Country
& Western wedding
"Ye
Ha" Western weddings are brilliant.
You can't beat a good beer, a Barbecue
and a good old camp song. I hope this
lot is some use to you.
Location
See if you can get rent a barn that
will allow to have open fires out
doors, Barns would make a nice backdrop.
Think barn dance and check out movies
that have those scenes in them, for
ideas.
Decor
Bales of hay, rope, gingham and calico,
old boots, mason jars, jugs, bunting
and swags, washtubs, wire, livestock,
garlands of greenery and arrangements
of fruit. Tree trunks are ideal for
sitting on outside Set the wedding
cake on a cool bird bath or pedestal
wash basin stand. The bride's dad
could carry a prop shotgun for a real
shotgun wedding effect!
Invites
Look for heavy rustic papers and
for your invitations.
Flowers
Use soft rope to hand tie the
bouquets and add wild weeds and hay.
Wildflower bouquets are all a cow
girl needs. Fill old, odd containers
with flowers at the tables. I.e. paint
cans, tins, baskets, mason jars, use
coils of rope to hide the vases. It
should look simple and hand done.
You can easily make all the decorations
you need just using hay, weeds and
herbs.
Brides
attire
Look around for old western wedding
dresses. Or wear a long flared ankle
length skirt with a white shirt. Or
a long denim skirt with tassels on
and a white or denim shirt. Or you
dress casual denim jeans and a shirt.
Wear boots and put a bandana on your
head if you are wearing any of the
latter 3. If you are wearing a traditional
western wedding dress wear wild flowers
in your hair.
Grooms
attire
Find out if you can get cowboy tuxedos.
"I've heard of them but I think
you might have to send away for it
from America". He could wear
a denim shirt with tassels on, jeans
or vest and blue jeans.
Food
Cowboy's love their Barbecues Cook
as much as you can outside. There
are people that have rolling pits
that can come to your site and cater
barbecue. Don`t you do any of the
cooking. Eat on picnic table and benches
and extra bales to sit on. Drink from
tins to give it the real western feeling.
Have the cake made to look like bales
of hay with plastic rifles on the
top joining in the middle.
Transport
Ride to the wedding and the reception
on a horse or horse carriage or hay
wagon if possible.
Music
Find a band that can do at least one
square dance number for mood if nothing
else. Violins, banjos and guitar.
Look for music to set the mood you
are after. Take a long a few tapes
with all your favourite music on and
a battery operated cassette player.
Favours
Give dead bullets away in tin
cans.
