in two shades of brown. Swirl it in ropey circles on top of each cupcake. Decorate the cupcakes with pink flowers and green leaves. The cupcakes themselves are pink, as you discover when you bite into them. Your friend who works in a bakery does the cupcakes.
The guest register table and the table at the front of the church can be decorated with floral arrangements. No boots are required. Use Scabiosa seed heads for the brown touches in the arrangements. They're stunning with pinks and whites. Do this because your sister who works for a florist insists that there must be flowers. She makes the arrangements.
Put pink sand in one clear vase and brown/black sand in another. Place them on the table at the front. Have the bride and groom pour sand into a larger clear vase at the same time, in such a way that it creates layers of color in the larger vase.
Only the bride changes clothes when the newly married couple takes off for the honeymoon. The groom adds a cowboy hat, and they're all set.
Don't invite too many people.
Have everyone in the wedding party wear cowboy boots, even the bride who is wearing a beautiful, satiny, beaded gown (exception to western theme made here). Make the ladies' boots pink and brown to match the decorating colors.
Have the groom wear a plaid shirt and blue jeans.
Tell the groomsmen and the ushers they are to wear white shirts and blue jeans. Boots are optional for the ushers. Wrangler-type jeans are not required, which is a good thing because at least one of the ushers refuses to wear them--as a matter of principle, decided upon in his high school days when baggy jeans were cool. (That was always OK by me.)
Put a pair of cowboy boots on either side of the church aisle at the back. Arrange bouquets in the boots by inserting wheat stalks, pink flowers, and reddish twigs. Surround them with tulle and stretch it all the way up the aisle, tying it to the chairs so that no one tries to sneak in that way to be seated.
At the round tables where people are to be seated during the reception, spread out a pink bandana in the middle of the table. Put a square mirror on top of it. In the middle of the mirror, set a quart jar with an inch or two of small stones. Scatter dried pink mini-roses on top of the gravel. Stab a whole bouquet of wheat stalks into the pebbles. Put more mini roses around the base of the jar on the mirror. At the corners of the mirror, arrange small groupings of white or pink almond bark or chocolate shapes. Prepare these ahead of time by melting and pouring these substances into molds with the shape of cowboy hats, boots, or paisleys.
Play western or country music over the sound system.
Serve real food at the reception. Include homemade dinner rolls with homemade frozen strawberry jam.
Use a cupcake tower instead of a wedding cake. Use chocolate cream cheese frosting in two shades of brown. Swirl it in ropey circles on top of each cupcake. Decorate the cupcakes with pink flowers and green leaves. The cupcakes themselves are pink, as you discover when you bite into them. Your friend who works in a bakery does the cupcakes.
The guest register table and the table at the front of the church can be decorated with floral arrangements. No boots are required. Use Scabiosa seed heads for the brown touches in the arrangements. They're stunning with pinks and whites. Do this because your sister who works for a florist insists that there must be flowers. She makes the arrangements.
Put pink sand in one clear vase and brown/black sand in another. Place them on the table at the front. Have the bride and groom pour sand into a larger clear vase at the same time, in such a way that it creates layers of color in the larger vase.
Only the bride changes clothes when the newly married couple takes off for the honeymoon. The groom adds a cowboy hat, and they're all set.
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