Retro/1950s glam wedding - UPDATED - opinions on pics posted please!

spongebabs

That looks amazing! Was it expensive?

Dinah93

Alyssa_C wrote: »

Came to this thread late, didn't know if you can poach any ideas off this site.
http://wedding-planning.suite101.com/article.cfm/how-to-have-a-fun-1950s-theme-wedding

I've been trying to find something I've seen before, someone had a 50s Ice Cream parlour, where everyone helped themselves to various things to put on the ice creams. A bit of a 'create your own'

Those glasses look AMAZING! We're not allowed candles at the venue so I can't even beg to steal your idea

We're only allowed tea lights, originally I wanted pillar candles in hurricane lamps, but I'm glad I thought outside the box now!

mypie

Dinah93 wrote: »

We share the same wedding day mypie

Did you know its the day that 2nd world war was declared. lol.
Our registrar told us that as its her anniversary but she assures me that it held no signifagance to her marriage and there have been no wars in the marriage 30 years on lol.

Poor lady has to spend her 30th wedding anniversary marrying us

laura2481

That looks really lovely and effective Dinah... how much is it costing you per table with all those glasses, pearls, candles and mirror plate?

Dinah93

mypie wrote: »

Did you know its the day that 2nd world war was declared. lol.
Our registrar told us that as its her anniversary but she assures me that it held no signifagance to her marriage and there have been no wars in the marriage 30 years on lol.

Poor lady has to spend her 30th wedding anniversary marrying us

Lol I did know that actually - my grandad told me! But he then assured me he'd be one of only about 5 people there who would realise that!

spongebabs wrote: »

That looks amazing! Was it expensive?

laura2481 wrote: »

That looks really lovely and effective Dinah... how much is it costing you per table with all those glasses, pearls, candles and mirror plate?

We're having 6/7 tables, the clear stones scattered on the base will easily do all 6 tables, and they are £2.30 a tub. The pearls in the glasses are £4.00 a tub, but I think we might need 3 of those. The champagne glasses are £19.99 for 12, so thats the expensive bit! I considered just doing a tower of 4 but our tables are pretty big and they looked lost. The mirror plate is 35cm and cost £3.19.

The big 50cm vase is £10.49 though so a lot cheaper if you wanted these as centerpieces. You could use 1 tub of pearls per 4 glasses, slightly smaller mirror plate with maybe some tea lights round the base etc. I'm a little concerned it might all crash down if someone bangs the table, so might be going for the single tall vase option yet!

The plan is to do this and resell everything on ebay afterwards. The champange saucers look like they might even make a profit on there given they seem to sell for £30 a dozen or so, so once we've resold it all hopefully they'll only have cost us a few quid.

laura2481

They look really nice- but don't fell like i could ask our hotel to assemble that as they are doing that for free... now, if I was paying them

Good idea to try and recoup some money on ebay aferwards

weenireeni

looks fab!

as a guest i would be terrified of sitting at the table though - one knock and the tower would fall! at sis in laws wedding i managed to knock over my champagne during the husbands emotional speech.....

Dinah93

We're paying our hotel more than most people seem to have as an entire wedding budget - I have no quarms asking them to do it

laura2481

Dinah93 wrote: »

We're paying our hotel more than most people seem to have as an entire wedding budget - I have no quarms asking them to do it

:rotfl:fair enough

Lara44

Dinah don't buy any of the crystals yet, it's possible I have some I could give to you. Off to my cousin's wedding this weekend but can sort out some pics next week if you would like.