Halloween Costume Ideas for a Wedding......yep. Help

I suppose you feel you need to be more creative than ghosts via a couple of sheets with holes cut out for eyes? It would be easy to pack. Or maybe you could do something along the line of a toga party style outfit. Again sheets wrapped creatively and belted with some sandals and leafy crowns?

Can you check to see if there is a costume rental place near where you are staying and rent something rather than carry it with you?

I hate wearing costumes and this would just be a royal PITA wedding for me to attend. But most are anyway. sigh.

Good luck.

I love Hallowe'en!
What about finding a period style dress you could wear... like a flapper dress, or something like that? It would be cute, you'd be in costume, and dressed up for the wedding, too!

I would probably do a costume that looked wedding-y - maybe a flapper costume (20's) or a princess.  As long as you don't try to do a physically large costume, it won't take any more room in a suitcase than a dress and a suit.

FWIW, Alison's first real Halloween (she was only 12 days old for her first actual Halloween) still wasn't that great. She wasn't really old enough for trick or treat, and on actual Halloween night, there aren't a lot of activities for little ones around here. We basically dressed her up and took pictures. Fabulous pictures, mind you - some of my favorites. On Halloween night, she refused to put her adorable fairy costume back on. I finally talked her into dressing as a "mommy" by putting on a dress and pushing her new babydoll in a stroller. She lasted all of 2 houses before she was ready to go back home. So, as far as Halloween goes, I would try to find a trunk or treat at a church or something the week before Halloween and let that be your celebration with your kiddo.

Cute picture!

I would probably Google costume rentals in my area to make sure we looked nice. A good rental will probably cost the same as new costumes from a party store, but you'll look better. I love the idea of period clothes or a flapper. No blood or gore, or heavy make-up though--I think that would ruin pictures, unless that's what they're into...

What about a cute vintage dress ala Mad Men and your husband can wear a suit and slick his hair back. Uniquevintage.com has some cute ones and lindybob on amazon has some too.

I would by annoyed as well.. but have to say I am loving the flapper girl look... (although the bride and groom idea was AWESOME!!)

I'm someone who adores Halloween so not getting the hate but why not just do a festive outfit with an over the top mask. I've been seeing incredible stuff on Etsy.

Put on suits. Carry brief cases and file folders. You can be the divorce lawyers.  Bonus points if you can find court forms for their state online and print them out to put in said folders.

I love halloween, so I think i would dress up as Jack Skellington and Sally from Tim Burtons The Nightmare Before Christmas.

I think a key here is to consider it first a costume party. The wedding aspect is somewhat secondary.  You need a costume "nice enough" for a costume party but not necessarily "nice enough" for a traditional church wedding. It doesn't have to be a vintage period dress... or any dress. Most people have long forgotten things in the closet that will let them pull off a hippy, gypsy, cowboy, hobo, princess, used car salesman type of costume without much need for buying an expensive outfit. 

Wear what you had planned to wear to a wedding. Do a sugar skull inspired face paint and there you are in costume!  Or wear your normal wedding clothes and buy/make a masquarde mask like mask ideas

I hope you manage to enjoy it! My niece had a Disney/cartoon themed wedding and my husband and I went as Fred and Wilma Flintstone. It was the best wedding we have ever been too. Everyone was so relaxed and playing up as the characters, great fun. My husband and I do not like fancy dress or putting ourselves out there at all but we had a ball.