Winter Wedding

So today I am taking inspiration for my post from the massive blizzard of ice and snow we are getting. I think that a winter wedding might be one of my favorite wedding ideas. Not to mention it tends to be alot cheaper! A lot of venues will  rent you there ballrooms or halls on Saturday for a Friday rate! Not to mention if your having your ceremony at the same place they might waive the ceremony fee. That's a big chunk of change saved already!

Centerpieces
Though alot of things are cheaper for a winter wedding flowers may not be one of them. Unless your willing to pay a good amount of money to get your special flowers imported you might want to take a different route. Which if you ask me is better than flowers anyway. Don't get me wrong I love flowers as much as the next girl, but when it comes to winter weddings you can start to open your eyes to bigger things! When I think of winter I think iced over trees that look like crystal when the sun hits them. And soft fluffy white snow. I think pine and snow lodge and hot cocoa! I'm going to share with you a few pictures of centerpieces that I have found that I feel are so beautiful!
 This one is so very beautiful and so easy and inexpensive to make. All you do is go into the back yard find some pretty branches clean them really well and spray paint them white or silver. Then hang crystals off of them. You don't even need to use real crystals anything that has a sparkle to it.
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Original by Brandy Clayton
This was actually one of my own creations. I did it for my wedding class in college. It turned out so pretty. It was very cheap and simple to make too. All I did was go to the dollar store buy a large plastic clear snowflake as my base. Took a green floral ring and filled it in with fake white and burgundy poinsettias stuck a few things of silver ting and a clear beaded band around it that picked up the light very nicely and last but not least put a few fake crystals around it. And there you have it! I think the whole thing may have cost like $5.00 total to make.


Here are some sticks, cranberries, nuts, and candles with a bark look wrapped around them, on very country looking metal trays, that look very beautiful. It looks like they decided to use long tables and just put these centerpieces in rows down the table, very well done.
 http://www.getmarried.com/members/brides/72/h/76192/images/blog/CRANBERRY%20CENTERPIECE.jpg


Here is that same branch look only amt up a little that took them and covered them in a sort of crystal glitter and hung tea lights from them. How beautiful!!! I love the little patch of snow that is in the middle of the table surrounding it. It really is the little details that make the difference!!!
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Ceremony & Reception
Moving right along to decorating for a winter ceremony and reception. I know a lot of people want to have out door weddings and winter is not exactly the perfect time for that. But no one ever said that you can't make the inside look like an outside wedding!
For example did you know that you can turn the inside of your ceremony site or reception hall into a crystal blue palace just by taking spot lights and adding a light blue covering to them. You can change a room to any color that you want by doing this. So when you are looking for a hall don't worry too much on if the wall color matches your wedding colors you can always change it! Another option is to drape the room in fabrics and if you want to do this and add the lights it will turn out beautiful!


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Favors
When it comes to favors for a winter wedding I think one of my very favorites is a small sack of hot cocoa with marshmallows. You can make it as elaborite or as simple as you would like. But one thing you can be certain everyone is gonna like it! Cause really who doesn't like a good cup of hot cocoa on a cold winters night? A few other favors I have seen are ornaments, of course candies, little trees that you can plant yourself, candles, mittens. You get the drift but as you know a picture is worth a thousand words! So let me show you!

Dipped brownie balls
http://fashionbride.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/holiday_brownie_ball_snowflake.jpg


Mini Snow Globes and Wine Topper
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Mittens
http://www.blissweddingsmarket.com/store/media/000447.jpg


Winter Ornament
http://www.sumaipiano.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/beaded-snowflake-ornaments_7179_r.jpg


With Love Snowflake Candles
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Hot Chocolate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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 Escort Cards and Table Numbers.


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Well thats all I have for you today I have so much  more information and ideas on winter weddings so i'm sure this won't be the last time I post about them. Maybe next time I'll talk about the different kind of winter menu's that would be great for a reception! If you have any questions or comments please feel free to leave them! Thanks!!!