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I love subtle winter themes; frosty pale blues, purples and pinks for flowers - platinum linens and accents and lots of glass on the tables accented with low lighting. I once found tea light holders that were thick glass, reminiscent of ice. I love the whole Robert Frost “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening” thing :).

A venue with a fireplace is a bonus, of course!

some fun ideas— say snowflake napkin holders with shimmery colors. silvers or golds paired up with a bride’s favorite color duo. rectangular vases could represent “ice cubes” but added warmth of winter florals, and tons of itty bitty lights… berries and branches could even double up as seating cards if a name card was attached. sugar coated rimmed cocktails…satins and fluffy marabou feathers for little accents! oooh boy…there is so much to be creative about!

you look fantastic!!!!! i love the photos!
i have an idea but i dont need the capelet.

cylinder vases filled with christmas ornaments in your color scheme!

where did you get your capelet anyways?

i don’t need the capelet but YES you look BEAUTIFUL!

i would think any kind of long branches that have been dusted with white, maybe hanging from the branches, personalized ornaments? hehe i don’t know, but i always imagined - if i had a winter wedding - that i would do “a starry night” theme based on the painting and make everything frosted

It’s an evening ceremony done by candlelight. The only ceremony decorations are real trees decorated with white lights. The bride arrives in a horse drawn sleigh snuggled in a warm winter cloak. The horses have on sleigh bells and you can hear the ringing from the distance. the bride carries a bouquet of white Amaryllis and red roses. The groom wears a black tux. All the attendants wear red dresses.

If I was a winter bride, I’ll use:

1. Ceiling drape with white lights thoughout the room…..
2. A curtain backdrop behind the head table draped with organza and lights
3. Upon entering, either I’ll have an arch decorated with sheer organza with cotton batting strung all over it and puddles of it on the ground…with snowflakes and icicle ornaments strung to it.
or.. I’ll get dried white brances and decorate the arch and also but batting in between some of them…..
3. I would use lots of fabric everywhere…to make an illusion of blanket of snow.
4. Candles everywhere…..silver buckets filled with water and floating candles….
5. Centerpieces with different leveled vases filled with lighted candles……and snowflakes as place card holders
6. or maybe…..(it might sound tacky but oh well) white or silver balloons covered in tulle floating in the air or up by the ceiling so it seems like snow falling down….

the capelet looks great on you!!!

Arg! My post didn’t go through last time.
It had something about:
Hot chocolate with peppermint straws or hot apple cider with cinnimon sticks.
Ice Sculputres with small lights (either the LED votives or small candles). A low, thick bowl with “floating candles” resting on that fake-snow stuff instead of floating. Branches with hanging votives. In a fire-and-ice theme, use a ruddy orange with a silver overlay to warm things up.
Use tulips and other flowers that are in season. Find broken tulips if possible. Also use lots of Ivy (and some mistletoe, if you dare).
http://www.burdickchocolate.com/ has these double-chocolate penguins that would make good favors for a winter theme.
As for me, I’m using ivy, my color scheme actually is centered around a dark green, and I’m trying to get together a sparkler exit (after all, it makes more sense to have fireworks when it’s cold outside).

Mrs. Butterfly, you are too sweet to put your AMAZING capelet up in a contest. We love you!!!

My idea for the perfect winter wedding would be a FIRE AND ICE theme that plays up the delicious combination of hot and cold that always accompanies winter.

A good color scheme for this is deep plum and red to mimic the colors in a fire, without it the feeling of Christmas that red alone could bring at that time of year. The bridesmaid dresses would be dark violet ¢¢â€š¬” it’s so rich and looks great on most skin tones! One idea for a dress is: Watters and Watters style 4558 (http://www.watters.com/product.php?coll=watters&showid=91)

The dÆ’©cor would be warm, filled with candles, and a lit fireplace if possible. If there is a fireplace, I like this candelabra from Crate and Barrel for the top of it: http://www.crateandbarrel.com/family.aspx?c=1340&f=13461To reflect the ¢¢â€š¬…”ice¢¢â€š¬? part of the theme, there would be a martini luge ice sculpture (see: http://www.capepondice.com/ice/ice_gallery.htm) OR (a less $$$ version¢¢â€š¬¦) bottles of vodka frozen in blocks of ice. One of the passed hor d’oeuvres could also be shrimp cocktail served on a tray filled with ice.

The centerpieces would be a mixture of candles and flowers. I adore this Twig Pod Candle Centerpiece from Crate and Barrel (http://www.crateandbarrel.com/family.aspx?c=1340&f=13383&viewall=1) — it would look fabulous with 3 or 4 small vases nestled around it that contain flowers in deep purples and reds.

Also, reflecting the ¢¢â€š¬…”fire part of the theme¢¢â€š¬? would be a chocolate fountain and maybe little fondue pots with chocolate or cheese. There would also be spiced mulled wine for added warmth!

Mini twinkle lights would line all the trees and there would be hanging votives.

The favors would be personalized hot chocolate packets (http://www.favorsbyserendipity.com/edibles_product_pages/p-ie-5090119-dd.html) and white chocolate snowflake lollipops, tied with purple ribbon: http://www.charminglychocolate.com/product/017194.shtml.

As the bride and groom leave the reception, the guests would have mini fireworks all around them like sparklers.

I’m sure I can think of more, but that’s long enough for now

i’m thinking of… tiny snow-flake-like confetti raining down as u walk down the aisle/reception entrance.

Kiss a lot, with mistletoes hanging everywhere across the reception hall/ on ur flower arch!

Serve chocolate fondue with dried fruits and gummy bears as a surprise treat for guests,

and for favors, give out mini pints of (chocolate) milk, or even couple it with fudge or fruit cakes, and have the little gift in a small santa hat/sock for guests to bring home with.

I promise I haven’t read other entries before so forgive me if I end of echoing ideas others already had. I would invent a winter lodge like atmoshphere. Of course a fireplace would be awesome, if not possible then big fat candles burning with dancing flame. I would serve hot cocoa as soon as guest arrive. If the guests can bear it, then a bonfire outside for marshmellow toasting would be so cute, when the best man makes his toast (toast for toast). I would also have snowflakes and irex as decor. no hollies so it’s not confused as a christmas party. I can go on and on but this is a start. The capelet is really cute and would be great for my spring wedding, so I’ll shamelessly say pick me! pick me!

Depending on where the wedding is located the ideas can vary considerably.
My idea of a winter wedding, especially in an area with snow, is the color of cranberry and white. Its a different approach since you have one of the colors already. An area with a pathway of trees. Apply tea light candles onto the tree branches, as well as crystal tear drops to make a chandelier effect throughout the pathway. On the trees a monogram of the couples name could be instilled on top of wreath that have cranberries with an ivory ribbon to hang from. The centerpieces can entwine the aspect of the colors by having cylinder glass containers (3 ft. & 1 foot) with cranberry colored items such as cranberries or jelly beans. The placard for each to know what table to go to can have a relationship on the couples favorite places to go.
For the guests to wish their warm greetings and leave messages, have your guest take pictures of themselves with a palaroid so they can directly insert the picture in the book and leave a comment.
Overall, the wedding should be an intimate occassion regarding the couples relationship during the time when dating. They should incorporate the aspects like their favorite foods to create hor’ dheurves. Yet, pre-reception foods could be mini hot chocolates with mini marhmellows and a peppermint stick, mini popcorn cones, mini rice krispy squares with wedding bell confetti. A creative design for a cake would be a individual miniature cakes for each guest in the shape of a snow globe with a edible picture inside the globe with snowlake confetti sprinkled on time and silver sugar dust brushed lightly on top.

Snowflakes would be the theme ¢¢â€š¬” carried through with a crystal snowflake ornament used as a cake topper. Snowflake ornaments would be worked into the floral design used on the end of pews. Invitations and place cards would be embossed with this motif.

The colors would be chocolate brown and ice blue with a hint of ivory. Attendants would wear brown dresses with ice blue sash, and oh yeah ivory capelets. There would be a hot cappuccino bar and hot chocolate awaiting guests. Favors would be brownies, frosted with powder sugar in a snowflake design.

I’m having a winter wedding and I’m lining the perimeter of the room with miniature Christmas trees filled with white lights and icicle ornaments. I am also including black and white pictures of us over the years in ornament frames as souveniers for the guests. We also have a wonderful fireplace in the room and we are going to line the mantle with Stockings and stuffed them with all sorts of Christmas related items from gift certificates to our favorite places to snowglobes to ornaments which will be given away during the night. Can’t wait! I’m so excited just thinking about it!

Being a winter/fall bride (today it’s 20 and it’s forecasted to be nearly 50 next week for my wedding next week) I didn’t plan for a “winter” themed wedding. But I wanted to have a guest book of Christmas balls in my colors in a big bowl on the guest book table, beside a tree with lights. The guests would sign messages and their names to an ornament with a gold or silver paint pen and then hang it on the tree. Since my wedding is a week before Christmas, it would be a nice reminder around our anniversary of all the people who shared our day.

The theme color will be gold and silver, with a little touch of baby blue. I would def. want to have a snowfall machine, something like this:

http://www.effectspecialist.com/Snowoptions.htm

Also, I will use silver/gold Christmas lights, ice sculpture for cocktail, and decorate the place with only white flowers, in addition, ornaments as my wedding favor and incorporate it as part of decoration.

Winter weddings. They are so classy yet provide so much room for so many personal ideas. I imagine fur: fur capelet, to begin with. I imagine fur-trimmed red flower girl dresses, with their little hands in furry muffs. The colors of my ideal winter wedding is red and gold. I would use red flowers, with gold accents.

The reception is where I would just go crazy. I would place christmas trees decorated in simple lights and red/gold ornaments. I would provide a photo area at the trees, where families could take family/friends photos. I would hang shimmering snowflakes from the ceiling with invisible string. Ornaments would be favors as well- gift wrapped in boxes, to match the Christmas theme. As a money gift holder, I would use a miniature sleigh with a Santa’s gift bag for the goods ;).

The whole reception area would be transformed into a winter wonderland. I would request Kenny G’s sexy Christmas album to be played (I love smooth jazz!). I’d also have a candy buffet, with gumdrops, candy canes, red and white colored candies. I would use a gingerbread house as an accent piece for the candy buffet, with a miniature gingerbread bride and groom in front o fthe gingerbread house.

Since the holidays invoke a sense of warmth and love, I would really play up the kind of environment that candles provide. I would place pillar candles everywhere to create a romantic ambience.

:*)

For the guestbook- how about preparing some ornaments where the guests can sign their names and leave messages….and then have them put it up on either a christmas tree or any other tree by the entrance (decorated in white, and w/ the wedding colors).

This way- at the end of the wedding, you will have your own personal collection of ornaments that you can put up every year on your tree at home….and as a winter bride, you will always remember your wedding as you look at the ornaments on your tree.

I would pick colors of dark blue (but still bright and cheery!) and white. I would have my aisle full of little white or wooden lanterns with white candles lit up. The flowers would be a mix of the dark blue and whites with a ton of little snow flake inserts. The bride would wear a snowflake necklace with the bridesmaids wearing snowflake earrings.

For the reception, I would decorate the ceiling with snowflake mobiles and the table setting would have the dark blue napkins. All of the tables would have the white christmas lights wrapped around it with the centerpiece being pictures of the FI and Bride playing in the snow next to several white candles and plastic snowflakes.

The cake would have a snowflake topper and for an extra treat, I would serve snowcones! For a take home gift, I would include a small dark blue ortanment and a snowflake cookie. If I wasn’t celebrating christmas, I would give away pairs of dark blue gloves and mittens for a warm drive home!

I always loved the idea of the bridesmaids wearing muffs and the maid of honor carrying a lantern.

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P.S. You’re so beautiful Mrs. Butterfly! Your pictures make this California girl want to have her wedding in New York!!

I honestly wanted my wedding to be a winter wedding. I pictured the wedding to be at a ski lodge in the Pocanos. I would have had it outside, yeah outside. Like an outside sitting area would be arragned with heaters and chairs snow would be cleared. The dress is lined with fur and has a hood attached. Everyone could then retreat indoors by the fire. Flowers for the centerpeice would rest in Ice sculptured vases. Hot drinks would be served aka hot totties and spiked cider. Oh and i am sure they can make some kind of drink fountin out of ice. For favors you can make champain momento glasses with rock candy encusted around the lip.

I LOVE this list! Thank you Mrs. Butterfly for sparking all these wonderful ideas!

I’m a winter bride… February 2007 to be exact. We decided to stay away from the richness of the holidays and December and truly reflect what the world looks like in February in New England. Bare trees, pine cones and snow on the ground. Sort of that barren winter look but using LOTS of candles to warm everything up.

Colors: dark brown and white with accents of pale pink (a reminder that spring is coming soon!)

Aisle decor: lanterns hung at the end of every pew and lining the walk to the chapel. When our guests exit the chapel they walk around the corner to the hotel where the reception will take place. Our coordinator will hand the lanterns to the guests to light their way for the walk! (As our coordinator put it - “very Norman Rockwell”)

Centerpieces: we kept floral to a minimum; tall calla lily centerpieces alternating with tall vases with curly willow branches and hanging votive candles. Floating candles in various sized cylinders and sparkly pine cones and votives nestled in faux snow.

We are also giving welcome packages that are “Winter Wedding Survival Kits” and will include: matches, candles, water, nuts, chocolates, hot cocoa packets and a fleece blanket.

winter weddings are so inspiring !!!

GLOBAL AMBIANCE : a silver / white / light blue atmosphere … elegant, magical and fairy wedding. + a touch of alps chalet inspiration : warm light , wood … = significant of a cosy place to share a precious moment with friends and family.

FLOWERS : blue hydrangeas (I grow some indoor in that very purpose and some white roses de noel .

FLOWERGIRLS dressed as little angel with a little touch a sparkling make up, snowy white petals and vintage wood basket.

DECOR & IDEAS :
- to hire someone to grill and “offer” grilled chesnuts in paper cones matched with the brides colors …
- instead of a wishes jar, a wishes tree .. and why not a x-mas huge tree … guests will write down a few words and hang it on the tree decorated with a white light garland
centerpieces : cones decorated with our selection of flowers and some fake snow …and little but numerous candles on the tables for the warm ambiance
-woods and old time stuff
-balloons of different sizes covered with white delicate dentelle and lace fabrik . believe me it’s gorgeous !!!
- why not decorate a corner of the ball room where people can pose for the pictures. a nice fairy corner for a “bride wonderland” touch or a funny touch with a big photography of snowy mountains in the background or those characters body shaped big board , you just have a place for the head… to look like a snowman or whatever … and why not both in different places .. so that you will get original and unforgettable memories and your guests will have so much fun !!!!
- instead of a card holder, a little piece of wood (some “slices” from a branch) with the name of each guest engraved on it .. and cups or mugs, or cosy (or both !!!) as a favor. in each cup a copy of some of your favorite comfort food recipe. choose a set of 5 at least, not the same for everyone - so that people can share, trade, exchange … and start talking together … I would add a small amount of one of the ingredients : cinnamon, chocolate chips, etc ….

-and of course, a nice set of chocolate treats and some vin chaud ( warm wine and spices) to go along with the chalet theme …

and lost of candles and …. a big and beautiful fireplace … there is nothing as the light of a fire !!! so romantic !!!!

I have more idea but I should stop or I will spend the night on it ….
this blog is just WONDERFUL !!!!

I will be a winter bride, too; I’ve JUST started planning for my 12.07 wedding so thank you for all the wonderful ideas!

Our colors tentively are navy blue, silver & white. So far, we’ve decided that we’re using winter branches-real or faux twigs attached with lots of tiny white & silver beads & rhinestones- in tall vases as centerpieces. That’s all we have so far, LOL.

I would just like to know where i can purchase one just like that. I’ve been looking EVERYWHERE and I love the way that looks on you.