Firefighter Theme Weddings
From what I've tasted of desire, I hold with those who favor fire.
— Robert Frost
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Where to start when planning a firefighter wedding? How about the black, red, yellow and brass of firefighter regalia
and firetrucks. See if you can marry in the fire hall, ideally with
a firetruck as your transportation to the ceremony, or as your getaway
car.
Check your local prop shop, who might be able to rent you special items to add zing to your decor. What could be more romantic than strolling down an aisle lined with flower and tulle-draped hydrants?
For high drama, walk underneath an arch of pike poles held by the groomsmen (donning full dress blues) after the officiant declares you husband and wife.
Fortunately, firefighter cake toppers aren't hard to find.
Try JW Caketops or Colorado Carla.
As for the cake itself, your choices are endless. Gorgeous possibilities: a red velvet cake hidden in demure white icing. Or consider a sleek white cake with crisp bands of red satin ribbon, or a cake topped with orange/rust calla liles.
Want a more whimsical approach? We've seen a traditional white cake topped by a traditional white bride, with a ladder leading down the cake to the fire truck in front.
As for the groom's cake, popular choices include fire trucks, helmets, badges, dalmations and the Maltese Cross.
Setting the Scene
Many firehalls are built with gorgeous neo-classical flair. If yours is, bring the feel to your reception hall by renting grand fluted pillars for the corners of the room.
Look for table linens with a reflective quality. Shimmering yellow fabric on white linen is luxurious. Go whimsical by edging one or two table coverings in reflective tape.
A few types of flowers seem tailor-made for this event: roses, and callas. Both come in fire-tinged shades, starting with yellow or orange and reddening at the tips. Tie bunches of these with tulle swags for gorgeous pews, then tie off the center aisle with caution tape.
Sew or glue firefighter charms to your ringbearer pillow, candles, ribbons, guest book, cake serving set, and bridal bag.
Borrow a friend's Dalmation and draft him into service. Or if you want to stick with the two-footed type, give him a pillow with a Maltese emblem or firefighter charm. Alternative: have two more ringbearers walk up the aisle with torchlights.
Lean aerial ladders against the walls, and link them together with dramatic swags of tulle. Use a shiny pair of firefighter boots as a "wishing well" or a floral vase for your guestbook table. Spice up the afterparty (and picture ops) by slipping on a shorter, saucy dress — at at least for a few minutes, a firefighter helmet with a veil.
The Spice of Life
Want to add some zip to your dinner? Try hot dogs with five-alarm chili, habanero sauce, firehouse stew, flame-broiled steaks or chicken, Autumnal Fire beer. Or go for the traditional fare but serve eye-catching signature drinks like red apple martinis (apple vodka, apple juice and grenadine syrup).
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Sizzling Ideas for Favors
Favors for this one are simple — and cute. Start with a crisp favor box you'll tie off with a contrasting ribbon (red and white, yellow and white, chocolate brown and red). Then, fill with tongue-in-cheek treats like like Atomic Fireballs, Hot Tamales, Red Hots or candy fire extinguishers. Or set out these items in a red, white and yellow candy buffet.
Other possibilities: rolls of Lifesavers (get it?), personalized hot sauce, personalized barbeque sauce, or miniature flashlights on keychains.
Music to Their Ears
Call up your local Scottish/Irish musicians for live bagpipes at your wedding. Also, consider the Backdraft Soundtrack,
the
Ladder
49 Soundtrack,
and
The
Rising
by Bruce Springsteen.
Other ideas:
"Believe"
by YellowCard
"Into
the Fire" by Dokken
"Standing
Outside the Fire" and "When
You Come Back to Me Again" by Garth Brooks
"The
Fireman" by George Strait
"Fireman's
Prayer" by Plainfolk
"Ring
of Fire" by Johnny Cash
"Burning
Down the House" by The Talking Heads
everyone's dying to see them!
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Hello,
My fiance and I are also both firefighters for the same department, he is actually the chief, and this site has given me some great ideas, something else we are going to do is have the firemans prayer, and the firemans wife’s prayer printed on patriotic cards, and laminated them and put them at each place setting at the reception. I am also using the helmet with flowers as center peices as one of the ladies on this site has done. If anyone has any other ideas please let me know.
Thanks
Melony
Hello how r u? Me and my Fiance are both firefighters in New York.I was wondering if anyone had any good websites on firefighter theme weddings. like centerpiece ideas…. flower arrangemants….. cake toppers….. ring bearer pillows….. or any little cute ideas….. we got the fire trucks and cake cutting axe but looking for more things… please email me if you have any ideas LilEngineGirl529@hotmail.com Thanks Kimberly
If you skroll down through these comments you can find lots of ideas or you can look on email. I got my idea’s from both of them. I got firefighter center pieces from our local hobbie lobby. I don’t know if you have one near you but they are great if you do.
Both my fiance’ and I are on the same Fire Department, and we are trying to incorporate some firefighter themes into our wedding. The wedding colors are pink and black. Any ideas?
Mother,
I have seen it somewhere…maybe ourdesigns…but they make a garden hose that looks like a small firehose nozzle. I think I have also seen them at places like Meijer.
Another option would be to talk with the local fire chief, see what they have in their “archives” that you could borrow. Also, if you have a fire school or academy close (maybe the one that the firefighter went to) you could ask them the same.
Adam
If you can’t find fire hoses for your centerpieces, then perhaps traffic/safety cones would work. You can get the smaller ones. Check Ebay for safety cones.
Also do a Ebay word search for firefighter wedding.
When you do a search on Ebay make sure to click on the bottom of the page the…..”See additional Buy It Now items” …. This takes you to the Ebay Stores where you will find even more firefighter wedding items with a buy it now option.
about those gold chairs: can you find some old “retired” firehose? You could take lengths and “tie” them around the back of the chair to “tie in” your fire theme - I am also planning an October fire theme Rehearsal Dinner for my son and his bride-to-be and have been racking my brain for ideas. I am still hoping to find old fire nozzles for the centerpiece “bases” (turned upside down) - have put out feelers - if anyone knows a resource that is loanable, I am all ears!
(putting “wired” fire trucks, dalmations, firehats, axes, rescue helicopters, ambulances, police cars, etc. springing out of the nozzles if I can find them)
I know that lowes has the nozzles that go on the end of a garden hose because i was going to by one for my fiance.
very cool Jennifer. You’ll have to share photos with us! Best of luck for the wedding
Hi!!,
I’m a having a firefighter wedding next weekend. 8/9/08..
We have lots of things that we came up with. WE are going with firetruck ceramic center pieces, and having prayer cards that have the firemens prayer on them. My colors are red and white. My dress though is White and black. We are having the Engine as well. Mostly all of our favors, and other touches were made with red ribbon that ties everything together. Our glasses, our invitaions which we made ourselves. And we also used Maltese Cross charms on many things. Any questions??? Just let me know!!
Jen
I was wanting to tie in the Maltese Cross with my wedding, also. Are there any sites or stores that you could direct my to.
Jen
My fiance and I are both firefighters and are also making our invitations. What graphic did you use for your invitations and did you use the firefighter prayer or a quote on it? I’d love to know any ideas you came up with. This is a second wedding for both of us and we plan to keep it simple but want to incorpate our careers but in a simple yet classy way.
Thanks for any advise!!
Amy
http://www.momentsbymonica.smugmug.com/gallery/3857690_CDsYG#223346223_mHCuZ
Thank you Sandy!!
Talk about a light bulb lighting off in your head! - You gave me some really great ideas to work it. I will take down the green curtains and buy at the dollar store some silk flowers and dress the windows.. Since its a fall wedding I guess the gold chairs will work - So I will go with Navy & Gold for the tables with a splash of red decor! As far as the White color, well, Im in white! (((smile)))
Thank you again Sandy!
ANNIE,
Well, you can always incorporate those colors in your wedding or change it.
Only a few things you can do about the curtains - either change them- take them down and have no curtains or add more greenery to your flowers to match the green curtains.
If you want to make curtains cheap - Walmart has a $1.00 a yard section in fabric- perhaps you can find some red or white and make curtains. You don’t even have to sew them…Just drape or pin the material over the curtain rods- cut the bottom with pinking sheers. No one will notice.
For the gold chairs, just add some gold within your table accents. Perhaps some gold in your floral arrangements or maybe gold dollies, gold bells, confetti or something. Then the gold chairs would blend in.
You might want to cover the head table chairs. Just buy some cheap (Walmart) white or red fabric. Drape it over the chairs and pin or tie it in the back. You can even put a bow on the back, but no one usually sees the back of the chair anyways. I think about 2 yard per chair, but you may need to measure to make sure. Buy a few yards and experiment to see how it looks on your chairs. The head table is the main table to worry about, because most of your wedding pictures will be taken there.
Best of luck
HELP!! I am getting married Oct 11 2008, we are having a Firefighter Theme Wedding.. we are renting the hall at our local Fire House. I want our colors to be White with Red, but the chairs at the hall are gold with green curtains on the window. How can I incorporate my red and white!!! We are on a very tight budget and it would be too expensive to cover the chairs and change the color curtains for our day.
Thank you so such Sandra. I love one of the cake toppers I saw on the website! Thanks again
yes its j_jrenfrew@sympatico.ca she’s written her email address wrong on the site.
Sandra do you have a contact for the people at http://www.countessbridal.com? I have tried twice to email them and it was an invalid email. Any ideas?
Kelly–
Yes, me and my Husband are both Firefighter / EMT’s.
Kristy-
Those photos were so beautiful…are you both fireman?
Kelly -
I also had a firefighter themed wedding last September. Our colors were Apple color and red. The guys that were firefighters wore their “dress blues”. David’s Bridal has bridesmaids dresses in a color called apple and it went perfect with the theme.
here is a link to our pictures, if you would like to see how it all turned out:
http://www.momentsbymonica.smugmug.com/gallery/3857690_CDsYG#223346223_mHCuZ
Enjoy
you can also email me with any questions or if you need ideas at:
firegirlkorb@aol.com
My fiance wants to have a fire fighter themed wedding, but I’ve had my heart set on a deep purple and green for my colors, any ideas for how to mix it or something????
Kelly, I am also having a firefighter themed wedding next July. My colors are red, white, yellow, black, and some silver accents!