Tired of looking through the same old ideas for your wedding? If you’re a bride or groom who wants to stand out, you’ve found the right place. For everyone from book lovers to wine enthusiasts, we have ten unique wedding themes that will leave your guests talking long after the ceremony has ended!
1. Travel Wedding Theme
Do you and your honey have a bit of wanderlust? If you’re always jetting off to a new locale or planning your next adventure, bring that energy to your special day. Start your honeymoon early with a wedding theme centered around a love for travel.
💛 Colors: Find inspiration in old-world globe colors, with muted taupe, light green, mustard yellow, and faded red.
💼 Decorations: Use old suitcases, vintage postcards, passports, maps, globes, and steam trunks as your wedding decor to create the perfect travel setting. Have guests fill out postcards for you instead of the traditional guestbook.
🏷️ Favors: Instead of escort cards, use classy luggage tags for place settings and give out personalized compasses to your wedding party.
🎺 Entertainment: Incorporate the culture and world music from your favorite destinations into your music and entertainment. Think French bands, German musicians, or even mariachi bands!
Find more inspiration on our travel-inspired wedding board on Pinterest!
2. Coffee Wedding Theme
Take your love of coffee to the next level with a java-themed wedding day. This unique wedding theme is perfect for couples who love planning sweet dates to explore local coffee shops and try new roasts and blends together. The puns alone will make this a fun idea for tying the knot!
🤎 Colors: Cream, rose quartz, taupe, and chocolate brown are all great coffee-inspired colors that are easy to find and incorporate into your wedding plans.
☕ Decorations: Fill your wedding venue with mason jars filled with coffee beans, copper vases or cans for flowers or candles, and burlap runners. Incorporate a coffee bar with biscottis, flavored creams, syrups, and toppings.
🍪 Favors: Offer guests small burlap bags of coffee to take home. You can even try having a local roaster make a specialty blend just for you. Chalkboard coffee mugs or cellophane bags filled with cookies are another great wedding favor for this theme.
🎸 Entertainment: Hire a barista to create latte art for your guests and an acoustic guitar player to perform your favorite coffeehouse tunes.
Find more inspiration on our coffee-themed wedding board on Pinterest!
3. Bohemian Wedding Theme
Embrace your free spirit with a rich and eclectic bohemian wedding. This theme allows you to go a more non-traditional route with unique colors and a laid-back wedding style. Boho also lends itself well to DIY and upcycled decor, making it easier on your budget.
🧡 Colors: You can go two routes with a Boho theme — neutral tones with lots of white and beige for an Earthy feel or vibrant colors like blue, orange, and teal. Or do a neutral base with pops of color in your flowers, suits, dresses, and even your wedding gown.
🌻 Decorations: Take advantage of the diversity that a Bohemian theme allows. Visit local flea markets to mix and match colorful tablecloths, napkins, plates, and more. Keep the color palette cohesive, but feel free to have fun with textures and patterns! Add vintage candlesticks, wildflowers, and other natural elements to tie it together.
🪴 Favors: There are a lot of great ideas for wedding favors that fit a Boho theme. You can do candles, succulents, small dreamcatchers, or smudge sticks. Wands with streamers would be great for your little guests!
🎨 Entertainment: Incorporate an artist to do a live painting inspired by the vibe of your ceremony. Bring in a folk band for your wedding music to keep your guests clapping along the whole night.
Find more inspiration on our Bohemian wedding board on Pinterest!
4. Bali Wedding Theme
The Balinese believe they live in heaven on Earth because it’s such a fascinating and vibrant place! Having a bit of Indonesian flair will definitely keep you from a boring or run-of-the-mill ceremony and reception. Try this Bali wedding theme idea to bring paradise to your special day!
💜 Colors: Choose a bright color palette with hot pink, orange, purple, and bright blue to bring that Bali culture to life.
🏮 Decorations: Fill your wedding venue with unique items like flower petals, colored bottles, strings of lights or lanterns, colorful lace table runners, and long silk scarves. Use vibrant floral arrangements for aisle decorations and centerpieces.
🪭 Favors: Give your guests something unique to take home with them. Gifts like colored fans, carved soaps, essential oils, and tea bags are all great options for this wedding theme.
🖌️ Entertainment: Hire a henna tattoo artist to add traditional designs to your wedding party or even offer tattoos to guests at the reception. For the ceremony, book an ensemble that can perform authentic Bali music. You can even book belly dancers for some extra entertainment.
Find more inspiration on our Bali wedding board on Pinterest!
5. Wine Wedding Theme
There’s nothing better than visiting local wineries (or grocery stores) to unwind with a glass of pinot noir with your significant other. Imagine you’re in Napa Valley and relax with this wine-inspired wedding theme idea. Your guests won’t have any complaints with this one!
❤️ Colors: Use your favorite wines to determine your wedding color palette. Try a cream or ivory for your wedding dress, linens, and other bases. Then add blush pink or burgundy for your wedding party and accents.
🍾 Decorations: Start saving your wine bottles and corks early! You can use them as table number holders or elegant vases and candle holders for centerpieces. Fill empty wine bottles with white or copper string lights for more ambiance. Use wooden crates or barrels to bring in elements of a winery.
🍷 Favors: Think all things wine when choosing gifts for this wedding theme idea. Your wedding party could receive personalized wine glasses or even their own bottles of wine. As for the guests, give out simple things like wine stoppers or coasters.
🎻Entertainment: Choose music for your big day that adds class and a sophisticated ambiance fit for a high-class winery. There are many classical wedding music options, from string trios to harpists to strolling violinists.
Find more inspiration on our wine-inspired wedding board on Pinterest!
6. Old Hollywood Wedding Theme
There’s nothing quite as glamorous as old Hollywood, and this idea lends itself exceptionally well to evening weddings. Recreate the romance of classic movies like Casablanca or An Affair to Remember with an old Hollywood wedding celebration.
🖤 Colors: Think vintage films in black and white, but add deep red for dramatic pops of color. Or, go the Great Gatsby way and include splashes of glitter and gold.
🎞️ Decorations: Use large ostrich feathers and pearls to create simple yet striking centerpieces. Accent them with old film reels to tie the theme in further. Use vintage frames to hold black and white pictures of Cary Grant, Marilyn Monroe, Greta Garbo, or your other favorite actors and actresses.
🎬 Favors: Give your wedding guests gifts like ostrich feather pens or cute little personalized clapboards with your wedding info. You could also buy flashy bow ties for your groomsmen and sparkly headbands for the bridal party.
✨ Entertainment: Your wedding photographer can play paparazzi for the night and hire some impersonators to add that star quality. Include a red carpet photo booth for guests to have a fun take-home souvenir.
Find more inspiration on our old Hollywood wedding board on Pinterest!
7. Eco-Friendly Wedding Theme
Maybe you’re a “green” bride and want to ensure your wedding doesn’t harm Mother Earth. Going eco-friendly can be a gorgeous wedding theme idea, on top of helping preserve our precious planet! You can embrace your natural elements by making it an outdoor wedding.
💚 Colors: Think earth tones when choosing your eco-friendly wedding colors. Colors like ivory, sage green, olive, taupe, and beige would be beautiful for this theme.
🍃 Decorations: Upcycle old pallets, tin cans, doors, window frames, and other “trash” into beautiful wedding decor. Incorporate natural elements like branches, wood slices, and leaves. Rather than cut flowers, use potted plants in your centerpieces.
🍯 Favors: When choosing eco-friendly wedding favors, go local and fresh. Hand out empty pots and seed sets, jars of honey or jam from local farms, or simple birdseed packets. You can even let guests take home some of your potted plant centerpieces.
🪘 Entertainment: Skip the DJ or full band setup and choose music that doesn’t need electricity, like an acoustic group or ukelele player.
Find more inspiration on our eco-friendly wedding board on Pinterest!
8. Sugar Wedding Theme
Nothing is sweeter than love for your main squeeze! A sugary sweet wedding theme would be perfect for couples who constantly indulge their sweet tooths together. Pull color and decor inspiration from your favorite treats, and be sure they’re all available on your dessert table.
💙Colors: Soft and sweet is what you want with your color scheme. Use creams and pastel pinks, blues, and yellows to set the perfect scene.
🍭 Decorations: Keep the look simple with white tables and add pops of color with lace runners, tissue paper pom poms, and mismatched vases or crystal bowls filled with candy. Include scoops on the tables so guests can help themselves to a sweet treat. In addition to your wedding cake, create a custom candy and dessert buffet using your colors.
🧁 Favors: Edible treats are an obvious choice for a sugar-themed wedding. Put personalized candies, cookies, or s’more kits in cellophane bags with ribbons. Or, go in a different but still sugary direction and give guests homemade sugar scrubs in small jars.
🎤 Entertainment: Fill your wedding reception with some sweet tunes everyone can dance and sing along to. Hire a wedding band or pop music group to play all the biggest hits.
Find more inspiration on our sugary wedding board on Pinterest!
9. Book Wedding Theme
The greatest tales of love ever told are found between the pages of old books. Tap into the great romances of the past with a breathtaking ceremony and romantic reception worthy of its own novel. Bring your own love story to life through a book-themed wedding celebration!
🤍 Colors: When choosing your bookish wedding colors, picture old libraries and vintage bookstores. Muted colors like dark ivory, rose quartz, and baby blue fit this theme well.
📚 Decorations: For rustic, romantic centerpieces, place piles of old books under vases or mason jars filled with flowers. Use phrases from your favorite books on chalkboard signs or have them printed and framed. Use old library checkout cards or a card catalog for seating assignments for a cute, vintage touch.
🔖 Favors: Bookmarks are an appropriate and easy wedding favor for a book-themed wedding. They can be themed around favorite books or personalized for the wedding date, couple, and/or guests.
🎹 Entertainment: Hire a singing pianist to sing all of your favorite love songs. Or, go the timeless and romantic route with a live crooner.
Find more inspiration on our romantic literature wedding board on Pinterest!
10. Vintage Circus Wedding Theme
Looking for something beautiful yet out of the ordinary? You can’t go wrong with a vintage circus theme. Skip the clowns and corny fanfare. Instead, imagine a classic 1930s Barnum and Bailey circus full of wonder and amazement.
❤️ Colors: Red and white are the obvious colors for any circus theme, but make it faded red and ivory to get that vintage feel. Or, for a more feminine look, swap the red for pink and add pops of teal.
🎪 Decorations: Tie the knot under the big top by recreating that circus tent look. You can achieve it by hanging alternating red and white sheets, scarves, or streamers. Add strings of white lights with large bulbs for an extra romantic feel. Create centerpieces from classic circus items like ticket rolls, animal figurines, and popcorn boxes.
🍿 Favors: Give your guests a day at the circus with personalized bags of cotton candy or boxes of peanuts. For another cute wedding favor, you could even put custom labels with your wedding details on glass soda bottles.
🤹 Entertainment: It wouldn’t be a true circus theme without some authentic circus entertainment like acrobats, jugglers, or stilt walkers. They can customize their routines and costumes to fit your vintage theme.
Find more inspiration on our vintage circus wedding board on Pinterest.
Whatever wedding theme idea you choose, your special day is sure to be romantic and memorable. After all, you’re marrying the love of your life. And that’s really all that matters in the end. 🥰
💡 Looking for more out-of-the-box inspiration? Check out: 20 Non-Traditional Wedding Ideas for Unique Couples
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Megan is the Director of Customer Experience at GigSalad and has gained 9+ years of insight on what makes a great event on both sides of the booking process. Her favorite things include books, true crime podcasts, coffee, hiking, puns, and making people laugh.