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3 ideas for planning your multicultural wedding

Natasha Grant • 23 July 2021

Multicultural Wedding Ideas

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Multicultural weddings are about representing both cultures, that is not always easy to do and takes some thought. Your wedding day is about you, sounds obvious right? But sometimes amongst the decisions to make about the type, size and style of your wedding. If you are a couple, planning to have a multicultural wedding you may also have pressures from family to stick with cultural wedding traditions, and meet others people's expectations. 
 
You need to aim to combine both your cultures in your wedding, in a modern way. I believe it's great to embrace parts of cultural tradition, but only the bits YOU want and leave the rest. So to help with your planning, here are three multicultural wedding ideas for you to consider.


1. Ideas for styling your multicultural wedding

Your wedding style can be used brilliantly to reflect your cultures. Think about incorporating little details that can really represent you both. For example, if one of you has a traditional cloth like kente or say a tartan you could include this in some of the details, such as having fans for guests as favours in the material or African fans made. You could have the men wear bow ties made out of the cloth.


Mens African fans in orange blue and black

2. Multicultural wedding attire ideas

Clothing is a fantastic way to showcase your cultures. You could ask your guests to come in traditional attire. Do provide advice though, on your wedding website or in the invitation about what that could be, for those who may not know. This attire could align with a certain culture's customs. This could be a small item like a belt or tie in a certain material or for example, if you are having a traditional Indian wedding you might ask your female guests to wear saris. Or you could ask guests to wear a symbolic colour of clothing that means something to you both.


You could even provide a selection of clothing on the day, for some of your guests to wear on your wedding day, if they wish.

Asian woman in orange and gold sari looking out

3. Wedding entertainment Ideas

Your wedding entertainment provides a perfect opportunity to showcase parts of your culture. For example if you are Ghanaian heritage you could consider having Ghanaian drummers during your cocktail hour, or better still get them to open up the dance floor. The music and energy is a brilliant way to start your evening celebrations.

 

Multicultural weddings are a fantastic way to embrace each other’s traditions and customs and make new ones. Showing how to merge two or more cultures to complement each other, respecting the faiths and traditions/customs. Overall, this needs to be a special day that represents both of YOU, so prioritise what's important to the two of you above all else.


You can also discover more useful tips from another blog post I wrote on how to include your culture in your wedding day.

And if you are looking for some inspiration, click here for details of the top multicultural wedding blogs, for inspiration.


I adore helping couples plan and style multicultural weddings, its my speciality, so do get in touch and lets discuss your wedding.


Natasha x


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