Glastonbury Themed Wedding - Ideas and Tip(i)s

[DJL]

Good morning lovely people of efests @eFestivals, hope this is OK to post in chat.

We've just started planning a wedding with a Glastonbury theme (for August 2020). I'm not creative or craftsy at all so have little expertise in this... but I'm hoping this forum will have more, plus a few of you may have experience and tips of doing something similar.

So far we have the suggestion of different stages/venues - thoughts of making a pyramid backdrop, flagtopia, a SE corner, disco shed (borrowed from Latitude because there happens to be a suitable shed), silent disco etc.  All miniature to go in various sections in and around a village hall. Hopefully with signs in the Glastonbury font - has anyone got hold of this before? Some green fields type activities (flower crown making, face painting) maybe? We're also looking into wristbands and booking (as well as regular camping and for those that may need it) various glamping options from an external provider.

Any thoughts,  ideas, experience etc. on any of the above? 

Please and thank you.

[Rubber Soldier]

Make sure you hire a teenage who looks like he got dressed at the lost and found box of a 90’s secondary school to sell balloons filled with NOS to your guests. Book at DJ to play some bullshit drum and bass music all night to really complete the SE Corner expierence. 

[dentalplan]

Have your first dance to Plastic Fox.

[morph100]

@brandycoke had the font

[crocodiles]

Say it's a fallow year and u will try again the year after 

[Gabi_says]

Faux doors to make the loos look like long drops

Have someone dressed like him and wearing a Michael Eavis mask going around the place every now and then

 

 

[Yokel Again]

My friends bought loads of burrow hill and made a big wooden cider bus to serve/help yourself from. It looked great - about 5-6ft tall.

[shuttlep]

two of my friends met at Glastonbury, and although they didn't have a themed wedding the names of the tables were after stages. so the top table was the pyramid table. the next was was the other table and so on 

[ian the worm]

Lock some cows in a shed round the back. 

[shuttlep]

55 minutes ago, ian the worm said:

Lock some cows in a shed round the back. 

?

 

serve milk off the back of a tractor , shouting milky milky milky 

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

An example of a seat planner;

[Wickedfaerie]

I'm going to be making a wedding dress from old Glastonbury Festival bags soon. Let me know if your fiancee is interested. (It'll look a lot nicer than it sounds!)

[The Nal]

8 hours ago, Gabi_says said:

Faux doors to make the loos look like long drops

Someone on here has an mp3 file of the sound the doors make when they slam shut. Have that randomly playing in the toilet. 

[jump]

1 hour ago, Yoghurt on a Stick said:

An example of a seat planner;

My mate's wedding had a similar seat planners at theirs. I was sat on the Other Stage and complained it clashed with who I wanted to see at John Peel stage.

They hired a big fancy tent in a grassy park behind a community centre (so we could use their loos) with a mini stage inside for a covers band. As the band started playing I fell asleep on some hay behind the tent otherwise it was really nice day.

Edited March 4, 2019 by jump

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

More food for thought here;

https://www.pinterest.co.uk/kauborn/glastonbury-wedding/?lp=true

 

[ilovelanegan]

We had a festival/fete theme for our wedding, including festival lanyard invitations (see photo- with a running order for the weekend (we had stuff going on the days before and after as well- yes, we milked the occasion); wellies as table centrepieces (small kids ones that we used to hold the flowers) and a wooden signpost showing what was 'onsite'. Lots of our guests stayed in bunk rooms at the venue so that was designated as 'camping' and we gave them all special wristbands and vouchers for free drinks.

It was awesome - you'll have so much fun!

[gfest2009]

Check out www.instagram.com/greenfieldscrafts

[Crazyfool01]

A few years ago we managed to borrow some of the bins for a friends stag night 

[Crazyfool01]

[pilton digger]

2 hours ago, The Nal said:

Someone on here has an mp3 file of the sound the doors make when they slam shut. Have that randomly playing in the toilet. 

that would be @deebeedoobee who has it as a message tone on her phone.

[DJL]

Thanks all… this has amused and informed me in equal measure

[Purple aki squat]

To create it realistically you need to invite at least 33% of attendees from Liverpool.

[brandycoke]

You need to inceltivize the guests by offering more wedding cake if they travel by bus.

I do indeed have a font as mentioned by morph100, drop me your e-mail by pm if you need it.

Edited March 9, 2019 by brandycoke

[Ayrshire Chris]

Send out 90% of the invitations early then leave the rest of your friends sweating for months until you have a resale. For those who aren’t successful Offer them a chance to volunteer to wash dishes, act as ushers, clean the bogs and serve the meal in return for an invite. 

[Beet]

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