Candle details for winter wedding

Nothing says romance like a winter wedding. The enchanting winter landscapes, the dusty glitter of freshly fallen snow, the warm glow of a celebration amidst the dead of winter are strangely exciting. Amidst the mesmerizing fairyland scenery of falling snow and skeletal trees is the golden glow of two hearts celebrating their eternal love. Enveloped by the blessings from their near and dear ones, tickled by the hearty food and heart-lifting music and dancing, the wedding in winter becomes a captivating and alluring event. It shows how even when the world slows down to a crawl, life and love find a way to move on! Nothing can stop the celebration of love, even when the world is shrouded in darkness and coldness, and like a ray of sunshine on a crisp winter day, it will find a way to light up the hearts!

Since winter is steeped in darkness, lighting sure plays an important role in it all. It's the flicker of the candle, the glow of the twinkle lights, and the shimmering of the chandeliers which ceases becoming just an element of a wedding but rather a part of the personality for a winter wedding. Not only does it serve the practical purpose of illuminating your wedding day, but it also adds to the ambiance in a major way! If you are thinking of ways to light up your wedding day, there are several ways to go about it. However, candles hold a special place in our hearts! Tealight candles, massive pillar candles, or long tapered ones, candles have a way of adding romance to any setting. And what more perfect place to add romance than a wedding? 

If you are still wondering whether or not to use candles for your cozy winter wedding, here are some of the reasons why you should consider them!

It's cozy: It is no surprise that candles can be incredibly cozy, and whenever you think of the word hygge, candles are the first thing to come to your mind. The flickering glow of candles can add instant wants to any ambiance, making it a perfect pick for a winter wedding. Feeling mimicking the roaring fireplaces or the silent ambers of a bonfire, the candles are cozy as cozy can be, and we love it!

It's cheap: Candles can be pretty affordable especially when compared to the fancy lighting solutions that you might require for a wedding. It is possible you might not completely do away with the wedding lightings, adding candles to the equation surely helps with the budget! You can also DIY your candles, or go to a thrift store to buy candles at a very reasonable rate. 

It's romantic: Candles and romance go a long way which is why including candles on the most romantic day of your life comes very naturally. Something about the surreal glow of the candles makes them the most romantic light ever, and saying “I Do” as the flickering glow of candles illuminating your partner's face is something that you can't put a price on

It’s versatile: Candles are perfect for every kind of wedding, making it one of the most versatile wedding decor elements. Whether it is tucked inside a rustic mason jar, a stained glass ornate lantern, or arranged in elegant sleek glass candle holders, the candle will mold into the vision that you hold close to your heart, emitting the light just the way you want it to! This is why candles are sought after in every imaginable style of wedding!

It can double duty: Candles, in addition to serving the purpose of providing light, also provide greatly in terms of ambiance. But that is not all! Candles, when scented, can also provide the most amazing aroma to your wedding day, soothing and pleasing not only you and your partner but also your wedding guests. Scented candles can act as a primary contributor towards your wedding scentscaping, ensuring everything is looking warm and cozy, and smelling amazing!

Tips to Use Candles For Your Winter Wedding!

While we have already listed why candles are the perfect choice of wedding lighting, here are some specific ways you can use flickering candles on your wedding day. Good for every season, these bright and romantic ideas are specially curated with a magical winter wedding in mind.

Line up the aisle: A fabulous way to use candles for your winter wedding is to line them parallelly along your ceremony aisle. In winter, you can go overboard with tons of candlelight along the aisle, as it will not only warm up your wedding venue's ceremony space. Wedding venues like large lodge spaces and industrial lofts can't rely on sunshine, especially in the winter months, and candlelight helps! Contain the candles in glass containers or hurricane lanterns, as it will ensure there is no fire hazard! We promise your walking-down-the-aisle moment will be quite enthralling this way!

Ceremony backdrop: Decorating your arbor or ceremony arch with the choicest of flowers and the dreamiest of drapes has always been the go-to, but candles also make a great pick as a ceremony backdrop! You can use it in a combination of other decor elements as well, whether it is winter blooms or minimal winter greenery, or you can go for a more simplistic look by using pillar candles in glass containers perched on a bench in the background, all layered in different heights and adding the most amazing romantic glow for your guests to awe at and your wedding photographer to capture!

Faux chandelier: For a nature-inspired rustic winter wedding, create faux candle chandeliers with an abundance of greenery and candles, all wired together into a beautiful hanging installation. Whether it is a wreath-style centerpiece hanging over your reception table, perfect for a holiday wedding, or it is more of a hanging floral installation with candles in it, we promise this is a unique and unexpected way to include candles in your wedding day. If you want to go for a more vintage elegant route, skip the flowers and instead go for wrought iron chandeliers or crystals in combination with candles for a timeless look. However, ensure that the candles are contained and hung safely! 

Bring the party outdoors: If you are hosting a cocktail hour outdoors or have your heart pinned on a snowy reception, there are tons of ways that candles can add a magical vibe to your winter wedding. Whether it is hung on the bare branches in little glass orbs, or it lines up a pathway with its mesmerizing glow, candles can add a lot of warmth and magic to your winter wonderland wedding! There is something ethereal and almost fairytale-like in the flickering muted warm glow of candles in the pristine snowy landscapes outdoors which we can't quite put our finger on, but absolutely adore! Maybe it is the charm of the opposites, or maybe it is all the fairytales and Disney movies we have consumed, but the effect is irresistible. You can also use flameless candles for this purpose!

A cozy tablescape: What is more perfect on a winter evening than a warm cozy meal shared with your close ones? The glow of the candles to add to the hygge atmosphere, of course! Host your wedding reception at a rustic long table with your close ones all on the same table, with simple frosted greenery and tapered candles forming the most perfect wedding tablescape. You can add your elements to the tablescape keeping in mind the wedding colors and your wedding theme! Play off the reflection of the candles by adding in mirror trays and mercury glass votive holders.

Wintry vignettes: Give your winter wedding a Nordic-influenced spin by incorporating centerpieces fashioned out of vignettes made with “villages'' lit from the core with tea lights. Add fake snow and surround them with moss and greenery to fill the gorgeous arrangement. This is the perfect way to bring the outdoors in if you are hosting your wedding primarily indoors due to the harsh elements outdoors, but you still want a taste of snowy magic inside! If you are hosting a snowy winter wedding with strong Nordic influences, you will not want to miss this element!

Highlight focal areas: Sure the guests will find the photo booth and their seating arrangements no matter what, but a little illumination never hurts! Light up the focal areas of the reception with layered clusters of candles, and let your candles do double duty by not only lighting up the area but also adding elegant decor to the focal area in question. Another factor to consider is that the clusters of candles also make it easy for your wedding photographers to take those detailed shots. This is especially helpful if your photo corner is decorated with candles as it adds the most magical glow to your wedding pictures!

Fire up the fireplace: Do you have a stunning fireplace in your wedding venue? Use this as a focal point and stack candles to light up the area. This is a brilliant way to use up the fireplace without lighting an actual roaring fire. You can add geometric glass lanterns of varying heights, or use wooden log slides to add height and dimension to the fireplace. This will not only be a perfect area to show off your candle decor, but it will also be perfect as a ceremony site!. You can mirror the effect by adding more candles on the mantle area of the fireplace, and lace vines of greenery for a magical effect! 

Fire on the water: If your venue comes with a gorgeous pool, use it! Since it is winter, the pool will most likely not be in use anyways, so use this area for a mesmerizing cocktail area. Fill up the pool with floating candles and your pool will mimic a star-lit sky! If you don't want candles exactly in the pool, line up the area surrounding the pool instead. You can focus the corner areas, adding clusters of tall pillar candles for an elegant and inviting effect. This will be perfect to help with some gorgeous wedding portraits or a chill cocktail hour and appetizers!

Dramatic candelabra: To formulate the look for a formal soirée, place tall gold candelabras on your tables, and it will easily elevate an otherwise simple display. Candelabras mean drama and are here to draw all the attention, so for an elegant and classy wedding with a traditionally timeless spin, metallic or black iron wrought candelabras will add a gorgeous royal effect to your wedding day! You can use colored tapered candles to match your wedding theme and use these on the wedding reception area, alternatively, you can also use just one over a fireplace for a classy yet minimal spin. You can add flowers to them along with the candles for a traditional look, or entwine vines of greenery for a more rustic nature-inspired appeal. The options are truly endless!

Themed effect: Rather than the candles, it's the candle holders which speak volumes. So pay special attention to the candle holders and lanterns ensuring that the ones you pick suit your winter wedding’s theme perfectly! If you are hosting a boho wedding, go for the Moroccan-inspired lanterns, and for a rustic wedding, wooden accents in the form of birch logs can work wonders. For a rustic effect, hurricane lamps, or burlap-wrapped mason jars can work wonders. So keeping the theme in mind is very important!

While we listed down the ways that candles can make your winter wedding absolutely wonderful, it doesn't even begin to touch upon the full potential of candles in weddings! The great thing about candles is that they are not bound by a season, and can be used year-round, making them such a coveted decor element in weddings. It is wildly universal too, making it suitable for almost all kinds of weddings, regardless of your style! Whether you are hosting a garden wedding in the bloom of spring, or a hygge wedding in the cold fold of winter, an elegant and formal summer wedding, or a bohemian fall wedding, candles will fit your vision perfectly! It's a good thing that there are so many different types of candles out there to choose from too! To tie it all together, it can be safely said that no matter what is the season, or the style or color theme, candles and weddings will always bond together, and will work together to create an illuminating and magically romantic affair!