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Christmas Wedding Idea

Spice up your winter wedding with a Christmas wedding idea. The holidays mean spending time with family and friends. Take advantage of the holiday cheer by having your wedding around Christmas.

Most reception spaces decorate for the holiday season, so you will be able to take advantage of their decorations. Look at Inns and Bed & Breakfasts, lodges, country clubs, historic sites and anywhere else that has a fireplace and reminds you of Christmas for your wedding location.

• Many invitation designers offer Christmas designs which will help to set the tone for your Christmas wedding. Look for pine cone, Holly berry, snowman and other holiday inspired invitations.

  For more information visit our wedding invitations guide.

• Gingerbread houses are a Christmas favorite. You can use them as centerpieces and decorations at the reception. If you are creative (and have the time or a lot of helpful friends) you can make them yourself or buy them from a bakery.

  You could also find decorative gingerbread houses or ornaments that act as centerpieces and favors.

  Another idea for gingerbread favors is gingerbread mix in decorative tins or packaging.

• Pine cones are another holiday favorite for a Christmas wedding idea that have many uses. Use them in your centerpieces along with Holly berry, multi size red and green pillar or taper candles and other winter flowers.

  A great centerpiece idea is to take mini pine cones and walnuts, spray paint them silver and arrange them in silver bowl. You can add some color if you want with a red ribbon or by adding colorful small round glass ornaments.

  Scented pine cones make great wedding favors. Another option is wax-dipped pine cones that guests can take home to help start a fire in their fireplace.

• For reception decorations, use mini balsam and evergreen trees (real or fake) with white lights and ribbons.
• Every wedding should have a signature drink (at least we think so!), and a Christmas wedding is no exception. Peppermint schnapps make the perfect wintertime warm-up for your wedding guests.

  Get a few 15-inch silver punch bowls, and fill them with ice or snow if available. Take long double-shot glasses and fill them with a peppermint schnapps shot, and place them into the bowls filled with ice. Add a white peppermint candy cane to each shot glass, and let your guests enjoy.

• Christmas ornaments make great favors. They can also double as place card holders. There are many varieties of glass and crystal ornaments that are very elegant.
• Instead of a plain old seating card table, consider having a place card tree. Get a mini or full-sized evergreen tree (depending on how many guests you will have) and plant the tree in an ice bucket if it is a small tree.

  Hang small crystal ornaments from the tree along with other decorations that fit the size of your tree. Get small place cards and hang them on the tree with wire ornament hangers in alphabetical order starting at the top.

  Have the tree available at cocktail hour so a long line doesn't form at the entrance to the dining area.

• If you are looking to make a dramatic exit from your wedding, arrange to have a horse drawn sleigh whisk you away into the night. This is, of course, dependent on whether you are in an area that has plenty of snow.

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