Topical Weddings

I promise that this is not a post about destination weddings in tropical locations with a misspelled title...

Last Saturday afternoon, I started reading the first book in the Hunger Games.  Come Tuesday night, I had finished the entire trilogy.  It was a great set of books, which I thoroughly enjoyed.  Apparently, I'm not alone.

Last week, before starting the books, I saw a weddingchicks.com post on Hunger Games wedding inspiration: 

from The Wedding Chicks

Then, this week, there were two more on greenweddingshoes.com:

from greenweddingshoes

also from greenweddingshoes

Besides falling in love with the braids and wishing my hair would start growing at hyper speed, I got to thinking about literary weddings.  First, I have to admit that there is no book, movie, song or poem that I like enough to base my wedding on (this is also the reason I am lacking in the tattoo area).  So, the idea of someone with a passion strong enough to incorporate into their wedding makes me 1. a little bit jealous and 2. wondering a bit on how it would be done.

I can totally understand how someone could use a classic for their inspiration.  They are long existing favorites and well-known enough that people would probably "get it".

Alice in Wonderland is a great example.  Such a fun story that almost everyone knows.  And, there is so much in the book/movie to pull into a wedding.

from loretablog

Lord of the Rings is another classic that would easily lend itself to a wedding theme.  It might not be to everyone's taste but it seems like it could be fun.

from offbeatbride

But, something new, like Hunger Games?  At what point would a bride need to decide on a theme like that in order to make it work for her wedding?

For example, would the couple have to know the theme before starting anything so that they could pick the venue, colors, stationary, etc. to go with the theme?  And, if so, how in the world could they pick something so topical unless the wedding is in the very near future?

Or, could this kind of wedding only be pulled off with a David Tutera My Fair Wedding type intervention?  Would tons of time and money be needed for a quick turn around after the couple decides to throw out their plans and start over with something completely new?

And, finally, with something so modern, would the couple be concerned about looking back in a few years and wondering what in the world they were thinking?

Boy that's a lot of questions...  But, as someone who had a very difficult time picking any kind of theme (and, who still can't figure out if there are "colors"), I'd love to hear how someone pulled off this kind of themed wedding.  Anyone out there who did this?  Or, hoping/planning to in the future?