If you’re planning a wedding in winter, consider a Christmas themed day! There are a lot of Christmas wedding ideas that help you transform your day into a festive wonderland. We’ve picked out 40 fun ideas to add a Christmas twist to your wedding day.
- Choose a magical winter wedding place to set the scene.
- Design your wedding invitations like Christmas cards and send out to make your guests feel festive.
- Hire a sleigh pulled by reindeers to arrive in!
- Decorate your wedding place with pinecones, holly, and baubles, or lots of tinsel and glitter.
- Dress up your flower girls and page boys as Santa’s elves!
- Sing Christmas songs during your day.
- Add Christmas themed things such as Santa hats, candy canes to your photo booth.
- Give Christmas themed socks to the groomsmen for a fun photo.
- Instead of canapés and bubbly, serve your guests with festive drinks and mini mince pies.
- Decorate the chairs at the reception or the pews at the ceremony with snowflakes or mini wreaths.
- Add snowflake decorations wherever you can.
- If there is a fireplace at your venue, hang stockings in your wedding colors across it.
- If there’s a Christmas tree, you could put mini presents under the tree!
- Ask to decorate the Christmas tree at your venue with colors to match your wedding color scheme.
- Get your wedding table names associated with Christmas.
- Ask to dress up the master of ceremonies as Father Christmas.
- Candles surrounded by holly will look amazing, or fishbowls filled with glitter can look like snow globes.
- Lighting cinnamon scented candles to get the festive feeling.
- Don’t forget to place tubs of chocolates around the room for your guests to dip into.
- Hang stockings across the top table.