Medieval style wedding ideas?

Maybe look up Renaissance festivals or Celtic Days for inspiration. I had a friend get married at a Renfest, it was pretty cool.

Honestly, go to a Renaissance festival. (I've worked at one since I was 14). You have two years so you can go to several in that time frame. You will find costuming (will probably need custom outfits made by an artist) and well as several other products and ideas.

Talk with vendors, look through shops and start formulating ideas. There are also several castles and attractions you could book for venues. (Like Squire's castle in Ohio). It's not a common idea but if you do some ground work it can be fantastic. I have had several friends who went the medieval route, even briefing considered doing it myself. We decided against it but I promised my husband we can renew our vows this way.

Try offbeatbride.com for ideas. Decor: Wide set candles &candle sticks, large bowls of fruits or mixing grape bunches with your centerpieces, urn shaped vases or footed bowl vases for your florals, dark red, bronze color scheme. Goblets to drink from, lots of red and gold. Traditions: The medieval bridal gowns were blue(it was the most expensive dye for fabric) and florals were long U shaped wreaths with herbs woven into them to ward off evil spirits. A flat honey cake was broken over the brides head to bless her with fertility. The bride and groom were "handfasted" aka tied together and told to keep it that way until the string fell off naturally. Food: A whole roast pig, whole turkeys, racks of lamb, lots of mead or honey wine or red wines with fruit in them, or hard ciders, pies and cobblers, family style platters heaping with food. Hair: try a diadem or circlet style, put your hair half up half down with flowers or do a wreath of flowers on your head. Try these for ideas http://www.faeriebrides.com/headpieces.php

Cake topper: a little castle or knight in shining armor

Favors: Mulling spices for making hot spiced wine at home

Decor: Small trees or topiary style florals

Wrought iron Candles or lanterns

http://www.rivendellbridal.com/

http://www.medievalcollectibles.com/c-363-feastware.aspx

Entertainment during dinner, think jester, juggler, fire dancers, or performance dancers to take turns during the meal, also, long tables with garlands on them instead of round tables.

I am kind of doing this (it's not our theme really, we just ended up both really liking the hall). This is a photo of our hall (someone else' wedding). Planning to decorate with candles/mercury candle holders, LED candles and fresh flowers.. Lots of white even though we do have wedding colours, I didn't want it to look too overwhelming.

Here's a photo of the shoes/boots that I ordered (haven't arrived so keep your fingers cross for me that they'll fit!!)

Thank you all for the wonderful ideas I will def check everything out. My fiancée and I are going to have a lot of fun going through all of these ideas. I'm really digging the jester idea

I thought about doing one but without the costumes so it still had the formal feel. I saw on a site the other day a arrow seating chart. It was arrows going into wold targets like they had been shot with with papers saying what table the guest was at. I was very cool.

Handfasting.

My cousin just got married two weeks ago and she had a mid evil/ renaissance wedding. It was beautiful! They had BBQ ribs and chicken but we couldn't have utensils ( different but it went with the time). The guest also had the option for costumes!! They were married in castle farm in charlevoix, mi which tied it all together!

If we lived in Chicago I would hands-down get married at Medieval Times - I am serious. I mean how cool would that be?!

Most of the modern day wedding traditions (wording of vows, exchange of rings, veils, facing the altar, etc.) come down to us mostly unaltered from medieval times. Unique traditions varied from region to region, and included things like the bride and groom sipping a shared cup of wine, wearing garlands of fresh flowers, the groom offering a new set of shoes to the bride, and so on. More boisterous activities included wedding guests trying to tear off garters from the bride's dress for luck and escorting newlyweds directly to their wedding chamber!

Fashion-wise, the cotieharde is a traditional dress in medieval culture/fashion, a form-fitting, tunic-like dress buttoned at the front with long, flowing sleeves; the man's variant is more of a tunic and falls to mid-thigh, while the woman's variant is more of a dress and falls to below the ankle. Practically every medieval clothing vendor or tailor will have these in stock, and they look dashing!

Here in Colorado we have a beautiful Rein fest and its almost a little village - gorgeous!

I have done nearly 3 dozen Renaissance Weddings. Main thing is the STYLE of your ceremony. Do a handfasting, with an explanation of the meaning of it, and the history of it. Perhaps include bellringers (children who enter prior to the bride ringing bells yelling "Here comes the bride"), etc. There are several things which can help set the tone. Feel free to contact me if you want more information.

Also, look at your music (harpist, or some other live music, vs DJ), menu, and your attire.

I found this last week, and absolutely LOVE it!!

http://offbeatbride.com/2014/04/sword-bouquet

We have also done a # of medieval themed wedding receptions. My favorite had all long tables, with long low centerpieces and candles all the way down it. They were filled with fruits, nuts and greenery. The bridal party and our staff all wore "costume". The table had pewter mugs and charger plates.

Here's a recent blog from one that was semi-medieval/Celtic

http://blog.ceremoniesbyjudith.com/2014/03/27/jason--dianes-big-fat-celtic-wedding.aspx