Outstanding Wedding Reception Table Decorations

Outstanding Wedding Reception Table Decorations

When your guests arrive to celebrate your big day, have wedding directional signs displayed so they know exactly where to go. While you're familiar with the location, some of your guests may feel lost when they arrive. Wedding directional signs make your guests feel comfortable right away.
Once your guests reach the reception area, they look for their place cards to determine where to sit. Before the wedding, you create a seating chart so you can determine who will be at each table. The tables are numbered so guests can easily reference which table they are sitting at. Use decorative items on each table so guests can readily find the table number.
At each place setting, put a themed favor with the guest's name. There are literally hundreds of different place cards to choose from. If you have a formal wedding, use embossed roses on ivory place cards. You can have western themed items at a country wedding. For an added touch of elegance at your wedding reception tables, display them in beautiful place card holders. This makes the place cards easier to find and becomes a lasting keepsake for your guests.
Place card holders also make eye-catching wedding reception table decorations to make the theme of your special day. Even if you use plain place cards, decorative place card holders make them fancy. Use a vase place card holder filled with a silk blossom your guests can take home to remember your wedding. At a beach or waterfront wedding, silver plated shell shaped place card holders bring the sea to your table. An Asian brocade snap purse is an ideal place card holder at Oriental themed weddings. At a garden wedding, use a tulip in a silver pot as a place card marker.

Unique Wedding Color Combinations

Unique Wedding Color Combinations

Most weddings are still designed around the classic colors, such as white, ivory, and pink. If you are looking to create a more lively and unique wedding, then using less traditional colors is a great way to do it. When you choose bold and interesting colors and pair them in unique combinations, you are sure to have a wedding that is fresh and memorable.
When you are choosing your wedding color palette, the inspiration can come from almost anywhere. Perhaps you have always loved the bright and bold effect of an offbeat flower combination, such as orange lilies with purple lisyanthus. Or maybe you had planned to go with a muted color palette, but fell in love with a bridesmaid dress in a sassy color. However you come to it, if you opt for a lively and fun color combination, it will add a lot of character to your wedding design.

A Turquoise and Lime Green Wedding

A Turquoise and Lime Green Wedding

Summer weddings call for bright and festive colors and accents. Sometimes you can take your cue from current fashions and come up with some great inspirations. One of the freshest looks for weddings this year is the very stylish turquoise and lime green combination.
Turquoise and lime green are bright and bold colors, but they are also surprisingly versatile as a wedding color scheme. Depending on the exact shades that you choose, these colors can be beachy, preppy, 1960s mod, or thoroughly contemporary. Not too many other color palettes can make that claim! One of the things that makes lime green and turquoise work so well together is that they have a similar intensity and depth of color. You can create some really interesting visual effects, especially with pattern.
Once you have decided on the general feeling that you would like for your wedding, it is time to start getting into the details that will make your vision become a reality. For instance, let's say that you are having a wedding by the ocean, how would you go about using a turquoise and lime color palette? With the bridesmaid dresses, for starters. Picture crisp turquoise organza dresses edged with a lime green organza border at the hem. They would look magnificent against the blue of the water and the sky.