Affordable Wedding Ideas - How to Make your Reception Party Go With A Swing

Organizing your reception around a theme is one of the most popular wedding ideas. Depending on what you choose, you can extend the theme to the wedding ceremony if it's suitable.

Your choice of theme can play a significant part in cutting the costs of the wedding, particularly if you choose an ideas which encourages an informal setting. For example, a Country and Western theme would allow both you and your guests to be creative about attire without necessarily having to spend a lot of money on costume rental. The theme could easily be extended to wedding favors, food at the reception, decorations and so on.

Here are a few more ideas to get your imagination working!

Space Travel / Science Fiction

This fun theme can be extremely affordable. You can decorate the room or hall with stars. You can use black garbage bags like wallpaper and string white lights around to simulate the stars. You can have guests dress up like aliens or popular TV characters.

You can serve appetizers rather than entrees and give them special names that remind them of your theme. You can also go with other-worldly music that is downloaded from a computer rather than go with a DJ too.

Car Racing

This theme has a world of possibilities. You can decorate with checkered flags and checkered flag streamers, toy cars, painted numbers of the different cars and drivers.

If you would like, you can decorate with a particular driver motif. The best part about this theme is that it is very casual and you can serve regular foods like pizza, large submarine sandwiches, hamburgers and even chips and nachos; pretty much any food that you want.

This relaxed type of theme applies to all kinds of sports.

Movies

Popular movie themes can be a lot of fun for receptions when the bride and groom are movie buffs.

Decorations will be based on what the movie symbolizes. You could serve appetizers rather than entrees for this type of theme as well.

Ancient Rome

The choices with the Roman theme vary. Togas are always a part of the festivities. Serving fresh fruits like grapes, apples etc. are always good. Serving fresh rotisseries meats or cold cuts are great with this theme too.

You can generally serve beer and wine for this theme and you can decorate with wreaths, garlands, candles and anything else in the Roman fashion.

Other Reception Themes

Reception themes are a great way to personalize your reception. People often choose their themes based on their personalities and individual character. Some themes are based on hobbies and others are based on hopes and dreams:

• Fairy Wonderland: Decorating in fairy's wings, sheer fabrics draped around you, baby's breath, moss, and serving fine breads and appetizers as well as all things beautiful. This theme really lets the bride bring her childhood dreams to life
• Ethnic traditions: This theme require that you choose specialty foods and decorations from the ethnicity of your choice. For example, should you choose a Scottish theme, you could organize your reception like a ceilidh (a traditional Scottish party), listen to bagpipes, wear tartan or plaid, even dance Scottish reels!
• Mexican fiesta: This fun theme can have you hitting a piñata, serving popular Mexican dishes, mixing a bit of Santa Fe decorative blankets for the walls and many other things. You can play mariachi music or Spanish guitars for this theme.
• Holiday themes, such as St Valentine's day
• Arabian Nights: Filling your reception hall with beautiful linens; letting your bridal party have costumes should they wish to. You can also serve Arabic foods or appetizers and pita breads etc. this theme is very versatile and fun.
• Greek Mythology: This theme can be geared toward a particular Greek legend or more popularly, guests can each come dressed as a particular Greek hero or heroine of their choice. Greek dishes, fresh fruit and wine can be offered
• Hawaiian: You can use your imagination to create any Hawaiian fantasy that you wish. You can give out fresh leis or artificial ones as wedding favors. You can serve fresh tropical island fruits such as pineapples and serve cute tropical drinks with decorative umbrellas etc.
• Disney
• The Wild West: This theme can be as fun as you want. You can set up your reception area to look like an old saloon. You can have dancers give a burlesque show etc. You can also serve easy to create entrees like meatloaf or more expensive steaks etc.

The possibilities are endless. Coming up with them is part of the fun. After you have chosen your theme, you can brainstorm ideas to expand upon it for the decorations and food.

Find out more about this popular wedding idea: Hawaii Wedding Themes Are All The Rage .

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