Vintage themed wedding days are elegant, classic and utterly timeless and make a real statement of who you and your fiancé are as well as creating a sentimental and relaxed atmosphere for your guests.
Here are some fabulously vintage ideas and inspirational pieces for brides who are planning a vintage wedding day.
Vintage Wedding Cakes
For the show stopping, ultimate talking point of your wedding reception, the wedding cake, go all out to ensure you uphold the vintage theme beautifully and elegantly. Towering, ornately decorated tiers are the way forward here and butter cream layers dividing the tiers add to the aesthetically vintage look.
Your vintage wedding cake should embrace tradition and to further embellish its impact, make sure to display the cake atop a vintage buffet adorned with foliage, delicate flowers and naturally colored candles. For a delightful and vintage-chic impact, consider ensconcing your wedding cake in a magnificently decorated birdcage adorned with pastel-colored flowers.
Vintage Wedding Cars
Arrive to your wedding and reception venue in ultimate vintage style by hiring a quintessentially English and magnificent vintage wedding motor car such as a 1961 Austin Mini or a 1965 Jaguar Mk2. Such elegant and timeless cars are also wonderful aesthetic additions to your wedding photograph portfolio and simultaneously ensure you are comfortable and secure on the way to your wedding.
Vintage Wedding Table Décor
The décor for your wedding reception is the ideal place to really go all out with your vintage theme. An impressive talking point for the top table could be an authentic, vintage gramophone and smaller vintage musical instruments for the other tables and perhaps at the end of the night offer up these smaller elements as additional wedding favours.
The availability and sheer range of vintage decorations available for your wedding truly knows no bounds, ranging from mismatched chandeliers for the ceilings, art deco seating areas for hire, retro photo booths for the reception and authentically vintage mirrored décor. Naturally, hiring the vintage décor for your wedding is substantially more affordable than purchasing them outright.
Hang cute and kitsch pastel-colored bunting from the ceilings of your wedding reception venue and leave vintage looking, aged keys with a handwritten name tag attached for wedding favors on the tables. Vintage trunks and furniture will add to the aesthetic as a whole and make for fabulous photographic centre points for you and your guests.
A staple of a vintage-themed wedding is the age-old English tradition of drinking tea, so tea lights inside little teacups on the tables are an elegant and fanciful thematic idea. Additionally, why not consider a teacup station in one corner of the room, with affordably sourced second-hand teacups hanging from wooden stands.
Vintage Bride and Groom Attire
For the groom, traditional and old-fashioned navy, grey, burgundy or rust colored waistcoat and trouser combinations are perfect.
For the bride, intricately laced, long sleeve wedding dresses will perfectly encompass the vintage theme of the day and will look stunning and flattering on any figure.