A wedding aesthetic is like a Pinterest mood board, a pack of cards to help you tell a story through your wedding celebration. It facilitates better planning of the wedding decoration, the attire, the menu and countless other details. Conversely, it can help you link disparate elements together with the beauty of a pearl necklace. Optimize your wedding decor by bookmarking a wedding aesthetic; here’s what to keep in mind while making the choice.
Venue
If you have chosen your venue, you must pick an aesthetic accordingly that isn’t jarring against the setting. And if you have picked an aesthetic first, the wedding venue should be one that complements it. The two are inextricably linked. The location, the vicinity, the atmosphere, the infrastructure, all play a significant role in establishing your wedding aesthetic. A romantic or boho wedding theme would call for a natural, open setting with an unperturbed view of nature while something fantastical or contemporary chic would fit better with sleek infrastructure, proper lighting, etc. If your venue has a lot of woodwork, going for a woodland or similarly magical aesthetic would be easier. If there’s a pool or a beach setting, tropical would seem like the most apparent choice.
Season
While you can certainly recreate any season within the confines of your wedding venue with the aid of skillful decor, it is certainly advisable to pay heed to the season and weather conditions of the place so as to be able to pick up trends in colors, the suitability of materials and equipment required. It will also affect the menu, the flower decoration and even your attire.
Budget
This is an important consideration so as to be able to gauge which aesthetic you could follow and to what extent. Formal and traditional themes generally cost less and require less effort when most indoor venues are pre-adorned a certain conventional way. You could have a spring wedding in the cold harsh winter, but the cost and effort of floral installments needed in abundance could burn a hole through your pocket.
Personal Preference
Lastly, find a wedding aesthetic that resonates with you and your partner. You could go for something that is so much your usual style that it only seems like an extended limb, or go for something on the far end of your spectrum just for the fun of it. That is the beauty of aesthetics. You could just be you or play into a masquerade.
In fact, if there is something you especially seek to include in your marriage decoration, be it a particular color or some flower, you can weave your entire wedding aesthetic around it. This reverse technique comes in quite handy when you are stumped with the sheer number of options you are swarmed with. Love crystals? Think moonlight, think water. Associate it with feelings of elegance, magnificence, calmness. And voila! It’s really that easy.
