In many cases, couples saved up to 50 per cent on the price of summer wedding for the wedding castle venue, wedding planners and caterers. The average cost of a white wedding is currently ?20,000 although new statistics show marriage has fallen to its lowest level since 1895. The credit crunch and winter discounts had prompted more to marry ‘out of season’. Because the wintertime is considered to be the off season for weddings, you are also likely to save some money compared to what you would spend on a summer wedding.

During the cold days of winter, many beautiful wedding themes are all around us. If you are planning to get married during the winter time, there are a number of different options available to you. Choosing the right winter wedding theme is actually quite easy once you think about what you want your wedding to be like. Winter offers a host of wedding ideas, and this article will give you several of them to make a wonderful winter wedding a reality.

To get the Destination Wedding of your dreams at a wedding castle venue a bargain price in these difficult financial times think last minute and off season.

So, if your loved one has asked for your hand in marriage, instead of opting for a summer wedding, consider the benefits of a winter ceremony and maybe a wedding castle venue – it is likely to be cheaper and it will give your guests something to look forward to during the long winter months.

Benefits to winter weddings include a more luxurious palette of colors and fabrics to choose from such as varying shades of red, royal blue, deep purple and hunter green. Wedding venues are usually more readily available (except of course Christmas and Valentine dates). Other benefits include the ability to plan on short notice, without being told time and time again that your vendor, disc jockey, photographer or caterer of choice is booked solid.

Other bonuses include flowers that don’t wilt in the heat (as long as you take care not to let them freeze in the cold), cakes that don’t sag, and a bride that is not melting. There is a better chance that more of your invited guests will not be on holidays and therefore able to attend your wedding. Add to that the special quality that comes across in photographs.

Winter weddings offer a host of snowflake themed items in various shades of blue, white and silver for your wedding accessories, decorations and favors.

Or you could go for a wedding castle venue a baroque theme with champagne and burgundy colours, velvets and chandeliers and cherubs and church candles.

The first thing you should consider is the exact time that you are getting married. It is now quite popular to get married around Christmas time. But it is common for prices to be higher at this time, because of their demand as Christmas decorations and presents. Red coloured flowers and roses are especially popular. If you want to have romantic red roses at this time of year, you may well find that they are more expensive than you anticipated.

You may wish to go out out with romance and get married on St Valentine s Day. With a strikingly beautiful red hearts theme, the guests will have no doubt about the way you feel for each other and your wedding day will remain in their minds as the most tender event they have even attended.