Seaside Theme or Beach Theme
To create a seaside wedding, look for wooden boats or lighthouses at a craft store. If you can't find them in the colors of your wedding, paint them. Use nets, starfish, beach balls for the walls and tables. In the center of the tables place fish bowls with sand and seashells or even real live fish inside. You could also use floating candles inside the bowls.

Under the Tropics
Use things like tropical flowers or candles in sea shells, fruits bowls, little coconut trees, bananas wrapped into banana leaves, etc. Drape bright colored scarves on the tables to add color to linen table cloths. Light the room with tiki-torches. Serve lots of tropical fruit... bananas, pineapples, etc. Find creative ways to incorporate sand without getting messy.

Country Theme
Aside from dressing in country/western attire, use items like horseshoes, bails of hay, black felt hats, rope and bandanas to accent the tables.

1920’s Gangster Theme
Have your guys wear pin-striped suits with hats. Use gangster style hats as centerpieces. Add to your decorations champagne glasses, playing cards, dice, women's white gloves, and whatever else may be appropriate.

Victorian Theme
Incorporate old antiques, porcelain dolls, tapestry runners and lots and lots of lace into your decorating. Visit some old antebellum homes for decorating ideas.

Winter Theme
Focus your decorations around the season or the holiday . . . use pinecones (spray paint them gold for a more festive look), try filling clear glass bowls with cranberries and ivy, add a candle or two. Or how about a gingerbread house theme? Pull out those Christmas decorations from home. Use lots of lights and garland. What about spray-on snow?

Autumn Theme
Use miniature pumpkins and squash for your centerpieces or use a real jack-o-lantern (carve a smiling face). Strew lots of colored leaves and terra cotta pots with fall flowers in them around the room.

Wishing Well Theme
Create wishing wells from cardboard boxes for the centerpieces. Guests can drop money gifts into the wells. Place note cards and pencils on each table for guests to write advice, best wishes, little notes for the newly married couple, etc.

Greek/Roman Theme
Purchase, borrow or rent plaster or plastic columns. Use lots of white linen and gold fabric, ivy, large pottery items, cherubs, grape clusters and Greek statues.

Candlelight Theme
If you are having a candlelight ceremony, carry the romance over to the reception. Bring your candlelabras over from the church to the reception hall and set them up behing the cake tables. Use different types of candles on guest tables and around the room. Arrange groups of tapers, votives, floating candles, etc.

Ethnic Themes
Choose from any number of groups, African, Chinese, Mexican, Italian, etc. Visit a restaurant that serves the type of food related to your theme and look around at the decor. Steal some ideas. Well, it's not really stealing . . .