Decoration Ideas For Your Wedding Reception
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Decoration Ideas For Your Wedding Reception
Major emphasis is put on the wedding ceremony, wedding flowers, bridal accessories and bridal wear. But the wedding is often over in a flash while the reception can last long into the night. Make a good first impression as they enter your reception area for the first time with gorgeous reception decorations.
Location, Location, Location
You can host your reception almost anywhere. Some of the most popular places to hold receptions are churches, halls, restaurants, gardens and mansions. Consider the unique pros and cons your reception location presents when reviewing a reception location. What existing decorations can be used? How will the space function? What will need to be rented or purchased?
By choosing a dynamic reception location, such as a botanical garden, art museum or antebellum mansion, you can reduce or eliminate much of the decorating expense. Lush foliage or architectural details can act as your decorations without another penny being spent.
Focal Points
You can invest less money into wedding decorations by focusing exclusively on focal points. Rather than adding floral swags to every chair, add one large floral arrangement to each table. Create several smaller wedding cakes to be placed at each table, instead of one large one dominating a corner of the room.
Lights, Camera, Action
You can use far fewer wedding decorations if you adequately highlight the ones you have with dramatic lighting. Colored lights or spotlights will direct your guest’s eyes to the areas you have decorated. The undecorated areas will fade into the background.
Think Thematically
Let your theme dictate your wedding decorations. If you are having a beach wedding, use natural beach items such as shells, sailboats and sandcastles to decorate your space. For a childlike feel, you can even use pool toys as wedding decorations.
If your wedding takes place in the winter, sprinkle snowflakes around the tables and drape thousands of twinkle lights from the ceiling. If your wedding is at Christmastime, you can even display decorated Christmas trees, hanging mistletoe and maybe even gingerbread houses on the tables.
Reuse, Reduce, Re
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You don’t have to have a “green” wedding to take advantage of the advice to reuse, reduce and recycle.
Purchase wedding decorating items you can reuse again or give as gifts to your guests. This can include centerpiece accents, candle holders, champagne flutes or potted plants. After the wedding reception, reuse or re-gift the items.
To reduce on wedding decorations, you can reduce the need for elaborate decorations by choosing an ornate location. At your wedding reception, you can use larger tables, reducing the number of centerpieces and table linens needed.
Finally, recycle your wedding accessories to be used as reception accessories. For example, have your bridesmaids recycle their handheld bouquets as table decorations.
There are many ways to decorate your reception area without breaking the bank. Your goal should be to create a beautiful area for your guests to celebrate your nuptials with you and your new spouse.
By: Marilyn K
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Yellow Weddings – Add A Golden Glow To Your Wedding Celebration
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Yellow Weddings – Add A Golden Glow To Your Wedding Celebration
As each new year begins, so do new trends in wedding colors. In 2008, yellow weddings became popular and this trend seems to be continuing right into 2009. And why not? Yellow is a bright, sunny and warm color choice and works well for all seasons.
As a guideline though, pale yellows are a better choice for spring, while a brighter yellow is usually reserved for summer weddings. When it comes to fall and winter, consider darkening that yellow by a few shades and you have a beautiful warm golden hue that’s sophisticated and stunning, especially paired with the deep shades of winter colors.
Yellow and gold pair up beautifully with many other popular bridal color selections. Mix it with most shades of brown for an elegant look. Paired with black it is sophisticated and stunning. Other colors yellow/gold work well with are: burgundy, emerald green, teal, blues, varying shades of purple, orange, creams, and white. In fact, I don’t think there’s really any color that doesn’t work well with yellow!
Flowers, Bouquets, and Table Decorations
When it comes to your flower bouquets and arrangements, the variations in colors and floral choices is quite large. Yellow roses, mini daffodils, orchids, tulips, daisies, lilies, carnations, and chrysanthemums are just a few that come to mind. Accent them with a contrasting color or use several different shades of yellow in one bouquet.
Adorn your tables with yellow pillar candles nestled within a circle of golden or white chiffon material for a simple, yet beautiful centerpiece. Or perhaps a tall clear vase with a single yellow rose is more suitable for your wedding style.
Want to add some light fun to your décor? Fill clear large vases with sliced lemons pressed along the glass, fill with water and set a small, lovely flower bouquet on top. Better yet – just fill large glass vases with lemons!
Theme Ideas For Yellow Weddings
Many couples choose to incorporate a theme along with their wedding colors. Some suggested theme ideas are:
Bumble Bee Wedding Theme – Your colors will be black and yellow, preferably used in a striped pattern. Place black vases with yellow roses as table centerpieces and use yellow napkins with a black napkin ring for emph
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asis at each place setting. Present your guests with mini refrigerator bumble bee magnets or small favor boxes stamped with a bumble bee on top. Fill with almonds or mints. Another cute favor is a small bee-hive shaped ceramic honey pot with dipper.
Sunflower Wedding Theme – Use the actual flower as your theme. This sunny, summertime flower is a perfect choice and is easily paired with the color brown. Make or buy sunflower pot pens as favors (this is a pen that’s been wrapped in green floral tape and a silk sunflower is attached to the top. Insert the pen into a small clay pot that contains floral foam).
Yellow Butterflies – Go with yellow and white flowers and insert yellow butterfly picks, so that your butterflies are “fluttering” around the flowers. You can also purchase nylon butterflies with sparkling beads and place them about the room – on walls, along table skirts, and nestled around the food table. Decorate white favor boxes with a small paper butterfly and fill with an assortment of yellow and white candies.
Golden Stars – Paired with black or midnight blue, this color combination would be stunning. Add a backdrop behind the head table of blue satiny material and adorn with golden twinkle lights. Cover floral foam blocks in blue and insert star picks at varying heights for a simple table decoration. Give your guests star-shaped cookie cutters as favors.
The above are just some theme ideas that work very well with yellow weddings. You could also plan your wedding around: baby chicks, yellow ducks, any type of yellow flower, the sun, even yellow canaries! When it comes to your yellow or golden wedding theme, let your imagination soar.
By: Rose Smith
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