Halloween wedding

Our anniversary is actually Halloween and my favorite color is black. I always thought we'd do a masquerade themed wedding (I collect masquerade masks). But we wound up deciding on a normal wedding and I'm really excited. Do you want any Halloween costumes, or a theme?

View Quoted Comment We are going back and forth. Our decor will be glamorous chic Halloween. But I don't want the inappropriate costumes since it is a wedding after all. My family isn't surprised by or choice, well my choice lol, and are looking forward to a different wedding

If you are worried about some inappropriate costumes but you don't want a themed party I'd say just add in "PG 13 costumes encouraged" or something.

Like that idea, thanks

If you want to wear white, wear white! You can always accent with black or other colors in your garter, shoes, headpiece, belt, makeup, etc. If you want guests to come in costume, I wouldn't dictate the kind of costumes they can wear.

I love the idea of a costume party wedding! But I agree with the previous poster. Even if you did attempt to dictate what they wore and ask for P-13 costumes, not everyone would abide by that. Plus, in my experience, it is hard to find appropriate costumes for women. Especially if you're not trying to spend a ton of money. My worry would be that people would wait till last minute, and run to the Walmart and grab the first "sexy cat woman" they saw and just go with it because they needed a costume. If you want it to be fancier like a wedding, what if you just incorporated Halloween in a more subtle way? I think the previous poster that said something about a Masquerade had a great idea! That would be fun, they would still be dressed up, but they could do that tastefully. You could even do a Masquerade Ball if you wanted it really formal. As far as your dress, I saw a girl on here the other day with a black wedding dress and I thought it was absolutely beautiful. If you find the right one I think it could be SO pretty. But, wearing a white (or ivory/champagne etc) dress is typically a once in a lifetime thing. Most people don't wear white formal gowns outside of a wedding, so it might be your one chance. I recommend trying on both before deciding. Of course you could always accessorize with black if you end up with a white dress. Also, I saw a wedding dress in the boutique I got mine from that was white, but it had a black design all over it and it was stunning. So you could do the best of both worlds!

I've known two couples that had Halloween weddings. One of them hired a makeup artist to do zombie facepaint for the guests as they arrived and the other asked guests to come in "gothic victorian" style dress. If doing the makeup route, I would suggest warning guests ahead of time of your intentions.

If you just want people to wear whatever costumes they want, maybe make a note on the invitation like "Tasteful costumes encouraged! Please remember that there will be little ghouls and goblins attending."

Personally, I would love a black wedding dress. If you still want to incorporate black a bit, might I suggest something like this? I saw a few dresses like this when I was looking, but I was unable to find one in my size & price range.

Black Lace

I highly doubt you'll have an issue with people showing up in inappropriate costumes. Because costumes or not, it's still a wedding. Also, I don't think you can encourage costumes, but then police what kind of costumes they are.

But on your invite and wedding website I would simply put "wedding appropriate costumes encouraged!". Easy, simple, and you don't look too controlling about types of costumes!

We considered a Halloween wedding. To keep it on the classier side, we wanted to make it a theme like vintage Hollywood or masquerade ball.

Red used to be a traditional wedding gown color, so you could always go red ballgown. That's where I was leaning for the masquerade ball concept.

Fun idea! But im not sure what a tacky costume is vs an appropriate costume? If you don’t want to wear black, don’t! It’s up to you!

You could call it a Halloween masquerade ball. Just put details of what you want on your wedding website. Just remember that not everyone is going to want to wear a costume. And as far as your dress, what you wear or what color your dress is isn’t going to dictate anything as far as your theme. Any color or style of dress would be perfect. If you want to add a costume/Halloween effect to your dress, you can always get some accessories to enter the reception with to get the effect you want. For example, for a white dress you could transform into a fairy or a ghost. With a black dress you could become a witch. Any of those things would incorporate your theme without making you be in costume the whole time.

You could literally justify any theme in this situation and it not be weird. Masquerade, roaring 20's (I think this would be SUPER beautiful and you could find a unique, but still white dress), all black (with you in white... those photos would be GORGEOUS). Personally, I wouldn't want everyone to show up in random costumes because it would feel like a Halloween party, not a wedding. That's just my opinion though! Do what makes you happy

I agree with PP’s that you should go the ‘masquerade ball’ route. On your wedding website you could be more specific.