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Step 1
Select a location steeped in Victorian history for your ceremony, such as a restored Italianate mansion, a classic Victorian home with gingerbread trim, or a lavish rose garden filled with statues and fountains.
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Step 2
Choose a color palate of popular Victorian colors, such as burgundy, copper or other jewel tones.
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Step 3
Add a Victorian touch to your invitations with embossed letters and hearts, cupids or doves.
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Step 4
Hand deliver the invitations, if possible, in keeping with the Victorian tradition.
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Step 5
Arrive at the ceremony via a horse-drawn carriage complete with a driver dressed in Victorian costume.
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Step 1
Keep your wedding day simple by holding the ceremony and reception in the same location.
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Step 2
Place bouquets of Victorian flowers throughout the reception site. Popular Victorian flowers include orange blossoms, roses, daisies, pansies and hyacinth.
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Step 3
Cover tables with layers of fine fabric and floor length tablecloths. Top with antique lace.
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Step 4
Use fine china and dainty teacups at each place setting. Feel free to mix and match china patterns.
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Step 5
Place black and white family wedding photos in antique silver frames, and display them on a table with the guest book.
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Step 6
Serve guests a selection of teas, such as Earl Grey and English Breakfast. Accompany the tea with dainty sandwiches and an assortment of bite-sized sweets, such as lemon tartlets or petit fours.
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Step 7
Decorate a traditional fruitcake with white frosting for a Victorian style wedding cake.
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Step 8
Send guests home with sweet-smelling sachets of potpourri or boxes of chocolates shaped like doves and hearts.
Comments
valency3 said
on 1/19/2009 This is beautiful info. Thanks.