1960's Wedding Theme: A Blast From The Past

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Get ready to plan your 1960's wedding theme. Travel back in time to when rock 'n roll came alive, love-beads were fashionable and peace was the sign of the day.

Sixties Wedding Color Suggestions:

Pastel tie-dye colors: pinks, yellows, blues, greens, purples and oranges.

1960's Wedding Attire

• Use an image of a 45 rpm record or a record album cover of the sixties.
  
  
• Select invitations with images of daisies, fields of wildflowers, happy faces or peace signs.
  
  

• As we all know, beads were the hot items way back when... and beaded curtains were all the rage. To bring a sixties retro-fit to your wedding decor, hang beaded curtains in doorways to your "love den."
  
  
• Flower power was the chant of the day. Add some psychedelic fun by adding colorful groovy flowers to table decorations and walls.
  
  
• Hang posters of actors, musicians and movies of that decade.
  
  
• Pin old record jackets and records on the walls. You could also hang 45 and 33 1/3 rpm records from the ceiling.
  
  
• Rent a jukebox and use it for music during the dinner.
  
  
• Hang colorful fringed blankets from walls and draped over chairs.
  
  
• Hang hula hoops and tambourines too. Create a wedding arch from hula hoops or cover a wedding arch with daisies.
  
  
• Don't forget the mirrored balls!
  
  
• Buy or rent a bubble machine.
  
  
• Confetti, birdseed, or flower seeds...these are "required items" at any wedding. For your 1960's wedding theme, decorate your tables with sprinkles of retro-style confetti in the shapes of colorful daisies and smiley faces.
  
  
• Where there's flowers there's butterflies. Hang giant colorful paper butterflies around the room for an extra special touch.
  
  
• Balloons are always a good touch to use as a wedding decoration. Wrap columns, hang them from the ceiling, or create balloon bouquets with smiley face Balloons.
  
  

• Cover tables with fringed blankets instead of tablecloths.
  
  
• Have floating daisy candles in pottery bowls.
  
  
• Use battery operated lava lamps as centerpieces on tables.
  
  
• Use large pillar candles as centerpieces. Drape love beads and daisies around base of candle.
  
  
• Bring back some childhood memories and learn to make tissue paper flowers to use in centerpieces and decorations.
  
  
• Insert a record in a small stand as a unique centerpiece.
  
  

• Hand out small bottles of bubbles with personalized labels.
  
  
• Beaded headbands, peace sign necklaces, happy face pins, love beads.
  
  
• Key chains are always popular such as a disco ball key tag.
  
  
• Remember the old "granny glasses" with the colored lenses? Well, those Harry Potter movies have revitalized those groovy round glasses once more. A perfect wedding favor idea for a sixties wedding!
  
  
• Daisy chains and peace symbols were seen everywhere. Present your wedding guests with a peace pendant for prosperity sake.
  
  

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• Give the men muscle and vintage model Hot Wheels cars from the 1960's: Mustangs, Chevy Chevelle, Cameros, Dodge Chargers, Thunderbirds, Cadillac Coupe de Ville, Volkswagon Beetle, etc.
  
  
• You Ain't Nothing But a Hound Dog... Elvis Presley is alive and well. Really he is! Hand out Elvis playing cards or other memorabilia.
  
  
• "A Slinky, A Slinky..." remember that song from the old T.V. commercials? Let your guests have some old-fashioned kid fun with either the traditional silver metal or colorful plastic Slinkys.
  
  
• Oh the penny candy that you could buy! Fill up gift bags with some of the old favorites from the sixties (many of these items can still be purchased at candy stores):
  
  
  • Bubble Gum Cigarettes
    
  • Cherry Heads & Lemon Heads
    
  • Gold Mine Gum
    
  • Red Hots
    
  • Fun Gum Wax Lips
    
  • Double Bubble Gum - a "must" have!
    
  • Nestle's Chunky Bar
    
  • Rock Candy Crystal Sticks
    
  • Butter Toffee Candy Rolls
    
  • Charms Sweet & Sour Pops
    
  • Jaw Breakers
    
  • Root Beer Barrels
    
  • Licorice Pipe
    
  • Candy Cigarettes
    
  • Sweetarts
    
  • Atomic Fireballs
    
    
• Here's one more attendant's gift idea that's sure to be a hit. Everyone needs their own personalized lava lamp. It's groovy baby!
  
  
• Other retro favor ideas are: tie-dyed t-shirts or scarves, temporary tattoos, "granny" (round) sunglasses.
  
  

• Play your favorite songs from the Rolling Stones, the Beetles, Simon & Garfunkel, the Doors, the Who, the Monkees, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, etc.
  
  
• Hold a hula hoop contest and a dancing contest. Who can do the best twist, pony, hand jive, mashed potato, and watusi? Finish it all off with a nice big train of people doing the locomotion!
  
  

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