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Star
Wars wedding ideas:
Invitations: For
informal weddings, you can buy party-type Star Wars
invitations. For a more formal approach, you can do your
own on a computer. OR do what we did--use a regular
invitation, then make mention of your theme inside. We
used a castle/fantasy invitation with the following wording:
"To help celebrate our theme, 'Star Wars: a Jedi
Wedding', guests are encouraged to attend in costumed attire
(optional)"
Programs: use Star Wars fonts
and clipart and do these on your computer. We put a
section called "Why a Star Wars Costume theme?" in
ours to explain our choice. We also listed the Star Wars
music used in the ceremony.
Attire: Choose regular wedding attire and use your theme
as scenery or go all out and put everyone in costume.
The bride can wear traditional garb, but dressing as
Princess Leia (conveniently she sports a white, floor length
gown in the first fim!) or Queen Amidala can be fun!
Costume events take more time to plan, since you will have
to find a place to buy or rent them, or else have them made
(or make them yourself!). Check our
Resources
and
We Can
Help pages for more information on costuming a Star Wars
wedding.
Flowers: I did my own silks to save money and have control
over making unusual displays. It really doesn't take a
florist or design whiz to do bouquets! I used
pearl sprays, unusual stalks of round pink globes, and
iridenscent "spacey" ribbon to give a more
out-of-this world feel. There are also plastic
iridescent bubbles on stems you can get for this purpose.
Ring pillow: We used a clear plastic orb bought at a craft
store for $4, jazzed it up a bit, and suspended our (fake)
rings inside.
Setting: You can pull of a Star Wars theme anywhere, but a
setting that already looks theme-ish only helps. We
chose an outdoor location with statuary, rich tile, and
floral-laden vines that looked a lot like the royal city's
courtyard on Naboo. Or take a plain area like a
reception hall and have a handy friend do paper or canvas
backdrops to hang on the walls. We recently appeared
in costume at a party where they had put up painted
backdrops on the walls that resembled Tatooine.
Cake: You can use Star Wars figures atop your cake,
or have several positioned all over.
Centerpieces:
Buy a styrofoam base, cover it with
silk or real greenery, and pose action figures or one larger
Star Wars figure on it. Or place two crossed
lightsabers (toy ones) atop it. Or affix toy
Star Wars ships atop sticks inserted in the base to resemble
flight. Don Post masks (see
Resource
page) of Vader, Stormtroopers, Xwing pilots, Chewbacca, etc
can adorn the center. I went a different route:
I wanted guests to walk into the darkened reception area and
have it look similar to the underwater Gungan city with its
lit up bubble globes. So we bought glass candle
globles, filled them with iridescent easter grass and water,
then hid colored neon light-up sticks in the center.
Favors: Star Wars keychains; wedding programs; polaroid
shot of each guest, preferably against a Star Wars backdrop
or next to cardboard stand-ees of main characters.
Also consider having a disposable camera for each guest to
shoot a roll and take home, or one per table that you keep.
Food: If you're having a printed menu it's always
fun to name foods after elements of the theme. For
instance, "Han Solo sandwiches", "Chewbacca
Chili", "Skywalker Salad Nicoise", etc.
Tables: Instead of numbering your tables, label them with
names of Star Wars characters or planets.
Stickers: Use Star Wars stickers to adorn place
cards, programs, menus, etc
Music: While a matter of personal taste, I reviewed all
the soundtracks endlessly to pick the right song for each
element of our ceremony. Our prelude music was a
compilation of nice music not picked for the ceremony.
The groom entered to the "Throne Room" music at
the end of "A New Hope." The Bridesmaids
processed to "Anakin's Theme" from Episode 1; the
Bridal march was to the Main Star Wars theme. We used
"Princess Leia's Theme" for the candlelighting
ceremony, "Victory Celebration" end music from
Return of the Jedi for our first kiss/ family hug, and
"Augie's Great Municipal Band" for the
Recessional. Guests were prompted to exit the ceremony
when the Star Wars "End Credits" music played.
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