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Home > Smashing Pins: Beautiful chuppah ideas

Smashing Pins: Beautiful chuppah ideas

14/10/2013 by Karen

Pinterest Logo This is the first in the series of Smashing Pins, where I’ll be choosing one of the Smashing The Glass pinterest boards to share with you. Pinterest is your best friend when it comes to planning your wedding as it’s not only useful for collating inspiring ideas and images, but your boards will also help give guidance to your suppliers.

Today I am looking at some really beautiful ‘chuppahs’ or ‘chuppot’ (for the uninitiated that’s the  canopy under which a Jewish couple stand during their wedding ceremony).  There never seems to be enough inspiring ideas for the all-important chuppah design and one of my most popular boards is definitely the chuppah ideas board. Here I’ve picked 25 out of the 67 pins currently on the board, from the beautifully simple to the outrageously lavish.

You can see the entire Chuppah  pinterest board here, and follow all Smashing The Glass’s boards here. Happy pinning!

1. Keep everything else simple and create the colour in your chuppah for a real ‘wow’ effect.
Colourful chuppah
[ image: mazelmoments.com ]


2. For an interfaith wedding, combine cultures like this chuppah made from sari material for a Jewish Hindu interfaith Wedding.
Chuppah made from Sari Material, Jewish Hindu Interfaith Wedding
[ image: mazelmoments.com ]


3. Get inspiration from your ketubah design and pick out creative elements for your chuppah.
Ketubah Inspired Huppah Inspiration - Cherry Blossom Ketubah Inspired chuppah Inspiration - Red
[ images: mazelmoments.com ]


4. Try something really different like this unusual chuppah by Sculptor Andrea Cohen.
Chuppah by Sculptor Andrea Cohen, Chuppah Studio

[ image: mazelmoments.com ]


5. Pick out your wedding colours and create a dramatic and colourful aisle and chuppah with flowers and branches.
Beachside fuchsia purple chuppah
[ image: arielyve.com ]


6. For simple elegance a bamboo Chuppah works beautifully, especially for an outdoor setting.
Beach Jewish Wedding, Bamboo Chuppah
[ image: mazelmoments.com ]


7. Have some or all of your guests make a part of a chuppah quilt
All guests make a part of the chuppah quilt
[ image: theknot.com ]


8. Use a talit and lily branches for a strikingly simple chuppah.
Beautiful chuppah with Branches
[ image: anon ]


9. Blossom, or any flower, in abundance makes for a very striking chuppah.
blossom_chuppah
[ image: Brian Dorsey / weddingstylefileblog.com ]


10. For a rustic summer chuppah use vintage linens, flowers and lemons
Chuppah made from vintage linens, flowers and lemons
[ image: marthastewartweddings.com ]


11. As seen at Karen & Jeremy’s Wallace Collection wedding, ask some or all of your guests to contribute to your chuppah design by asking them to compose a short message that you can then incorporate into your chuppah canopy design. This is also a lovely way of including guests from abroad that aren’t able to attend in person.
chuppah wallace collection


12. Use hanging votives and bamboo for a really different chuppah
chuppah with hanging votives
[ image: ruffledblog.com ]


13. Subtly pick up your floral colour scheme (and decorate any unsightly edges) by using clusters of your theme colour flowers on the corners of your chuppah.
Chuppah, Purple and white Flowers
[ image: mazelmoments.com ]


14. For a garden wedding, use moss, willow and colourful balls of hanging flowers for a really fun chuppah.
DIY Wedding Arch
[ image: mazelmoments.com ]


15. Flowering branches are stunning when used for a chuppah and are also a beautiful metaphor.
Flowering branches for a chuppah. Beautiful metaphor
[ image: ruffledblog.com ]


16. Extend your chuppah theme / style down the aisle and on the corners of the chairs like this gorgeous pink floral chuppah
Gorgeous Pink Floral Chuppah
[ image: nisiesenchanted.com ]


17. There’s something really special about this ‘laid back’ effortlessly simple tree chuppah
laidback tree chuppah
[ image: weddingstylefileblog.com ]


18. For a beach ceremony use tropical colours, light flowing materials and bamboo for the chuppah.
love the tropical colours for this beach wedding
[ image: junebugweddings.com ]


19. A perfect example of a very atmospheric rustic chuppah
Rustic Chuppah
[ image: mazelmoments.com ]


20. Go Great Gatsby and have a vintage feather chuppah!
Vintage Feather Chuppah
[ image: mazelmoments.com ]


21. For a contemporary white chuppah use suspended glass terrariums filled with candles or petals.
White Chuppah with Suspended Glass Terraniums
[ image: jessicahillphotography.com ]


22. For something really different create a wire / bird cage Inspired chuppah and hang flowers, candles or meaningful artefacts from it.
Wire Bird cage Inspired Chuppah
[ image: mazelmoments.com ]

chuppah4


23. Have your chuppah held by four important people to you both (they don’t have to be Jewish, or even male, so this is a lovely way of honouring those important to you who are not necessarily already in your wedding party).
chuppah


24. Use plenty of greenery, white flowers, white fabric and thin wooden branches for a stunning outdoor chuppah.

Garden theme chuppah made from natural pine branches and white field flowers, seen at Jenna & David’s Wedding on Hatunot blog. [image: Danielle Yashar - DY Photography]
[ image:  hatunot / Danielle Yashar – DY Photography  ]


25. If you are getting married with a beautiful backdrop (like Jaffa, Tel Aviv in this case), keep it all white and minimalist and you can’t go wrong!
chuppah4

You can see Smashing The Glass’s entire Chuppah  pinterest board  here, and follow all our boards  here. Happy pinning!

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