Picture this: groomsmen in tan slacks, colorful ties and white shirts, bridesmaids in beautiful sundresses and your guests lounging by a blanket in a beautiful park or lawn enjoying picnic goodies. This is one idea for a wedding that even the kids will love!
Why Choose a Picnic as a Theme for Your Wedding?
Now that budget weddings are gaining more and more popularity, couples are coming up with unique wedding ideas which will give them a gorgeous wedding ceremony and reception – without putting a huge dent on their budget. One of the many unique ideas which you can adapt for your big day is holding a barbeque or a picnic theme for the reception.
The good thing about this type of a wedding is that you only need to book one place, both for the ceremony and the reception. It will be extremely convenient for your guests because they would not have to travel from the church to the reception – and you can keep things as casual as possible. Also, you can use the beauty of the setting to your utmost advantage. Just imagine how your guests and family members would enjoy bringing their kids along as they savor the sumptuous picnic meal that you prepared for the reception.
Picnic Wedding Decoration Ideas: Things to Remember
Another advantage of holding a picnic wedding is that you can let your creative juices flow when thinking about the picnic wedding decoration. Here are a few nifty picnic wedding decoration ideas that you can play with:
It all starts with the food.
Would you like to know what the highlight of a typical picnic is? The food! For your picnic wedding decoration, spotlight should also be given to the food. Right after the wedding ceremony, your guests can proceed to the picnic area where you can spread colorful blankets. There are a couple of ways that you can present the food – there can be one buffet picnic table where guests can dig in. Paper or plastic plates and cups are fine – and mini bottles of champagne would add a nice touch.
The treats should be food that they can eat with their fingers. Or, you can distribute nicely packaged picnic baskets with the sumptuous picnic food inside. Aside from the blankets which are laid down on the grass for them to sit, you can include another beautiful picnic blanket which is tied with a ribbon – that can double as wedding favors.
Go all out with the color for your picnic wedding decoration!
For a really sophisticated picnic wedding decoration, canary yellow with navy accents provide a chic and classy color theme instead of the checkered white-and-red. You can use these two colors for the flowers that you can use to decorate the picnic hampers or baskets. Another sumptuous wedding favor for your guests would be a gift basket containing everything from your mother’s homemade brownies, a bottle of your barbecue sauce which was a hit at your last family gathering, and even a bag of potato chips.
Just make sure to personalize the wrapping of the gift basket to remind the guests of how lovely a picnic wedding it is that you had! If you think that the picnic will last well into the evening, you can use adorable kerosene lamps which the guests can use on their own picnic blankets. With these picnic wedding decoration ideas, you can have a truly memorable picnic wedding ceremony and reception that your family, friends and even the kids will enjoy!
