How to Have the Ultimate Hippie Wedding

When planning a hippie wedding, most people can easily figure out the main components to the event such as going barefoot and minimizing the amount of makeup. But it's the smaller details that end up taking a long time to plan out. Everything has to tie together so the hippie theme can really shine through.

Choosing Your Flowers
Calla lilies, candy tuffs, china mums, daffodils, and agapanthus are all beautiful flowers to feature in any hippie wedding, but while choosing flowers is very important, choosing where they are located in the wedding is equally significant. A crown of flowers is always very beautiful for a hippie themed wedding. A good idea for centerpieces is to fill glass bowls with water and float candles and petals in it. Perhaps the guests could have little bags of petals to throw after you are pronounced man and wife. It's all about being creative and finding elegant ways to use your flowers.

Personalize Your Vows
Writing your own vows can be the most rewarding part of the marriage experience. Instead of repeating the words someone else has written, it provides a chance to confess how you truly feel about your loved one in front of your closest friends and family. Words from the heart can be the most important, moving, beautiful gifts anyone can give. But if you really want to go in a different direction, use other cultures for inspiration. The Apache Wedding Prayer can be a beautiful part of any wedding:

Now you will feel no rain, for each of you will be shelter for the other.
Now you will feel no cold, for each of you will be warmth to the other.
Now there will be no loneliness, for each of you will be companion to the other.
Now you are two persons, but there are three lives before you: his life, her life and your life together.
Go now to your dwelling place to enter into your days together.
And may all your days be good and long upon the Earth.

Small, Unique Features
Small and unique characteristics add personality to a wedding so make sure you really think about this category. One of the most beautiful features is to release butterflies at the end of the ceremony. Butterflies can either be ordered (but will arrive frozen) or purchased in a "raise you own" kit. If the wedding is to be held on the beach, a charming idea is to bottle your sand from the site and hand this out to guests as favors, in addition to providing an inexpensive favor, you will have a keepsake from your special day. Quirky favors are a great way to add personality to a wedding, like giving out pear candles with a card that reads, "a perfect pear".

No matter what small features you chose to incorporate, remember it's your day. It's a day that you will remember and cherish for the rest of your life so make it your own!