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Having A Western Wedding

July 19, 2009

Brides and grooms should saddle up their horses for a Western wedding. Nothing can be more fun than a wedding with a Western theme. Maybe you can have horses for the bride and groom to ride off into the sunset. Or at least a horse and carriage for the happy couple.

Or, have the horses bring you to the wedding rehearsal dinner. Get out the cowboy hats and make your tables look cowboy fancy. Get little cowboy hats, boots, bandanas and more to decorate your tables. You can give out western favors to your guests. Imagine cowboy hats for your groomsmen and bridesmaids.

After all, cowboy hats come in all kinds of colors and sizes these days. Too expensive? Some places offer engraving on pewter shot glasses, beer steins or “eating troughs” (bowls). Purchase flasks and have them engraved. Make sure you refer to them as canteens when you give them to your wedding party. Give all of your groomsmen a Western tie and have it be part of the wedding attire. For your bridesmaid, turquoise and silver jewelry is associated with the west and might be used with their dresses on the wedding day. After dinner, you could gather around a campfire.

Decorate your wedding tables with cowboy colors such as cowboy brown, sunset gold and native turquoise. Make a music mix of country-western songs that you like. Pick out something fun for your first dance. If you have a good line leader, have them lead country line dancing. Or if you enjoy it, have a square dance caller who can quickly teach easy square dancing.

You might want to go for a traditional wedding cake but have a grooms cake that is a horseshoe for good luck or a pair of boots symbolizing two as a pair. Don’t forget a cowboy and cowgirl to top the cake.

For your wedding you may want to fill and tie bandanas with birdseed Give candy-filled shot glasses or glass beer mugs. Purchase bubbles in a cowboy boot holder. Any of this can be used to decorate tables. Plastic cowboy hats in normal or miniature can also be used to make things more festive. Often party websites offer a lot of western-themed gear. Don’t forget cactus. You can find drink glasses shaped like cactus. You could make table arrangements with large attractive cactus in the middle surrounded by western gear.

No matter what, make sure you enjoy every minute.

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