More 1920s Wedding Theme Ideas

Are you having a 1920’s wedding theme? One of our readers, Katharine Swan left this comment. She is one of the lucky brides who had a 1920s wedding theme:

This is a fantastic post. I especially like the idea for the speakeasy invitations. You could go all out and do the wedding and reception like a speakeasy, too.

When my husband and I got married in April 2007, we had a 1920s-themed wedding. My wedding dress was an authentic vintage wedding dress from 1929, and had the intermission hemline you mentioned. I also used a vintage wax orange blossom wreath with a custom made veil.

Wearing a cloche hat instead of a veil would also be a great idea. I compromised: I wore the veil during the ceremony, and the hat during the reception. I have some great pictures of both up on my website!

Katharine also shares more ’speakeasy’ wedding ideas to add to the authenticity of your 1920s wedding theme.

A speakeasy was where people could get together to drink and party during the 1920s, when Prohibition was in full swing. You could easily copy this exciting aspect of the Roaring Twenties by designing your invitations as passes to your speakeasy wedding, and even including a secret password that they would need in order to gain entrance.

If you do this, I recommend you maintain the speakeasy theme at the wedding, too. Have bouncers instead of ushers, and make them demand the passwords from your guests before admitting them. Decorate the venue to make it feel exciting and perhaps a little illegal — have the reception in the basement of the venue, board up the windows, etc.

Another way to continue the speakeasy theme at the wedding would be to play on the “bathtub whiskey” idea. During Prohibition, a lot of people made their own alcohol in their bathtubs. Get huge buckets or — if you can — old-fashioned copper bathtubs, fill them with ice, and put bottles of beer, wine, and liquor in them. If you can find Coca-Cola or another kind of cola in retro glass bottles, you can also put them in there — Coca-Cola was big in the 1920s, too.

A speakeasy theme would definitely make your 1920s wedding memorable, to you and your husband as well as to all your guests. Just thinking about it makes me want to get married all over again!