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Decor includes store bought as well as handmade creepy things, Lots of blacklights, carved pumpkins, candles, spider webs, corn stalks, hay bails. Our Officiant will even be dressed in costume! We're also going to bring in a fortune teller and have all guests get their pictures taken with a creepy backdrop. The whole night will also be video taped and my daughter (she's 14 and is great at natural pics) will be our photographer. We are doing everything ourselves, except for our cake, which is going to be a Ouija board, done professionally by someone we've known for years.
By Worldbeyond from Watervliet, NY
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09/21/2009
Sounds spooktacular! I know that the Ouija board cake will be fantastic, but why not also have a Cat Litter cake? I love those things myself. Please do post a photo after the event. Happy Halloween and may you have a long and Happy marriage.
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09/18/2009
A neat idea for ice cubes is freezing in plastic spiders and really cool center pieces could be done with jack-o-lanterns. What a fun wedding!
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(Archived Sep 18, 2009)Planning a Halloween Wedding
Erika Z.
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By notwrong
The decorations could be normal but with lots of fake spiderwebs and spiders. That's one wedding nobody will ever forget. Congratulations. (06/19/2009)
By danibukior
At Halloween time they even have cheap pumpkins that are carved out of some kind of styrofoam material. Trick or Treat buckets are cheap that could be used to hold the mums. The dollar Tree and Oriental Trading company has some really cheap stuff for decorating. Also, don't forget you can borrow some ferns from a local greenhouse, chairs and tables from the church just make sure you assign the job to someone to get them back by the next day if you will not be able to.
Also, in my day we only served cake and punch and maybe a few nuts. It is absurd the amount of money people put out to feed the clan for their wedding. Choose a beautiful wedding cake, get one of your parents to gift the cake knife (they get to choose) and the other parents gift the wine goblets for your punch. I watched a cake show lately and the new trend is to have a small wedding cake (like a topper) to cut and save and to have decorated cupcakes on the table for each person to have one.
You might could do this idea and elevate your topper on something and have the cupcakes on the table around. If you want alcohol then have a cash bar, let the drinkers pay for their own. Also, the mementos for the wedding. Why do this when they have your invitation to keep as a memento and they probably brought their digital camera. You will still be just as married but in a lot less debt by weeding out the crazy stuff people think they just have to have now. Best wishes to you and much happiness! (06/19/2009)
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By BABBIE
I also found this awesome dress that's frayed at the bottom, it's going to be the coolest wedding ever! I have already gotten a million compliments on the invitations and accessories I got from HandyKane.com, people have told me they are single handedly the most awesome invitations they've ever seen! (06/26/2009)
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(Archived Jun 18, 2009)Planning a Halloween Wedding
Ann from Galloway, NJ
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By Lois
We are going all out, my red dress, the bridesmaids and groomsmen are zombies and even Dracula is marrying us. (03/17/2008)
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By Stephanie
The tables at the reception will be themed by the carved pumpkin centerpieces and parents' tables have pumpkins with black and white Halloween pictures of us as kids on them. There are so many great ideas for decor etc. on the web it just takes a while to find them and yes, check out Martha. I have found it surprisingly affordable and if you are into doing stuff yourself check out saveoncrafts.com for stuff like vases and lights. (05/09/2008)
By Courtney
We are probably going to serve cider and sangria as our signature drinks. The cake will either be Red Velvet or pumpkin cake. Our food will be a bunch of hors d' oeuvers like old school candy and caramel apples and roasted pumpkin seeds. The bridesmaids are going to be "ladies in waiting". I am having the hardest time with a reception location and a dress for myself. I think I may get a Simplicity pattern for an old Victorian gown and change the fabrics to be all white or red.
Ebay has a lot of skeleton cake toppers. There are a lot of black rose petals and things on there too. "Day of the Dead" themed stuff could be appropriate for you, too. Hope this helps and congrats to all of you awesome ladies that are joining us in our Hollow-vows. (05/24/2008)
By Nicole
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By Kelly
My dress is traditional, a Maggie Sottero, which I would recommend to anyone. My bridesmaids are wearing black dresses of their choosing, and the groomsmen are going with black on black pinstripes.
The favors are also found items (old keys collected from garage sales/ rummage sales/ antique shops). These are "skeleton keys" with a ribbon and tag attached in coordinating colors and wedding date and information. "Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness." (Oliver Wendall Holmes)
I am doing the bouquets for the entire wedding party, in shades ranging from blood red to a rusty orange. Our cake is simple 3 tiers with Red Velvet (my favorite), Carrot cake, and simple white cake. Still deciding on the look of it though, collecting images from the net helps. It's an evening wedding of course with lots of candlelight.
In lieu of feeding a ton of guests, we've decided to do a candy bar for the kids and adults alike. Traditional Halloween candy as well as a dessert bar for a more refined palette should give my quests plenty to choose from all evening. Fabric, drama and lighting are the key components to making my dream wedding come true. Congratulations to you and best wishes. (06/15/2008)
By Jen
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By Claire
My centerpieces are submerged skull heads (that I found on eBay) with LED lights in 15" vases with a ribbon wrapped around the neck and flowers and branches. (not as tacky as it may sound.) My favors are ceramic jack-o-lantern tea light holders that I bought at Michael's on sale. I also got flameless tea lights on eBay for them and the "stem/leaf" is a green ribbon with our name and date. The ribbons from eBay again. My table place cards are 7" tombstones from Oriental Trading. I am building a graveyard scene in the entrance way of the reception where guests will pick their tombstone with their name and table # to locate their seating. We are having signature candy corn martinis, cream soda, vanilla vodka and candy corn garnish, as well as Starbucks pumpkin spice lattes with dessert. Contact your local Starbucks for pricing.
I also am having a vampire living statue, a live band and a photo booth that can hold up to 17 people at a time. The reception hall is big enough holding up to 700 people although we are having between 250-300 people. Our invitations are from tinytidings.com #c657. Our save the dates are magnets with the same border as the invitation. I had a fake pumpkin carved with our names from at Michael's that I took a picture of, for the save the dates which will also be displayed at the head table.
I put the magnets in a small silver envelope that I stamped with black ink spider webs and put black rhinestones, also from eBay, in the centers. Then I tacked them with a purple and orange spider (like spider ring but cut the ring part) to a black filler card. I then stamped it with silver ink to say "open if you dare" and placed them inside a standard silver envelope to mail. (They are very Martha Stewart looking.) I am hoping to have a formal, elegant Halloween wedding with a twist. I started planning 2 years in advance and am very crafty which is helping with cost. I also want to do purple and orange can lighting around the room. (10/20/2008)
By Ren
By Legz
I'm getting married Oct 24th, 2009 and am having a Halloween wedding as well. I've found lots of great stuff for it so far and just wanted to share some of my ideas.
There are skeleton bride and groom statues from a line called "Love Never Dies". I purchased one and am going to encircle it with red and black flowers for my cake topper. I'm making the cake myself and am thinking of doing a checkerboard cake on the inside (google if you are wondering what I'm talking about or how to do) in Red Velvet and white cake and then decorate the outside with red frosting and black flowers. We kind of have a black and red theme going on. The groom's cake is going to be one if those Oreo dirt cakes with a zombie dude coming out of a grave.
I bought some champagne glasses from Party City that were on clearance for $15 (originally $30). They have no bottom to them, but set in this silver heart stand. I plan to give it a little twist too. It has a heart pendant that hangs in the middle. I'm going to replace it with a Swarovski studded skull pendant I found on emitations.com. Of course we will have dark red wine for our toast to simulate blood.
I found little plastic pots at Party City that are supposed to be for St Patty's Day (to fill with gold candy chocolates like a pot of gold). They look like little mini cauldrons. I have no idea what I want to put in them yet, but I think they are perfect for favors. I also bought some chocolate molds off of a site, www.mexicansugarskull.com. They are skeleton bride and groom bars. I'm going to cast the skeleton part in white chocolate and the bar part in dark chocolate and maybe add some peppermint flavor for the hell of it. Then I'm going to wrap them in red foil and a paper wrapper that has a Mexican Day of the Dead skull picture on one side and our info on the other. I went to JoAnn's and got a bunch of chocolate molds on clearance too for pumpkins, bats, skulls, etc.
I am making my dress as well. I bought some flocked organza that has a black and white pattern that looks like damask at a glance. When you look at it again you see that it has bats, spiders, and skulls in the pattern. I got it from Joann's online and it was on clearance for 4.00 a yd. Originally $10 a yd. I'm doing a renaissance style A-line dress with a train that detaches (think Drew Barrymore in "Ever After", but without the wings. Although I may end up doing wings, can't decide). The majority of the dress will be in the black and white fabric and the inset on the front is going to be dark red taffeta. My fiance is going to wear swashbuckler garb, something between Johnny Depp in "Pirates" and the dude from "Stardust". I'm still looking for the best pattern to use. I'm making his vest from Alexander Henry fabric called "skullduggery", an elaborate skull pattern. His coat will be long, knee length and dark red brocade and he will don sword and all. I am wearing my hair up and my veil is black lace with skeleton hand clips I bought from a shop on www.etsy.com.
I also commissioned a lady from Etsy to make my wedding jewelry. She made a tiered necklace from silver, garnet, and onyx and made my maid of honor a simple necklace and earrings with the same garnets she used on mine for my gift to her for being my maid of honor. Her shop is "Piano Bench Designs" and she is extremely talented. They are so beautiful.
My daughter is my flower girl and she will be a fairy. Instead of throwing stuff on the ground she's going to throw candy to the crowd. My son is the ring bearer and he will be a hobbit. My maid of honor is going to be a butterfly and the best man is going to be a 20's style gangster. We left their costumes up to them.
For the invitation, I bought black cards and envelopes at Michael's and inkadinkadoo has a really elegant line or Halloween stamps. Elaborate spider webs and pumpkins with curling vines, bats with flourishes, that type stuff. I bought silver ink to stamp them with and will hand write the info on the inside. Costumes are required and it will be an informal family and friend gathering no more then 30 people or so.
It will be outside at dusk with a candlelight dinner following. My family cooks great Cajun and Mexican food. I also saw this mini caramel apple thing in a magazine. You take a melon baller and scoop out pieces of apple, dry the pulp part and then put a lollipop stick in it and dip all but the peel part in caramel or chocolate and then nuts or sprinkles or whatever.
Some of my friends will be preforming the Time Warp in complete costume! Guests will be given bubbles to blow when we leave. I'm still hashing out idea for a guest book, and cake servers. And vows, that's a whole other story. We want unique and heartfelt so we're writing our own, yikes, will probably include some poetry in there somewhere. Maybe Poe or something. I dunno yet.
I started buying everything last month so I can get things little by little and it doesn't hurt the pocketbook so much. I imagine I will find the best stuff right before Halloween. I bought a lot of statues and stuff like that after last Halloween at half off. Anyways, sorry for the novelette, I'm just excited and wanted to share. Samantha (02/23/2009)
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