Traditionally it is believed that the most good time for a wedding it’s summer, but a winter wedding can be an equally impressive event. Holding such a holiday has its own nuances and features. How to arrange a ceremony in the cold season in a winter fairy-tale and interesting way?
Only the bravest newlyweds decide to spend wedding ceremony in the cold season. When decorating the place for the ceremony, you should adhere to the wedding concept and use decorations in the chosen style.
December is the most popular month for celebrations, because it is at this time that a magical atmosphere of goodness and fairy tales reigns everywhere.
Important! The opportunity to save money plays an important role family budget. Prices for renting a hall, cars and other wedding services in winter are much lower.
A celebration planned for February or January will allow you not to spend too much time searching for a suitable room.
Corporate events are held in December, so after the New Year most of the halls will be free. 
To hold a banquet, you can rent a small restaurant, cafe or an old mansion. A wooden log house is perfect for a wedding in a traditional Russian style. For entertainment, guests are offered sleigh rides, snowball fights, tug-of-war and other native Russian winter activities. For exit registration in nature, choose a recreation center or restaurant with an open area
, on which a fabric tent is installed. It’s great if there is a gazebo on the territory, which can be decorated with garlands, snow globes, and snowflakes. Having decided to celebrate the wedding in winter time
- year, newlyweds may encounter some difficulties: The weather may be unfavorable for a photo shoot
- , therefore, it is necessary to rent a photo studio in advance or create a suitable photo zone in the banquet hall; You will also have to take care of the outfits of the bride and groom.
- involves additional spending on beautiful outerwear and shoes; To maintain the original appearance, choose flowers that are resistant to cold
– roses, anemones, ranunculus. Photo session on fresh air is carried out in the first half of the day, since in winter after three hours Photos taken during snowfall look beautiful. An ice skating rink or a street decorated for the New Year is another pretty backdrop for a winter wedding photo shoot. 
Color spectrum
When decorating a wedding in the cold season, they often choose a combination of white with various shades:
- blue– this option harmonizes with the winter landscape and looks elegant;
- red– shades of red with white and green look cozy and help convey the Christmas atmosphere;
- purple– so that the design does not turn out gloomy, to purple color add white, silver, gold;
- green- it is better to give preference to more dark shades green;
- black– the contrasting combination of black outfits and white snow looks luxurious. Black color is used to decorate small details - invitations, accessories, decorations for the hall;
- pink– this color in a duet with white is perfect for a ceremony in the shabby chic style;
- brown– the white and brown combination is elegantly complemented with pink, red, blue and green accents;
- gray– a universal color that harmonizes with a large number of shades, besides, silver in winter decoration looks more interesting than pure white;
- blue– combination with white emphasizes the fabulous atmosphere.
The traditional white color can be replaced with an ivory shade. It will add a light vintage touch to the holiday. Ivory goes well with gray, blue, purple and pink. You can make color accents using silver or gold shades.
Advice! The design necessarily alternates between shiny and matte details. This is necessary so as not to liken the decor to New Year's tinsel, which in large quantities looks vulgar.
Decor ideas with photos
A winter wedding will be spectacular if you choose a basic palette and complement it with original accents.
Fireplace
When holding an outdoor ceremony, be sure to take into account weather conditions. To make your guests feel comfortable, rent a well-heated room.
A hall with a fireplace would ideally fit into the concept of a winter wedding.. It is decorated with wreaths and garlands of spruce branches, candles, antique candlesticks.
The fireplace also becomes an excellent photo zone. Bright blankets, books, and mugs of hot tea are chosen as additional accessories for photography. 
Arch
The registration area is decorated with fir branches, the needles of which are covered with imitation frost or snow, as well as flower garlands made of fresh, but preferably artificial, flowers.
You can decorate a winter celebration with cotton flowers. Long branches are placed in tall vases and placed on tables. Wreaths made from cotton branches are hung on windows and doors. They are also used to decorate the area for a photo shoot.
Small inflorescences decorate invitations and bonbonnieres for guests. Original jewelry made of cotton, complemented with decorative materials made of stone or wood, will fit perfectly into eco-style. 
Knitted accessories
Knitted items can emphasize the atmosphere of warmth and comfort at a winter wedding. For example, mittens that the bride knitted with her own hands can be excellent gifts for parents and.
Idea! A knitted cushion for rings, which is decorated with flowers or lace, looks unusual.
To decorate a banquet hall, use a crochet hook to crochet snowflakes or original balls, and glasses and bottles of alcohol are “dressed” in knitted covers. 
Banquet hall decoration
Various accessories will help create the feeling of a winter fairy tale in the banquet hall:
- The wedding table is decorated with bouquets or garlands of spruce needles, in which buds of white roses and red clusters of berries are woven;
- Spruce needles are also used to decorate invitations, place cards, and chairs;
- To create the illusion of snow winter forest use artificial snow;
- One of the most popular options for decorating a wedding hall is decorating with fir and pine cones. They are used to decorate candlesticks and glasses. Fir needles and cones are poured into transparent vases and placed on the table among the treats;
- Instead of candlesticks and coasters for glasses, tree cuts are used. When combined with white candles, they will make the atmosphere warmer and more cozy.
- The banquet hall can be decorated with white balloons with weights in the shape of snowflakes;
- Christmas trees will also come in handy when decorating the hall. christmas balls. They are hung on flower arrangements and used to secure seating cards;
- Traditional New Year's garlands useful for wedding lighting design. Garlands are fixed to the ceiling and decorated with windows, columns and doorways. On the street they are hung on trees or bushes, in gazebos and tents;
- Magical romance is unthinkable without candles and sparklers. A composition of thin candles is decorated with spruce needles or flowers;
- The use of crystals in the decoration of the hall will create the effect of freshly fallen snow;
- Beads white, green, red, pink or blue color put them in large vases or decorate flower arrangements with them.
Table setting
Have winter decoration wedding table there are characteristic features. For example, transparent crystal and porcelain are chosen as tableware. white which fit perfectly into the theme of the celebration.
Covers for candlesticks are often made by hand - knitted from wool threads in the form of mittens or Christmas socks.
To decorate the table use compositions from pine cones and spruce needles. They are decorated with sparkles, crystals, braid or cotton flowers. Looks original with viburnum or rowan berries. It can be placed among treats using small vases or candlesticks. 
Oranges, tangerines or grapefruits help make an appetizing accent when serving. Bright citrus fruits are used to make garlands, decorate the newlyweds’ table with them, and fill transparent vases.
To create an original design, the names of the invitees are written on snowflakes or paper crystals and secured to tangerines with toothpicks.
An indispensable addition wedding decor become openwork napkins. To make the accessory more sophisticated, it is decorated with a lace pattern, braid, and embroidery.
Idea! Serving the buffet on a blanket or bedspread can create the illusion of a winter picnic in the open air, with the chairs replaced with wooden stumps. This non-standard technique will add zest to the design. festive table. The backs of chairs are also decorated with warm blankets.
Examples of invitations in winter style
When designing invitations, stick to the chosen color scheme.
When decorating invitation cards for a winter celebration, you can use elements made of natural wood. 
An alternative to standard invitations will be wooden planks with the names of the guests burned on them.
- To emphasize the style of the wedding, thematic decorations are used when decorating invitations:
- snowflakes;
- spruce needles;
- artificial snow;
- glitter;
- cotton inflorescences;
- cones;
- cinnamon sticks;
Christmas balls. Invitations made by yourself look soulful.
They are made using quilling, scrapbooking techniques, or finished pieces are decorated with woolen threads and knitted elements.
Useful video
The decoration of a winter wedding should be festive, but this does not mean that you cannot add a touch of warmth and comfort to it. How to do this in the video:
Conclusion Most people think that winter weddings are boring and monotonous. But you just have to show a little ingenuity, think through the small details that will fill the atmosphere with comfort, choose a good room and invite the most to turn a “cold” celebration into the most sincere and warm holiday.
What's so good about a wedding on New Year's Eve? Firstly, it will be easier for you to create an entertainment program for guests - after all, it will easily include traditional Christmas entertainment. This could be playing outside or original delivery gifts, and a banquet with traditional holiday menu.
By the way, banquet halls are also easier in this case. You don’t even have to worry about coming up with an original room design for your celebration. After all, before the New Year, the halls in all restaurants are already quite original and beautifully decorated.
Thirdly, it will be easier for you to come up with a design for the invitations. Just buy original postcards specifically with a New Year's theme: beautiful, original, and fresh. All that remains is to add your text, and unusual invitation ready for the wedding. And your guests will be very pleased that you invited them to celebrate both the New Year and the birth new family simultaneously.
Again, for your guests, an additional advantage will be the fact that you can have one gift - both for the wedding and for the New Year at the same time. But it will be more significant and significant than several small, almost souvenir gifts.
Preparing accessories for the wedding celebration, which will take place right before the New Year, will also be simplified. Traditional Christmas bells are perfect for the stems of glasses. In order to determine the seats of guests at the table, it is not necessary to use ordinary cards. Put instead Santa Claus hats or. Don't forget about pyrotechnics. Just before the New Year, more than ever, a huge amount of pyrotechnics are sold everywhere: firecrackers, firecrackers, etc. And the fireworks in honor of your wedding will be New Year's fireworks. No one else will have this. If your guests are prepared and warned in advance, you can organize competitions on the street. Such as, for example, who can roll up a snowman faster. Or build a fort and invite guests to throw snowballs.
If you want to further enhance the impression of your wedding on your guests, give each invitee a souvenir calendar for the coming year with themed pictures related to your couple.
However, when planning a wedding on New Year's Eve, you need to take into account potential risks. For example, New Year's wedding It will cost you an order of magnitude more than the usual one. After all, by the end of the year, prices for products and services of makeup artists, stylists and craftsmen will increase. And for a wedding dress you need additional details, such as a fur coat and boots, which are also not cheap.
In addition, do not forget that the banquet hall must be booked in the fall. Otherwise, you risk not finding a place to hold your celebration due to New Year’s corporate events.
But if you take into account all these details in advance and take care of them, then your celebration will be the most unforgettable and extraordinary. After all, not everyone gets married on New Year's Eve.
To the main advantage of a wedding on New Year's Eve - unusual organization entertainment program, there is an opportunity to combine it with New Year and Christmas entertainment. For example, original gift giving can be combined with a traditional holiday menu. The situation is simpler with the design of banquet halls. On the occasion of New Year's holiday in many restaurants the halls are beautifully decorated, which eliminates the need to invent original design. It’s easier to choose invitation cards; New Year’s themes are quite suitable for them. All you have to do is add your own text and your unusual wedding invitation is ready.
Combining two holidays into one
By combining two holidays into one, there will be no problems with choosing dishes and storing them. You can choose a special menu. However, it should be taken into account that you need to book a restaurant two months before the celebration and in the pre-New Year rush, restaurants often raise prices.
There is still an opportunity to save on a wedding dress. Usually before the New Year, many stores hold sales promotions on dresses for brides and decorative items. But you have to take into account that there can be many New Year’s weddings, therefore, there will be more than one of your orders, and in order to manage everything, you need to set and discuss the day of trying on the dress in advance.
There are no problems with New Year's wedding accessories either. The stems of the glasses go well with traditional Christmas bells. Instead of place cards for guests at the table, you can use New Year's masks or Santa Claus hats. Don't forget about pyrotechnics. It is for the New Year holidays that the most crackers and firecrackers are sold.
You can add New Year's fireworks to them in honor of the wedding. If desired, you can also add various competitions and games on the street, for example, build a snow fortress, build a snowman, throw snowballs. You can leave an impression on your guests about your significant date with the help of calendars with the coming year and thematic pictures depicting your couple. They are given to every invited guest.
Disadvantages of a New Year's wedding
As for the disadvantages of a New Year's wedding, its main disadvantage is the high cost of flowers. In addition, it is very difficult to maintain their original appearance. And such weddings are not welcomed by believers, because fasting begins at this time, therefore, it is not advisable to have weddings.
It should also be taken into account that New Year's weddings can be much more expensive than at other times of the year due to high prices for food and makeup artist services. And accessories such as a fur coat and boots can also be expensive. And the banquet hall must be booked in the fall.
Preparing for a New Year's wedding does not tolerate fuss; you will have to take into account many details and nuances so as not to ultimately spoil the holiday for yourself and your guests. After all, the celebration should be extraordinary and memorable for a lifetime.
The beginning of a new year is like the beginning of a new life, more interesting and happier. These are the expectations that a young couple usually has when they decide to unite their destinies. A New Year's wedding will be remembered for a lifetime as one of the most exciting, wonderful and beautiful events in life.
Advantages and features of a New Year's wedding
First, about all the advantages of a New Year's wedding:
- On the eve of the New Year holiday, everyone usually has a festive, high spirits, which means good mood guests at your wedding are already guaranteed, it’s unlikely that anyone will have sad faces on New Year’s Day,
- No need to worry about any special wedding decorations hall If the New Year's wedding is celebrated in a cafe or restaurant, the hall will already be in New Year's decor. If the wedding is celebrated in a house, apartment, or country cottage, they are still decorated for the New Year. And anyway Christmas decoration Any room where a wedding will take place is perfect for a wedding celebration. Small additions to the wedding decor, which will be discussed below, will create, in addition to the New Year, a wedding holiday atmosphere,
- When else can you ride a Russian troika to the sound of bells, instead of traditional cars with balls and rings, if not at a New Year's wedding. And if, instead of a coachman, Santa Claus himself sits on the goats, this will be a wonderful addition to a winter fairytale wedding,
- How often do newlyweds at a wedding have such fairy-tale characters as Father Frost and the Snow Maiden leading the wedding instead of a sometimes not very skillful toastmaster?
- Lovers of holidays that last more than one day (and a wedding is usually celebrated for two days) do not need to think about going to work, sleep-deprived and with a sore head.
- There is no need to buy expensive fireworks for your New Year's wedding; festive fireworks will bloom for the newlyweds all the time New Year's Eve.
- Features of a New Year's wedding that, at first glance, look like disadvantages:
- Some of your friends and relatives will not want to celebrate a wedding on New Year’s Day. You just need to worry about invitations in advance (long before the New Year holiday), because the wedding date is set at least 2 months in advance. Then you will know exactly the number of guests,
- Prices in restaurants and cafes on New Year's Eve are higher than on regular days. You can hold a New Year's wedding in an apartment, house, or heated dacha. But even if you hold a wedding in a cafe or restaurant, you still get savings, since, firstly, you don’t need to spend money on decorating the hall (all restaurants and cafes decorate for the New Year’s celebration), and secondly, the costs for one holiday , still less than two,
- A New Year's wedding involves gifts not only for the newlyweds, but also new Year gifts to all guests. But even regardless of the wedding, you would still have to give gifts to your family and friends for the New Year. And if there are a lot of guests, and among them are those to whom you did not expect to give anything for the New Year, prepare all the guests the same or different, but inexpensive New Year's souvenirs.
In general, in order to avoid any hiccups in holding a New Year’s wedding, you need to do it in advance, and not last days, take care of the invitations, venue, toastmaster, wedding suits, so that just before the New Year you don’t run around “with your tongue hanging out”, patching up all the holes in the organization of the celebration.
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In order for your wedding to have a place to “sing and dance”, you need to decide in advance on the location of the wedding celebration. Nowadays, it is rare for anyone to hold a wedding in an apartment or their own home. In any apartment or house there is not enough space for large quantity guests who usually attend a wedding, unless the wedding is celebrated in a very narrow family circle.
For a New Year's wedding, you can rent a banquet hall in a restaurant or cafe. A the best option New Year's wedding venue may become country cottage or a hotel, where in addition to the hall there are also several bedrooms for guests. Thus, the problem of overnight stays for guests coming from afar is also solved.
In addition, a country wedding venue involves a lot of winter activities: organizing fireworks, playing snowballs, making a snowman, celebrating the arrival of the New Year under the starry sky.
By the way, you will also need to think about the method of delivering guests (except those who came from afar) home. A wedding, and especially a New Year's wedding, can end well after midnight, so transportation to take guests home needs to be arranged in advance.
How to issue invitations to a New Year's wedding
Naturally, invitations to a New Year's wedding should, in addition to wedding decor, also have New Year's decoration. Most likely, such standard invitations, combining wedding and New Year's designs, will not be found on sale, and they will have to be ordered. 
But this will be a real exclusive, they will be one and only. They can even be shaped like a snowflake, snowman or Christmas ball. And it is necessary to mention in the invitation that in addition to the wedding, there will also be a New Year celebration. For example, “We invite you to the wedding and New Year celebration...”.
Moreover, invitations to a New Year’s wedding must be taken care of in advance, two to a month and a half in advance; after all, this is the New Year, and many people make plans long before its onset where they will celebrate this holiday.
Ah, this three with bells...
The best option for a New Year's wedding cortege would, of course, be a Russian troika with Santa Claus as a coachman. And if there is an opportunity to order two or three more triples for guests, such a wedding procession will be remembered for a long time not only by the young guests, but also by the residents of your city. 
But even if the option with a Russian troika does not work as a wedding cortege, a wedding car cortege can also look quite New Year’s. Cars can be decorated with New Year's tinsel, balls, snowflakes, a Christmas wreath can be placed on the hood, and the driver can be dressed up as Father Frost or Santa Claus. And the songs and music that will accompany the wedding procession need to be selected not only according to the wedding theme, but also the New Year theme.
Winter version of wedding dresses
Holding a wedding in winter means that the outfits of the bride and groom will differ from the summer outfits. Certainly Wedding Dress the bride should be beautiful, the groom’s suit elegant, but how could they, poor people, not catch a cold in the December frost. During the wedding, the newlyweds will have to spend some time outside, this includes moving from the car to the room, taking photographs against the backdrop of winter landscapes, and some other moments of being outdoors. 
Therefore, it is necessary to think about a combination of wedding attire in the suits of young people with a winter version of the suits. There is nothing new under the sun, people have already gotten married in winter, if not on New Year’s Eve, but in the winter cold. There are many options for a bride's winter outfit.
Firstly, the bride’s wedding dress may not be summer, airy, but made of warm, elegant, snow-white velvet, or patterned brocade, with long sleeves, but with an open neckline, decorated with rhinestones, large embroidery, trimmed with fur. Shiny jewelry and rhinestones will sparkle delightfully in the bright winter sun. 
Cape, cape, mini-jacket, short fur coat made of white fur It will not only set off the bride’s winter outfit, but will also warm her on a winter day. You can complement the bride's winter outfit with a fur muff and an original fur hat. 
A bright color note in the bride's snow-white dress will look great among the sparkling winter snows; it could be a blue trim on the dress, a red belt, colored embroidery, as long as this color matches the main color scheme of the wedding decor of the hall where the wedding will take place.
The groom's suit can be any color: black, gray, white, cream, and bright accent Bright scarves, mittens, snow-white or painted felt boots can become winter wedding dresses for young people. 
To highlight the New Year's version weddings, guests at the entrance to the hall can be offered small fairy-tale half masks, hats of Father Frost, Santa Claus, Snow Maiden, New Year's tinsel as decoration for a dress or suit.
Hall decoration - New Year's wedding fairy tale
The peculiarity of a New Year’s wedding is that you don’t need to decorate the hall in any special way, it’s quite suitable New Year's decor. If this is the hall of a restaurant or cafe, then it will already be decorated in New Year's style. It will be a little more difficult, and perhaps more interesting, to decorate some room for a wedding yourself. 
First you need to decide on the color scheme of the design of the hall intended for the New Year's wedding. The following color combinations are very suitable both for a wedding and for the New Year: red and gold, blue and silver, green, red and gold.
Having decided on the color scheme, you can begin decorating the room. All kinds of balls, cones, icicles, snowflakes, garlands, lanterns, bells, beautifully decorated candles, New Year's tinsel - all this is suitable for decorating the hall.
On the tables among the dishes you can place New Year's compositions from small Christmas trees, fir branches, flowers, twigs with dried autumn berries. Bouquets and compositions can be additionally decorated with artificial snow or small sparkles.
Regardless of the color scheme of the room’s decor, the dishes should be white as snow or transparent as ice.
A New Year's tree or several small trees placed around the perimeter of the hall is also a necessary element of a New Year's wedding. To emphasize that this is not only a New Year celebration, but also a wedding, you can hang snowflakes or hearts with photographs of the newlyweds on the tree, among the toys.
New Year's wedding table menu
The New Year's wedding menu depends only on the skill of the cook and your financial capabilities; you can include any dishes, snacks and drinks in it. You can include several additional dishes that highlight the December New Year menu option, traditional dishes New Year's table, baked turkey or duck with apples, Olivier salad, will remind you that not only a wedding is being celebrated, but a New Year’s Eve. And for guests observing fasting, it is advisable to prepare several delicious Lenten dishes. 
Looks great a wedding cake, symbolizing the New Year's wedding. Decorated with figures of the bride and groom in the costumes of Father Frost and the Snow Maiden, sprinkled with “sweet snow”, it will be another element of the wedding celebration on New Year’s Eve.
Hot drinks such as mulled wine, grog, hot chocolate, served at the end of the banquet, will be another additional pleasant touch to the New Year's wedding.
So, if you want to have a wedding in winter, hold it on New Year’s Day, and then your New Year’s wedding will be remembered not only by you, but also by your guests, as a delightful winter fairy tale.
