First Steps: Theme and Style for Your Wedding
- Simona Turano
- Nov 7
- 2 min read
Organizing your wedding when you're a photographer!
For ten years, I've been helping my brides organize their themed weddings, providing ideas and creating the graphic suites for their day. Finally, when it was my turn, I got to organize the wedding of my dreams. Strictly themed!
The themed wedding is often used in large events and brings many organizational advantages. The theme and style were the first things we chose, and when they truly reflect the couple, they help with every single choice.[
Let's start with the most underestimated element of any event: the invitations.
The invitation is the wedding's calling card. It's at this moment that many people decide if they will like it or be bored, how they will dress, and even if they will attend or decline. It's worth investing in an invitation that no one will throw in the trash.
Before distributing the invitations, we communicated a few details about the theme and style to friends and relatives by word of mouth. We didn't expect such involvement; in fact, we didn't even plan on including a dress code. Instead, the guests themselves asked for it and began, even before the invitation, to find themed accessories.
So, our invitation ended up including a card dedicated to the dress code (optional), where we included the color palette matched to the season, theme, and style.
What is the difference between theme and style?
The theme is the subject or topic. In our case, the theme was Alice in Wonderland.
The style, on the other hand, is how the theme is interpreted. In our case, Steampunk.
An example could be a Disney theme with a Studio Ghibli style; thus, all the elements, princesses, and characters, would be drawn and interpreted as if they were Japanese animated cartoons drawn by Studio Ghibli
] The guests' reaction was one of wonder: they examined the invitation with interest, almost thanking us as if it were a wedding favour. They asked us a lot of information and couldn't wait to see what we had organized for the day, if the invitation was already so intriguing.
] If this article has piqued your curiosity and you dare not imagine the rest, see you in the next phase: the planning!
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