Your wedding day is the start of an adventure of a lifetime. If you and your partner are adventure lovers, you can acknowledge that you’re setting off into the great unknown together by planning a celebration that reflects this.
Let our eight wedding ideas for adventure lovers inspire you to plan a truly memorable occasion that will delight you and your guests.
1. Choose an Adventurous Theme
Think about the kind of adventure that appeals to you and your partner. Do you enjoy the adrenalin rush of extreme sports? Does travelling the world appeal to you? Is a safari that brings you face to face with wild animals in the middle of the wilderness your idea of an enjoyable experience?
Let your imagination run wild!
When you’ve decided on your ultimate adventurous experience, use it as a starting point to plan a theme for your wedding. You can incorporate the adventure angle in everything from the cake to the decor, or you can simply use it to inspire your color scheme.
2. Create Adventurous Invitations
The announcement of your wedding date is the perfect time to announce your adventurous theme in a spectacular way. Create invitations that do more than let your guests know the date, time, and place of the wedding. Your invites should also let your guests know what the theme and dress code is.
For a travel adventure-themed wedding, you could create invitations that look like a passport featuring a photo of you and your partner. Alternatively, create invitations that look like luggage tags, a map, or a holiday itinerary.
3. Choose An Adventurous Cake
The cake is one of the undeniable highlights of a wedding, and if you and your partner are adventure lovers, the last thing you want is a cake that looks positively boring. An adventurous cake will make a stunning impression, get your guests talking, make for incredible photos, and leave everyone with a sweet taste in their mouths.
Again, let your imagination run wild. House of Cakes Dubai can make any idea a reality, whether you want a cake that looks like a pile of suitcases ready for the next adventure, a wild animal that you might encounter on a safari, a map of a country, a globe featuring the continents, or a tree trunk with you and your partner’s names carved into it.
Of course, there’s more to an adventurous cake than the decorations. You can also opt for a cake that’s a little more unusual in terms of flavor, such as chocolate and chili pepper, lightly salted peanut butter and chocolate, coconut and guava, Bananas Foster (caramel, banana, rum flavor, and cinnamon), floral pistachio (with pistachios, balsamic-soaked strawberries, and rose buttercream), or osmanthus tea.
4. Use Adventurous Decorations
When it comes to choosing the décor for your wedding, remember that the decorations should be adventurous, but subtle. You don’t want your guests to feel as though they’ve wandered into a theme park. The decorations should support the theme, which ultimately is about you and your partner tying the knot, rather than make your guests forget the reason they’re there in the first place.
For a travel adventure wedding, you could use vases that look like stacks of suitcases, a centerpiece that includes flowers, an antique compass, a globe, a vintage camera and binoculars, and other décor, such as maps, nautical charts, and travel cases.
5. Decide On an Adventurous Color Combination
Let your love of adventure influence your choice of color combination for your wedding. Don’t be afraid to be bold or quirky if that’s what appeals to you and your partner.
Not sure where to start?
Look through photos of your adventures together, whether those pictures are of activities you’ve enjoyed or places you’ve visited. Choose a few photos that inspire the happiest memories and take your cue from the colors in them.
If you want to use old maps and globes as part of your décor, you could also use those to set the palette. For example, choose antique gold, faded reds, and the color of old parchment or vellum. Alternatively, use earthy tones and bright pops of color such as you would find in the African bush, a desert landscape, or a tropical jungle.
6. Get Creative With Reception Tables
Reception tables are a great way to bring the theme to your guests on a smaller scale. For a travel adventure wedding, you could give each table a different mini theme based on places you have visited or places you want to visit on your future travels. If you’re including a menu for each table or for each guest, format them to resemble a menu you’d find on a cruise ship or laid out like a tour itinerary.
Your seating charts for guests should also tie in with the theme of your wedding. If you’re basing each table on a different location, use a large world map as the seating chart and let your guests see where they’re ‘traveling to.’
7. Find Adventurous Entertainment
A band or DJ are great for an after-dinner boogie on the dance floor. But let’s face it, this isn’t the most exciting wedding entertainment, especially for adventure lovers.
Consider choosing something different or something in addition to the regular dinner-and-dance vibe. If you’re having a travel adventure-themed wedding, hire belly dancers or traditional Indian dancers, Thai fire dancers, or even a hot-air balloon that offers tethered flights.
8. Give Adventurous Favors to Your Guests
Wedding favors are a wonderful way to remind your guests of you and your partner’s celebration of love and commitment. Find favors that encapsulate the adventurous spirit expressed at your wedding. A few examples for an adventure travel-themed event include airplane-shaped bottle openers, small compasses engraved with a special message, mini world globes featuring a message, or wine glasses with compass points and your and your partner’s names and wedding date.
Don’t dampen your love of adventure just because it’s your wedding. Instead, let it inspire you to plan a day you and your guests will never forget.
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