How Does an Unconventional Bride Make a Wedding Statement? Find out by Reading These Tips

Looking to add a little dose of drama and fun to your wedding celebrations? As an unconventional bride, you have a lot of options out there that we’re sure you’d love to try. Be it experimenting with the wedding décor or the bridal lehenga itself, there’s no stopping you and we know it. That’s why we have listed out a list of tips that you can give a chance for a dash of eccentricity.  

1. Experiment with Colours

You don’t need to stick to traditional Indian wedding colours if you don’t wish to. It’s fine to go for an unusual pick and even get your wedding outfit designed accordingly. Don’t be afraid to break a few rules and follow your instinct. You can get your friends to pitch in with ideas and even scour the internet for inspiration while making a choice as an unconventional bride.

2. Design Your Wedding Trousseau

There is absolutely no need to stick to fashion trends and attend scores of wedding fairs if you’re looking to switch things up a bit. Prepare months in advance and use your creativity while planning outfits for the ceremonies as an unconventional bride. Research on the internet will help a lot and even explaining what you’re looking for several prospective vendors will give you a better idea of how you should proceed. Incorporate elements of your personality in your wedding dress, your wedding shoes, your wedding hairstyle, and more.

3. Have a Mad Reception

If you’d rather not make your reception a formal affair, feel free to try out new ideas for entertainment. A bouncy castle, hair braiding counters, a magician, a video slideshow – there are lots of options available. Don’t feel compelled to make things boring and get your fiancé(e) to contribute with interesting ideas you can use for the reception.

4. Have Fun with your Photos

If the idea of traditional wedding photos doesn’t excite you very much, consider opting for fun pictures instead. You can use props, strike wacky poses or ask the photographer to look for the most iconic and powerful moments during the wedding. This will ensure you’ll get a record of lots and lots of precious memories.

5. Have a Beer Bar

At one of the parties, surprise your guests by replacing a regular bar with a bar exclusively meant for beer lovers. You can include different kinds of beer if you wish, and even finalise on the food options to complement the beer. This will be unique and make the event extremely memorable for several guests! How's that for announcing what an unconventional bride you are!

6. Give Creative and Useful Gifts

Add a dash of humour to the festivities by giving rather useful gifts to your guests. For instance, most of your guests will be delighted to receive a hangover kit after the cocktail party and it’ll get lots of attention for all the right reasons. Many of them will even be able to use it immediately and rave about it for a long time. It’s creative and a fun idea!

Wedding planning tips for the unconventional bride to have a memorable function:

1. Your bridal trousseau colours will require to be in contrast or completely different from the wedding decor. Keep that in mind when selecting your wedding theme colours.
2. Even though according to certain Indian wedding superstitions, designing your own wedding trousseau is considered bad luck. But of course, as an unconventional bride, you would want to bust that myth. We suggest you do that in style and make each of your bridal trousseau outfits stand apart from each other.
3. As for your reception, an offbeat idea could be going with live music. Turn your reception into a mini-concert. Your guests would love that. And it's all about good music, no matter how big or budding the artist is.
4. If you want to make a statement as an unconventional bride, what better way to do that than with your photos. Make sure you shoot with never-seen-before props or completely unique ideas. 
5. When it is the wedding of an unconventional bride, the cocktail does not need to be restricted to just one event. Have a beer bar at your reception, Haldi or even Mehndi.
6. When it comes to wedding gifts, you can either place them at one corner of your wedding venue or have them dispersed all around. You can even use them as table decor and encourage your guests to pick them up while leaving.   

These ideas must have triggered your imagination and inspired you to try some of your own. Go ahead and do your thing, whether it be at your Mehndi or Sangeet. And sure do involve your family members to enhance the fun factor. We’re sure your cousins will be up for the crazy ideas you may have.

Do tell us in the comments below how you showed the world that you’re an unconventional bride.