A RAINBOW is a covenant God made to man, it is also His promise that never will He destroy the human race with water.
If you took the theme of a rainbow for your wedding, you then include the religious ideas behind it.
A wedding is also a covenant between God, husband and wife. It is a promise to be under God and pledge that they will always be together no matter what. A rainbow inspired theme is elegant and tasteful.
Who needs to pick just one or two colours when you can have every colour, all you need to do is to narrow down on the one theme.
When one takes a glimpse at a rainbow, it appears as if it is made out of hundred colours from a distance and yet there are only seven beautiful colours.
These are red often associated with love and romance, orange is a versatile colour that brings life and energy to your wedding palette, yellow lightens, gives life and confidence to your wedding décor, green just brings out a natural and energetic vibe.
The colour used to create a cool and calming effect to a wedding theme is blue, the other rainbow colours are indigo and violet.
A rainbow having variations of seven different colours make many brides and grooms to believe that it may be way too busy for a wedding and that it may also look like a baby playing field.
Reality is that there is a thin line between a rainbow inspired wedding and multi-coloured mess, so, whatever you do, make sure the colours blend together well particularly with regards to your bridesmaids, groomsmen, décorations and bouquet.
Turquoise and light green might sound right in your head, but in real life they seriously clash, so make sure you pick from the rainbow family and then match them well.
For that rainbow theme, put up colourful flowers, table décor as they are perfect adding to the bright, fun and colour rich wedding theme.
The high table décor should have a white table cloth and then each table accented or runners put with a different colour like red table, blue table, yellow table, consider the muted shades instead of the bold colours.
As for the church service, decorations only flowers, organza works best for this type of theme.
Get the right dresses as bridesmaids which fit them well and the groomsmen suits should also fit them well.
Each bridesmaid and groomsman should have a matching colour as a pair, a yellow dress to match a yellow shirt and the others follow with a different colour they choose.
As for the colours, try a bit calming colours, something classy not trashy remember this is a very big, memorable and special day.
Your memorable wedding design relies on detail, so carry the colourful theme through to every aspect of your big day.
Guests will appreciate the effort you make and it will make your wedding day and album a beautiful conversation piece for years to come! So why not throw a vibrant celebration your guests will never forget.
A rainbow theme makes your guests have an awesome party, just like in mathematics where 1+1 = 2, so the two of you must set the tone of your memorable wedding. If you are relaxed, your guests will be too. Rainbow is a theme that makes you and the guests relax on the day of the wedding and it is a theme which has modern brides in mind and draws inspiration from vintage and contemporary styling idea. This theme creates a vibrant yet sophisticated party look which is fun and fresh.
I received an email from Saulos a regular reader of this column
Hi.
I found your article in Sunday Times Newspaper on the role of master of ceremonies very interesting especially that this month, August 2014, I will be clocking sixteen (16) years performing the role of Master of Ceremonies (MC) at events, wedding ceremonies inclusive.
I agree entirely with you that Master of Ceremonies is not a role that should be performed by comedians ONLY because not every comedian can play the role of MC and not every MC can be comic.
In fact, in the old days most private and corporate events used to hire a comedian for stand-up-comedy role with any good speaker, mostly a broadcaster, taking the role of the MC but with institutions/people tightening their budgets they have opted for two-in-one service where the comedian is playing the role of the MC but getting a performance fee for one role.
And with comedians adding a light moment to the proceedings of the event they have taken over the roles of MCs at both corporate and private events but most comedians forget that their role as MC is not about performing at a comedy show but simply to set the tone of the event and announcing/knowing what is coming up with excellent public relation and stand-up-comedy skills. Some they even perform jokes which are offensive, jokes which cannot be entertained even at a comedy show.
Serious speaking, i agree with you here again, that if this situation remains unchecked, we will continue seeing a lot of master of confusions and few master of ceremonies. It is time those comedians who want to graduate into MCs took a keen interest in self or academic training in public relations and it is time non-comic MCs stopped cracking jokes at events as creating comedy material is not an easy task and if forced it breeds embarrassment.
You have to note that even in the comedy industry we have comedians who cannot create jokes and they rely on getting ‘material’ from their fellow comedians, internet and elsewhere as long as there is someone cracking a joke and then they present these jokes at events without taking into consideration the nature of the vent versus the joke being presented. My analysis tells me that these are not comedians but storytellers because comedy requires both creativity and innovation but this should not wait for others to create stories for you.
Unfortunately it is these types of comedians making appearances as MCs at events and the blame goes to event planners/organisers. They know where to get best MCs, comic or non-comic, but they opt for their close relatives or cheap labor and are not looking outside the box. They always bring MCs with the same type of ‘performance’ for ten years and most of them have turned into VICs (Very Important Celebrities) and arrive at events late because of their celebrity status forgetting that MCs must get to the event venue early to coordinate with other service providers like the DJ.
I just hope and trust that comedians who perform as MCs read your article and now know that being an MC is not only about being a comedian but a coordinator of the event. A coordinator with all the necessary information and without long winded jokes.
It is my wish and prayer that MCs will take your advice of being “mature enough, good public speakers, believe in themselves and are properly dressed” because it is with this in mind that i proposed for a diploma course in public relations specifically for artists under Evelyn Hone College but when i advertised this to my fellow artists the response was so poor that i was the only artist in that class which graduated on 18th July, 2014, but thank God that the artist was given the best PR student award.
I am confident that the new comedians/MCs on the scene will take academic preparation in public relations very serious because a combination of the two equals excellent presentation skills.
I end by disagreeing with you on what you said that a wedding is not a place for jokes because it depends on the type of a joke. You don’t perform comedy throughout the event but as filler, where it is important, especially if the joke is related to the event. What is important is to have mature jokes from a professional comedian/MC.
All in all your article was timely because 50 years of Zambia’s Independence cannot be talked about without looking at where the small governments, families, start from and that is the wedding, for those who can manage to feed even the gate crushers,
Cheers.
PATRICK MWAMBA SALUBUSA
(SAULOS) (ACTOR, COMEDIAN & MC)
CHAIRMAN – NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MEDIA ARTS (NAMA)
I’m gathering information on the Zambian weddings from 1964 to 2014, from the stories told the 1960’s, 70’s, 80’s wedding sound as if they were stress free.
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