How To Plan A Black And White Wedding

Hello, I'm Ellie, and I'm Charlotte and we run a wedding boutique. Today, we're going to talk to you about how to plan your wedding. So you're thinking about planning a black and white wedding.

The first thing to decide is if the theme of the wedding is black and white or it's also involving the guests. If it's involving the guests, you need to think about clothing. If it's just about the theme, then no one's going to turn up in a black or white dress hopefully, so it's all about dressing the venue.

So when wanting to plan a black and white wedding, you need to think about what you're going to where and what your bridesmaids and your groom and the wedding party are going to wear. So you need to extend that to the bridesmaids, maybe they wear little black dresses with sort of like an ivory sash. Maybe you just actually keep your outfit just to the white.

Maybe your groom wears a black suit with maybe a white tie, and then extend it to the mother-in-law, the mother of the bride, so actually the wedding party, they're just in black and white theme and all the guests can kind of wear whatever they want. But I think it is quite a good idea because it will look very sort of glamorous and quite sort of dramatic. Maybe to put a dress code of black tie so then all the girls actually wear sort of much more glamorous dresses rather than lots of sort of floaty light pink chiffon or something.

Cause really, you kind of want to keep that drama with the wedding. And also you can go to town with the flowers I think, can't you, on the tables. Well yeah, exactly, in the center of the table you could have amazing black candelabras with loads and loads of white striking flowers and then with black feathers coming out, it's almost very theatrical, a black and white wedding.

Yeah, you can have black candles and ivory candles. Done correctly it looks beautiful, it can look really clean and stylish. Make sure you don't go too over the top because it can look a bit dark and miserable.

I think you also need to consider your venue, this kind of thing works very well in a marquis. Just because the marquis is white so you can dress it up with some sparkle lights and have some black cloth as well and you can have the sort of black ribbons around the chairs and stuff so it really looks very contemporary. Alternatively, if it is going black tie, like Ellie mentioned, in more of a traditional venue, it's great for sort of around later, colder times of the years when people want to dress up more and it looks really opulent.

Yeah, and don't forget your invites, they really, they're the first thing that your guests see so they need to kind of set the tone of the whole wedding. So if it is a black and white wedding you want, then you need to make sure that that sort of looks like it when they open the invite. They have like a little black ribbon or black writing and so the first thing they see is sort of the style of the wedding really.

And you can also, with the flowers, we're talking about large candelabras and everything, it could also be very compact tight little centerpieces if it's more of a marquis to keep it very contemporary. So you can go either way, you either keep it very clean and simple or go for the drama and the opulence. And that's how you plan a black and white wedding. .