French/English wedding

Bi-lingual stationery and OOS, mini wine bottle favours, romantic French postcards, a French style menu, classic 2CV wedding car (my dad had one of these!), French Cafe style music for the breakfast.... all very romantic!

Depending on how many french guests there are see if the service can be part in french. I shot a lovely wedding last month where she said her vows in french and he said his in english.

I have also shot a couple of weddings where the speaches have been in both english and translated.

Also the little bits might make a difference, French wine, Serving cheese boards, french table names... Just dont go overboard to wipe out the english in your french english wedding.

In France we give the guests a small piece of netting (like veil netting) and ribbons that match the wedding colours to tie to the ariel of their car.

The groom is driven to the church (or wherever) by the best man and they beep the horn all the way there.

Obviously Croquembouche!

And the French are BIG on wedding favours!

I am half French and grew up there, still have a home there so its very dear to my heart!

I love French themes and there are so many ways you can incorporate this! It depends how much of a theme you want to go for but I've just completed this order for a bride today who is having a Parisian theme.

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Have you had a look french wedding traditions.

Here's some from googling:

At the traditional French wedding reception, the newlyweds toast each other from an engraved, two-handled cup (la coupe de mariage), usually a precious family heirloom passed down from generation to generation.

Still practiced in small villages today, it is a traditional French custom for the groom to call on his future bride at her home on the morning of their wedding. The groom escorts her to the wedding chapel in a procession, headed by musicians, followed behind by the bride with her father, guests and the groom with his mother at the end of line. It is also customary that French village children blocked the bridal couple’s route with white ribbons which the bride must cut. In Brittany beggars plaited a hedgerow briar across the newlyweds until bribed to remove .All these symbolic obstacles are created for the wedding couple to overcome together and thus to signify their common path in a new life.

Le retour de mariage It means the” return of the wedding party”, and is usually held at the bride or groom’s family home, the day after the wedding. This is only reserved for the wedding party and close family and friends. The parents would roast a pig or lamb and serve other “comfort” foods for the ones suffering from the after affects of too much drinking and partying the night before. It’s usually held during the afternoon where guests and family members can chit-chat with one another and celebrateonce again the married couple’s marriage!

The groom customarily walks his mother down the aisle before arriving at the altar to be married. This is a lovely gesture that can be easily adopted and will surely elicit a collective "aww" from the audience.

Hmm...my last French groom drove his own sports car and didn't blast the horn.....mind you, it was a countryside wedding so he may have "reigned in" natural tendancies.!!!!