When you think about fairytale wedding themes it is usually Cinderella that first springs to mind. But have you considered using other famous fairy tales as a theme for your wedding?

Whilst the story of Red Riding Hood may not seem particularly romantic, it does lend itself to producing a particularly pretty and beautiful wedding theme. Consider a colors scheme of red and white, with white being the predominant color. Thin about polka dots, gingham, checks and folk style artwork. It does conjure a scheme filled with 1950’s vintage retro, an innocent scheme perfect for a spring or summer wedding.

Here are some ideas on how to apply it to various elements of your wedding:

Venues

This scheme lends itself perfectly to an outdoor wedding, perhaps in a park or woodland setting. It would work equally well for a barn wedding or farm location. Whatever your choice think rustic, rural, country.

Wedding Invitations and Stationery

Choose white as your background color, accent with polka dots, script style fonts in scarlet red and choose images with a folk art feel or 1950’s children’s story book drawings.

Rather than make all the stationery look the same, coordinate it by using different elements of the above on different pieces. For instance, use a drawing of Red Riding Hood on your wedding programs but only a single border of red and white polka dots, along one edge of your name cards.

You can use cute or whimsical, but make sure you keep with the same style of images throughout.

Flowers

Choose flowers such as red tulips and white daisies for a cute country style. White peonies would also be lovely, as would red poppies.

Keep your arrangements informal, use enamel jugs, jam jars and simple vases. You could mix the flowers but I think they would look lovely with just one type of flower to each arrangement.

Attire

Keep your wedding dress simple and white. Maybe an empire style dress with puff sleeves in a lightweight fabric. Keep details to a minimum, a small ruffle at the bottom of the skirt would be nice and maybe a sash at the waist.

Dress your bridesmaids in 50’s style prom dresses in scarlet red and add full petticoats, trimmed with broderie anglais. Dress your flower girls in Red Riding Hood outfits and equip them with picnic baskets filled with daisy heads to scatter.

Wedding Favors

Think homemade. Give out miniature picnic baskets lined with red and white checked paper and filled with homemade treats such as cookies, shortbreads, preserves and fresh strawberries.

Jars of preserves, topper with lids covered with red and white cloth are also perfect wedding favors. Or for a more whimsical idea, why not give them a copy of Grandma’s recipe book, complete with wolf soup

Wedding Cake

Now this is where you have a range of choices. If you go for a formal wedding cake try carrot cake, covered in butter cream and finished with strawberries. Or why not give your guests a choice of cakes, bake up several in different flavors and arrange them each on a vintage style cake stand. If you have a formal cake, look for someone to make you a wolf and Red Riding Hood cake topper

Cupcakes also work very well for this theme or even a gateau style cake.

Decorations and Food

Go for a buffet style and give your guests picnic baskets filled with a range of delicious treats. An outdoor setting would look wonderful with your guests all sitting around red and white checked picnic cloths feasting on the delights in their baskets

Have a summer buffet served up in a marquee tent. Cover your tables with red and white checked table cloths and finish with your flower arrangements.

Decorate the area with bunting, paper lanterns and hurricane lamps which can be lit later in the evening when the lit dims.