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Peacock Wedding Theme Decorating Ideas
Peacock feathers are a very colorful & gorgeous thing. I should however say that some people think they are bad luck.. I Do not know why & You know what…? I dont believe in those silly superstitions anyway! I say you make your own fete & a peacock feather here or there won’t change things! But if you are not sure you may want to look into it & decide if you believe them to be bad luck or not for yourself.
(Full credit for the above mood board goes to tastefully entertaining) Peacock feathers have beautiful colors & work well with many wedding color schemes. They work well with purples, greens, blues, blacks, silvers and whites. Also with brown & bronze depending on the shades.
Where to source them?
I found that many craft stores carry them or can order them in for you. As well as fabric stores, art supplies stores and Dollar stores. You can also find many online craft supplies stores or ebay stores. Make sure they deliver to your area though before you get your hopes up.
They are available in long or short with eyes, as well as the swords (without eyes and more feathery)
You can also get them as earrings which may be useful to dangle from a champagne flute as a wedding favour for female guests. I have also seen them with dyed stems so you can add them with another color like pink or yellow etc stems (otherwise the stems are a natural beige/white colour.)
What to do with them?
Centerpieces
Ask your florist to incorporate 2 or 3 only in amongst their arrangement, get them to use a low round fishbowl type vase with masses of short stemmed bright dark pink and purple flowers with lots of greenery. Have the feathers slightly taller than the flowers to stand out. A Purple table cloth works well too.
For a more subtle look and to highlight the peacock feathers you could use a tall vase with 3 long stemmed white lilys and some wicker or sticks or stick twinkle lights. Include 3-5 peacock feathers and use some of the swords (shorter greener peacock feathers that sometimes do not have an eye) that sit lower in the vase.
Also, you could use plain wicker & dodder vine to create a nest at the top of a vase, with a few feathers coming out the top.
Invitations
See above mood board – a card with a sleeve made out of colored card and the feather.
See below for pics of peacock papers & invitations – from Cristina Re papers
Placecards & napkin accents
Use a peacock paper (as above colourful or as below subtle) or place a feather on top of each napkin inside the napkin ring.
You can use peacock feathers in any manner of ways for your wedding (just dont go too overboard as they are a very colourful thing, max 3-5 used together in any one thing. Remember – less is sometimes more.
Have fun researching & don’t forget to comment on my article with your thoughts. If you end up having a peacock themed wedding, I’d love it if you could share the pictures with me & the rest of my readers after your big day.
Purple Wedding Decorating Ideas
One theme you can use is a colour!
My bridesmaids were purple so along with my fairytale theme, I tried to include some purple in the day.
You can use purple as the base of your theme and get more specific if you like for example, peacock feathers, lavender.
Colors that go with purple as a compliment (so as not to look to “matchy matchy”)
- green (think peacock feather green)
- brown (a rich deep brown)
- black (Hollywood style)
- other shades of purple – be careful not to look too girly, we want elegant not sweet 16
- white & cream
- plum colours and deep reds
Purple Centerpieces for Weddings:(picture care of www.confetti.co.uk)
- Purple grapes hanging out of fruit bowls
- Purple candles and or candle holders
- Purple flowers
- Purple freesias in particular and white freesias
- Lavender and baby’s breath
Other Wedding Table Decorations:
- Small bottles of wine at each table setting
- Purple Ribbon as napkin holders and place card accents
- Purple Cocktails
How To Choose A Wedding Theme
Before you get started looking into wedding decorating ideas, you’ll need to establish what theme you would like to have.
A theme can be as simple as a “feeling” you want your guests to get from your wedding or as specific as a movie you watched or a decade in time.
Cant’ think of a theme? As long as you know what “feel” you want your wedding to have, that’s enough. One way to get wedding decorating ideas is to think about how you would want your wedding described by your guests to their friends? Would you want them saying “It was a really great day, very casual, we had so much fun!” Or would you want them saying “It was very traditional, we really felt privileged to be a part of their special day.” Or something else entirely?
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One way to decide is also to not think about it, but just let it happen naturally and you will soon discover your style by the types of things that catch your eye in magazines or shop windows. Start by looking away from the bridal industry.
A good place to look is at scrapbooking or fabric material. Find a piece of paper or a fabric pattern that you love and you can’t look past, you don’t have to want to use it for your invitations but this is your style. You want people to say, that wedding was just so “you” don’t you? Well let your wedding decorating ideas stem from what you already like in life and your theme will emerge naturally.
Another way is to let whatever you have already decided/bought/booked determine your theme. My husband & I got married at a reception centre in Sydney, Australia called Curzon Hall. It was an ex-monastery and a beautiful sandstone castle-type grand building.
This was the first thing we decided on so I knew that all my other decisions had to make sense within that backdrop. We found an old sandstone church which also had a lot of history which was nearby and when shopping for a dress, i preferred slim line dresses but I just knew that I wasn’t giving that big grand reception room justice by wearing some
thing modern so I ended up in the gorgeous Maggie Sottero Victoriana (although their entire range is gorgeous) in an antique light gold. It is a full gown with lots of lace, taffeta and organza. I had 10 layers on that day, and can I say that it was good to be able to sit comfortable and exhale once I got to the hotel room and got that dress off!
So my theme emerged organically and it wasn’t until the day when my mother called it a “Amy’s Dream Disney Wedding” that I realised that yes this was a truly traditional fairytale themed wedding, which thinking about it now was a little unoriginal but it suited us and that is all that counts after all.
So, if you have already booked your reception or church, bought your wedding dress or anything like that, ask your friends or mum what “theme” they think that particular thing is and they will help you.
Also to get more wedding decorating ideas and themes, visit other reception centres and wedding expo open days, often they will have displays which are absolutely great for getting ideas from! You can also spend a few hours in a craft shop playing around with different pieces until you see something you like.
You can always also go to a professional wedding planner or a florist. Many offer free initial consultations so you can visit with them to help you get ideas. Don’t waste too much of their time though, but it is an idea. My florist was excellent. I had no idea what kind of flowers i wanted, although I did know what I did not want! I showed him a picture of my dress and of the bridesmaids dresses, and he knew the reception centre well so he just went away and said “I know what would be perfect for you” and you know what? It was! He was quite a bit more expensive than other florists I had visited but I went with him in the end because he “got me”. Also he was negotiable so ended up being only a little bit more expensive. J
So there are many ways you can come up with Themes for your Wedding Decorating Ideas, but just remember no to get too stressed, after all – it’s your wedding and nobody else needs to know how you came to your ideas or even if you have a theme at all!
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