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A wedding with a rainforest or safari theme lends itself to thinking exotic. Though it might sound grandiose and expensive, the jungle-style ambiance can be easy to produce and relatively inexpensive. It also allows for plenty of creativity when designing invitations, selecting wedding attire, tailoring the menu, and brainstorming decorations and centerpieces.
Rainforest & Safari Wedding Basics
Pen invitations with such words as "paradise," "Eden," "exotic" and "escape." Or, use phrases like "Join us as we embark on our adventure," "You’re invited to a wedding in the wild," "Come on a sentimental safari," or "A rainforest revelry awaits." If funds are available, send the invites as messages in a bottle or carve the words on coconuts. Other creative options include invitations that look like passports or ones that resemble pirate-style treasure maps. Simpler invites can be embossed with palm trees, seashells or hummingbirds.
Wedding invitations that resemble passports are ideal for nuptials with exotic themes.
Look up zoos and aquariums on The Association of Zoos and Aquariums website and contact locations to see which facilities host weddings. Animal sanctuaries offer exotic elements such as reflection pools, waterfalls, old-fashioned carousals, and lush jungle foliage, all of which are ideal for photographs.
With waterfalls and jungle touches, zoos are becoming popular wedding sites.
Accentuate wardrobes with colorful touches. Add kiwi-green or coral sashes to waists and hems on the attire of the bridal party. Instead of veils, brides should consider hibiscus flower hair clips or floral hair wreaths. The groom and his entourage can wear tangerine colored cummerbunds, sunshine-yellow handkerchiefs, or bright and bejeweled cufflinks. For a casual, safari touch, men in the wedding party can wear tan suits.
Hibiscus flowers are ideal alternatives to the traditional wedding veil.
Rainforest & Safari Wedding Accents
Install a faux waterfall by hanging blue gauze from the ceiling and putting twinkle lights behind the fabric. Another inexpensive water option is to take an inflatable kid’s pool, fill it with water, colored rocks and floating candles. To create the sense of lush foliage, hang green fabric overhead and add shimmery emerald-colored tinsels.
Twinkle lights behind blue gauze simulates a waterfall.
Place lemons and limes in a central crystal vase or bowl and then sent a single palm frond or bird of paradise stem in the middle. Set mood lighting by taking small iron wrought birdcages and putting votive candles inside, or encircle a pineapple with a wreath of miniature candles.
Safari and rainforest wedding centerpieces can have palm frond accents.
Hanging mosquito net canopies, gluing miniature butterflies from local craft stores on chairs or renting mist machines all enhance the sensation of being in a rainforest. Other touches include bamboo stalks, balloons patterned with cheetah spots or tiger stripes, animal footprints leading from the doorway to tables, and tiki torches.
Rainforest & Safari Wedding Basics
Pen invitations with such words as "paradise," "Eden," "exotic" and "escape." Or, use phrases like "Join us as we embark on our adventure," "You’re invited to a wedding in the wild," "Come on a sentimental safari," or "A rainforest revelry awaits." If funds are available, send the invites as messages in a bottle or carve the words on coconuts. Other creative options include invitations that look like passports or ones that resemble pirate-style treasure maps. Simpler invites can be embossed with palm trees, seashells or hummingbirds.
Wedding invitations that resemble passports are ideal for nuptials with exotic themes.
Look up zoos and aquariums on The Association of Zoos and Aquariums website and contact locations to see which facilities host weddings. Animal sanctuaries offer exotic elements such as reflection pools, waterfalls, old-fashioned carousals, and lush jungle foliage, all of which are ideal for photographs.
With waterfalls and jungle touches, zoos are becoming popular wedding sites.
Accentuate wardrobes with colorful touches. Add kiwi-green or coral sashes to waists and hems on the attire of the bridal party. Instead of veils, brides should consider hibiscus flower hair clips or floral hair wreaths. The groom and his entourage can wear tangerine colored cummerbunds, sunshine-yellow handkerchiefs, or bright and bejeweled cufflinks. For a casual, safari touch, men in the wedding party can wear tan suits.
Hibiscus flowers are ideal alternatives to the traditional wedding veil.
Rainforest & Safari Wedding Accents
Install a faux waterfall by hanging blue gauze from the ceiling and putting twinkle lights behind the fabric. Another inexpensive water option is to take an inflatable kid’s pool, fill it with water, colored rocks and floating candles. To create the sense of lush foliage, hang green fabric overhead and add shimmery emerald-colored tinsels.
Twinkle lights behind blue gauze simulates a waterfall.
Place lemons and limes in a central crystal vase or bowl and then sent a single palm frond or bird of paradise stem in the middle. Set mood lighting by taking small iron wrought birdcages and putting votive candles inside, or encircle a pineapple with a wreath of miniature candles.
Safari and rainforest wedding centerpieces can have palm frond accents.
Hanging mosquito net canopies, gluing miniature butterflies from local craft stores on chairs or renting mist machines all enhance the sensation of being in a rainforest. Other touches include bamboo stalks, balloons patterned with cheetah spots or tiger stripes, animal footprints leading from the doorway to tables, and tiki torches.
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