Winter Wedding Inspiration… and a Lot of Lemonade

Winter Wedding Inspiration… and a Lot of Lemonade

June 8th, 2010 @ 10:57 am by Mrs. Knitting
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I love looking for wedding inspiration on the Internet. Unfortunately, a lot of the details I’ve fallen completely in love with (serving raspberry mint lemonade in mason jars) aren’t really suitable for a winter wedding. However, because I’m currently so in love with these summery drinks we will take a slight detour from the theme of this post to drool over these photos…

Above photos all from Style Me Pretty

Gorgeous right? Anyway, newfound lemonade obsession aside, I’m always thrilled when I come across some really lovely winter wedding inspiration. So for all you other winter brides out there, I’ve provided a link to the first blog entry I came across that made me really really excited about having a winter wedding.

Staying Warm at Winter Weddings by Beth Helmstetter

Basically her top five tips are (these are highly paraphrased):

Greeting guest with a hot drink
Having candles everywhere
Have a fireplace
Winter themed favours
Having a hot chocolate bar

I think I’m likely to include at least three of these ideas. You’ll have to stay tuned to find out which ones…

Anyway, while I was particularly inspired by this post, I love pretty much everything Beth Helmstetter does and I love reading her blog. Just for fun here’s a few more of my favourite Beth Helmstetter posts.

What are your favourite winter wedding tips?

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24 Responses to “Winter Wedding Inspiration… and a Lot of Lemonade”

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misschristinec@hotmail.com (message) 163 posts, Blushing bee

I’m keeping my wedding bare… by bare I mean light on flower heavy on branches!! I want a very wintery feel.. Lots of white.. light blue.. and silver. FauxIce is screaming my name. Although I dont want snowflakes all over the place.

I’m also doing blue uplighting.

6/8/10 @ 11:08 am (reply)

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misschristinec@hotmail.com (message) 163 posts, Blushing bee

oh one more thing. A winter bride on another board requested that her venue add blue food coloring to the champagne for the toast!

6/8/10 @ 11:09 am (reply)

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Mrs. Hamster (message) 4,046 posts, Honey bee

Yum, those sound like great winter wedding ideas - looking forward to reading which 3 you chose!

6/8/10 @ 11:09 am (reply)

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kindge_03 (message) 18 posts, Newbee

Oh what a wonderful idea! You can do a lot of fun stuff with creative drink stations.

- Hot chocolate (with marshmellow, chocolate shavings, or candy cane garnishment)
- Hot apple cider (maybe one that’s been spiked for the adults? Cinnamon stick garmnishment)
- Hot buttered rum
- Coffee bar (maybe an Irish Coffee bar?)
- Hot tea

Have fun with it! I can’t wait to see what you’ve come up with <3

6/8/10 @ 11:11 am (reply)

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Miss Thimble (message) 807 posts, Busy bee

I have an idea! I made a spiked lemonade with ginger beer for our staff holiday party. It was a huge hit. Ginger is winter…? so you can get your lemonade fix

We’re doing hot cider if it’s cold- but early October is difficult to judge. It’ll be a last min decision. We’re def doing s’mores though.

6/8/10 @ 11:15 am (reply)

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Mrs. Frozen Yogurt (message) 2,685 posts, Sugar bee

All of those ideas are amazing! I can’t wait to see what you pick.

6/8/10 @ 11:19 am (reply)

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trishisadish (message) 433 posts, Helper bee

Yum! Those are all so fun and cool

6/8/10 @ 11:28 am (reply)

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sapphirebride (message) 1,750 posts, Buzzing bee

We originally had lemonade and tropical iced tea in our catering contract–until I realized this week how little sense that made for our winter wedding. I still wanted cold non-alcoholic beverages, so we’re having bottles of coke and Jones soda. We aren’t doing warm beverages other than coffee, but here in Seattle, I’m not too worried about it being all that cold. We will have hard apple cider as a winter touch.

We’re doing the low light feel with candles everywhere, bridesmaids carrying lanterns instead of boquets, and lots of sparkle!

6/8/10 @ 11:40 am (reply)

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supergeek (message) 111 posts, Blushing bee

OMG the Hot Chocolate Bar sounds amazing! At Thanksgiving I always make hot cider, which just means taking jars of apple cider and heating them with slices of orange that have cloves pushed inside. I saw this on the Food Network back in the mid-90s (before it was cool) and have done it ever since. It’s yummy and wintery and maybe you could even put that in mason jars!

6/8/10 @ 11:43 am (reply)

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Annette

Don’t forget the warm apple cider! I guess that’s a fall thing but nobody said you can’t vary it up and toss it in there too!

6/8/10 @ 11:50 am (reply)

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Miss Scissors (message) 7,343 posts, Bee Keeper

Oh lovely! All of those look so refreshing, and hey, you can throw a little summer into December! Christmas in July… so maybe a little July at Christmas!

6/8/10 @ 12:21 pm (reply)

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tea (message) 7,295 posts, Bee Keeper

oooh! hot cocoa bar sounds absolutely divine!

6/8/10 @ 1:09 pm (reply)

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tritaratops (message) 110 posts, Blushing bee

How lovely! We wanted to do the lemonade “stand” like in your pictures for our outdoor July ceremony. However, our venue, which has the exclusive food/beverage rights, can only provide bottled water and canned lemonade. For $2.50 each. Well, that just took the vintage romance right out of that idea.

6/8/10 @ 1:16 pm (reply)

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Calendar

@Miss Thimble - oh PLEASE do a hot cider bar! Regardless of the temperature, its just SO October! PLEASE!

6/8/10 @ 1:18 pm (reply)

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Miss Knitting (message) 1,072 posts, Bumble bee

@misschristinec@hotmail.com Those colours will be lovely! My Christmas tree is covered in blue and silver
@kindge_03 I’ve never had hot buttered rum, but it sounds amazing
@sapphirebride I’m also a huge candlelight fan!
@supergeek That sounds so delicious.
@tritaratops Haha not too much vintage romance in canned lemonade! Lemonade stand would be awesome though.

6/8/10 @ 4:19 pm (reply)

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kamydoo (message) 161 posts, Blushing bee

Oooooh what is it about drink dispensers full of lemonade that just fill me with happiness?! Must be that happy summer feel you speak of.
I totally added one of those to our registry… for all those summer parties we’re going to have after we’re married

6/8/10 @ 5:27 pm (reply)

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afbacher (message) 490 posts, Helper bee

We’re doing a hot chocolate bar at our wedding, with little jars of hot chocolate for favors Unfortunately, our venue is a strictly “no candles” kinda place, but that’s okay. We’re using vellum and led candles to make it warm and cheery!!

6/8/10 @ 5:49 pm (reply)

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