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Country & Western Wedding for Cow Girls and Cow Boys!
"Ye Ha" Western weddings are brilliant. You can't beat a good beer,
a Barbecue and a good old camp song. I hope this lot is some use to you.
Location
See if you can get rent a barn that will allow to have open fires out doors,
Barns would make a nice backdrop. Think barn dance and check out movies that
have those scenes in them, for ideas.
Decor
Bales of hay, rope, gingham and calico, old boots, mason jars, jugs, bunting
and swags, washtubs, wire, livestock, garlands of greenery and arrangements
of fruit. Tree trunks are ideal for sitting on outside Set the wedding cake
on a cool bird bath or pedestal wash basin stand. The bride's dad could carry
a prop shotgun for a real shotgun wedding effect!
Invites
Look for heavy rustic papers and for your invitations.
Flowers
Use soft rope to hand tie the bouquets and add wild weeds and hay. Wildflower
bouquets are all a cow girl needs. Fill old, odd containers with flowers at
the tables. I.e. paint cans, tins, baskets, mason jars, use coils of rope to
hide the vases. It should look simple and hand done. You can easily make all
the decorations you need just using hay, weeds and herbs.
Brides attire
Look around for old western wedding dresses. Or wear a long flared ankle length
skirt with a white shirt. Or a long denim skirt with tassels on and a white
or denim shirt. Or you dress casual denim jeans and a shirt. Wear boots and
put a bandana on your head if you are wearing any of the latter 3. If you are
wearing a traditional western wedding dress wear wild flowers in your hair.
Grooms attire
Find out if you can get cowboy tuxedos. "I've heard of them but I think
you might have to send away for it from America". He could wear a denim
shirt with tassels on, jeans or vest and blue jeans.
Food
Cowboy's love their Barbecues Cook as much as you can outside. There are people
that have rolling pits that can come to your site and cater barbecue. Don't
you do any of the cooking. Eat on picnic table and benches and extra bales to
sit on. Drink from tins to give it the real western feeling. Have the cake made
to look like bales of hay with plastic rifles on the top joining in the middle.
Transport
Ride to the wedding and the reception on a horse or horse carriage or hay wagon
if possible.
Music
Find a band that can do at least one square dance number for mood if nothing
else. Violins, banjos and guitar. Look for music to set the mood you are after.
Take a long a few tapes with all your favorite music on and a battery operated
cassette player.
Favours
Give dead bullets away in tin cans.
Have a Simple, Small, Green Wedding
Author: Debra Lynn Dadd
A wedding is one of life's major rites of passage. It is certainly something to celebrate! Today, wedding books and magazines promote large weddings so that more and more wedding products can be sold. Wedding expenditures run into many thousands of dollars. And after this major outlay of money, most of what is purchased is never used again.
On the Spring Equinox 2004, my ex-husband (yes, that's right! my ex-husband!) Larry and I remarried. We had been together for almost seventeen years, and had divorced several years ago when our relationship problems seemed impossible to resolve. But we still loved each other, so we figured out what to do to make things better, and are now happier than ever.
In planning our wedding, we wanted to keep it simple, small, and full of meaning. We wanted a ceremony and celebration that would be easy to prepare for and manage. We wanted an intimate occasion, surrounded by our closest friends who would participate with us in the intention of our union. And as we planned our wedding, we used the same guidelines for health and the environment that we practice in our daily home life.
Since most books and articles are about planning big weddings, I want to offer some tips on planning another sort of wedding that can be beautiful and meaningful in it's own way.
* Make it your day. Each wedding can and should be a unique expression of the couple getting married. So create the day just the way you want it, to please the two of you.
* Choose the wedding traditions that are important to you. When it comes right down to it, the essentials of a wedding are the two people to be married, the minister or justice of the peace who performs the ceremony, the ceremony itself, and the guests who witness it. Everything else is decoration and tradition. Learn about wedding traditions and choose to do those that will make your day special.
* Write your own ceremony. The entire reason for having a wedding, really, is the ceremony. The most important aspect of a wedding is not the decorations, but the vows and intentions that are stated in the ceremony and that you give to each other. Research the time-honored patterns to wedding ceremonies and follow this pattern in your own personal way.
* Invite meaningful guests. When you have a small number of guests, you can spend more time with them and really experience their presence. Minimum is just the two of you, the minister, and a witness. Invite family and friends with whom you have real relationships. Eliminate those that might be invited out of social obligation.
* Have your wedding at home, either indoors or in your garden, or in a park. Rather than spending a lot of money on floral arrangements, we put that money into tidying up our back yard and planting perennial flowers that we are still enjoying today.
Looking back on our wedding day, we are very pleased with our simple, small wedding. We were able to relax and enjoy the day and experience the love and support of our best friends. Best of all, we still had energy left for the honeymoon...
For many more details on planning your simple, small, green wedding (including choosing flowers, rings, clothing and
reception, and photos of Debra's wedding), visit http://www.debraslist.com/wedding, and click on "You are invited to... My Simple, Small, Green Wedding". Debra is also available as a consultant to help you plan your wedding.
About the author: Hailed as "The Queen of Green" by the New York Times, Debra Lynn Dadd has been a consumer advocate for products and lifestyle choices that are better for health and the environment since 1982. Visit her website for 100s of links to 1000s of nontoxic, natural and earthwise products, and to sign up for her free email newsletters.
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