Theme Inspiration

Picking the theme for your reception comes down to personal choice. Let it be a reflection of you as a couple. Most reception venues are happy to work with you on your theme and ideas.

You could choose your theme based on:

• Your gown design. You fell in love with your gown and the elegance or colour of it inspires your theme.
• Your wedding stationery design. You sent out those wedding invitations months ago and just love their design!
• The location of the reception! e.g. your venue is by the seaside, on a farm or in a beautiful garden!
• The season you are being married in. Winter weddings can be spectacular!
• Your favourite flower/s that are in season!
• Your favourite colours!
• a reflection of your personalities (e.g you both think it would be fun to have a gothic, pirate, or medieval wedding)
• pure elegance.

There is no right or wrong... just what is right for you and your partner!

Whatever you do bringing a bit of DIY to your wedding can help you feel more involved and appreciated on the day. Something that is handmade is more likely to be remembered by your guests long after the big day. You can have a lot of fun along the way with DIY by organising get-togethers with your friends to create the decorations too! 

DIY Idea:

When no colour at all is allowed to creep in, jet black teamed with snowbally white makes a powerful impact. The clarity of the effect is breathtaking.

Patterns appear clear and sharp in monochrome. Here black and white shows a fun side with playful dots, stripes and floral paper napkin holder.

Download the floral paper here and trim into bands any size you like. Wrap around rolled napkins and secure with double-sided tape.

Download Template
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Flower Paper Template

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Real Wedding Inspiration!

Wedding Style Guide has put together some images from past Real Weddings for your inspiration.

Alexis Hemphill and Steven Elsea by Elizabeth Messina

Amy Moss and Mark Mandel by Jonathan Ong

Astrid Ramsden and Steven Harrison by McKay Photography

We would love to hear about your theme! You can leave a comment below or click here to upload images so we can share with all our readers what you did for your theme!

Wedding Style Guide Autumn 2012 Issue 20

Wedding Style Guide International is proud to release the Autumn 2012 Issue 20 full of inspirational wedding ideas, styling, DIY and Real Weddings.

You can view on your iPad and iPhone too!
In response to you, our readers, we have taken the Wedding Style Guide International Magazine completely online which gives you instant access to all the content you love.

Here is a FREE preview. Please visit our website to purchase the full 236 pages of Wedding Inspiration!

“A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”   Lao Tzu

We have taken the first step and we THANK YOU for helping us walk!

Celebrate - Australia Day

With the Australia Day public holiday just around the corner (26th January if you don't know) it's never been a better time to get into a celebratory mood. In our summer issue, on sale now, we have done all the hard work for you, creating the best Australia Day celebration you could hope for. We've even created some FREE downloads, available on our website, such as a Welcome sign and Let's Celebrate labels. Make sure you get your hands on a copy of our summer issue, at all good newsagents and Borders stores nationally, for all our great party ideas. Happy Australia Day!















Posted by Emilie Harrison

Things to Do

I can't function unless I'm organised. Our Classified Information story from Issue 8 was a great opportunity for me to go to town. I bought a simple expanding folder from Officeworks, covered it in a pretty fabric using spray adhesive (available at art stores) and then teamed it with a spectacular ribbon from Specklefarm. It's the perfect spot to store stationery favourites.



Not satisfied with the folder alone, I designed a Things to Do card – it's yours free from our download collection.



And what got me reminiscing about all of this – these great sticky notes from Notemaker. The Patternism Twin Set Sticky Notes are my kind of sticky note - oh how I loathe the standard sickly yellow ones.


Telegram Patternism Twin Set Sticky Notes #008, $8.95 plus shipping.

Posted by Jane Cameron

Labels for You

We moved offices a couple of weeks ago so we're just about sorted in our lovely new studio – it's so nice to have all this room as we were bursting at the seams in our last office.

Annabelle and I share an office. I think our staff like it that way because we play our 80s favourites and talk too much for anyone else to concentrate. We've been busy making our work space functional and pretty (of course). I'm the organised, practical one, Annabelle's the girly, decorative one. I think we make a great team – she's a big-picture person and I love all the details – hence the new labels I made for our boxes.



If you'd like some for yourself, send us an email at labels@styleguide.com.au and we'll email the pdf template to you. It's fully customisable so you can type in whatever takes your fancy, simply print them out onto adhesive stock and cut them to size.

Posted by Jane Cameron

Napkin Numbers

These napkins are definitely a unique way to display your table numbers and could double as a favour for your guests. I found them whilst over at the decor8 blog. They are by Heather Lins Home and are really eye catching. You can buy them in numbers 1-10 or 1-6 and start from $120USD.





Napkins are a great way to add colour and/or design to your table. In Issue 14 of WSG we had some white napkins screen printed by Louli for our industrial inspired styling shoot which made for a fabulous favour that guests could take home and use or even frame! These designs are free to download from our website.







Posted by Emma Henderson

Save The Date Freebie

Whilst looking at the Inspired Bride blog I noticed these gorgeous DIY Save The Date cards - you can choose to download blue and brown (pictured below) or pink and brown. Now there is no excuse not to let everyone know the date of your wedding!



Posted by Emma Henderson

Pizza Perfection

In the latest issue of Wedding Style Guide (on sale now) we have put together a gorgeous backyard wedding with stacks of DIY tips and lots of free downloads so that you can easily replicate it at your own wedding. Shared salads and pizza's were served in individual pizza boxes - embellished with their own free downloadable customised band which doubles as a menu and placecard. Favours were brown paper bags filled with pizza dough ingredients with mini bottles of tomato pizza sauce. The bags are stamped using our free template.






The stamp template for the favour bags.

Posted by Emma Henderson

Think Outside the Basket

One of our lovely readers, Lyndsay at It's a Date Event Design sent me a note to let me know about the gorgeous gift basket she had made for her sister. Not only is the basket filled with thoughtful and desirable gifts, but they are wrapped using our Modern Spice patterned papers from Issue 3. What a terrific way to use them - they look fantastic. Thank you very much Lyndsay for letting us see your handy work.






These fab photos are by James Sann.

Posted by Jane Cameron

Countdown

We had such fun shooting our 5,4,3,2,1… celebrate story in Issue 13. What better way to start married life than with a fabulous party to ring in the new year. We show you how to pull together a gorgeous tablesetting, give you a menu that rocks, complete with downloadable recipes from the renown Bathers' Pavilion in Sydney and even supply the lyrics to Auld Lang Syne so for once you'll know what you're actually singing when the clock ticks 12.



You can also download our fabulous invitations - available in an array of glorious colours - ready to send out to your a-listers.



So, there really are no excuses - it's time to party!

Posted by Jane Cameron

You Scream, I Scream....

We all scream for ice-cream!!
I love it when I find a new and inspiring blog and this morning in the office Jane and I got so excited looking at Amy's blog Eat. Drink. Chic. Amy has some amazing free downloads to theme parties, weddings and much more. The below pics are from a DIY Ice-Cream Parlour Amy created for her readers. You can download all of the labels and templates absolutely FREE! What a great idea for a summer wedding.











Posted by Emma Henderson