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.
[ image: mazelmoments.com ]
2. For an interfaith wedding, combine cultures like this chuppah made from sari material for a Jewish Hindu interfaith Wedding.
[ image: mazelmoments.com ]
3. Get inspiration from your ketubah design and pick out creative elements for your chuppah.
[ images: mazelmoments.com ]
4. Try something really different like this unusual chuppah by Sculptor Andrea Cohen.
[ image: mazelmoments.com ]
5. Pick out your wedding colours and create a dramatic and colourful aisle and chuppah with flowers and branches.
[ image: arielyve.com ]
6. For simple elegance a bamboo Chuppah works beautifully, especially for an outdoor setting.
[ image: mazelmoments.com ]
7. Have some or all of your guests make a part of a chuppah quilt
[ image: theknot.com ]
8. Use a talit and lily branches for a strikingly simple chuppah.
[ image: anon ]
9. Blossom, or any flower, in abundance makes for a very striking chuppah.
[ image: Brian Dorsey / weddingstylefileblog.com ]
10. For a rustic summer chuppah use 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.
12. Use hanging votives and bamboo for a really different chuppah
[ 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.
[ image: mazelmoments.com ]
14. For a garden wedding, use moss, willow and colourful balls of hanging flowers for a really fun chuppah.
[ image: mazelmoments.com ]
15. Flowering branches are stunning when used for a chuppah and are also a 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
[ image: nisiesenchanted.com ]
17. There’s something really special about this ‘laid back’ effortlessly simple tree chuppah
[ image: weddingstylefileblog.com ]
18. For a beach ceremony use tropical colours, light flowing materials and bamboo for the chuppah.
[ image: junebugweddings.com ]
19. A perfect example of a very atmospheric rustic chuppah
[ image: mazelmoments.com ]
20. Go Great Gatsby and have a vintage feather chuppah!
[ image: mazelmoments.com ]
21. For a contemporary white chuppah use suspended glass terrariums filled with candles or petals.
[ image: jessicahillphotography.com ]
22. For something really different create a wire / bird cage Inspired chuppah and hang flowers, candles or meaningful artefacts from it.
[ image: mazelmoments.com ]
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).
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]](https://www.smashingtheglass.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/gadren_theme_chuppah_21.jpg "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!
You can see Smashing The Glass’s entire Chuppah pinterest board here, and follow all our boards here. Happy pinning!
