Type "winter weddings" into Google and you'll come up with suggestions like "get your guests to roast marshmallows" and "serve hot cocoa" which, while nice, don't exactly seem like the sort of things you pictured yourself doing at your wedding.
There are plenty of other ways to celebrate without sacrificing yourself to the cold, though. If you're getting married in freezing temperatures, when there may even be snow on the ground, then click through our gallery of alternative winter wedding ideas for a little bit of inspiration.
Get a high-neck wedding dress
Winter weddings give you more room to play with the traditional wedding dress concept. Go all dramatic with floor-length red velvet, wear a suit, or even a pair of thermal pyjamas. It's your day after all.
This high-neck dress from Hermione de Paula is a twist on the tradition without being too outlandish. Perfect for a wedding held during colder climes.
And wear a leather jacket as a cover-up
The traditional winter wedding cover-up is something faux-furry, like a stole.
Do something different and wear your trusty leather jacket instead, to add an edge to an otherwise traditional gown.
Purple candles
Enough with the white candles. Who wrote the law that said wedding candles had to be white? These purple ones make for a marvellously gothic table setting.
Decorate with a woollen pom-pom garland
Big in fashion last year, big for weddings this year? You can actually make pom-pom garlands at home using colourful wool and this pom-pom maker.
Or make a garland out of fir trees
Just because it's cold, doesn't mean you can't get some of this year's biggest wedding trend: greenery. Just make sure you go for evergreens – like branches from fir trees.
Or take inspo from this weird-but-cool dead branch garland
There's beauty to be found in winter nature too – just look at this gorgeous use of a dead tree branch.
For food, do a Sunday roast
A roast is cheap, good for feeding many people, and isn't likely to annoy your nan who still thinks spaghetti is a "bit exotic". Plus, roasts, which have got kind of a bad name over the past few years for being super carby and meaty, are actually having a comeback in food fashion. Take advantage.
Or better yet, serve a stew
Even cheaper than a roast, and easier to make and transport. Winter is almost certainly the one time of year when a stew is wedding-appropriate.
While you're there, have crackers
Because they'll go on offer right after Christmas and also, why not?
Get. A. Hood
There are sadly not many instances in which a grown woman can wear a hooded cape and swan around like Sansa Stark meets the Scottish Widow but your winter wedding day is one of them. Get cape, wear cape, fly. Like the fantastical ice queen you are.
Serve mulled wine post-ceremony
Cheaper than prosecco, less likely to leave you legless by mid-afternoon. Get someone to make it though, rather than being lazy with the store-bought stuff. It makes such a difference.
Serve your prosecco with winter berries
If you must have prosecco, do the adding strawberries thing but with winter fruits. Try berries like blackberries, rowan berries and sloe berries.
Give blankets as favours
Unless it is unseasonably warm, your guests will likely be cold. Even an indoor wedding is bound to come with some sort of draughtiness if you use a big enough space.
Leaving blankets on each chair as a favour, then, could be a nice idea to keep your guests sat in their seats and wearing their posh clothes – rather than pulling on a hoodie.
Stock up on the sparklers
Bonfire night has been and gone but that hopefully means you'll get a good deal on sparklers for each and every one of your guests. Usher them outside into the snow, just for five minutes, and have a massive sparkler fest, before heading back inside to top up on mulled wine.
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