From spring flowers to Easter Bunnies, from yellow fluffy chicks to Chocolate Easter eggs, here are lots of stylish and fun ideas to include in your wedding arrangements. Yellows, creams and whites would form the basis of an Easter wedding. Introducing a touch of fresh spring green for contrast. A hint of blue would bring a reminder of the clear blue skies of summer that will soon arrive. So give your wedding an Easter theme!

The church will already be filled with flowers for Easter, a definite plus for brides on a tight budget. The simple addition of a few personal touches and your venue will look wonderful.

The Invitations

• Easter shapes could be the basis of an invitation card. Cute baby rabbits, fluffy yellow chicks or decorated Easter eggs would all look good
• Create your personalised cards on your computer. Photocopy or print your chosen picture or photograph. Design a separate inside page
• Choose carefully from the wide range of exquisite papers available, make use of heavy tracing paper or buy ready prepared 'window' cards from craft shops
• Choose invitations designed using pressed spring flowers. Delicate primroses would look beautiful
• Use an Easter card as a wedding invitation
• Send your card together with the gift of a small Easter Egg
• Create your own card using coloured ink and stamps of spring flowers and leaves

What To Wear
For Her:

• Decorate the bodice with softly coloured beading or embroidery, varying from palest to deepest yellow
• Have a transparent overskirt of palest yellow over white or ivory and use matching decoration on the bodice
• Keep the design soft and feminine, for warmth add a matching shrug over a sleeveless gown
• Use soft 'floaty' material such as chiffon, gorgette or organza
• Wear spring flowers in the hair and in an informal bouquet
• Decorate the edge of the veil and the gown with small silk primroses
• Look to Jane Austin for inspiration. Wear an empire waist gown and small straw bonnet bedecked with flowers. Carry a shallow basket brimming over with spring flowers

For Him:

• The groom would look good in a light coloured suit
• His waistcoat, shirt, cravat and/or pocket-handkerchief should match the bridal colours. A pure white suit would be perfect

The Bridesmaids

• The colours of primroses and daffodils should be inspirational
• A dark bridesmaid would look wonderful in rich yellow but for a fairer bridesmaid a creamier yellow would be more flattering
• White gowns with small motifs in yellow, spring green or a little soft blue
• Gowns in the colour of bluebells
• Keep styles light and feminine, soft fabrics, gentle colours, ribbons, curls and delicate flowers
• Floral bonnets and empire line dresses in old fashioned sprigged muslin (or its modern non crease equivalent!)
• A number of small bridesmaids can be dressed in varying shades of spring colours - lemon, pale green, bluebell blue and rich yellow, each with matching floral headdresses and posy
• Instead of flowers, little bridesmaids could carry white, fluffy Easter bunnies
• A small flower girl dressed as an Easter bunny. Wearing an all white outfit, with white tights to keep her warm, carrying a basket full of decorated Easter Eggs

Flowers
Flowers are important to this theme and should reflect the season. An early Easter allows the use of spring bulbs but, if Easter is late, silk flowers may be substituted for some decorations. Modern production allows many flowers to be available out of season and it would be advisable to consult your florist well in advance.

• Early seasonal yellow and white flowers include daffodil, narcissus, lily of the valley, primrose, forsythia, lilies, freesia, iris, hyacinth, ranunculus and tulips
• For contrasting blues, there are iris, bluebell, hyacinth, lilac, forget-me-not and sweet pea
• Light green foliage and green tone flowers mix well with the light yellows
• Primroses or violets make beautiful posies for young bridesmaids to carry or they could be carried in small wicker baskets.
• A simple bunch of tulips tied with ribbon makes a striking booquet
• Certain narcissus, jonquils and lily of the valley are strongly perfumed

Flowers The Cake

• Choose a rich chocolate cake covered with chocolate icing and decorate with pastel coloured miniature eggs, Easter chicks and yellow ribbons or with fresh yellow spring flowers entwined around each tier
• Decorate white iced cake with sugar primroses and trails of pale green leaves. Place a posy of primroses on the top
• Have figures of the bride and groom emerging from two halves of a golden Easter Egg
• Have lemon icing on your cake, with small chicks iced around each tier and a large fluffy chick on the top, standing in a nest with the bride and groom
• Add silver bells and a touch of white icing on pale yellow, with a white church for the centrepiece
• Use a modern centrepiece incorporating soft yellow feathers

Decorations

• Hang swags of yellow net or tulle decorated with silk or paper flowers
• Use white trellis to form screens covered with spring flowers and greenery
• Cover tables in pale yellow or spring green and white
• Attach 'tissue' primroses to lengths of satin ribbon and drape around tables or wind around poles in marquee
• Attach name labels to small Easter eggs or fluffy yellow chicks to use to mark place settings
• Add a sparkle to your yellow and green colour scheme with a touch of silver. Small silver bells, silver and glitter painted twigs and silver foil Easter eggs could be used. Small silver wedding shapes could be scattered across the tables

Table Centrepieces

• Small woven baskets filled with shredded yellow cellophane, miniature eggs and fluffy chicks
• A pot of spring flowers arranged with a cuddly bunny and coloured Easter eggs. Grow bulbs at home that will be ready to flower for your wedding
• A flower arrangement in a small woven basket with a silk bow attached to the handle
• Paint hardboiled eggs and pile them up on decorated trays. (Your young relatives would enjoy helping with this task)
• Cut glass bowls containing coloured glass pebbles and floating scented candles
• Fill modern translucent plastic coloured vases with yellow tulips. The tulips continue to grow after they have been cut and they bend towards the light, making elegant arrangements

Other Ideas

• Hold an Easter bonnet parade. Ask your guests to 'go overboard' in the hat department and award a prize for the most amazing hat
• Arrange for Easter bunny to hand out Easter eggs to your guests
• Hold an Easter egg hunt
• Provide face painting for the children - turn them into Easter bunnies
• Don't forget to include 'Easter parade' in you music!
• Conceal a tape recorder amongst your floral decorations and play birdsong tapes
• Add the sound of sparkling water with an indoor fountain as a centrepiece, surround it with fresh flowers and add tasteful imitation butterflies or birds
• Fill the room with perfume from flowers, candles, pot pourri or perfumed air fresheners. Add perfume to the fountain and spray artificial flowers
• Used garden 'trugs' (Shallow wooded baskets with handles) and fill them with colourful Easter Eggs and flowers. Add some yellow ribbon and the occasional chick or bunny
• Provide bubbles for your younger guests to blow around the room
• White cages containing beautiful yellow canaries would add their song to your celebrations - but care must be taken that the birds are in a suitable environment, a quiet airy corner would be appropriate