No matter the season, using candles throughout your wedding ceremony and reception adds ambience and provides the perfect finishing touch to a truly romantic day.
Somehow candles and romance just seem to go together. When the two of you were dating there was probably a romantic candlelit dinner or two, not to mention all those times you snuggled together listening to music with only the soft glow of the candle in the room. It seems only natural that candles should be a part of the most romantic day of your life. Your wedding.
There are many ways candles can be used to bring romance to your wedding day. They can create just the right atmosphere that you want on that special day. Candles play an important part of most wedding services these days as the couple usually lights a unity candle to show that they are two entities joining to be one. Why not take the use of candles in your wedding service one step further and have a candlelit ceremony.
Placing candles in just the right places in the church will cast a warm romantic glow over the entire ceremony. Speak to your pastor. More often than not he will endorse the whole idea. While candlelit ceremonies in churches can be beautiful they add an extra touch to home weddings as well.
Using candles for your wedding service provides an extra feeling of warmth for those winter weddings casting a warm glow that just seems to warm up the entire church and reception as well. There is just something about stepping in out of the snow into a candlelit room that makes everyone feel a warm glow in their hearts.
The Reception
Unless there are fire regulations forbidding their use, candles can be used as an inexpensive and romantic way to decorate the reception hall. They make wonderful centerpieces by themselves, in lanterns, and combined with floral arrangements. Placing three or four pillar candles on mirrors and scattering flowers around the table gives the reception tables an especially romantic and festive air.
Candle lanterns can add an old fashioned air to your traditional wedding reception as well. There are many small candle lanterns in brass, copper, and even cast iron to choose from to give your wedding tables a unique look. There are even some great candles with seashells right in the candle that can enhance a beach wedding theme.
Be sure to carry your candle theme beyond the reception tables themselves. If your wedding feast is buffet style a couple of candle hurricane lanterns placed on the food table will add a nice touch as well as one with your guest book. Although they look and smell great do avoid candles in bathrooms as gauzy sleeves may make such placement a fire hazard.
Wedding Favors
Candles make ideal wedding favors as well. You can choose from tea candles in unique holders, to small pillar and jar candles that the guests can take home with them sharing a little of this most romantic evening. You can give a simple favor by stacking two or three tea candles inside an organza bag and tying it with a pretty ribbon, or a more elegant favor that features a candle and holder in an already boxed set.
Your wedding is the most romantic day of your life, and candles can help express all that romance inexpensively and beautifully.
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