Just as with the wedding ceremony, flowers are used to personalize a reception site. Flowers can be used to transform a plain room into a romantic chamber
Basic Reception Décor
The flowers for the reception should coordinate with the style and color of the wedding. Generally, you need to have table decorations and maybe some indoor plants to provide a garden type atmosphere.
Guest Table Decorations
The guest table decorations should be simple centerpieces that compliment the table linens and the size of the table. Don't have very tall arrangements in the center of the table. I have been to several wedding where the centerpieces blocked the guests view from both the events and the guests sitting across from them!
Decorating the Buffet Table
You should also provide some type of flower arrangement for the buffet table. This arrangement should be fairly tall and should also coordinate with the table linens and the size of the table.
Add Some Greenery
To add a warm feeling to the reception site, you could rent indoor plants and trees to provide some greenery. For a formal event, you might rent trees and decorate them with white Christmas lights.
Centerpieces
Centerpieces are placed on the guest tables and on the head table. The head table's arrangement is usually a bit larger than the guest tables. Some ideas for centerpieces are:
- Vase of tea roses
- Hurricane lamp surrounded by flowers
- Glass dish with a floating candle, surrounded by flowers
- Flower arrangement with wedding colors
- A bouquet of balloons
- Topiaries
- Use candles that have dried flowers inside the wax for the centerpieces.
Prior to the wedding, you should decide what will happen to the centerpieces after the reception. You may decide to give them to specific guests or to randomly select a guest from each table.
Other Considerations
Not only can flowers be used to decorate the head table, entranceway to the reception or as centerpieces but they can also be used in many other ways such as:
- The wedding cake may be displayed with a ring of flowers surrounding it or you can use real flower petals to decorate your wedding cake.
- Decorate the gift table, guest book table and champagne table with a nice arrangement of flowers.
- Place a flower arrangement in the ladies room.
- You can use edible flowers in some beverages (such as lemonade, punch or iced tea).
- Have pressed flowers placed under a sheer tablecloth.
- Give a small potted plant to each guest as a favor.
- The bride may choose to wear flowers in her hair.