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Black and White Wedding Ideas for an Evening of Glamour

If sophisticated glamour is what you're after, these black and white wedding ideas are just what you need! Incorporating the use of textures and prints into your color scheme will help avoid a black and white wedding that looks flat, basic and boring. Texture adds depth, and depth equals excitement. Throw an additional accent color into the mix-red is a great choice-and you're ready to rock!

So...read all the ideas or choose the idea category from the drop down list below:

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The Bride And Bridesmaids

Bridesmaids wearing black gowns with white sashes will look stunning as they're escorted down the aisle by groomsmen dressed in pinstripe suits. Bouquets and boutonnieres crafted from red roses are an excellent way to use red as your accent color. The bride can wear any white gown of her choice and fit right into the mix.

Black And White Wedding Decorations

There are literally dozens of black and white wedding ideas that can be used to decorate your wedding reception! Be sure that reception tables are covered with an equal mixture of black and white tablecloths-some should be solid and others should be patterned. Feel free to mix them up as long as they're the proper colors! Chair backs can be decorated with large bows created from shimmery red gauze, and avoid boring centerpieces by setting black, white, and red balloon bouquets in the middle of your tables.

Wedding Favors

Small black and white photo frames which resemble filmstrips or director's clapboards are a popular choice for wedding favors because they'll give your guests a place to display a photo from your wedding. They can also act as table decorations until the night is over.

Black And White Wedding Cake

The wedding cake is usually one of the main attractions of a wedding reception, so be sure that yours fits in with the black and white theme. A multi-iered white cake tied with black ribbon and decorated with red strawberries will be the most sophisticated dessert you've ever seen, and a large plate of white iced sugar cookies with black piping can be a decorative replacement for the traditional groom's cake.

Wedding Invitations

You're going to need black and white wedding ideas when it's time to decide on wedding invitations, too. Black invitations with white text are one option, but cards featuring a black and white floral pattern border will look wonderful as well. If your invitations include black envelopes, address them in silver ink!