Shakespearean/Classic Literature Wedding Theme

Decorating Ideas

Decorate in a style that would have been found during the Sixteenth century. Key it down so that it doesn’t look gaudy. Simply incorporate a few things that would have been found at a wedding of the period. Gold swirl style decorations were common and flowers were often the main decoration at an Elizabethan wedding.

Favor Ideas

Find those smaller Shakespeare books, if you want to dress them up you can get pretty patterned scrapbook paper and make book covers to put on the books. Tie a bow on them and attach a pretty tag with your names and the date of the wedding. Other options are nice bookmarks or engraved bookplates.

Other Ideas

Include famous Shakespeare quotes about love as part of the invite, or you could even include them as a part of the decorations by printing the quotes in a pretty font onto paper and putting them in frames that match the other decorations. You can then get small frame stands and place four quotes in the center of each table. Some of the more popular quotes are:

Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.

No sooner met but they looked;
No sooner looked but they loved;
No sooner loved but they sighed;
No sooner signed but they asked one another the reason;
No sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy;
And in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs to marriage…

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

In Sixteenth Century weddings a bride carried a wedding garland made of rosemary and roses until after the ceremony when it was placed on her head. Incorporate the idea of a garland by having the flower girls walk down the aisle each holding a different section.