7 tasteful ways to integrate pride into your wedding 🏳️‍🌈

This one's for the LGBTQ+ people who want to recognise their identities on their special day, but don’t want to vomit rainbows.

1. Flowers

Whether you want to go bold or subtle, flowers are a perfect way to integrate pride into your wedding. A rainbow bouquet is the obvious choice, but they don’t need to look OTT. Try a beautiful mix of complementary colours balanced with fresh green leaves.

If you’re more of a minimalist, pair back the colours to two or three tones and perhaps add your LGBTQ+ themed ribbon of choice to the bouquet. And if you really want to shout about it, why not add mini pride flags amongst the bouquet?! 🥳🏳️‍🌈

My bouquet, crafted by Simply Stunning Flowers, had subtle bi colours, and our overall wedding theme was white with hints of blue thistle and blush rose, to represent our histories whilst also reflecting the trans flag. We couldn’t have been happier with it! 💐

2. Cake

There’s so much you can customise when it comes to your wedding cake 🎂 Our cake, made by the wonderful Kerry Ann’s Cake Boutique, was simple and elegant, in white, green and gold, with floral piping and subtle decorations. We also had a gorgeously cute cake topper which was the perfect touch for us.

You can go bold with colourful decorations, or stick with muted colours and opt for colourful cake layers, meaning you can have a fun reveal moment! Or if you want to stay traditional with the main wedding cake, why not get some delicious LGBTQ+ themed cupcakes made as a nice little extra? 🧁

Always check reviews and photo galleries when you’re looking for the perfect wedding cake maker, and look at some inspiration photos to work out exactly what you want! ✨ Pinterest is a great source for wedding inspiration.

3. Dedications

Why not go for pride themed table names?! They don’t need to be super out there, but a little nod to pride culture. For example, famous songs/musicians/bands, or movies/tv shows.

Or, simply choose table names that are significant to you and your partner. Your favourite movie characters, destinations, food, games… the options are endless!

Speeches can infuse pride into your wedding in a beautiful way. Do you and your partner have a fun story about how you met? Talking about how your experiences and stories is always lovely to hear at weddings, it makes guests feel included in your story and celebrate your love! 🏳️‍🌈 Love is love and let’s shout about it! 🏳️‍⚧️

4. Decor

Deciding on wedding decor is really one of the hardest parts! Looking at inspiration photos and putting a mood board together is a great place to start. Think of what colours you want to include and decide what style of decor you prefer before you start piecing it all together. 🎨

If you want to go for rainbow or particular flag colours, you can achieve this with beautiful bold flowers, centrepieces, napkins, plates, ribbons, custom balloons, confetti and more. For our first dance, we went for a stunning rainbow confetti reveal on the dance floor! 🎉

Photo booths and backdrops are a fantastic way to boost the energy at the afterparty. Quirky photo booth accessories are great too, like glasses, hats and fun items to keep your guests entertained all day/night. 🤓

5. Favours

Do you have a soft spot for a certain pride charity? Some great ones include LGBT Foundation, Stonewall Equality and Hidayah. Your wedding day is a great time to raise money! This can be done by hosting a raffle, donations instead of wedding gifts, or giving guests the option to donate on the day if they can afford it, but of course not making it essential. To avoid making guests feel pressured to donate, perhaps place a couple of donation pots around for people to donate if they wish to. 🎗️

6. Makeup and Accessories

Rainbow garter anyone? 🏳️‍🌈 There are so many makeup and accessory options to spruce up your wedding day.

You can go as loud as you like, with rainbow makeup, hair accessories and clothing. Or, opt for more subtle choices like pride pin badges, cuff links, nails, sashes and ties. If you can rock colourful hair, why not get your hair dyed beautifully bold for your wedding day? 🌈

The choice is all yours!

7. Photography

Choosing the right photographer/s is super important. You want to feel assured that you’re going to end up with some beautiful photos to remember your special day.

How about coloured smoke bombs for some beautiful, momentous photos? Or stunning pride themed photo backdrops? If you’re a floral fan, go for a stunning handmade backdrop with a selection of real flowers, and shoot some gorgeous portraits in front of it. This would be a big hit with the wedding guests. 🌸🌼 Our wonderful photographers were Mini & Me Photography and Pinky Promise Photography. Seriously recommend checking them out if you’re UK based!

Ultimately, it’s completely up to you how subtle or bold you want to be with your wedding. Remember, start simple with mood boards and visuals to work from, and build up from there. Make it a day you’ll remember forever.

Good luck fellow LGBTQ+ beauties, and congratulations! 🥰