Ancient Greek Wedding Theme

Is your man, "Your Greek god?" Why not celebrate with an Ancient Greek inspired wedding theme?

Last night, while I was watching "Dancing with the Stars" - see inspiration can come from anywhere - I was reminded of this fun yet elegant theme that has been nearly forgotten: The Ancient Greek Wedding Theme.

For the most part the Ancient Greek theme wedding has been mostly overlooked in recent years. This is, no doubt, partly due to its popularity for frat and sorority parties on college campuses across the country. Those events are not about elegance and as a result the result is often tacky. So it's not hard to understand why the theme is not on the tip of a bride's tongue when it's time to pick out a theme for the wedding.

Still it can be fun and rewarding to play with the ancient Greek architecture and fashions (no, we're not talking toga party) when designing your wedding celebration.

Start your Greek wedding theme with pillars. It's usually most practical to have the big pillars you need made from Styrofoam. If you know a wood worker, that person might be willing to cut them for you with his lathe. Then it's just a matter of painting them to your satisfaction. For most, the spray paint designed to give a stone finish will work, but ultimately every bride should play with a few pieces of scrap Styrofoam and a variety of paints before deciding. The small pillars, for the basis of your table centerpieces can be found at most any craft store.

Accent your ancient Greek themed wedding with some elegant looking urns placed strategically around the room. These too can be easily found at most craft stores. After the wedding, keep the urns in your home or apartment with dried flowers in them or just as accent pieces by themselves - finding opportunities like this to buy something for your wedding that you can use to better your life afterwards is a great way to make your wedding budget go further.

Assuming the management of the facility hosting your wedding agrees, you could rent a fog machine to give the "Top of Mount Olympus" feel to your event - either for your ceremony, or for the dance floor at your reception - or both!

Of course, pulling off any theme reaches beyond the decor of the room. Just like a theater event, the average individual's ability to embrace an atmosphere depends largely on the appearance of the principle players. That doesn't mean that in order for you to pull off an ancient Greek themed wedding that you have to get married in a toga - no way! But it does mean that your gown and the dress of the rest of your party should be tastefully reminiscent of the styles favored by the Ancient Greeks.

Of course there are so many other things you could do to pull off the Greek theme. Hire a Greek restaurant to cater your wedding. Hire Greek dancers and musicians as entertainment and let them help you segue way into your dance. As always, the trick to pulling off an ancient Greek Wedding is to think through every detail just as you would if it wasn't a wedding at all but a theatrical show you were staging. Yes, it's work - but your lifetime of memories will be worth the effort.