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Help w medieval theme ideas for wedding!?
We r getting married Nov 7/09 We r renting an old theatre/museum for the event and taking full advantage of having the venue and turning the wedding into a "production". I light reception buffet will follow the wedding, approx half of the guest will return to our home were the event will continue. My questions are as follows:
1.Decorating ideas...places I can purchase items. Must b done via internet or ontario canada.
2.meal ideas (we r serving a finger food buffet after) wud like to add food or drink of the times.
3.Any special moments that cud b included in the ceremony...that relate to the times.
4. Any suggetstions taken very willingly!!! As I am doing this myself ie.catering etc. with the help of family and friends.
Thanks in advance to anyone with ideas that I can use.
Hey! I'm not alone! We are doing a medieval wedding in 2 months!
Our decorations are mostly cool looking metal or stone crosses, particularly celtic crosses, and wildflowers. Wheat was also commonly used in weddings as it is a sign of fertility.
We are Lutheran and were contemplating doing the wedding the way Martin Luther originally wrote, but we are still deciding.
Get/buy/download a ton of medieval music (look up the Brobdingnagian Bards, they have a wedding CD), that's what we are using for the reception and part of the ceremony.
Try to find musicians such as madrigal singers, recorder players, bagpipers, dulcimers, etc...
You can do your invitations on parchment paper, and/or roll them like scrolls, word it like an announcement in the village square (Hear Ye Hear Ye, the house of so and so offers their daughter to the house of so and so in the bond of matrimony etc...)
We are having a cake/punch reception (found the cutest dragon cake topper!), and having a family dinner afterwards. Some sort of meat/roast would probably be the most appropriate to the period. You can look up lots of medieval recipes.
There are several great websites on period weddings if you dig for them, here are a couple I have saved.
http://www.drizzle.com/~celyn/mrwp/mrwp.html
http://www.medieval-weddings.net/
http://www.medievalmoccasins.com/weddingLinks.html
Good Luck!
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Keeping the place clean and organized (stupid kitchen, never clean… sorry, my problem), as others have said is paramount. After that consider adding under lights to some things. You need white paint (optional), rope lights, and brackets to affix the lights. You paint the bottom of the object in question and affix the lights about 2″ from the edge and plug them in [make sure the cords are hidden]. Additionally you can get fancy with methods to trigger the lights, I’d use a Christmas tree light step on switch but the clapper works too. Some awesome options for underlighting: * Any and all tables, coffee, kitchen, end, etc. * Couch, recliner, etc (do not paint bottom) * Lights run along base boards (Theatre lighting!) * Bed * Dresser * Door or window frames.