Top 8 Vintage Wedding Ideas

Add charm detail to your wedding with simple, antique decorations and ornaments. Vintage themes are both romantic and stylish, and will incorporate a homey ambiance at your wedding. These vintage wedding decorations will complement any season, and bring warmth to your ceremony and reception.

• Perfectly Pearly

  Add a glamorous detail to your spring or summer wedding reception centerpiece with an antique-inspired glass vase showcasing layers of pearl fillers and colorful blooms. For this vintage wedding decoration, select a tall glass clarinet vase to display your flowers in. Next, arrange a thick bouquet of pink, yellow, and cream flowerd in your curving vase. For a final adornment, pour faux pearl fillers around the stems in the vase. Surround this piece with votive candles to illuminate the pearls. Photo from Style Unveiled.

• Baby’s Breath Birdcage

  Use this delicate, powdery ornament to grace gift or dessert tabletops, or even cake stands at your romantic wedding. For this vintage wedding idea, start with one or two metal bird cages as a base for your decoration. Fill the cages with sprigs of dried baby’s breath, allowing a few off shooting twigs to peek out from between the bars. If you want to highlight one flower filled cage, place it atop an antique cake stand, and utilize as a centerpiece. Photo from Style and Swoon.

• Vintage Vessels

  Incorporate a flourish of country charm into your vintage wedding decorations with antique milk jugs and schoolhouse chalkboards. Emulate this rustic vignette by placing a wood framed blackboard easel on your card or gift table. Use a white chalk marker to write your sweet love story timeline for guests to enjoy. Next, place a vintage milk jug next to the chalkboard, and fill it with preserved flowers, such as caspia. Finish off your country chic look by arranging a candle-filled Mason jar wrapped in twine in front of the board. Photo from Savvy Style.

• Crafty Crates

  If you want an easy, vintage apple orchard ambience at your outdoor wedding, this decorative scheme is just what you need. Recreate this look by stacking a few wooden crates on a table as a simple, farm-themed backdrop. Next, arrange a petite fleur crate of glass milk bottles in front of the wooden crates, and fill each bottle with silk white rose stems (cut to size if needed). Next, place a few votive candles around your crates to finish off the look. Photo from BlackSwanDive.Tumblr.

• Perennial Pictures

  For heartfelt, memorable centerpieces at your vintage-inspired wedding, showcase black and white photos of you and your sweetie for your guests to enjoy. For this decoration, use a silver platter as the base for your centerpiece. Sprinkle a layer of white sparkle sand on your platter to add a glamorous, textured component to your display. Next, partially fill two hurricane glass shades with wine corks, and secure ivory pillar candles in the center of each vase. Select a small black and white photo to attach to the outside of each shade, and string a wire pearl garlandaround the vase and photo to keep them in place. Photo from Primitive Spirit.

• Classic Basket

  Bring a recycled, re-purposed, and old school look to your wedding with this simple gift holder. This vintage wedding decoration idea is perfect for your outdoor ceremony, and will display your cards or small gifts in a charming fashion. To emulate this simple look, utilize a rustic wire basket as your card vessel. Tie a "Cards” sign or tiny chalkboard label reading “Cards” to a side of the basket. Garnish your basket with lace ribbon or doiliesflorets to complete the vintage ensemble. Photo from Style Me Pretty.

• Lace and Lavender

  Capture the capricious ambience of a meadow of wildflowers to your ceremony with these homespun vases. This vintage wedding idea is easy to replicate with just a handful of materials. For this prairie look, start with Mason jars of different sizes. Next, wrap a thick lace ribbon around the bodies of your jars, and attach them with hot glue. Lastly, fill each jar with fragrant, dried lavender stems. Break uniformity by incorporating pink silk rose stems in several of your bunches. Photo from Whimsical Wonderland Weddings.

• Primeval Pitcher

  A fresh pitcher of flowers can spruce up any room. Bring energy to antique decorations with a thick bouquet of mixed flowers and sprigs. For this vintage wedding idea, start with a stool or small table as your base—it will showcase your flowers beautifully. Stack a few old books or book boxes on the stool to add a bit of refinement to your display. Next, find a large metal pitcher to hold your lovely floral arrangement. Fill the vase with preserved larkspur stems, natural touch calla lilies, eucalyptus branches, and sprigs of dusty miller. Photo from Wedding Chicks.