My Dream Christmas wedding
OK, so I’m already married, but a girl can pretend, right?
If I were to do a Christmas wedding, here’s what my dream would be:
My theme would be vintage Christmas, with a southern twist. My colors would be ivory, navy and periwinkle blue. I would tell my guests to dress casually elegant for a nice dinner wedding.
I would love a wedding at night (6:45 p.m.). It would be at a historic indoor location (here on Tybee I would pick the Hunter House), lit with lots of taper candles and white lights. I would have my ceremony and dinner in the same location.
My bridesmaids and I would arrive in an old Bentley. Then I would walk down the aisle to a classical guitarist playing Dance of the sugar plum fairy. My bridesmaids (2) would be wearing navy dresses (with periwinkle accents) and carrying ivory flowers, and I would have a vintage ivory dress, with maybe a little bling, and maybe a little wintery shawl. I would have deep red roses with a little ‘bling’ inside them (and probably a crystal dragonfly, as they are my favorite bug).
Instead of an archway, I would take 2 – 4’ pine trees and light them with white lights and do a vintage garland and stand between them. The groom and groomsmen would do nice black suits. The groom would have a red rose boutonnierre to match my bouquet, the groomsment white rose boutonnieres.
After the ceremony, I would play classic Christmas tunes by Sinatra, Bennett, Bing during the cocktail hour. White cosmos~ yum! ~ definite must, along with some warm chocolate and coffee drinks with choices of alcohol. I would have a cocoa bar for the kids.
I would mingle with my guests. We would have some passed hors d’ oeuvres (warm). I would probably hang a few white lantern balls and star lanterns for accents around the room (and lots of mistletoe!!). I think I would seat all the family at one long table, and then have my guests at round tables. (I found this picture and I liked the feel ~ it’s from marinmagazine.com).
My name tags on the tables would be vintage Santa gift tags, more of a Father Christmas type. I would have candles everywhere, and of course wine flowing. I would have poinsettias around, which the guests could take home. There would also be Christmas ‘poppers’, which were a treat long ago. I would have ivory tablecloths with ivory plates with silver rims. I would encorporate the beach by having white finger starfish scattered about.
For dinner, we would have a Christmas ham, green beans, wild rice, mashed potatoes, a nice salad with cranberries and walnuts… mmm. I’ll have to think about second choices for meat, maybe a nice carved roast.
For my Grandmother, I would have to have Grasshopper pie, and maybe grasshopper martinis. I think I like cupcakes the best, so I would want a cupcake tree with a variety of cupcakes ~ peanut butter chocolate, red velvet with cream cheese frosting, vanilla with a strawberry cream cheese frosting.
We would have some dancing, bring more Sinatra, Bennett and Bing into the mix. Maybe I would even have my groom learn a first dance with me. My favorite song, since I was a little girl, is a song by Burl Ives called “Lavender Blue (dilly dilly)” and that would be my first dance song.
My guests and I would mingle, dance and eat until it came time for the groom and I to be swept away in our Bentley ~ we would go and stay the night at an Inn on the beach, or maybe a cozy Inn in Savannah. My guests would go home stuffed and singing Christmas carols, and I would be very, very happy.
Thank you for viewing my dream Christmas wedding!
It’s gorgeous … no bugs biting, the flutterbys are migrating and landing on bridal bouquets ~ it couldn’t be more idyllic. (the flutterbys must be attracted to the bright colors… or maybe the sweet smelling brides!) 
