Renaissance and Medieval Weddings

Sometimes people watch medieval movies and think about life in that time. People want to become part of it. Beautiful dresses, body full of jewelry, thousands of people gathered for the wedding celebration, feast, drink, and dance. We have even heard of stories of kings and queens and their wedding ceremony. The kingdoms like British Empire, Ottoman Empire, Celtic groups, Indian kingdoms, and Romans celebrated the wedding with a number of different events, programs, and ceremonies. The weddings in India used to last for months. If you are one to have such experience in your life, then you need to do a lot of study, arrangements, and preparations. You can even see the similar kinds of the wedding from 14th century to the 17th century. This period is the Renaissance period. In this article, we will help you with some of the factors, which influences medieval and the Renaissance style weddings.

During medieval and renaissance period, the best place to celebrate is outdoors, monuments, churches, traditional places and the front lawn of the palaces. These places are very well decorated with beautiful wooden chairs, flowers arranged all around the place, banners, and wreaths of the grapevines on the front porch, doors and pillars. Sometimes this includes votive candles with the gold holders and other decorations, along with monuments, traditional churches, lawns will have stone artifacts, stained glasses, Tudor and wooden accents. You may need to have long drapes, open tents with the beautiful fabric, tables and chairs arranged outside, plants, family crests, iron and wooden poles, and aroma, or you can opt for regional and the local renaissance fair. You can select the historical place to enjoy the wedding at historical places or settings for medieval marriages. If you want, then you can give entire arrangements to the wedding decorators to do the job. You can suggest to them your ideas or just wait for a surprise. The location should be rich and crowded. If you have regional fair then it will create a vibe of medieval weddings.

The clothing of the Renaissance and the medieval weddings will have rich clothing. Look at British clothing, Indian clothing, Roman clothing and other fashion for the bride and the bridegroom. The dresses for both of them are long and full. The color is generally, dark, velvet, burgundy wine, hunter green, deep purple and white. The dresses are rich for the bridegroom and the embroidery is filled with the silver and golden touchups. The bridegroom will have tight clothing with beads, embroidery, rich color, and long sleeves. You can even opt for the fairy look with the long white gown, beautiful hairstyle, with beautiful curls. The bride also uses veil with the plain design. The dress also includes flower, ribbons and golden circlet. Clothing of bride and bridegroom must be better than other attendees in the ceremony. The bridegroom can also wear a vest.

When it comes to jewelry, the wedding ring comes first. To choose medieval wedding rings, you can go for heavy wedding rings with the crown. The ring should be of gold. The bride needs to have lots of jewelry. The jewelry includes chains, bracelets, armbands, midriff bands and hair accessories. Even the bridegroom needs to have chains on pockets, chains on the dress, and other accessories like pins.

If you want to have a medieval-style wedding, renaissance wedding and ancient wedding, the feast needs to be great. You need big tables with many chairs. The food is perfectly placed on the table with red wine. You can even opt for the veganism and sober weddings. As this is a medieval wedding, you need to have many different kinds of wine, drinks, non-vegetarian foods, bread, honey, cakes, waffles, egg, milk products, chicken and another feast. You can also opt for the seafood, poultry, sauces, soups, and refreshments, or you can opt for few of them to get the feel of medieval and renaissance weddings. You can also opt for dances and acts in the wedding. The combination of these two will make your wedding look medieval.

The ceremony of the wedding will change according to the places. The Roman Empire and the European empires will have many ceremonies. The ceremonies include a selection of dresses for the future couple, designing of the jewelry, pre-engagement function, engagement function, musical ceremony and the ceremony of vows. It even includes ring exchange and the actual wedding.

Because of the feel of medieval and renaissance weddings reception, you need to have people to receive guests. They need to arrange and assist them with every possible thing to the guests. The reception place should be well-decorated and well-organized.