Firefighter Theme Weddings
From what I've tasted of desire, I hold with those who favor fire.
— Robert Frost
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
Anyone with any ideas for a fire reception please let me know. My fiance and I are both firefighters for the same dept (which means I’m not the girly girl lol) and my dad is the chief so we are all involved and would love it to be original and awesome lol. please feel free to email me or anything.
thank you!!
Tammy
hi everyone well im getting married in less then a year and im doing the firefighter theme wedding and i need some ideas for cake toppers, wedding favors, and decorations. I really need pics because my mom is doing all the work so she needs pics to look at. any help will be greatly apprciated thank you
Katie,
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Im looking for some ideas my guy is a lieutenant in the fire dept he dont want a firefighter themed wedding we both ave been married in the past so we are planning a destination wedding on the beach in california … but i would like to have some firefighter stuff at the reception ive been looking for cute cake toppers i have also seen some real cute place card holders that looked like little firetrucks any pics or ideas would be greatly appreciated thank you so much for the help!!!!!!
Patricia
Patricia,
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My son is getting married Oct 2010.. I would like suggestions for the rehersal dinner.. Not too over the top. I am especially looking for a fireman figure that can climb a ladder, and a female figure for the top, not a bride since this is not the wedding cake.. The theme is “Tommorrow the fireman marries his flame”. I have seen the custom made toppers, they are very expensive. This will be a cake for about 40 people, I don’t want to pay $100 plus dollars for the topper. All the firefighter figures in full dress on line are 12″ I would really like to fine one about 4 to 6″ any ideas? please e-mail firemanbrock2000@yahoo.com
I ordered mine via internet through what else EBAY. I attach a picture of the one that I have to your personal email. I am getting married in Sept 2010 to a fireman and the theme is “today I marry the bravest”.
Amy
i am interested in seeing pics of fire themed wedding cakes. If anyone can send me any it would be greatly appreciated. I Thanks!
Deb,
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I am getting married on May 14th 2011 and my fiance is a firefighter, so I thought it would be cool to have a firefighter themed wedding. I just need some ideas………help!!! lol anything you can think of, I have already gotten a few from reading but wouldne’t mind more, and feel free to send pictures. Thanks!
Rachel,
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* real weddings
Rachel,
* wedding receptions
I had a firemans wedding- nothing over the top by any means. But You can email me and I’ll send pictures, anyone can ask questions- so please feel free. nicelysaid@yahoo.com
Hi my name is Sarah and I am recently engaged. My fiance and I are both firefighters and are looking forward to a firefighter themed wedding…. However where do you begin?? haha I am looking for pictures of weddings with the firefighter theme.. Please email me some if you are willing to share your ideas… I would greatly appreciate it. Thank You sarahbushee@yahoo.com
I am looking for a cake toppe with the firemen in the dress uniform, does anyone know where I can find one. The wedding is in 11 weeks.
Hey everyone. I am getting married August 21, 2010. We are having a firefighter themed wedding. We are both volunteer firefighters. I am trying to find alot of different things. Centerpieces, decorations, pretty much anything. IF you could help me out, that would be great. My email addy is amanda_jean2006@hotmail.com Thanks for your Help!!
Hey everyone I am getting married April 2010….Its pretty short notice lol…but i am looking for great ideas for a firefighter themed wedding….We are looking to spend no more than 2500 for the whole thing! I would really appreciate pics or ideas from yalls weddings. Please help!!! :) Anything would be great! My email is ilyshea08@yahoo.com…..please email me asap!!! thanks!!
~alaena
I’m marring a firefighter on May 14th and we our doing the firefighter theme. We our tring to find center pieces that would look good. any ideas. please let me know.
in many firefighter catalogs you can get beer boot stiens that look like a fire boot and simple red yellow and orange flowers will look great my fiance and i are making one for our gift table with red and yellow roses
My daughter had candle center pieces we made our selves. when she got married Oct1009 She is trying to sell them if you are interested. Like to see pic of her wedding email her at wilfong1@frontier.com
I’ve been meaning to post pics of my August 22, 2009 wedding because I used this site a lot for our firefighter themed wedding! Congrats everyone, feel free to let me know if you have any questions.
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I am marrying the love of my life on oct. 16, 2010. This is our second wedding for both of us and of course we don’t have alot of money to spend. He is a lieutenant fireman at our dept. very big into it…thought it would be cute to add a few lil touches to our wedding. I am certainly loving all the great ideas from all of you from this site! Any additional ideas would be greatly appreciated!
Hi, here is an idea some fire departments have dress uniforms. These would help if all the groomsmen are in a fire department.
I am getting married July 3, 2010 and my fiance and I are both firefighters and that is also how we met. Therefore, it’s only natural to have a fire themed wedding. I am using old fire boots and putting red petunias in them as well as using fire hats as centerpieces. For favors we are using red golf tees with our names engraved as we both enjoy that hobby. My bouquet is all red with gerberas, daisies and lilies. My bridesmaides are having white gerberas and my flower girl will have red gerberas. The bridesmaids will each have 5 flowers for the amount of years we have been together. My dress is red and white and my MOH is wearing red while the other girls are wearing black. Any other ideas???
Hey everyone! Love this site!! So many useful ideas! I am getting married to a volunteer firefighter in January and we have been diligently working to find some unique ideas. We are trying to get the fire truck from his dept even though they are being stubborn, and my girls are wearing black dresses with some form of red (whether it be a flower in the hair or some ribbon or red shoes, just something to accent), my flowers are just red roses, centerpieces are stole off the site lol (tall cylinder vase with floating candle surrounded by 4 votive candles and red rose petals) i think the favors are going to be these mint cookies i make with mint dark chocolate and red chocolate drizzled on top in celophane bags with ribbon. I think that is it but please email me with some more ideas or questions!
There are probably antique fire trucks owned by private collectors in your area. I have had great luck finding trucks for my fellow firefighters’ weddings among the ranks of the antique truck fanciers. That way, the truck can spend more time on Photos shoot, etc.
Well, I am, and so is my fiance, a volunteer fire fighter. We are from different fire departments though. We plan on getting married October 9, 2010, but are unsure how to do it on such a low budget. Any help would be wonderful.
We used plastic fire helmets as centerpieces and then battery operated tea lights under them and it was a beautiful glow.. our favors where can coozies and hersey kisses (hugs and kisses).. we also had mints in the shape of fire hydrants and helmets and then the ring bearer had a wooden fire truck instead of a pillow… thats about all we had.. hope it helps!
Did you make or buy the mints? I am looking for favors for my son’s rehearsal dinner.
That is so awsome cause me and my fiance are also getting married oct 9, 2010 and we are also volunteers on the FD
My fiance and I are wanting a firefighter themed wedding and this is our second wedding for the both of us. We don’t have a lot of money to spend and we are making everything we can instead of buying. Please give some ideas.
You have have a cheap yet beatifull wedding! If you have friends or family who are good at somethings, such as flowers, or a good cook, someone who knows a thing or two about weddings (help walk people down the aile) also, if you know anyone who can do music. these are all things that will cut cost down, and most are more then willing to help. Dresses (try discount racks) or there are some second hand stores who have brand new dresses- who cares if its not brand new, no one will know
umm, if you want more pictures, just email back- leave you email address and we can chat.
Hi!
Me and my fiance are gettng married in the bahamas in september. He is a volunteer fireman and we are planning on having a reception for the friends and family who cant go at the fire dept when we get back. That cake looks gorgeous! If you could please email me some pictures of some of the firefighter touches I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks!
What’s your email address?
Hi Everyone!
We are getting married this Thursday, November 12, 2009! Our wedding if firefighter themed. I would be happy to share my ideas and photos. Our entire wedding cost $4500. We found great deals online including Sams, the dollar store and e-bay. This is a second marriage for both of us but none-the-less, we’re pulling off a great party! If I can be on any help, just let me know!
Cheers!
Amber
amber@sumacg.com
my hubby and i are both firefighter and we are getting married 9/11/10. i’d love to see some of the things you and yours did for your wedding.
would love any pictures or ideas for fireman themed wedding thanks so much
My daughter just got married in Oct 09. She had a firefighter theme It turned out beutiful. Her dresss was white with red ribbon and trim. her girls wore red and black dresses alternating colors. We bought the red bouquets from micheal,s and my niece added some otheraccents to them they were beautiful. The guys wore black tux withalternating black and red vest and ties. We gotfirefighter ring bearer pillow and flower girl basket off ebay. Also unity candle.Her reception tables had centerpieces we made out of glass bowls with a glass votive candle holder inside There was red rock in the bottoms of glass bowl with a black ribbon tied around the top. Very elegant looking. She is trying to sell these along with other decorations we had on Craig,s list. Her favors were water bottles with labels on them that we had printed at Orentail trading. She had a firefighter cake top also a firefighter axe and cake cutter she bought online We made candy fire trucks,helmets,hydrants and maltess cross. Instead of a card box she used her husband’s firefighter boots on the gift table forcards. We had a grooms table with a cake with afiretruck on it with the her husband’s dept intails on the truck. For the dollar dance the maid of honor and best man held a child’s size fire boot we found at target. For gifts for the attendant’s she found online a dolar bill in rememrance of9/11. They gave the guys hot wheel fire trucks,fire extinguisers filled with candy (found at the dollar store),lighters Allof this was in monagram beer mugs. She had some other fire fighter items if you would like more info you can email her at wilfong1@frontier.com. I would like to post some pic but will have to wait til my daughter can help me since I’m not sure how to do this
im marrying the man of dreams..he is a firefighter and we decided to have a firefighter themed wedding but we are at a dead end with coming up with ideas. we are on a budget of like 5,000 if you can give us any ideas email me back at exotica924@yahoo.com
Hi Everyone-
Thank you for all reply’s. I would be happy to share photos and tips but please make sure you include your email! :-) Here are a few photos!
i LOVE that you got married at the station! That is such a good idea!
am getting married April 10, 2011 and my fiance is a firefighter and we want our wedding to be firefighter themed. Is there anyway that you can email me on where you got everything? Our wedding is not gonna be anything huge just something small, outdoors with only a few close friends and family. But we are having a big reception. dadyshotrod@hotmail.com
Hey everyone! I am marrying the love of my life October 2010. He is a fireman with the local fire dept. and we are having our wedding & reception at another local Volunteer Fire Dept. We are not having a big fancy wedding, nor are we able to spend alot. We are trying to make as much stuff as possible ourselves. Any help with table decorations cake ideas ANYTHINHG would be GREATLY appreciated! If anyone has pics or suggestions you can send them to me at a_lanaster10@live.com!!!
My husband and I (he’s a firefighter) used plastic fire helmets with LED battery operated tea light candles inside them as centerpieces. Very awesome looking and kept the room to a romantic dim…
I haven’t quite figured out how to use this web site to post stuff, but I just had a firemans wedding. And it was BEAUTFULL! Better then I thought it would be. Our colors were mostly white and red, but there were hints of yellow and orange. They man who marryed us wore a firemans tie, with this uniform. Our party favors were the fire jelly belly. See pictures. we had an axe to cut the cake, didn’t turn out the way we thought it would- but it also wasn’t a firemans axe, we didn’t get it ordered in time. Need any help just let me know.
HI! I have a fire fighter wedding planned for january and i was wondering what did u put your jelly bellys in? i was thinking about red and black m&ms in something but dont know what yet. you can email me back at pnkflmgo22@yahoo.com THANKS!!
We used jelly bellys, and we just used tooling??? Not sure if thats the spelling, ill add a picture- but its pretty cheap, just kinda time consuming. Go to a store (one that has bulk items) and you should find candy, depending on what your store sells will kinda depend on what you use.
I love the jelly bean idea!!! We also thought about doing red hots in something like that!!
love the cake
looking for ideas for a firefighter theme bachelorrete party
Hi Everyone,
Sorry I know I said I would post more pics of centerpieces and such, but I have been so busy. I will post a few today and take some more tonight and post them tomorrow. If any of you need any ideas please feel free to email me directly melony.arnold@sun.com.
Thanks
Mel
What do you think about having a barbecue style meal for a firefighter theme wedding reception. Thinking of hamburgers, pork burgers, hot dogs, potatoe salad and chips. Or maybe barbecued pulled pork and burgers with sides like potatoe salad,baked beans,cole slaw and chips
Hi, I’m Vol firefighter and so is my husband, and we are both in the same dept and we want to do the firefighter theme wedding. But we are looking for some ideas for where the bridal party table should have on it or around it. Our colors are green and white to go with our department trucks. If anyone has any ideas for us, we would love the advice. We want to put our helmets on the table in front us and have his groomsmen have their helmets but only one of my bridesmaid is a firefighter and my finace’s brother isn’t a firefighter so he doesn’t have a helmet…any ideas?
My daugter is having a firefighter theme wedding and is looking for ideas for gifts to give her bridesmaids that would go along with this theme.Any ideas she has limitied funds. Also thought of making scrapbooks for them with pictures from past plus leaving room for wedding pages Only problem she doesn’t have picture of two of her bridesmaids since one is her fiance’s sister in law. and the other is her brother’s fiance who she has only meet in Dec and only been around once. (but she really likes her) Any ideas
On my website, One of the plates that I hand carve into is the “THE FIREFIGHTER”. You may see a picture of it on my site. I can do one like this or create something similar to fit most any budget.
I’m getting married July 3, 2010. My wedding is firefighter/partriotic theamed. Due to my fiance is prior military and is a vol and paid firefighter. Not to mention our date is sooo close to 4th of July. I’m having trouble comming up with center piece and favor ideas. If anyone has any ideas please feel free to email me at ipowahine05@yahoo.com
Thank You and Congrats
I am having a firefighter themed wedding on July 24, 2010. I am doing Navy Blue, White, as our main colors and silver red and yellow as our accent colors. We found great firefighter themed invites on Invitations By Dawn, they are beautiful. I am having trouble figuring out table center pieces. I found really cute wooden firetrucks online, they are vintage firetrucks, does anyone think they would look tacky?
Hi Becky I have been researching things for a firefighter wedding as well, I have been having trouble with some ideas too, but I think vintage firetrucks would be a great center piece. I think I am using helmets with flowers around them. The one other reason I am commenting is that my wedding is also July 24th 2010, if you would like to share ideas please feel free to email me at ltlprincess0103@aol.com
Hey Becky, I too am marrying a fireman. I think vintage fire trucks would be great!!! And if you’re worried about them being tacky, you can always add something around them. Small candles, flowers, something along that line.
Hello im getting married sept 25 2010 and both me and my soon to be husband are vol firefighters. we are having a fireifghter themed wedding we have our cake as a burning house with the bride at the top and the groom climbing the cake to save the bride. the grooms cake is a copy of our engine.
an ideas for centerpieces? what bout flowers or the ring bear pillow and flower girl basket? email me at buzard2006@myway.com ne help would be great
thanks
well my daddy has been a firefighter since i was 12, and my mom was one as well from when i was 5, swore i would never marry a fireman…. but then i fell for my best friend since kindergarden, and he is a fireman, even better in a little town called Golden WHERE WE MET! cheesy right? so I know getting a truck wont be a big deal, i am just unsure how i feel about it! I am doing 98% white with splashes of red. we are standing with my best friend and his brother, thats it, my 4 year old son, and my 2 year old niece are doing flowers/rings. I found a nice white dress for my niece and i think i will put my son in a shirt that says KEEP BACK 200 FEET. I am wearing a simple white cotton dress (this is a VERY casual wedding) hubby is wearing his dress uniform. maid of honor is wearing red, and unsure what to put best man in (NO tuxes, maybe a golden fire shirt???) I am using jars with flowers as my center pieces but i will add fire flare. I am unsure where i stand on a cake topper yet. and i LOVE LOVE LOVE the lifesaver idea for favors! any one else got an idea? vote? ect? i’d love to hear from anyone and see pics!!! you can email me at niki_po_potamus@yahoo.com :) thank you and congrats to everyone else!!!!!!!!!!
Maybe you could put the best man in class Bs? Even if he isn’t a firefighter he could maybe wear those pants with the zip up boots & even a fire dept t-shirt
Need some songs for firefighter theme wedding ceremony. Looking for sons for bridesmaids to walk to. Also looking for song for lighting of unity candles Mothers And Bride And Groom. Also any others that would work in ceremony
My fiance and I are lighting our unity candle to “Shine Your Light” by Robbie Robertson from “Ladder 49.” It actually sounds VERY pretty with just piano.
i am directing a firefighter themed wedding in November i need to really good ideas. Can anyone offer any help?
Im also having a firefighter theme wedding in Feb. I found some nice things at exclamationsgifts.com
the website didnt really show much but if U call them they can email some pics of what they have. Miscaketops.com has the perfect cake topper!!
hope this helps!!!
sonia
Sonia, Thanks for the info about miscaketops.com. It was exactly what I had been searching for!
go to fairytaleweddingstore, there is a bunch of firefighter wedding stuff.