If you'd like to host a wedding that will keep your guests talking long after the festivities have ended, a Cannes themed wedding may be just the choice for you. Combine the fabulous food of Provençal France with all of the glitz and glamour of a high profile film festival. Serve up a fabulous Provençal meal with options like whole roasted fish, chicken with fennel and pistou soup. For dessert, serve a croquembouche or corne d'abondance -- cream puffs drizzled in caramel either stacked or displayed in a horn of plenty.

Dress your bridesmaids in bold red or eye-catching metallic silver. Finish the look with dark sunglasses for the entire wedding party. Roll out the red carpet for your guests, either at the ceremony or reception location. Name your guest tables after celebrities or hotels on the French Riviera. Send your guests home with little chocolate sunglasses in favor boxes wrapped with silver or gold ribbon.

A country fair themed wedding is best held outdoors on a warm spring day. Think casual, with picnic tables in lieu of more formal seating and a barbecue spread, or perhaps a relaxed food station set-up. Hamburgers, sausage and pepper sandwiches and corn on the cob make great staples. If you'd like a real midway feel, ask your caterer to arrange for a funnel cake station to supplement the wedding cake. For centerpieces, look to wildflowers and ask your florist to incorporate blue ribbons into each arrangement. Alternatively, raid a crafts bazaar and choose a different craft to feature at each table.

Drape your guest book table with a lovely quilt and consider flowery tablecloths for other areas. For entertainment, be sure that your band or DJ has a few country and western songs on the play list. Or, if you want to go wild, hire a fiddler or a bluegrass band for a good old-fashioned square dance. Send your guests home with favor boxes filled with animal crackers or homemade cookies.

An English garden themed wedding will start, of course, with flowers. Floral centerpieces, wreaths and arches will all add to the décor. Let your decorations run a little wild, with flowers overflowing from bowls and spilling off the edges of tables. Some wonderful options include alstroemeria, anemone, azalea, aster, narcissus, iris and, of course, roses. Colors can be soft and muted -- pastels are a wonderful choice.

Consider hosting an afternoon tea reception in lieu of a sit-down dinner. Serve a variety of teas, finger sandwiches and scones. Ask your baker to incorporate vine-work and wonderful sugar flowers into the wedding cake. For invitations, consider designs incorporating thatched-roof cottages, flowers and wrought iron gates. Send your guests home with little pots of blackcurrant jam or perhaps individual bars of lavender soap wrapped with lovely purple ribbon.

If you plan to take a specific fairy tale for your theme, the story itself will offer wonderful ideas. However, there are plenty of options that will work with just about any popular fairy tale. For the bride's attire, think about a big, puffy ball gown. This is also the perfect excuse for a train and a long veil. Satin and tulle are wonderful fabrics for a fairy princess gown. Dress the bridesmaids in lovely pastels and outfit the men with cutaway jackets. If your wedding is being held in a tent, run thick ribbons down from the support structures, maypole style. For centerpieces, consider bowls overflowing with wildflowers.

Opt for banquet style tables instead of the traditional round ones and serve an abundance of simpler foods rather than fussier meal choices. Your baker may be able to incorporate a castle theme into your cake. If not, consider accenting the cake and cake table with fresh flowers. Horse drawn carriages, castles and bows make wonderful motifs for invitations. Look for old-fashioned wording and lettering for a fairy kingdom feel. Send your guests home with little chocolate knights on horseback for a perfect ending to your dreamy wedding.

A black tie reception with a twist! For a masquerade themed wedding, the bride and groom's attire should be dramatic. For the bride, think about a strapless ball gown with opera length gloves and a stole, possibly in platinum or gold. If the weather is cold, consider a floor length cloak for entrances and exits. The groom might wear a cutaway or tailcoat jacket with a bold red pocket handkerchief. Bridesmaids might be dressed in black, red or silver and the entire wedding party should be supplied with masks. Encourage your guests to bring their own masks, but remember to provide an ample selection at the reception for those who arrived without.

A cocktail reception will work well for this theme, as will a dramatic choice in wedding cakes. Consider a satellite cake or perhaps one with bold designs in red and black. For centerpieces, think about a bud vase with a single bold bloom -- such as a red devil rose -- or perhaps a feather arrangement in lieu of flowers. For favors, place three black and white cookies in a box with a mask design stamped on the cover.

Seek out a reception location on the river or oceanfront for natural ambiance. Hang thick ropes tied in various sailors' knots around windows and rafters and lean old weathered oars in corners. Place citronella candles and lanterns throughout the reception space. Think about lobster buoys or galvanized buckets filled with sand and seashells as imaginative centerpieces. Deep blue dresses for your bridesmaids and blue blazers with khaki pants for the groomsmen will keep to the ocean theme without subjecting your nearest and dearest to sailor suits.

For dinner, opt for fresh fish or perhaps a relaxed clambake. Lighthouses, fishing boats and seashells make excellent invitation motifs. Get a little silly with the groom's cake and ask for a great white shark or pirate theme. Send your guests home with favor boxes filled with oyster crackers or perhaps gummy fish.

For a sports themed wedding, schedule your big day during warm weather and opt for a relaxed, picnic-style wedding in the great outdoors. Find a reception location with access to an open field and provide soccer balls and footballs for your guests to enjoy. If you've decided on a sports theme, chances are you have a favorite team in mind. Use the team colors as your starting point and select wedding colors within that palette. For example, red might be interpreted through burgundy gowns for the bridesmaids and soft mauve tablecloths. Consider dressing the couple and wedding party in traditional wedding garb for the ceremony, then changing into team jerseys and jeans for the reception.

Have menus printed up naming each dish after a favorite athlete, coach or manager. Keep the theme subtle on the wedding cake, perhaps with baseball stitching or a criss-cross racquet pattern piped into the design. Get wilder with the groom's cake and let your baker concoct a tribute to your favorite team or sport. Send your guests home with favor boxes filled with sports themed chocolate miniatures, or sugar cookies decorated to resemble baseballs, soccer balls or footballs.

Seek out a rustic setting for your camp themed wedding -- possibly a lodge or outdoor tent near the woods. Keep the dress code casual and look to nature for your color scheme. Rust, hunter green and chocolate are all excellent options. Bring a bit of irreverence to formal wedding attire with white decorated sneakers for the bride and sturdy black hiking boots for the groom. If your caterer is game, serve dinner the way they did at sleep-away camp, with central food platters at each guest table from which guests serve themselves. Be sure to stock each table with THE camp essential, bug juice (Kool Aid or punch, for the uninitiated).

In lieu of toasts, why not ask members of the wedding party to share ghost stories remembered from childhood camp days. End the toasts with a rousing rendition of a favorite camp song -- place lyrics at each guest table. Send your guests home with favor-box kits complete with the ingredients and instructions needed to make s'mores (marshmallow, graham crackers, chocolate).

Get ready to dance up a storm. For dress, look to the 1940s. Due to WWII rationing, women often got married in their best dress, so the look is understated and tailored. Consider stockings with seams for the women and streamlined, single-breasted suits for the men. Bridesmaids might wear dresses with sweetheart necklines and three-quarter length sleeves and small 'crown' hats with short veils attached. You'll also want to be certain that the bride and her bridesmaids can dance the night away, so knee or street length dresses may be in order.

For your reception, find a band that specializes in swing music or a DJ who can provide both vintage tunes and the current retro-swing sounds. You may want to set aside a section of the dance floor for beginners and hire a dance instructor to conduct lessons throughout the evening. Send your guests home with CD favors including tunes from the Glenn Miller Orchestra and Duke Ellington.