Costume Wedding Ideas Your Guests will LOVE!

With Halloween, parties, and festivals thrown into the mix, the fall season is full of costumed fun. Therefore, if you’re the kind of couple that excitedly anticipates this time of year by looking forward to what you’ll dress up as together next, why not make costumes the focus of your fall-themed wedding? Choose a costume theme for you, your partner, and your bridal party, and encourage your guests to join in on the fun! Here are a few of our favorite costume wedding theme ideas.

1. Decades
2. Movie/TV/Literature
3. Random

1. Decades

Are you a couple of old souls, history buffs, or enjoy the occasional dip into another era and looking for costume wedding theme ideas to reflect that? Instead of keeping up with the times, go back in time at your wedding with a vintage or historical wedding theme!

Vintage usually refers to anything from about 50 to 100 years ago. So if you have a favorite decade you’d like to emulate at your wedding, choose it as your theme and incorporate it into all your planning. For example, if you love the 1940s choose a wedding dress and wedding party attire that is inspired from that era, and encourage your guests to also arrive in outfits inspired by the decade if they choose to. Have a playlist full of big band music for the reception, use antique-looking decor, and drive away in a classic roadster after for a memorable send-off. Or if you’re a fan of all things 1920s, go all out with a Great Gatsby-style costume theme!

If your favorite era goes back even further, you can have a lot of fun with a Colonial, Regency, or Renaissance wedding theme. Be sure to feature costumes/attire, traditions, music, and catering that reflect that time period (with a modern twist if you choose).

2. Movie/TV/Literature

Alternatively, do you and your significant other have a movie or tv show that really unites the two of you together? If this movie or tv show plays a significant role in your relationship, then look no further for creative wedding theme ideas. Use your favorite movie/tv show (or several of them if you’re avid movie/TV buffs) as your wedding theme. (This also works well for literature buffs who might want to theme their wedding around a specific story that hasn’t made it to the big screen.)

Incorporate elements of your favorite characters, quotes, scenes, costumes, etc., into every aspect of the decor and planning. For example, have a character-themed bridal party, a wedding cake decorated with themed elements, walk down the aisle to the theme song and use the movie soundtrack as your playlist. You could even make the catering significant to specifics from the movie/tv show and include lots of prop replicas in centerpieces and the general decor. You know your favorite movie/show best, so be creative and have fun!

3. Random

Lastly, if you just love costumes in general and just want to see what everyone comes up with, encourage your guests to come in their costume of choice, Halloween-style. Going this route, one thing will be certain: your wedding will definitely be memorable! (And the pics will not disappoint!)

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