Hollywood Theme Wedding

September 29, 2009 by Admin  
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Karen Lincoln asked:


Whether you want to re-enact a classic movie era or have an over the top modern day Hollywood theme, the creative opportunities for your wedding celebration are endless. A Hollywood theme wedding can have many different angles including getting in to the character of your favorite movie couple. Or you can actually replicate features of your wedding that are the same as your favorite true life Hollywood movie stars such as a wedding gown or cake style. With a few key ideas and an incredible amount of creative possibilities, your Hollywood theme wedding will be a night for you as well as your guests to remember.

Having a Wedding Hollywood Style

The details of your Hollywood Theme wedding are the most essential touches to pulling off your special day. You can be creative with sending out your invitations such as wording the invitation much like a movie awards program and using a custom designed gold seal on the outer envelope. If you want to get really creative, you can make a video invitation. You can formally snail mail an internet link to your video invitation or you can send it via email. There are secure links that will allow you to restrict access to your video invitation and services that can assist with your film including providing costumes and props.

Music is another part of Hollywood that can be a great feature at your wedding. You can walk down the aisle to romantic movie ballads or dance throughout the night to movie greats. You can be even more elaborate with your Hollywood theme wedding by using props and backdrops to make your wedding site reception look like a movie set. Lighting that is reminiscent of stage lights or even using spotlights to highlight your entrance can be great additions to your Hollywood theme wedding.

Making Guests Part of the Act

Your guests can enjoy being part of the act with era appropriate costumes or the opportunity to dress as their own favorite actors or movie characters. You can also consider assigning guests characters for the night, sitting them at tables with others that are part of the same movies and encouraging costumes. Your guests may also enjoy having their photographs taken with life-size famous cutouts. And of course a red carpet walk into the reception would be expected, complete with easy photo opportunities for your hired photographer and waiting guests.

Awards events are famous for their pricey gift bags for the stars, and while you probably cannot replicate thousands of dollars in freebies, you can create bags for each of your guests, including cosmetic samples and perfumes for ladies and cigars and colognes for the men. You can also include Hollywood related items such as a DVD of an actual movie and gourmet popcorn.

A Hollywood theme wedding can be a creative and memorable way to celebrate your special day. The details of your planning can put your event over the top along with being unique for a wedding celebration. A Hollywood theme wedding will allow you to be as glamorous, funny or dramatic as you wish while providing a relaxed and fun evening for you and your guests.

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Hollywood Theme Wedding Ideas

September 26, 2009 by Admin  
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Nicole N asked:


If you love the movies (like most of us do!), try a Hollywood theme wedding. This type of wedding theme is all about glamor. Do you want to feel like the star of your own movie? This is your chance to do just that! With a few special touches here and there, you can really capture the feel of Hollywood!

Color Scheme
The main colors to use for a Hollywood theme are:
- Black
- Silver
- Gold
- Red
- Blue

Invitations
Here are some invitation ideas to help get your Hollywood theme rolling!
- Make them look like a movie ticket.
- Have them in the shape of a movie camera or projector.
- You could start the wording off with “Lights! Camera! Action!”

Flowers
Use formal flowers in the bouquets and arrangements. Flowers like the classic ones listed here:
- Roses
- Peonies
- Lilies
These flowers will help set the tone for even an old time, classic Hollywood theme.

Decorations
- Silver or Gold candelabras with white candles for the alter area.
- Roll out the red carpet not only for your guests but for you as well.
- Have the movie theater gold cording up to let your guests in.
- Put clusters of ostrich plumes at the end of the pews.
- The centerpieces could be silver or gold vases filled with flowers with little movie cameras sitting in front of them.
- Movie clapboards with the guests name on them for place cards.
- Have plenty of stage lights set up to make it look like a movie set.
- Have someone use a clapboard to start the wedding by saying Lights! Camera! Action!
- Use nice china and tableware with fancy tablecloths for the tables.
- Have “expensive” crystal-looking stemware if you can’t afford real crystal.

Food
Have either a buffet or a sit down dinner. There are all sorts of “themed buffets” you can have, including popcorn buffets (using movie type containers to serve the popcorn in).
If you have a formal affair, and can afford it, try to serve the following foods:
- Caviar
- Martinis
- Champagne
- Steak
- Duck
- A variety of steamed vegetable dishes
Have cherries jubilee or baked Alaska along with wedding cake for dessert. (All in all, just try to make the food as glitzy as the decorations are).

Wedding Cake
- The wedding cake can be made to look like different sizes of film cans stacked together, with a movie projector on top.
- You could also do an extravagant formal cake, decorated with your choice of flowers with the bride and groom on top.

Favors
Let you guests carry some Hollywood home with them using one of these favors:
- Tuxedo looking sachets
- Chocolate candy molded into Oscar type statues
- Key chains with director’s clapboards attached.

Locations
- Rent an old movie theater (one from the 40s or 50s would be perfect!).
- A rental hall decorated to look like a movie studio set.
- Have it outside and make it look like you are filming “on location”.

This is a wrap on the ideas here. Write your own screenplay for your wedding and see if the movie is an award winner. Best of luck with your new sole mate, as you star in the movie of your life as a brand new newlywed!

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