How To Plan A Medieval Wedding

Ellie: Hi, I'm Ellie. Charlotte: And I'm Charlotte, and we run a wedding boutique. Today we're going to talk to you about how to plan your wedding.

If you're thinking about planning a medieval wedding, I think the venue is key to the setting. It needs to reflect that era, think like brickwork, almost like a castle, but mainly- Ellie: It should be fairly grand. So a marquee, I don't think would necessarily work.

Charlotte: Or a modern interior- it needs to be quite stony, I think inside, just to create the atmosphere, nice big tables, so you know, are you going to have a medieval feast, or is it just about you and how you dress because you like that style? So I think once you decide that and how far you're going to take the medieval-ness of your wedding, I think then you can move on to what you're going to wear. Ellie: Because having a medieval wedding, dressing in a medieval style, doesn't necessarily have to be sort of all, you know, the hat and everything like that, but really it's all about the empire line. So having this classic empire line here, I mean you don't necessarily have to have sleeves, it can be still a strapless dress if you want, again it depends how much you want to sort of embrace the medieval style.

But again, I think sort of soft fabrics really work. So you don't necessarily have to have the wedding in the winter, it can still be a sort of summer wedding as well. Charlotte: A bit more Maid Marian-esque, with braids and you know, long plaits.

Ellie: Yes. So again, same thing as well, you need to work out if you want your guests to wear medieval style clothes, or if it's just you and your groom, or if it's just you and the food that you serve and the drinks that you serve have that sort of medieval theme about them.
Charlotte: Yes, because going back to what you were saying about you know, it can be summer or winter, because in winter, you could go heavy velvet and you could have the more fluted sleeves and the lower V-neck with some sort of embroidery or embellishments.

Ellie: Or a jacket or a cape to go over your dress. Charlotte: Yes. Or you could go lighter, a bit more Maid Marian-esque, outside, and it could be quite a natural kind of wedding.

But I think the two key things for a medieval are going to be the venue and your dress, and then if you want to take it further than that, then you need to think about the food or the banquet as I would call it, and the lighting, and everything like that I think. Ellie: So that's basically how you plan your medieval wedding. .