Army Wedding Decorations

Army weddings are different than civilian weddings, they are more formal and conventional. There are different rules and regulations you need to fallow and planning an army wedding cake be more difficult than planning a civilian wedding. Being an ”army bride” means giving up to some of your fairytale dreams, you won’t arrive at the church in a carriage, you will not wear a ballroom princess wedding dress and your wedding invitations won’t be pink with little hearts, cupids, flowers, lace or pearls, your wedding decorations won’t be pink, or purple, or red.

But giving up your childhood fairytale dream wedding doesn’t mean that your army wedding won’t be beautiful. In fact army weddings are very beautiful and spectacular. Maybe you don’t have romantic, ”girly” decorations for your ceremony and reception but your army wedding will also be spectacular. The decorations for your army wedding will be formal and will reflect the theme of your wedding. Your reception hall will be decorated with flags, emblems and will have a conventional style.

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The style, the emblems and the color will be different depending if your partner is in the air force, a pilot, in the marine, or a soldier. The decorations will be in the colors of navy blue, white and sky blue for air force and marine and for soldiers your wedding decorations will be in camouflage style, with different shades of green, brown, orange, beige and cream. You can choose camouflage curtains for your reception, camouflage covering for the tables and chairs, beige or blue cover tables with camouflage napkins. If you want to create the army style the reception tables won’t be decorated with flowers or with candles. The style will be simple and conventional.

The camouflage style takes its inspiration from camouflage clothes soldiers wear in the war. It is a very distinctive style characterized by hunter green colors, combinations of earthy colors like, brown, green, black, orange, different shades of brown, dark, mocha, beige, hunter green and forest green.

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The decorations for an army wedding will look serious, masculine, you can not add lace, little pink hearts, or peals, the style should be conventional and serious, avoid any ”girly” details if you want this type of wedding.

The colors and motifs you can use for creating this army wedding decorations: camouflage/bright orange, brown/greens, flags, emblems, navy blue, sky blue, pictures with airplanes if your partner is in the air force army.

The reception hall can have guns and swards for creating the army atmosphere. The plates can have emblem prints, or flag prints. On many websites you can find tips and ideas about what decorations to choose for an army wedding. From your wedding invitations to your wedding cake topper, everything should reflect the army theme.