Wedding Forum - Alice in wonderland theme...

*away to look for my list of ideas*

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Love the cupcakes!

Having mismatched cups/saucers and teapots as centrepieces, these can be bought cheap from charity shops too!



Glass bottles filled with water and food colouring with little tags attached saying "drink me", again cost saving way would be to save bottles from home and fill yourself, like wine bottles with stoppers or cordial bottles. Just make sure if its food colouring the guests know not to bother drinking it. Or you could just fill the bottles with things for the guests to consume



Little cakes with eat me tags on, or (and this suggesting comes from the wonderful Lala)Stained Glass window biscuits. If you were giving tablet or fudge as a favour or bags of almonds the eat me tag would work particularly well.

Oh wow Brilly! I love some of these ideas, so quirky and cute. Plus colourful which is all me ahah x

There's the obvious croquet theme... nabbed Brilly's pic from her other thread lol

You can make flamingo mallets, folded playing cards made out of carboard for the hoops and cover the bals in green and pink felt/fuzz with googly eyes attached like the hedgehogs in the film

Invites:



I love the don't be late one best

Little riddles and questions on the tables to get guests interacting with each other.

"Why is a raven like a writing desk" is probably the most famous quote from Alice in Wonderland. There's no answer to this question but it would be funny to see the ideas guests come up with.

Other riddles/questions/quotes....


“But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
"How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, or you wouldn’t have come here.”



“Mad Hatter: “Why is a raven like a writing-desk?”
“Have you guessed the riddle yet?” the Hatter said, turning to Alice again.
“No, I give it up,” Alice replied: “What’s the answer?”
“I haven’t the slightest idea,” said the Hatter”


“And what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversation?”

“It is better to be feared than loved.”

“Curiouser and curiouser!”

“No wise fish would go anywhere without a porpoise.”

Invitation ideas:

*Have your invitations come from the Fish-Footman, addressed to `For the Duchess. An invitation from the Queen to play croquet.'
*Tell your guests not to be late for a very important date, like the White Rabbit
*Ask them to meet you in Wonderland
*Use some famous quotes from the books, like "Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here (...)" for directions, and "Where shall I begin, please your Majesty (...)" for the start of the invitation
*Put a teabag, playing cards, or other stuff together with the invitation into the envelope
*Shape your invitations like a playing card, tea bag, teapot or tea cup. Or make a top hat, and replace the 10/6 card with a card containing the party details.

Games:
•Play lawn croquet: with hedgehog plush toys as balls, or perhaps hedgehogs painted on the balls. Attach colored and stuffed socks to the end of the mallets and sew on eyes, to represent flamingos, or use a plush flamingo. Create large cardboard playing cards for the arches.
•Play chess. You can do this on a normal sized chessboard, or you can make a huge chessboard in your garden and have your guests play the pieces!
•Play "pin the grin on the Cheshire Cat"
•Turn on the TV and play Alice in Wonderland movies during the party.
•Buy white tea pots and tea cups, and paint your own tea set.
•Do the Caucus race. Make your guests run around in a circle, and when you shout 'stop' the last one to sit down/run to the middle is out. Or make a caucus version of the game musical chairs, where you remove one of the chairs each round and people have to find a chair to sit on when the music (the caucus race song from the Disney movie) stops.
•Make up silly riddles
•Play 'Paint the roses red'. Buy some fabric white roses and red paint (or markers). The person (or team) who finishes painting his rose first wins. You could give time penalties for sloppy painting or spilled drops. You could also set a general time limit and have someone dressed as the Queen of Hearts storm into the room when the time is up.
•Buy some basic top hats and let your guests decorate them
•Hide a small golden key or a White Rabbit plush and have your guests find it
•Do a quiz with trivia questions based on the Alice stories
•Play games with a 'Contrariwise' theme: make people name stickers, where you write their names on backwards. Everyone must call everyone else by their backwards name, or risk a forfeit. You could invent a game where names must be called, or you could just have this going on throughout the party. Also, you could ask people questions and they must give the opposite answer. Or, say the answer, but backwards. For most of these games, some kind of time pressure is essential to make it more difficult and to make people make mistakes and have to do forfeits. The more adult the party, the more adult the questions. 'Have you ever done xyz?' would be interesting if people have to say the opposite. It becomes more like a truth or dare game then.
•Make a game of Clean Cup: have guests assemble at table. They fill their plates with food and make their tea (or other drink) as they like for a certain amount of time. When the time is over, say "Clean cup. Clean cup. Move down. Move down." The guests move to the next place and put more food on the plate and change the tea however they wish. This goes on and on until everyone returns to their own place setting. Now, everyone must eat and drink what the others have put. Prizes can be awarded to the most weird concoction.
•Make coloring pages for children so they can paint the roses red
•Make teams, put a bucket (or large teapot) with tea on one side and an empty one on the other side of a course. Your guests have to fill a teacup, run to the other side (with the cup in their hands, or balancing them on their heads...), and empty the cup there. The team that has filled the bucket first wins.
•Paint some unboiled eggs to resemble Humpty Dumpty. Form teams. Lay each of the eggs on a spoon - one egg per team. Your guests have to put the other end of the spoon into their mouths, and run to the other side of the field as fast as they can without dropping the egg (and without using their hands to keep it from falling). Then they have to hand over the spoon with the egg to their teammates, who have to run back. Repeat this until all team members have run the course. The team that finishes first without dropping the egg, wins. If you drop the egg and it is still in one piece, you may continue. If the egg breaks, you're out!
•Have an "I'm late!" potato sack race, in which everyone has to hop to the finish like the White Rabbit.
•Gather a lot of teacups and put them upside down on a table. Under one of them, you hide a Dormouse (or White Rabbit). Your guests take turns and may lift one cup per turn to see whether something is underneath it. The one who finds the Dormouse wins. You can make the game harder by inventing extra rules, like shuffling the cups after each turn.
•Get a hookah and attach a bubble blower to the end (or create one by bending a wire), so you can blow soap bubbles. Who makes the largest?
•Make a Jabberwock piñata and use a (plastic or wooden) sword to beat it. Who slays the Jabberwock and becomes the beamish boy?
•And of course, don't forget: EVERYBODY has won, and all must have prizes!

Make a pumpkin look like the cheshire cat grinning in the dark

Decorate a door, (preferably one not needing used like a cupboard door to avoid damage) to make it look like the door in the film

You used to be much more muchier - you've lost your muchness!

My friend did Alice in Wonderland, and she had various items included in her bouquet. She also wore striped stockings under her dress. My sister-in-law had a mad hatter's tea party at her hen do, which involved lots of mismatched crockery and a mouse in a teapot.

What a brillinat thread!! I love all the mismatched colours centerpieces!!
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They're the signs we're getting :) there's loads of stuff on E-tsy, props & things! xx

Siany I looked at some props from an events company hun and they wanted £2400 in total at about £400 per prop lol x

yes please hun as im after the rabbit etc :) x

aww thanks hun Im just looking through everything as im hoping to make most the cakes etc especially the cone cakes :) x