Speakeasy invitations and wedding theme

I recently ran across a blog with a great post on 1920s wedding theme ideas. One of my favorite ideas on the list was making your 1920s wedding invitations out to be passes to a speakeasy.

A speakeasy was where people could get together to drink and party during the 1920s, when Prohibition was in full swing. You could easily copy this exciting aspect of the Roaring Twenties by designing your invitations as passes to your speakeasy wedding, and even including a secret password that they would need in order to gain entrance.

If you do this, I recommend you maintain the speakeasy theme at the wedding, too. Have bouncers instead of ushers, and make them demand the passwords from your guests before admitting them. Decorate the venue to make it feel exciting and perhaps a little illegal — have the reception in the basement of the venue, board up the windows, etc.

Another way to continue the speakeasy theme at the wedding would be to play on the "bathtub whiskey" idea. During Prohibition, a lot of people made their own alcohol in their bathtubs. Get huge buckets or — if you can — old-fashioned copper bathtubs, fill them with ice, and put bottles of beer, wine, and liquor in them. If you can find Coca-Cola or another kind of cola in retro glass bottles, you can also put them in there — Coca-Cola was big in the 1920s, too.

A speakeasy theme would definitely make your 1920s wedding memorable, to you and your husband as well as to all your guests. Just thinking about it makes me want to get married all over again!