Anyone watch 'Don't tell the bride' winter wonderland last night??

Hi everyone

So last nights episode of 'Don't tell the bride' was the winter wonderland in july wedding!! Was anyone else desperately wanting their wedding to be like this - all the christmas trees with fake snow on and white snow all over the floors. Gorgeous. That was exactly what I wanted as a 'winter wonderland' wedding. So I phoned 'snow business' today, and have been on there website, and I think I am going to buy some 'snowcell' fake snow to decorate the tables and few trees we are having in the static marquee. Hopefully all the white sparkles and candelight will look wintery. Although 'snow business' looks amazing it is quite pricey. Is anyone else aiming for winter wonderland, and how are you going to do it???? anything not too expensive?? here are a few of the things I am doing....

- snow / sparkles on tables
- snowflake confetti everywhere
- pine cones sprayed white and glittery
- a few snow covered trees
- traditional old deep red post box covered with snow for cards
- crystal willow tree with snowflakes as top table centrepiece
- garland with snowflakes overhanging door when enter marquee
- snow machine over door on entrance to marquee (on entrance only as noisy!)

Any other suggestions???? am having lots of christmas things too and a grotto for the kids!! Fully equipped with fab santa who has real white beard, amazing suit and memorises the kids names / christmas lists!! (there's 30 kids at our wedding, happy kids = happy parents I think!) Its just that our marquee s big and white and if I don't fill it it wont be 'winter wonderlandy'........

thanks for help.....

I watched it and it was fab, really loved the bowls of snow on the tables but H2B thought it would end up being a snowball fight.

I went to a venue that had pine cones as the place names they were sprayed and the name cards were tucked into the pine cones, looked great

We are having a snow machine for the evening do which the DJ is going to realease during our first dance and then whenever he plays a Xmas song.

I love christmas weddings!

Snowflake Bride - Yup me and I loved it! Our wedding is the 15th Jan so not sure if the theme would totally be ok with it being after christmas, so I have steered away from it but now liking the idea. Can I ask where you got your post box from? I love that idea and also your crystal willow tree?
Cebpickle - I love the idea with the pine cones! x

Cebpickle: those pine cones sound lovely as table names, really nice idea may have to pinch that one!!!

CornishGem: loving the idea of the snow machine coming on every time a Christmas song is being played!!!

Sam1982: I'm afraid i've made them both myself - though it was easy (just a bit time consuming). Where is you nearest country baskets? you can get all the stuff there really cheap.

For the crystal tree: buy some mitsumata brnches - about 10 stems gives a full tree effect. Soak them in the bath for about 2 hours, then they are bendy. Bend them into the shape you want when wet then leave to dry. They really need t be held in something strong at the bottom, like florist foam (good depth). Then decorate. I got some shimmer beads from country baskets also (about £1.50 per box x 4/5 boxes)and threaded them onto string. Then hung all over tree. And added snowflakes and 2 sparkly white doves on one branch. I'm putting it on a large mirror plate with candles all around so light catches crystals. Looks just like the ones you can hire, but they're about £60 per tree just to hire.

The post box was again just a plain white rectangular box from country baskets. I got dulux 'redcurrent glory' and painted it. Cut a slot for the letters to go in and put upholstery foam covered with fake glitter snow on the lid. Then I got a little robin to sit on it!! Put a gold slab on front with initials on front. Very easy and cost about £5!!! Looks quite nice too even if I do say so myself!!!

hope that helps....... otherwise there are plenty of places that you can hire the crystal trees from, just costs more!!!

If you're going winter wonderland I think you can definitely do that in jan!!! its more wintery then than dec anyway!! it'd be lovely!!! x

Hi,

As lasts night groom I thought I could let you know some info.

Snow business are amazing and well worth having a crew member or two, actually putting the snow down is the cheapest, the snow cannons etc are expensive.

The Trees and other bits were from Theme Traders in London and they have some useful backdrops too.

all the lighting we did ourselves and is really easy and cheap to rent everything.

Hope that helps and I'm glad you liked it, it was so much fun to do. If only I there was more time and money!!!

James

Well done James, looks like you had a brilliant wedding.

Snowflake, love the post box idea and I too looked at their website first thing this morning. I am tempted but my budget is bursting at the moment..

CornishGemz, do you mind me roughly asking how much for snowmachine everytime a xmas song comes on etc..loving that idea!

xx

wow james congratulations!!!! me and my other half were singing your praises last night!! best job a grooms done yet!!! was amazing - think you make a lovely couple too!! hope married life is going well for you both x

.......and thank you for the tips!! my little girls are desperate for a 'winter wonderland' family party so i'm really trying to create it for them!! hoping for a magical family day, which is how your wedding looked!!! another question - where did you get the sleigh from?? i've been trailing the internet for months for one that us and the girls can go for a ride in together - can't find one anywhere like that??

mrs-mason: our snow machine actually comes with our dj, and a lot of dj's I spoke to had them..... it's not costing us any extra, they just said that they have one so we can have it at our wedding! I'm also over budget now, but I am thinking that if I work one overtime weekend next month we can get a couple of bags of the snowcel!! hehe! otherwise i've just bought 'snowflake glitter' from DPS giftware http://www.dpsgiftware.co.uk/ . This arrived today and it really looks like fake snow and is lovely - its not actually snowflake shape, just like snow. Its only £1.50 per 113g bag, which is enough to do either 3 tress or completely cover a couple of tables. (very light weight so you get a good ammount). So not too much for the snowy effect. I think the snowcel will be better on trees though.

xx

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OOh i missed it but im watching it tonight and cannot wait now!!!!!! James it sounds like you have done a good job - you might need to become a winter wonderland wedding planner! haha.
roll on 8pm!!

I just watched it!

Congratulations, James. You did an incredible job. Besides everything else everyone mentioned I also think Charlotte's dress was the perfect choice - she looked stunning.

Had a little tear because it was so obvious how much you adore each other.

Now, off to look up 'Snow Business'