Wedding Decorations ~ Ideas For You!
Some extra decorations are always in order; and keep them ready in case of breakage while transporting or setting up decorations at the church or reception hall.
7) What do you need?
If you will need tables, stands, vases or other items available for displaying your decorations, check with the powers-that-be at your wedding ceremony and reception venues. If they have the things that you need available, there may be an extra charge to use them. If they don't have any available, you'll need to get some from somewhere else.
8) What's available already?
The venues where you hold your ceremony and reception may already have decorations available for your use - their standard decorations, or decorations that other people have used and have left behind. Take a look; you may like something. Some reception venues have in-house decorators from whom you can rent decorations. For a fee, these people will set up the decorations for you as well. Churches often book multiple weddings on any given day. You may be able to coordinate most of your church decorations with the other couples who are getting married that day so you can all use the same flowers/decorations and split the cost.
9) Be creative.
It's the "different" decorations that help to make a wedding special. For example, anybody can have the standard wishing well on the gift table where guests can deposit their cards and monetary gifts to the bride and groom, but using a photo cube with pictures of the bride and groom on it, or finding an elegant stained glass box, or something that suits your theme, will make it different, memorable, unique.
Here is a list of places where one typically puts wedding decorations, but to put your own stamp on the wedding, remember that anything is fair game:
At the church
- pew decorations
- archway at the entrance to the aisle
- floral arrangements at the front of the venue or lining the outsides of aisles
- white carpet
At the reception
- archway at the entrance to the reception hall
- guest book table
- table with pictures of the bride and groom
- gift table
- seating plan table
- centerpieces on each guest table
- wedding cake on the head table or a side table
- head table (Remember that the bridal bouquets can double as decorations on the table.)
- mini lights etc. on plants or pillars
- flowers, pot pourri, bows, etc. in washrooms
