Halloween Costumes for Wedding

For your reference.. here is our costumes.

Would your wedding party be comfortable in costumes at a wedding?

Everyone meaning just the wedding party is being dressed up?

Do they know this is your intention?

Take it or leave it but this is my opinion: I think I personally would keep the ceremony a bit more serious / formal. The ceremony is about making a commitment to each other for the rest of your lives and I feel like the meaning will get lost if you take the Halloween theme too far. The are many more subtle ways you could carry your theme into the ceremony while keeping it very meaningful and having a slightly more serious tone. Your idea for the reception sounds lovely though.

Yes, the wedding party already knows and are excited about the costumes.

We are asking guests to dress up too, but if they don't want to of course they don't have to. We just want them to be there with us.

I agree with Shannon. How you say your "I Do's" is entirely up to you and your FH. That being said, I would never get married in a mustard costume.

Thank you Shannon and Laura for your advice. We are doing it because we met on Halloween a few years ago and also were in silly costumes so it has a good meaning to us.

My family requested that we make the reception more formal because of cultural reasons. Where my family is from the reception is more of a party than the ceremony so they wanted that to be made more formal.

I wouldnt personal do it . i just think 40 years down the road seeing all my wedding photos as just another dress up night. i could see a really nice black dress with a candle light service so its dark and that feeling you want with it being another night . and then maybe have a Halloween costume party for the reception. just my ideas lol good for what will make you happy in 10 , 20 , or even 30 years down the roaf

I LOVE Halloween. Love love love it.

However.

Even for me this is a bit much.

If your BP is game for wearing costumes, let them wear what they'd like. If you're wanting a more fun ceremony, dictating what costumes they wear kind of takes away from that. Not to mention, if you continue on the condiments idea, you may not have enough costumes for everyone. And if you're the only two condiments, you stand out.

I kind of can't believe I just typed that.

But hey, if it suits you, it suits you! Happy planning!

I also think it's weird that the ceremony, the part where you say your vows and commit to each other for like is less formal than the party. If you walked into your reception in a costume and threw it as a Halloween party, that would make a heck of a lot more sense to me.

But hey, not my circus, not my monkeys.

If I got married in costume I would dress up like Wonder Woman and Superman or something... I would save the ketchup bottles for the reception...

Don't ask me why that's more appropriate in my head but it is.

Or better- how about Daphne and Fred and you can all dress up like the Scooby gang!

Hm, I guess what you are saying makes sense. My fiancé really wanted to make something goofy, but I really wanted the tim burton theme for the reception because we will be there longer and have more to decorate.

I was also thinking that I could dress as a fairy and have the bridesmaids pick something fairy related with the guys in suits. So its more dressed up for the ceremony and less of a "joke" environment. I didn't realize it could be taken that way.

I just can't....um....seriously? Well, that's certainly an authentic condiment set.

Something else to consider is your officiant's point of view on the costume thing. I am not sure what type of venue you have, but be sure to be very up front with your officiant about your plans for wearing a costume. It could possibly make them uncomfortable.

Jack and Sally I could see, Corpse Bride I could see, and you can move that right into the reception. But the condiments? Eh...

Or even if you dress up but have some beautiful day of the dead make up on? You can do a Halloween wedding without it seeming so jokey or hokey, ya know? You can still be you, be goofy without taking away from the significance of the day.

No. You're going to do a serious reception for cultural reasons but turn your CEREMONY into a costume party?

No.

What about this for the ceremony instead? For the guys they could wear something like this (without the hat) and maybe a dark purple shirt for the groom and orange for his guys?

And I could wear something similar to this with bridesmaids also in enchanted fairy looking costumes?

Our officiant is a friend who is getting ordained! He's ok with it!

I think this is a very personal choice. its not my preference, but then again, it's not my wedding. i think it's wonderful that you're doing something so fun, out of the ordinary, and personal to you both. congrats on that! i'm a huge tim burton fan, so why not pull from various movies of his and include different characters. but also keep a tim burton spin on things even if choose something else so that the costumes flow. like if you were to choose something brighter like alice in wonderland, then have your costumes be the darker vision that he had. but there is nothing as adorable as jack and sally...so maybe the rest of the BP could be characters from the movie. it's a thought.

Have you ever seen OffbeatBride.com? Check it out, there have been many Halloween/Fairy/Renaissance weddings on there (and more themes) that may give you some ideas to blend both your desires to be costumed and still be a wedding that is taken seriously.

I don't like the girls being fairies and then the guys being in zoot suits, TBH. One theme or the other and take it all the way. If you're doing a Burton reception, go with Burton costumes or Burton like dress/make up.