You want your wedding to be completely unique, but it is often difficult to find uniqueness in today’s world, when everything seems to be available to everyone everywhere. Sometimes the answer may just be in taking a look back to the past to create a retro wedding theme.
Taking a visit to a vintage clothing shop or two may just give you the inspiration you need for your retro wedding theme. A piece of lacey clothing can inspire a complete Victorian theme.

The Victorian era was known for its romantic sensibilities with lots of dainty touches, such as floral china patterns, small rosebuds, lacey touches everywhere and loads of elegance.

Did you know that the white wedding gown first came about during the Victorian era? So did white flower arrangements! The Victorian era also brought us such classic looks as the corset and petticoat and lace handkerchiefs. Formal Victorian gardens with summer parasols, long lace gloves, gorgeous flowers – these should add fire to your imagination!

Of course, your retro wedding theme should include Victorian-inspired wedding favors. Just like generations of wealthy people before them, Victorians felt that gifts reflected the wealth of the giver. Their wedding favors were extravagant and elegant, a reflection of how they saw themselves. If you choose a Victorian era retro wedding theme, be sure it inspires the luxurious, formal elegance of a high tea service or the formality of ballroom dancing.

Victorian wedding decorations should be ornate. Think lots of beading, decorative painted fans, lots of floral touches, pewter goblets – anything and everything ornate.
Be sure to include lots of intimate, symbolic tokens of prosperity for your guests and you’re sure to be a success. Maybe your idea of a great retro wedding theme is the glamorous 1930s Art Deco era, also known as the Roaring Twenties. This elegant, high class, yet sexy, free-wheeling period of time brought us fun-loving girls dressed as flappers, feather boas, long pearl necklaces and the speakeasies, where the popularity of jazz music began.

The big band era offers many options for post war retro chic. With the 1950s came Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, the birth of rock ‘n roll and poodle skirts. The 1960s revolutionized the world with The Beatles, free love, peasant blouses, flared jeans, floral headbands, Go-Go boots, Laugh-In, long hair and peace symbols everywhere. The 60’s also brought us Camelot and the Jackie Kennedy with the veiled pillbox hat and the Chanel suit. The 1970s brought us John Travolta as Johnny Manero, the Bee Gees, hot pants, disco and white suits for men.

With a little bit of fun research you can see what retro wedding theme sparks your interest the most. Using photos or actual relics from that time period will help you make important decisions about how to translate that era into wedding theme that will work for you. Your dress, the music, the decorations and the menu will all have to reflect the time period.

Whatever retro wedding theme you choose, it’s bound to come together in a way that will be memorable forever.