Summer Wedding Themes

If you are planning on having a summer wedding, but don't really know what theme you would like your wedding to be, below are three popular summer wedding themes will help you decide.

Top 3 Summer Wedding Themes

A midsummer wedding is held outside in a garden, park, or backyard. The decorations include lots and lots of flowers and soft pastel colors. The most common flowers used are daisies, sunflowers, roses, red and yellow calla lilies, cosmos, mums, orchids, and dahlias. Popular colors include soft pinks, yellow, lilac, and pale green.

The bride is dressed in a strapless gown with open-toed sandals; her hair is worn up and accented with flowers. The bridesmaids and flower girls can wear floral printed dresses or pastel colors and the dresses are made from silk or linen.

A light meal of salmon or chicken is served with chilled fruits and berries. Drinks can include a frosty sherbet punch. The wedding cake is decorated with soft pastel colors and flowers.

This is a summer wedding theme that uses topiaries, arches covered with blooms, wrought iron gates, or picket fences, birdbaths, and small fountains to mimic an authentic English Garden.  The flowers used include roses, ivy, poppies, pansies, lavender, hollyhock, primroses, and bluebells.

Wealthy English couples often release a pair of doves as a symbol of their love after the ceremony. An alternative to doves would be to release a pair of butterflies. The butterflies can be stored in a birdcage and used as a decoration until released.

This is a casual wedding them that includes sand, sea shells, conch shells, tiki torches, beach and island music, palm trees, fish, and ice sculptures for decorations.

The attire is very light and casual. Both the bride and bridesmaids can wear sun dresses. a white sun dress for the bride and colorful print sun dresses for the bridesmaids. The men can wear white sports jackets and neutral pants.

The wedding cake can be made to look like a sand castle or flat cakes can be decorated with dark blue icing and tropical fish. A dolphin ice sculpture can be used as a table centerpiece.