Convert The Outdoors Into A Fairy-tale Like Setting: Tips For Garden Wedding Decoration
No matter how big or small your budget is for a wedding, what’s important is for you to add those little details and special touches that showcase the personality of the couple who’s about to say their “I do’s”. You can be very traditional or go a bit unconventional when it comes to the theme or color scheme of your wedding – but nothing beats the feeling of having a lovely garden wedding. The good thing about holding this type of a wedding is that you can save on the costs of booking for another venue for the reception. Also, guests would not need to travel from one location to another if the ceremony and after-wedding party are held at separate locations.
Garden Wedding Decoration: Things to Consider when Planning
When planning an outdoor wedding held in a garden, here are a few things that you need to take into consideration:
- The time of the day that the wedding will be held: If the reception will last well into the night, you can create a dreamlike atmosphere in a garden setting by adding a string of white lights to highlight trees and bushes. You can also hang Japanese lanterns to add more drama to a setting.
- The time of the year that you will get married: Are you having a summer, fall, winter or a spring wedding? You can actually save a lot of money on garden wedding decoration because there’s that natural beauty of the setting that you can use to your advantage. For example, if you are getting married during the fall, you can choose a color scheme which falls into a shade between red, orange, brown or dark yellow. One great idea to use as a centerpiece is by using bowl of water which you can fill with lovely-colored leaves, then add a leaf-shaped floating candle. Unique bouquets with branches and flowers in bloom also make for a great centerpiece for the guests’ table.
- The appearance of the venue itself: The idea is for you to make your garden wedding decoration blend with the existing environment, while adding special touches for good measure. If you are using a spacious backyard or lawn as a setting for your garden wedding, think of a theme or a color scheme which complements the season.
Summer is a wonderful season to go all out with the garden wedding decorations because you can use lovely pastel colors as an accent.
The Big Accents for Your Garden Wedding Decoration
By taking the venue into consideration, as well as the time of the day and the season that the wedding will be held, you will more or less have a grasp at the ‘look’ that you want to create for your wedding ceremony and after party. The next step in planning the garden wedding decoration is to think of the big accents that you need. First up, there’s the wedding arch under which you will utter your vows on your big day. For some religions, a wedding arch may not be suitable so you should have an alternative.
If you are going for the wedding arch, this would actually be the focal point as compared to your other garden wedding decoration pieces. The arch can be decorated with flowers, a balloon arrangement, or a mixture of blooms and a string of lights. There should be an arrangement of chairs in front of the wedding arch which you can decorate as well.
Finally, you should decorate the guests’ tables and chairs, the buffet table, the cake table and there should be an allotted space where the guests can place their gifts for the bride and groom. All in all, the key to creating a fairy-tale like atmosphere for your garden wedding is to accentuate the beauty of nature that is already there and add special touches that will make the wedding ceremony and reception memorable.
