Halloween Wedding Ideas

If you are planning a Halloween wedding, there are plenty of Halloween wedding ideas to help make your wedding creative and unique.

There are two types of Halloween weddings, casual and formal.

CASUAL HALLOWEEN WEDDING IDEAS

Halloween Wedding Invitations

If you are envisioning a casual, fun wedding with all the familiar orange and black of Halloween, then start your wedding planning with your invitations.

You can make your invitations as simple or elaborate as you like. Go all out with the whole Halloween theme by incorporating ghosts, bats and witches on your invitations. Be sure to use a Gothic font when printing your invitations!

Halloween Costumes

If you want, request your guests to come to your wedding dressed in costumes. Just be sure that if you are inviting children, your guest know not to come dressed too scary!

Halloween Wedding Bridal Gown

Many brides married on Halloween choose to wear a black wedding dress. However, you can wear a traditional, white gown. The choice is always yours.

Dress your bridesmaids in black, red or burnt orange.

Halloween Wedding Flowers

Some popular Halloween wedding flower choices are black calla lilies, black orchids or black roses. These are all very beautiful flowers and will help to add a romantic, yet Gothic, feel to your wedding.

You could also choose blood red roses, such as black magic roses, for your bouquet or beautiful orange roses that would add a splash of color to your Halloween wedding.

The Right Place For a Halloween Wedding

If you are having a religious ceremony, choose an old or Gothic-style church. For your reception, try to find an old hotel ballroom or an old Victorian mansion.

Halloween Wedding Decorations

There are plenty of simple and easy Halloween wedding decoration ideas to use.

Include a smoke machine or dry ice to help create the right atmosphere.

Put up fake cobwebs, tombstones, ghosts and hanging bats. Be sure to use black lights with plenty of candle light.

For your centerpieces, use a witches hat, jack-o-lanterns with candles or cauldrons filled with candy.

Throw candy, such as, candy corn or candy pumpkins, on top of the table.

Halloween Wedding Favors

Give your guests bags of candy or caramel popcorn as a favor or set up a candy station with various red, orange, and black colored candies. Let your guests fill their own favor candy bags.

Some other Halloween wedding ideas for guest favors are to give your wedding guests Dracula teeth, big waxy lips, or voodoo dolls.

Halloween Wedding Ideas For Music

For your music, play New Orleans style jazz.

Or, if you are looking for background music to play during your wedding reception, consider Midnight Syndicate's Halloween Music Collection.

Midnight Syndicate's music is considered to be neo-classical and would set the right tone for a Halloween wedding.

For some dance music, Dance Remixes of Spellbinding Classical Music Favorites is a fun dance album for any Halloween venue.

FORMAL HALLOWEEN WEDDING IDEAS

For a formal, traditional Halloween wedding, consider having a masquerade ball.

Halloween Wedding Invitations

Black invitations with silver or white lettering will make a bold first impression for your wedding.

Or use a more traditional cream colored paper stock with burnt orange ink.

The Gothic font is still a good idea for a formal wedding.

The Right Place

If you are having a religious ceremony choose an old Gothic-styled church.

For your reception, try to find an old hotel, an old Victorian home, an old museum, or an art gallery to help set the right mood.

Halloween Wedding Dress

Wear a traditional white dress and dress your bridesmaids in black or burnt orange.

Halloween Wedding Flowers

Choose your wedding flowers in the autumn colors. There are some beautiful orange roses, orange orchids, orange cala lilies, or orange Gerber daisies.

Chrysanthemums and marigolds are very inexpensive and can be used in abundance at your ceremony and reception.

For a more dramatic and formal look try black cala lilies or blood red roses, such as Black Magic roses.

Halloween Wedding Decorations

Use black table cloths with red roses for your centerpieces. Be sure to use plenty of candle light for a romantic - and a little spooky - feel to your reception.

Or use red table cloths with silver candelabras as your centerpieces. Use cream colored candles of various sizes in the candelabras.

Use small miniature pumpkins to attach place cards for your guests seating.

You can also use pumpkins with your names or initials carved into them as decorations. If you do not want to carve any pumpkins, there are hollow foam pumpkins that you can buy from any craft store. You can use these foam pumpkins to put flower arrangements in.

Halloween Wedding Favors

If you are having a masquerade ball theme, give traditional ball masks with feathers and sequins to your guests as favors.

Halloween Wedding Food Ideas

Serve foods that are related to the Halloween/fall theme, such as pumpkin/squash soup served in hollowed out miniature pumpkins.

Click here for a Witches Brew Punch Recipe.

Halloween Wedding Cake Ideas

Have a traditional wedding cake with several tiers. The cake could be a white cake with black accents or a black cake with white accents. The accents could be spiders, spider webs, roses, and/or pumpkins.

In place of a traditional wedding cake, have individual cakes or cupcakes made in Halloween shapes.

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