Outdoor Garden Wedding Reception Decor – A garden wedding reception is the perfect place for a new bride and groom to celebrate. Picture a clear blue sky with warm temperatures and flowers swaying in a gentle breeze. If you have chosen to host your reception outdoors, the tips and ideas in this article may help your planning flow a bit easier.
Décor
When choosing how much décor you want for your outdoor garden wedding reception, consider your budget and the surrounding scenery. If the scenery speaks for itself, simple and less decorating is better. If you need arches and décor to add ambiance to your wedding, you can either look at wedding rental shops for large outdoor decorations or go to places like Hobby Lobby and purchase your own arch, then decorate it yourself. Decorate with ribbons in your wedding colors, topiaries, and/or potted flowers by the arbor or arch.
Lighting
Lighting for your reception is essential. You want the area lit well so no one trips or gets hurt, but you want ambiance for your special occasion. Consider using a combination of candles on the tables, lanterns hanging around the area, and rope lighting as well. Once you have come up with a scheme for your lighting, you’ll want to test it ahead of time to make sure it works just as you expected.
Table Centerpieces
Using a watering can filled with flowers makes a beautiful wedding centerpiece for an outdoor garden wedding. Find plain watering cans either in your wedding colors or in a tin or metal and fill them with flowers. They won’t blow away if the day happens to be breezy and they will make an attractive centerpiece.
Tablecloth and Napkins
When choosing a tablecloth and napkins for your wedding reception, plain white linen is simple and elegant. It goes nicely with any outdoor surroundings and flutters beautifully in a gentle breeze. Another option for napkins at an outdoor garden wedding are napkins printed with butterflies, dragonflies, etc. These would make a cute addition to the cake table and a perfect accent to an outdoor garden wedding.
Chair décor
If it is possible, it is sometimes easiest to find nice plain white chairs for your outdoor wedding reception. That way you don’t have to slipcover all the chairs at the party. You can add a bow on the back in your wedding colors, or just let the white chairs stand alone.
Party favors
A unique and fun idea for a party favor is to give away little pots of a flower or fresh herb for each guest. Find cute miniature pots or some other miniature container and put in one square from a flat of herbs or flowers. Print or handwrite cards that say the name of the plant. Guests will have something useful to take home and the favors would go perfectly with an outdoor garden wedding. Another alternative, if you don’t really want to plant, is to find miniature pots or containers and put a few seed packs inside. Tie a miniature ribbon on the outside of the pot in your wedding colors and you have another beautiful favor option.
Enjoy your outdoor garden wedding reception and congratulations on this important step in your life.
