A pirate wedding is a great idea! See how to make accessories for this holiday, a bouquet of shells, what contests to hold, how to make a wedding cake in the shape of a ship.
Summer is a great time for a wedding! At this time of year, you can even play it on the shore of the reservoir. Check out the script and contests in advance to make this event fun and unforgettable. Pirate-style invitations, themed clothes for newlyweds and guests, appropriate treats and decoration are interesting to create with your own hands.
Making original pirate style wedding invitations
Let the guests know in advance that they have been invited to a pirate wedding. And then suddenly some will decide to wear evening dresses, tuxedos to celebrate this event in a restaurant. But in fact, it will take place on the shore of the reservoir, mainly in the fresh air.
Of course, you can rent a restaurant in advance in a pirate style or to make it look like a ship. If you want to save money, then create a similar stop yourself. But first, figure out how to invite guests to the wedding in an original way.
- You can pre-age the paper to resemble an old map. To do this, cover a regular sheet with a solution of coffee or tea. When dry, use.
- You can make its edges uneven so that they are as if worn out by time. When the coating is dry, write an invitation to the family, couple, or person on this sheet.
- It is also advisable to draw a map to show exactly where the pirate-style wedding will take place. Roll up the invitation, tie it up and put a wax seal. And if you want to be more original, then put this message in a glass bottle, close it with a stopper and hand it to the addressee.
Another option to age the edges of the paper is to burn them with a lighter. But first, complete this stage of work, and then write the invitation. And it will be a shame if the paper burns out more than necessary.
Tie it with a satin ribbon. If you wish, put the message in such a pirate chest. Then each guest will have not only an invitation, but also such a nice souvenir.
Below is a master class with step-by-step photos that will help you create a pirate chest, in which you then put such invitations. But first, look at what other pirate style wedding invitations you can make.
Let it be paper boats. You will make the base of dark cardboard, glue a light inscription here, which reads, like the names of the heroes of the occasion. Make two bases for the boat, glue them together, and glue a wooden skewer inside, which will become the mast of the ship. You will glue the flag upstairs, and the wedding invitation will become the sail.
If the delivery will be handled by a courier, or you yourself can take a postcard to each invitee, then put it in a bottle, close it with a cork, and tie it with a ribbon. Included with such items are pirate cards, which have a diagram so that guests can find a place for the celebration.
If you age the paper, then you can write an invitation here, then roll it up in the form of an envelope, tie it with harsh threads and attach a seal.
You can print portraits of the bride and groom on the invitations, use cardboard for this. Then you will roll it into a roll and tie it with a thread, attaching a wax seal. And now - the promised master class.
Take:
- beer cardboard;
- good glue;
- scissors;
- metal ruler;
- black and brown acrylic paint;
- silver cardboard;
- two beautiful furniture handles for antique;
- CD-ROM;
- shiny carnations with large caps;
- A4 sheet of paper;
- knitting needle;
- stationery knife.
You will have a wonderful pirate wedding if you make invitations and put them in pirate chests. You can decorate the places of celebration with such items or put a small bottle of rum there and give them to guests at the end of the evening as a keepsake.
Cut two 12 x 18 cm rectangles out of the cardboard for the bottom. For the walls, you also need to cut out a couple of parts, but measuring 8 by 18 cm. Two smaller walls will be 8 by 11, 7 cm in size. Now circle the disk on the cardboard, cut this blank in half to then create 2 side parts for the lid from it. And the lid itself has a size of 19, 5 by 18 cm.
Take this last piece, and use a non-writing pen and a metal ruler to line it into 2 cm segments. The latter will have a width of 30 cm. Take a knitting needle or a pen and use these devices to slightly round off this cover.
Cut two strips from a white sheet of paper, the width of which is 4 cm. Fold them in half lengthwise and on one side of each draw these triangles, then cut them here with scissors. Using these curly strips, you will glue one and the second side to the lid to make it semicircular.
You will also use this paper to glue the sidewall pieces together. The width of the strips is 3 cm. They also need to be bent in half lengthwise, and then carry out the plan.
Take a sheet of beer cardboard and make some kind of boards out of it. To do this, this paper material needs to be cut into strips 3 cm wide. Their length is 19 cm. You will glue them along the length. And in order to decorate the chest in width, it is necessary to cut out such strips, but 12 cm long. Now each will need to be arranged around the perimeter in such a way that it seems that it is a roughly processed board. After all, there were no such devices as now. Therefore, the pirate chest could be made in this style.
Glue the resulting planks to the top of the lid. Then close the sides as well. Also attach these items to the bottom of the chest.
A pirate wedding will be a success when you make such attributes for it.
Now paint the resulting blank brown. When this coating is dry, take a thin brush and use it to paint the places between the boards, as well as on the corners, with black paint. Do the same for the lid and bottom of the chest.
Cut the silver cardboard into strips of 2 cm along the length of the chest. Now coat these blanks with a little black and brown paint to make them look like rusty iron. Let them dry, then stick nails with large heads in here to decorate the future chest this way.
The same strips need to be cut out for the lid. Attach these items to the chest. Then secure the curly handles. Make two lid fasteners out of the same cardboard, stick studs in here, and then also cover with two types of paint to add antiquity here.
Pin these items in place to make a pirate chest. This is how it will turn out.
Clothes for the bride and groom for a pirate wedding
The invitations have been sent out, it's time to decide what the young people will wear.
There are many options. This photo compilation shows you what outfits for the bride and groom you can use. If the young woman wishes, she will wear a dress in beige tones, take a bright bouquet to set off her outfit. And the groom may well put on a suit like Jack Sparrow.
Another option for a girl is to use white pants and high heels of the same color. Then the wedding dress can be short in front, and its underskirt is golden. The veil is attached to a brimmed hat.
Also, the bride and groom can dress in white outfits, but complement them with accessories. The groom will have a dark cocked hat, belt and sword. And the bride will wear a dark hat with a red flower or dark ribbons. A headdress for a girl should be with large brim. They can be trimmed with matching lace.
A red dress with a black vest and a skirt of these colors will also be appropriate. If the groom wishes, let him put on a golden jacket. His cocked hat is trimmed with tape of this color.
And the bride's bouquet will consist of seashells, as in the lower right photo.
You can make your own clothes for guests. Also make hats for them out of velvet paper and cardboard. You can sew them from fabric for guests and for the groom. A spyglass is also easy to make, it will become a bright accessory.
Now check out the bride's bouquet. This accessory is an integral part of the bride and groom's look. But it should fit the general theme of the holiday.
How to make a bridal bouquet from seashells for a pirate wedding - photo
You can take white shells, glue floral wire to them, wrap it with tape and glue artificial leaves. You can buy artificial flowers, remove the top from them and glue the shells, you get such a cute bouquet that resembles roses.
Watch a photo workshop on how to make a bouquet of seashells. Take:
- portbouquet holder;
- plastic ball;
- stationery knife;
- seashells;
- white satin ribbon;
- half beads;
- floristic wire;
- round nose pliers;
- hot silicone gun;
- glass balls.
A pirate wedding involves a bridal bouquet with a nautical theme. See how to make it from seashells.
Take a bouquette holder, wrap a satin ribbon around its leg.
Using a stationery knife, cut off a half of the styrofoam ball and glue it to the top of the bouquette holder. Glue the same white flat shells onto this foam blank. Cut the floristic wire into 20 cm pieces, bend the end of each with round-nose pliers. Now glue this side of the wire to the shell. Make several of these different elements.
The pirate wedding bouquet will be simply amazing when you finish it. Now you need to insert the wire into the upper part of the bouquette holder, dropping glue on the tip of the wire. Fix all the shells in the same way, glue small shells without wire and balls between them. Take a translucent ribbon, shape it into a kind of skirt and glue it to the bottom of the bouquet.
Here's how to make a bridal bouquet from seashells. You can decorate the place of celebration with similar accessories, as well as arrange bouquets on the tables, but for the latter purpose, such low ones, in pots, are more suitable.
To create such adorable products, the shells are first painted with a spray, and a piece of foam is first inserted into the pot, then cut with a knife to give the desired shape.
Now you need to stick pre-made flowers from shells into the foam. Place green shells between them so that they resemble unblown buds. Some can be painted gold. If you wish, leave a few shells unpainted to highlight the rest. Such bouquets will perfectly decorate a pirate wedding.
Paint the shells silver if you like. Make the leg of the bouquet from the fabric of the same color. Then glue flowers from satin ribbons between the shells. They can be lilac, blue.
Shells go well with beads. Use this when making your bridal bouquet. You can additionally decorate it with wire, on which elongated pearls are fixed.
See how wonderfully the bride's bouquet is in harmony with her dress. If it is white, then it is better if the bouquet includes just such light shades.
In addition to seashells, flowers made from satin ribbons, there can be decorations made of translucent fabric. White and cream looks great together with pink.
Pirate style wedding venue decor
You already know you can place seashell flowers, pirate cardboard chests here. Now look at what else is advisable to put and put here. If there is no way to celebrate a wedding on a ship, then you can make some of its accessories by placing them indoors or outdoors.
Place one or more wooden barrels here. You can also buy a steering wheel, install it. You will make the mast yourself. To do this, you need to securely fix the trunk of a small tree on the stand, attach two more such elements across to it. Sew the fabric sails and fix them to this mast. Place a chest with gold next to it, in the capacity of which various elements painted in this color will appear. You can make a palm tree from plastic bottles. Place it right there. Pirate flags, sea lantern, fishing net, rope rope will also be appropriate.
Many accessories can be made from inflatable balloons. See how these elements are used to make a steering wheel and a pirate flag. The parrot can also be rubber inflatable.
Place the compositions on the tables. To do this, place colored candles in large transparent circles. After all, the pirates drank rum from just such. Place seashells around the candles. Also, these marine attributes can be laid out on tables. Use light colored tablecloths and blue napkins to represent the color of the sea.
And on the right photo, the tablecloth is made in calm beige tones, the chair covers are sewn from the same fabric. This color symbolizes sea sand. Arrange compositions of shells, pearls, artificial greenery on the tables. And tablets with table numbers can be placed in large shells.
When setting up tables for a pirate wedding, consider whether they will be indoors or outdoors.
If you decide to celebrate in nature, then you can hang lifebuoys on the trees, on which you write the names of the young. Light sails will be appropriate here, which can be fixed directly on the branches. Also, these elements will help hide from the sun.
Pirate-style wedding script and organization
The celebration will be a success if you think over in advance how it will be held. Prepare everything you need for the contests to keep your guests happy.
At the entrance to the party, the guests are greeted by the sailor's assistant and the pirate Jack. They will shoot a children's pistol and shout: "Hip-hip-hurray!" They will also say that the pirate frigate "Love" of the newlyweds is happy to welcome guests on board.
The hosts invite guests to sail on this ship to the island called "Family Happiness". The commanders of the ship are newlyweds. The presenters invite guests to meet the heroes of the occasion. To do this, you need to prepare in advance:
- a bottle of rum;
- two large mugs;
- rose petals;
- coins.
Enter the young. Guests, dressed in pirate outfits, shower the heroes of the occasion with petals, and throw small coins at their feet. Someone from the audience makes dashing pirate whistles, others shout: "Piastres, piastres!"
Young people approach their parents. Father holds a bottle of rum and a couple of mugs, and mother holds a loaf of salt. The presenters say that this loaf symbolizes the unity of the family, they invite the young to feed each other, annoying their soulmate for the last time.
Parents make a speech that earlier each of the newlyweds was on an independent voyage. Now they have a common ship, on which they will begin to sail on the same ocean. Parents wish the ninth wave, violent storms and various Bermuda triangles to bypass the family ship. So that the young are accompanied by a favorable breeze, and they never run aground.
Now the presenters invite everyone on an interesting journey. Those who have gathered sit in their places near the laid tables. Previously, you need to put various decorations, accessories here, so that it all looks like a pirate ship.
Toasts are heard, congratulations to the young, in the break between the meal and pleasant words, various contests are held. See what such entertainment can be.
Song Contest
Those wishing to participate in this competition are divided into two teams. The presenter says that each brigade should take turns singing pirate or sea songs. Whoever remembers more of such motives will win.
Best Toast
All in turn make toasts, then the toastmaster chooses the one whose wish was the most interesting. You can give this prerogative to the guests. The winner is determined by the applause of the audience. In honor of whom they will be louder, the winner is recorded. After such drinking contests, it's time to shake things up. To do this, they move on to dancing. But this competition will also be in the form of a competition.
Who dances better
The toastmaster says the ship has made a stopover in a land of fun. And here is a dance festival. The presenters choose five applicants. Those need to come up with pirate nicknames in advance. Incendiary music plays, to which the participants dance. Here you can use national melodies such as Russian folk, lezginka, lambada. Two finalists are selected based on the volume of the applause. At the last stage, it is this couple who dances. You can include unusual musical accompaniment, such as the dance of the little swans or the sword dance. It will be fun to watch pirates doing these steps.
Funny competition
To do it, take:
- a basin of water;
- rope;
- metal spoon;
- toy lifebuoy.
All things will be needed in duplicate. After all, this is exactly how many participants in the competition for a pirate wedding will be. Tie one rope at a time to one metal spoon. These will be a kind of anchors. Now pour warm water into two basins of water, put here in a small life buoy. Each participant must take one spoon with a rope. With the help of such a device, they will try to pull the lifebuoy onto land.
Instead of a lifebuoy, you can take plastic boats or other nautical attributes.
Then the presenter should shout that the wave has gone. At this command, each of the participants will stand in the pelvis to begin the above manipulations. In this case, men should roll up their trousers so as not to get them wet. Then the audience will see which of the contestants has the hairiest leg. This is what the competition is about. But the participants will not know about this for the time being, which will cause general fun.
Confusion
This is exactly what this competition for a pirate wedding sounds like.
- First, those willing to participate are divided into two teams. At the signal of the leader, each person from one brigade must grab an opponent, tie him to a chair. At the same time, they must look to come to the aid of a member of their team, whom they want to subject the same ridiculous execution.
- But when it would seem that the victory will be for the team that tied all the rivals, the presenter announces the second part of the competition. After all, now the brigade wins, each member of which will quickly release the rival tied to them. Therefore, it will be easier for those people who did not do it so diligently in the initial part of the competition.
You can also arrange for a pirate wedding and other competitions, choosing the best pirate and pirate, determining who has the best costume. Finish the evening with a birthday cake for the wedding. See what such a treat might be.
Pirate style wedding cake decoration
Decide in what colors this sweetness will be. And if you like blue, then this color will prevail on the wedding cake. Add food coloring of this color to the cream, decorate the baking tiers with it. Then use white cream to make the crests of the waves. At the top of such a sea-ocean is a ship, its hull is made of dark chocolate, and the sails? from white.
You can make cream roses by adding blue food coloring to it. These are wave blanks. You will attach them to the bottom of the ship. And it itself is made of biscuit, mastic and cream.
If you like black and white colors, then a wedding cake will be just that. On a light background, a specialist will draw a ship with a food marker, and mastic bows and roses will complete this masterpiece.
If you wish, make your own wedding cake. The bottom right photo shows such a simple sample. First, you will bake two sizes of split cakes for this culinary masterpiece. It is more convenient to collect the cake on a special round stand designed for this.
You put a biscuit on it, cut it into several pieces. They will cool down, then you will collect the cake on the stand. To do this, you will first need to soak the cakes, then place them one at a time on this base. It will be necessary to coat the layers with cream.
First, the lower floor is formed, it is larger in size than the upper one. Then you will collect the cakes of the top floor. Cover these blanks with white mastic. Roll from black sausages, form numbers from them that will be on the treasure map. Then, using a dark food marker, draw dots to represent the path to the hidden goods. There will be a circle of chocolate on top, on it you will place a pirate swastika made of white mastic.
From red, make decorations for the cake. This is how to make a cake with your own hands.
If there are not very many guests, then the next pirate-style cake will do.
Place the cream baskets on a special stand. Each has pirate-themed decorations. On top, you will place a small tall cake with a flag on the same theme. You can make a cake in the shape of a ship.
Watch a master class that teaches this.
How to make a cake ship
If you have little experience in cooking, then bake a test cake first. It will need a little food for it. Then it will be already possible to bake a cake for the wedding, using more components by weight. For now, take:
- 5 eggs;
- a glass of flour;
- a glass of sugar;
- 50 g cocoa;
- 2 g baking powder for dough;
- some butter to grease the mold.
Turn on the oven to heat up to 180 degrees. At this time, you beat the eggs with sugar with a mixer. Then add baking powder, flour, cocoa and stir the dough. Before that, you need to grease a tall rectangular shape with oil. Immediately add the finished dough here and send it to the oven. You cannot open it while baking a biscuit, otherwise the cake may fall off. When the crust is ready, open the oven and let the cake cool for 20 minutes. While this is happening, draw the blank of the ship on paper and cut it out.
After the specified time has elapsed, remove the biscuit and divide it in half with a knife.
A pirate wedding will be delicious and beautiful if you make such a treat.
Attach the pre-cut ship template to the first half, cut it along it. Then do the same with the other side.
The workpieces need to be cut even across in half. Then you use the cream to glue two of them together, and the remaining 2 will need to be cut. Divide the first half as shown in the next photo.
Take only the extreme parts, glue them with the cream on the 1st and 2nd sides of the future ship.
From the second quarter, also make two blanks and glue them in place. Then the ship will be even higher.
To make the cream, melt 50 g of dark chocolate, add 350 g of butter and one glass of chocolate condensed milk. Shoot all this down, coat the cake with cream when the cakes are already cool.
Then the workpiece needs to be covered with chocolate mastic, and to prepare it, take:
- 400 g sugar;
- 250 g of boiled cold water;
- 170 g invert syrup;
- 1 kg of powdered sugar;
- 25 g gelatin;
- a pinch of salt;
- about 300 g of potato starch.
Put gelatin in a glass, pour 100 g of cold boiled water here. Separately combine the syrup, 100 g of water, salt and sugar. Put this mass on fire, it must be cooked for 7 minutes, without stirring. Then remove from heat.
Add the swollen gelatin to the beating bowl, and then pour this mixture into the sweet hot mixture. Continue whisking at maximum speed. The mastic will gradually begin to grow in size and lighten. When it becomes 3 times more than the original one, then make the whipping speed slower and start gradually adding powdered sugar.
Here you can already change the mixer blades for those intended for dough. If you need mastic of different colors, then divide it into pieces at this stage and add food coloring.
Then you will need to wrap these elements in cling film so that the mastic does not dry out in the air. Then it should stand at room temperature for a day. After that, starch is added to it and kneaded. Then they start decorating the cake. First brush it with chocolate cream. Then roll the mastic into a thin layer and wrap the resulting workpiece with it.
Now, with the help of special stacks or using available tools, apply the following pattern to the ship. Here you need to make lines and holes of the same size.
Now roll the sausages out of the mastic, cut them into equal lengths and attach them to the top of the ship with water. Fix the rest of the details here as well.
When you have a pirate wedding, someone will bring out this cake, then the guests will certainly be delighted. Now make the rest of the details. To do this, you need to roll out the sweet mastic, then cut out the details from it according to the template and use a thin nozzle on the pastry bag with white glaze to apply the remaining features.
It remains to attach these parts with water. Then you will make a sweet or regular cardboard plaque with the names of the heroes of the occasion. It is best to make a wooden mast, and already create the sail lettering.
Here's how to make a pirate style wedding cake. If you decide to hold a wedding in a nautical style or using a pirate theme, then you can decorate the table with another accessory.
How to make a candy ship
Since this is a wedding, such a romantic sailboat would be quite appropriate. Surprisingly, this is not just a decoration, but a delicious treat. Since the ship is made of candy. First you will need to cut paper templates for him. The following diagram shows what size the three blanks should be.
Now attach them to the tall foam, outline and cut out. Then you will need to glue these parts together to form the base of the ship.
To make the cuts even, sand them with an emery bar. Then this device will remove various bulges, unnecessary bevels and jags. Sand outdoors as this is a rather dusty job.
To more reliably connect the elements to each other, make a hole in the back part with a half of a toothpick, glue it in, then use a hot gun to attach the top part to this part. In the same way, you will connect the others. Then glue the blank with white corrugated paper. Cut off the excess and glue the sidewalls.
It's time to make roses in the amount of 8 pieces, there will also be 9 buds. To do this, take pieces of white corrugated paper, cut it into rectangles 6 by 3 cm. For one rose, you will need 9 such blanks. Then cut out 8 x 6 cm rectangles from the same material and round their edges. Thus, make the core of the rose. Cut a drop 3 cm wide and 5 cm high according to the template. Bend the petals with a toothpick. Place the candies and start wrapping them.
Twist this candy tightly, use a toothpick to peel back the petals to make them look more realistic. Then attach the second row with an overlap on the previous one. In this way, collect the whole rose.
Cut a leaf out of green corrugated paper, as in the photo. Fix it in the back of the flower and tie it with a string.
To make buds, take a strip of green corrugated paper, twist it in the middle, put the candy inside, attach the sepal at the back and tie it up again. Thus, make several blanks, attach them to candy roses.
Now we need to make the sails. To do this, take a floristic mesh. If you don't have one, then use organza. Attach a pattern to these canvases, cut out the mesh. Then you need to sew ribbons here using a sewing machine.
And the ends of the tapes can be glued to this canvas for greater reliability. To assemble the ship, take wooden sticks and wrap them with golden corrugated paper. Then spread these pieces to size and thread them through the sails to attach the masts here.
Now you need to decorate the ship with mesh fabric and braid. To do this, measure it, glue the sidewalls as it was done in the photo.
Take a wooden skewer, wrap it in gold paper. Stick into the bow of the ship at an angle. Previously, you will need to make a hole here and glue the skewer with a hot gun. Then pull the ropes - glue the gold string at the bottom of the bow of the ship, wrap the tops of the sails with a string of the same color and glue these elements onto wooden skewers.
Don't cut this golden lace, but pull it to the back of the ship. Tie a knot here and stick it into the styrofoam with a needle. Attach the lace near the bow of the ship, and then tie another one to the inclined wooden skewer for beauty.
In the meantime, attach wooden toothpicks to the buds, tie them with a thread. Additionally, decorate the sails with mesh fabric, pulling it behind the masts.
Decorate the deck with organza curls. To do this, cut out squares from this material with a side of 7 cm, bend them in half obliquely, then again. These are the bags that will turn out.
Glue them around the perimeter of the deck. Then take the roses you created earlier and secure them here with toothpicks. You can also additionally decorate the gaps with ribbons, artificial flowers and other elements.
See how wonderfully the elevated deck is decorated. To achieve this effect, stick the toothpicks around the perimeter here, which you need to glue at the same time. Then take the golden beads and glue them to the toothpicks. First, you can attach a bead to the ends of each stick, and only then fix the chain.
To make a steering wheel, cut a disc out of the foam. Then wrap it on the side with a tape of golden corrugated paper, and glue two circles of this material at the top and bottom. Decode the joints with golden tape. Then glue the skewers here in a circle, at the ends of which fix the golden beads.
Attach the steering wheel in place, add the missing elements to the ship. You can make a golden flag, hang chains. It would be nice to put the figurines of the newlyweds near the steering wheel. If you did not manage to buy such, then take two small dolls, sew clothes for them, like those of future spouses, and stick photos of the heroes of the occasion on the faces of these dolls. Such a sweet surprise will certainly please them and will decorate the place of celebration.
With such wonderful accessories, a pirate wedding will be just a bang. You can use this idea by making a candy ship for a nautical or scarlet sail wedding.
And to make it clearer for you how to organize a pirate wedding, watch the video.
