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I think this is the year to get married... on 10/29/08 we got engaged and we and we have been living together right after that... We almost did it last year but my sister got married early last year plus every1 thinks its a dumb idea to get married with a halloween/fall theme. (something I have always wanted to do) Anyways our family and friends have asked us when the big day will be and I just kinda ignore the whole subject.. Well this year 10/29 will be on a saturday and I would love to have a small intimate halloween party/wedding on my back yard but I'm afraid it will interfere with my trick-or-treaters.... Is it sad I would rather have t-o-t's than a wedding???? Anyways I plan on not telling any1 because my MIL thinks its bad luck to have black or anything "witchy" at a wedding (she is catholic) so they can just show up in the afternoon and we can have a small intimate wedding with lots of black and orange candles and lots of pumpkins... any ideas would be greatly appreciated especially since I am keeping this a secret.

Well Halloween is 10/31, so how would it interfere with TOTs if you have it on the 29th? And I love the idea of a Halloween wedding! Almost did it myself. Would have if my hubby was as nuts about the holiday as I am. I've always really liked the idea of having jack-o-lanterns making a path as your 'isle' to walk down.

We live in a small town and if halloween is close to the weekend they will switch it over to the weekend.... "idea of having jack-o-lanterns making a path as your 'isle' to walk down"I so want to do this....

Ohhh interesting. Never knew folks actually did that. Maybe have the wedding the Saturday before (22nd)?

Another idea is to use those little gourd pumpkins as place card 'holders'. Just tie a nice tag to the stem with guests' names and where they're sitting. But if you're having a small gathering, then you may not even need those. You could have a candy buffet with all kinds of black & orange candies in clear glass jars. Then everyone could fill up their own treat bags as favors.

I love your ideas, Mandy. Might have to steal a couple sometime

Congratulations, rubyc

Anything black is bad luck? Sheesh...

There are tons of folks that got married on Halloween... (um, me for instance) and it was not creepy or bad luck in the least. Still happily married!

I unfortunately did not have the full-on Hallowedding I wanted, but we did enough to make us happy. (and if I had it to do over again? I'd tell the family that they could stuff it and do exactly what I want... so my biggest advice is to do what will make you and your intended happy and just smile and ignore the rest of them! )

A few suggestions:

Candy corn in small gavanized buckets with a slender vase centered (being held in place by the candy corn) held the flower arrangements on the tables. Candy corn would also be fun in glass vases and scattered across the tables.

Jack O Lanterns were placed up the stairs, and at the "altar" along with a trellis full of fall leaf vines. You can also carve them and put a vase of flowers inside the pumpkins for centerpieces or other decor.

The colors were orange, black and silver... looked lovely.


I'd suggest doing a search for wedding on here and just coasting through some of the party planning posts for ideas.

And suggest the following websites for more ideas:

http://halloweddings.livejournal.com/

http://creepycupcakes.blogspot.com/search/label/wedding
(she got married on Halloween a few years ago, and had a BEAUTIFUL and elegant wedding - that she did most of the decor for... )

I would hate to change the date... I guess in a way I have been waiting for the 29th to land on a Saturday. I really don't want to go extremely gothic, I just want something simple, classic and in a way spooky. I plan on getting an off white dress that is not too long since it will be at our yard (we have a huge yard) I would really like to have about 50 guest, a small cake with some skulls instead of roses not too gothic or scary.. I am taking notes though

I was a Halloween Bride as well, 10/31/2007. We got married on a Wednesday just so we could be married actually on Halloween. However we did a fairly traditional wedding and did a masquerade ball as our reception. We did have treat bags for the hotel rooms. The masquerade ball allowed the guests to dress up without needing costumes.

I would really be interesting in seeing the pictures, I think it's something unique indeed...

I think it's a great idea!!! You can also use the little gourd pumpkins as tea light holders. You need to make them very close to when you're going to use them...but they don't take that long to make so.... We did it for one of our Halloween parties and they looked amazing! Just use a tea light candle to trace a circle on the top of the pumpkin and then cut it out.

I wouldn't worry about what anyone else thinks as far as when you have your wedding. If you do what other people want you to do...you'll absolutely regret it!! My husband and I would have loved to have a small casual wedding with our reception in the back yard...kind of like just having a party to celebrate. But...my parents wanted me married in a church and we ended up having a regular reception. We did end up having a smaller wedding...but still more people then we originally wanted thanks to parents inviting people that we normally wouldn't have invited. We did have a nice wedding...not complaining about that. But it wasn't what WE wanted and I will always regret that we didn't just do it the way we wanted to do it.....considering we paid for almost everything!

Oh and...definitely post updates! WOuld love to see what direction you're going in!