A Midsummer Night's Dream Wedding Theme

Recreate one of Shakespeare's famous plays as your wedding theme. A Midsummer Night's Dream wedding is romantic, whimsical, and perfect for any fairy tale wedding idea.

Wedding Colors

Plums, creams, muted greens and blues, pastels, silver and gold accents.

Wedding Attire

Bride:

Elizabethan gown or a loose, white chiffon dress (floor length) with perhaps a long, delicate train. Choose a silver tiara for a headpiece. Make a bouquet of bell-shaped flowers.

Bridesmaids:

16th century attendant's gowns or chiffon dresses in pastel colors. Wear hair down and entwine ribbons throughout hair. Add gold or silver hair glitter. Ballerina style slippers would be more appropriate instead of regular shoes. Chiffon wraps for chill evenings would work well. Carry fairy wands> or scepters instead of a bouquet.

Groom and Groomsmen:

The men should wear suits that would "blend in with a forest setting" such as green or brown suits. Add a fairy pin as a boutinerre.

Wedding Invitations

Ideally, if you could find invitations with images of fairies or a fairy woodland setting, this would be perfect. If not, a soft garden background would work. You could then add fairy rub-ons or beautiful stickers found at scrapbook stores.
Glue gold and silver sprinkles along the borders of your invitations - like "fairy dust".

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Wedding Decorations

Think of a whimsical forest setting when deciding on the decorations for your Midsummer Night's Dream wedding.

Place large bare branches in pots wrapped in gold foil paper (or pastel tissue paper). String small twinkle lights throughout the branches. Hide some fairy's in among the branches.
Swag pastel colored tulle around tables and along walls. Use small twinkle (Christmas) lights behind the tulle for added affect.
Make a woodland pond in one corner of the room. Line a child's pool with a medium blue vinyl liner (unless you can find a solid colored pool in blue). Fill with water. Float some lily pads across surface. Add some water-loving plants in pots around edges. Add more potted trees and bushes along outside of pool, perhaps with a large rock or two. Backlight the scene and place fairy figurines throughout. (Note: you may want to place the whole thing on a square of green outdoor-indoor carpeting).

Table Decor and Centerpieces

Decorate pastel colored pillar candles with fairy stickers. Add gold or silver ribbon around base and tie in a bow. Place on a candleholder that's been decorated with moss and forest flowers (and maybe a fairy figurine or two).
Cover the tables with white tablecloths. Add a pastel colored topper. Sprinkle with fairy dust or silver and gold confetti.
Fill silver bowls with water and float lily pads or rose petals on top, along with floating flower candles.
Make balloon and fairy wand centerpieces.

Wedding Fairy Favors

Miniature scrolls with Shakespearean quotes from Midsummer Night's Dream.
Sew up silk or satin potpourri sachets.

Sea Glass Luminary with Beaded Handle (Set of Three)

Luminous Mini-Lanterns

Garden Glass Gel Candle - Lavender

Present your guests with fairy wands and instructions on how to create their own magic.
Give them playing cards with fairies on them.
The women would love to recieve fairy dust mineral salts for a relaxing bath.

Flowers & Greenery:

Use bell-shaped flowers such as: Russian Chapel Bells, Single Snowdrops (Enkianthus), Campanula (Bellflower), Saxifrage, Delphinium, Daylily, Iris.

Menu - Food and Drinks:

You may want to forego the heavy, sit-down dinner for a Midsummer Night's Dream wedding theme. A cocktail party or buffet would work much better with the food choices suggested below.

Potato soup, game hens, blackberry wine, honeymead, ales, all types of berries and nuts, fruits and dip, finger sandwiches, breads, cheeses, vegetables and dip, light hors d'oeurves. Small tarts and sweetcakes for dessert.

Entertainment:

Hire musicians that can play the harp, flutes, lyre, panpipes, and other instruments that were used in Shakespeare's era.

Other Suggestions:

Watch the following movies for more ideas that you could incorporate into this theme wedding:

Midsummer Night's Dream (1999)

Fairy Tale - A True Story (1997)

The Fairy Faith (2001)

The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns (1999)

The Secret Garden (1993)

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