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With so much to do and think about when planning your wedding, learning about wedding décor may not feature highly on your list. However, with a few hours carefully spent considering a theme for your wedding, you too can come up with a few creative decorating ideas that will delight your guests and won't stretch your budget.
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You may think that professionals who create wedding décor are geniuses but that truly isn't the case. They simply have a flair for knowing what goes with what and most importantly, when to stop. It can be all too easy to think of a theme and then go absolutely overboard, by carrying the theme through into every detail, which can result in making your efforts look tacky rather than stylish and spectacular.
So where to start?
When considering what type of decorating is within your scope, it is best to decide on a theme. You can narrow down your ideas based on the location of your venue, the time of day, and naturally the time of year. Then you can work out what wedding decorations work best with your ideas. Once you've decided on a beach party theme or an elegant cocktail bar theme, everything will fall into place, resulting in a wonderful occasion.
Wedding décor ideas based on time and season
If you're planning a Summer afternoon wedding then you may want to settle on a Daisy Theme. Tasteful but simple vases of yellow and white daisies could sit on each table, the wedding cake could also be decorated with sugar daisies and the chairs could have yellow sashes. This theme could also extend to the wedding bouquet and the bridesmaids could wear simple daisy headdresses. If it's an evening wedding, then quite likely your guests will be wearing stylish evening dresses and suits, so you could choose a dramatic, but stylish black and white theme with some elegant decorations.
Basing your ideas to suit your venue
Choice of venue can play a large part in helping you to decide how to decorate and what theme to choose. If you're getting married on the beach, you may well settle for a Hawaiian Wedding theme which is very informal and great fun. Guests could be asked to wear Hawiian dress with men wearing colourful shirts and ladies wearing print dresses. They could be given garlands of flowers to wear and be served drinks by hula hula girls. Tiki torches make a wonderful decorative item and can be filled with flowers if the wedding is during the day or lit if it is an evening occasion.
If your wedding is to be held in lush gardens then your wedding décor could include such things as paper lanterns, flower embellished place settings, and fairy lights strung across bushes and in trees. Keep to a couple of main colours with just a few key pieces in accent colours, so that the look isn't overwhelming.
Personalise your wedding
I recently attended a wedding where the bride had made all of the table settings herself. Each guest had a beautifully printed envelope (which the bride had also made), with their name on it plus a short message from the bride and groom, which contained sachets of salt, pepper, a serviette and some disposable cutlery plus a small gift. In addition there were vases on each table which she had cleverly decorated with photos of herself and the groom when they were younger. Strings of fairy lights created a magical feel and tea lights glowed on each table, casting mystical shadows and dancing light. But it was the personal touches that made each guest feel wonderfully special that was a main talking point of the evening.
Keep it simple
The hardest part about wedding decor is not how to decorate but rather narrowing down your ideas and not going over the top. If you settle on a particular theme then just inject light touches here and there as a reminder to your guests of what the theme is, rather than overwhelming them every which way they turn.
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