Simply Meant to Be

I've been planning my wedding in January for about 6 months now and I have changed my mind drastically when in comes to decorating about 3 times. The only things that I have held on to are my colors and my theme, The Nightmare Before Christmas. 

The hardest part about a theme wedding in my opinion is figuring out how to keep enough elements of your theme without making your wedding seem like a Halloween party or something like that.  I still want it to feel like a wedding but also have those quintessential hints of whimsy that Tim Burton in known for. Since I want to keep it elegant I will be infusing my theme with black and white damask and a bit of Victorian vintage.  My venue is not made for Gothic winter weddings rather the opposite with its abundance of palm trees and tiki torches, but since our wedding will be held at night, all that will be visible are the Christmas lights wrapped around the trees and banister railings around the pond.

So that I can keep from hanging things on the walls I am going to pot large branches that I wrap with Christmas lights and push them against the walls. Also I am going to make some props for the centerpieces since each table will not be numbered, rather belong to a certain character from the movie. Such as Jack's Table, Sally's Table, Zero's Table, etc. Each centerpeice will reflect the character. For instance I am going to put antique corked bottles in a basket and place wooden sewing spools on Sally's table, and purchase a Florence Boiling Flask fill in with orange food coloring and water and place that on top of my copy of Grey's Anatomy for Dr. Finklestein's table.

Also I am going to make a foam board sign that looks like the Halloween town countdown clock that says 000 and says "Days To Wedding" instead of "Days To Halloween." I hope that I can balance everything otherwise I'm worried it will seem like a child's birthday party.