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Wedding Decorating Ideas For Your Wedding Reception
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If you want your wedding to stand out in your guests minds as “extra special”, you’ll need to get a little bit creative. You can always have the traditional flowers as centerpieces but for something different, try and include other elements as well. Remember though, that your wedding decoration ideas should tie in to your overall theme.
It is a good idea to continue the theme of your decorations from your ceremony to your reception.
For most people, a beautifully decorated reception is what really makes a wedding special; your guests will remember the way the room made them feel when they first walked into it, so when thinking about wedding decorating ideas, special care on the smaller details can mean a lot. Here are some ideas for you to add a little bit extra at your reception.
Firstly, make sure you check exactly what your reception centre provides in their price.
Most reception centres will include a plain white table cloth and plain white chair covers. They usually charge more to add a coloured or lace or sheer table cloth or table runner and a chair sash. These are great and will add much needed depth and elegance to your tables.
You can rent these from your reception center or you may be able to find them cheaper yourself if you make them, or buy them online. My reception centre charged $8 per table cloth and $2 per chair sash which doesn’t sound like much but adds up when you have 136 guests and 12 tables. Inst
ead, I bought some from an online ebay store for less than $1 each. I organised with the reception centre to drop them off a few days before and they laid them out for me at no extra cost! You’ll be surprised what you can get from your reception centre if only you ask.
Candles are a must for your tables as well, they are romantic & offer the perfect level of illumination, plain coloured candles are best as they are classic, be careful of trying to colour co-ordinate your whole wedding to your bridesmaids, sometimes this ends up looking like a sweet 16 birthday party instead of an elegant wedding celebration.
With the candles, make sure they will not melt wax over everything on the table and ruin all your hard work, (if a fan or air conditioning vent points directly at the table use candles inside a vase so they do not go out all night) also, make sure they burn for at least 5 hours and are either very low height or on a candelabra and not at eye level so people on either sides of the table can still see each other.
Table names are also a nice touch. Most wedding reception centres will provide you with standard numbers on each table, i find it much more interesting to name your tables instead. Think of something that will tie into your theme or just something fun, you could use romantic movie titles, Romantic cities you have visited together (you could include a picture as well), or just loving words like commitment, love, friendship etc.
These are just a few things to give you Wedding Decoration Ideas and to make your wedding day just a little bit extra special. Remember to try and think of some kind of general theme of that day, this will help you to narrow down your ideas, i know half my problems were having too many ideas for my wedding day! This can just be a colour, your favourite city, a movie you once saw or it could all start with a piece of pretty paper or fabric pattern. like this Cristina Re paper was my inspiration
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Wedding Reception Decoration & Centerpieces For Weddings
Reception Centerpiece Ideas:
- Place 3 large pillar candles of the same width but different heights onto a framed mirror. Put flowers or shells around the bases of the candles. The mirror will reflect the centerpiece and make it appear twice as large.
- Purchase large bowls made of clear plastic or glass. Place one bowl at each table and surround it with flowers. Fill each bowl with water and put in three to five floating candles. Light them just before the reception begins. You can also use this idea with goldfish instead of candles.
- A beautiful vase of flowers (real or silk) will do the trick. Again, make sure it’s low enough to talk over of high enough to talk under.
- Suspend groupings of chinese paper lanterns from the ceiling directly over each table. Again, position them just high enough for guests to see one another, but low enough so they appear to be part of the table decorations.
- Place a balloon cluster at the center of each table. Make sure it’s high enough so guests can still see each other
- If you have long rectangular tables for your reception, place bows of evergreens, green foliage, rose petals, or votive cups down the centers of the tables. Work in a few pretty flowers or ribbon here and there.
- Take white or colorful tulle and gather it down the center of each rectangular table. Nestle votive candles in glass holders at various locations in the tulle. (Make sure the tulle does not contact the flame)
- Place fish bowls on small-framed mirrors or mirror tiles. Fill with water and add live fish or shells. This one is great for a nautical theme wedding.
- Rent large candelabras with pillar candles for the center of each table. Some can be very formal and hold flowers amongst the candles. Check with your florist and rental shop to discuss these options.
- How about a gingerbread house or miniature Christmas tree for a holiday themed wedding?
- Hang large Christmas ornaments from the ceiling with ribbon or fishing line. Tie a bow at the top of each ornament. Hang in a staggered pattern directly above the tables.
- Freestanding topiaries shrubs make wonderful centerpieces by adding height and drama. Decorate them with flowers, fruits, ivy or ribbons.
General Ideas:
- Beautifully folded and pressed napkins add an elegant touch to the table. Just search on the internet or YouTube for elegant napkin folding instructions.
- Make or purchase napkin rings to match the formality of your event. Wrap a single silk rose around a napkin or use small cookie cutters or decorative beads as the ring. The ideas are endless on this one.
- Scatter a unique confetti that coordinates with your reception theme, season or colors. (check that yur reception center allows confetti first as many dont.)
- Place a small vase with a single rose at each place setting. Give them as favors.
- Wedding favors add that final touch to your tables and can be created in endless shapes, colors and themes. A simple, yet elegant, favor is to take 5 sugared almonds and wrap them in tulle circles. Tie with a beautiful ribbon and put one at each place setting, simple, traditional & not too fussy or silly.
- Skirt your tables to the floor for an elegant effect. White or ivory table linens work best and show off the table accessories and centerpieces. (You can rent these or sometimes purchase them from online stores for less.)
- Place card holders can also be as simple as a pear or apple slit to hold the place card. Decorate each one with ribbon or natural materials. This idea is great for outdoor garden-themed weddings.
Peacock Wedding Theme Decorating Ideas
Peacock feathers are a very colorful & gorgeous thing. I should however say that some people think they are bad luck.. I Do not know why & You know what…? I dont believe in those silly superstitions anyway! I say you make your own fete & a peacock feather here or there won’t change things! But if you are not sure you may want to look into it & decide if you believe them to be bad luck or not for yourself.
(Full credit for the above mood board goes to tastefully entertaining) Peacock feathers have beautiful colors & work well with many wedding color schemes. They work well with purples, greens, blues, blacks, silvers and whites. Also with brown & bronze depending on the shades.
Where to source them?
I found that many craft stores carry them or can order them in for you. As well as fabric stores, art supplies stores and Dollar stores. You can also find many online craft supplies stores or ebay stores. Make sure they deliver to your area though before you get your hopes up.
They are available in long or short with eyes, as well as the swords (without eyes and more feathery)
You can also get them as earrings which may be useful to dangle from a champagne flute as a wedding favour for female guests. I have also seen them with dyed stems so you can add them with another color like pink or yellow etc stems (otherwise the stems are a natural beige/white colour.)
What to do with them?
Centerpieces
Ask your florist to incorporate 2 or 3 only in amongst their arrangement, get them to use a low round fishbowl type vase with masses of short stemmed bright dark pink and purple flowers with lots of greenery. Have the feathers slightly taller than the flowers to stand out. A Purple table cloth works well too.
For a more subtle look and to highlight the peacock feathers you could use a tall vase with 3 long stemmed white lilys and some wicker or sticks or stick twinkle lights. Include 3-5 peacock feathers and use some of the swords (shorter greener peacock feathers that sometimes do not have an eye) that sit lower in the vase.
Also, you could use plain wicker & dodder vine to create a nest at the top of a vase, with a few feathers coming out the top.
Invitations
See above mood board – a card with a sleeve made out of colored card and the feather.
See below for pics of peacock papers & invitations – from Cristina Re papers
Placecards & napkin accents
Use a peacock paper (as above colourful or as below subtle) or place a feather on top of each napkin inside the napkin ring.
You can use peacock feathers in any manner of ways for your wedding (just dont go too overboard as they are a very colourful thing, max 3-5 used together in any one thing. Remember – less is sometimes more.
Have fun researching & don’t forget to comment on my article with your thoughts. If you end up having a peacock themed wedding, I’d love it if you could share the pictures with me & the rest of my readers after your big day.
Wedding Decorating Ideas – Centerpieces For Weddings
Cylinder-shaped containers are an old standby for us. They’re so versatile (not to mention inexpensive), and we’ve covered them in everything: ribbon, wood veneer, paper, lace, rubber stamps, fabric, wallpaper, and I’m sure plenty of other things that aren’t coming to mind. Here are some of my favorites
How many of you are using the trusty cylinder at your wedding? And what are you doing to dress them up?
Beautiful Ideas – Don’t you think?
Purple Wedding Decorating Ideas
One theme you can use is a colour!
My bridesmaids were purple so along with my fairytale theme, I tried to include some purple in the day.
You can use purple as the base of your theme and get more specific if you like for example, peacock feathers, lavender.
Colors that go with purple as a compliment (so as not to look to “matchy matchy”)
- green (think peacock feather green)
- brown (a rich deep brown)
- black (Hollywood style)
- other shades of purple – be careful not to look too girly, we want elegant not sweet 16
- white & cream
- plum colours and deep reds
Purple Centerpieces for Weddings:(picture care of www.confetti.co.uk)
- Purple grapes hanging out of fruit bowls
- Purple candles and or candle holders
- Purple flowers
- Purple freesias in particular and white freesias
- Lavender and baby’s breath
Other Wedding Table Decorations:
- Small bottles of wine at each table setting
- Purple Ribbon as napkin holders and place card accents
- Purple Cocktails
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