Dare to be different – Non-traditional weddings

Not everyone wants the Big White Wedding. There are various reasons why you might want to break with tradition and remain away from church and a reception hall – this is your second wedding, or you want to keep it low-key. There are, of course, the couples who will go to the ends of the earth to stand out from the crowd – get married on top of an aeroplane, or 90 feet under the sea.

But this is about the more low-key break with convention, rather than the flamboyant attempt to do something stand-out-from-the-crowd different – Savannah Miller and Nick Skinner’s eco-rave or Heidi Klum and Seal’s annual wedding repeat (they re-marry every year) this is not. There are a number of ways in which you can come up with alternatives.

the other colour wedding gown – who says it has to be white? Go bright red, or pink (you don’t have to do fuschia, baby pink or pearl, blush or champagne will do)
promise to ‘love, honour, and keep’, rather than ‘love, honour and obey’ – but then this has long been changed by brides the world over (just thought I’d mention it here in case you hadn’t thought about it)
an alternative venue – think museum, theatre or movie house not the usual hall or typical wedding venue complete with little chapel
choose a theme – go for a themed wedding like gothic, medieval, shabby chic or roaring forties
arrive in something different – it doesn’t have to be a limo or somebody’s borrowed Mercedes Benz. What about a horse and carriage, a motorcycle and a sidecar, a tandem bicycle or a helicopter?

What fun ideas do you have? Let us know if you have ideas we can add to our list!

Non-traditional weddings