Creative Wedding Ideas

Decorating for your reception is another fun project in your wedding planning journey. The reception is where you really get across the theme of your wedding, and where you’ll let loose and enjoy the first few moments of being married. Your wedding reception decorations can be very formal or very informal, depending on your location, theme and personality. Here’s some wedding reception decorating ideas you may want to try.

Obviously the most important aspect of your wedding reception decor will be your table settings and centerpieces. Choose table linens to match your wedding colors or go with solid white to give an elegant feel. Choosing the right dishes and silverware will also help set the overall tone and feel of your reception. Your wedding table centerpieces will be the most important part of your decorating and should be chosen carefully to reflect the feel of your wedding. If you are having a formal wedding, vases of red roses would be stunning but for a relaxed affair, something more fun will work quite well. If you really need to watch your budget, you can even find a lot of inspiration for cheap wedding reception decorating ideas if you look through some of the bigger craft store chains.

Besides the table settings and centerpieces, you can decorate by setting up several display tables – one for gifts, one for cake, and one for drinks. A punch or champagne fountain makes a spectacular centerpiece for your reception. For your gifts and cake tables, add framed photos of you and your husband. Extra centerpieces can be added to the cake and gift tables to bring continuity to your reception. Hopefully these are some good wedding reception table decorating ideas for inspiration.

Whether or not you can hang anything on the walls will depend on the rules of your reception site. If it is allowed, you can hang wreaths to match your bouquets or string white lights around the room. If there are unpleasant eyesores in the room, you can use room divider screens to camouflage them. Items like speakers and stereo systems can easily be hidden behind a screen.

If at all possible, go to the reception site and do all of the decorating the night before. Many sites will charge a small fee for access the night before. If you don’t, you’ll have to trust someone else to get it all done just right and you may not be one hundred percent pleased with the results. This is your wedding – make sure your reception decorating ideas come out just the way you always dreamed.