Wedding Reception Tropical Centerpiece Ideas
Published September 29, 2012 | 
The desire of many brides and grooms-to-be is to plan a wedding in an exotic locale. They dream of this for a very long time prior to their engagement party. Nowadays it seems easier to make this choice due to the myriad of affordable packages, venues and themes available on the market. Those who love the seaside and the ocean flair have many options for a really unforgettable wedding. Exotic weddings are both the destination and local ones. It doesn’t really matter if your ceremony occurs on a private beach in Hawaii or in your local area.
If you don’t have a beach in your city or country, you can steal this style and look for ideas to implement it in any other location. All you need is a clean open space and the right tropical ingredients. Any place can be transformed into an exotic land for you and your guests by using an eccentric color theme or another inspiration. Tropical themed weddings are always vibrant, cheerful and relaxing. They are a true blessing for the participants. Add in more thematic touches, like seashells, sandcastle figurines, parasols, sunglasses, live hula dancers and fruit carvings for different candles.
Wedding Reception Tropical Centerpiece Ideas (Photo by: Aaron Epstein)
These are just a few unique items and ideas you can use to make your reception an inviting and memorable place for your invitees. If you can’t afford to travel to the tropics, bring the tropics to you. Your friends will have the impression that they have traveled to an exotic oasis while attending your wedding! You can go for the standard route and dump some sand on the ground to dress up the place and have everyone wear orchid leis around their necks. You can dress up in grass skirts and walk around barefoot to enjoy the reception. It doesn’t have to be a mid summer wedding. You can plan a fabulous hot exotic wedding even in the middle of winter! In most cases, these types of affairs occur in warm seasons, outside the doors.
It’s always recommendable to choose an alfresco party and enhance the beauty of the nature. Use string lights, paper luminaries and other hanging flames to make the ambiance more romantic, intimate and mysterious. The little ones will love it. Create floral arches and perhaps a gazebo for your head table to make the setting more romantic and sensual. The alleys can be paved with rose petals or delimited by unique lights. Create various paths with flowers and other thematic accents along the outer edges of walkways. Use netting sections and stuck a few sea creatures in to obtain a really tropical effect. Add a few palm trees around to complete the realness of the scene.
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Cheap Wedding Reception Menu
Published September 28, 2012 | Brides and grooms of today have found a way to save money on anything! It may seem easier to reduce the wedding expenses for the flowers, centerpieces and other details of the event, and trickier to cut down the costs for the reception menu. The foods and drinks served at a wedding play a very important role in the overall feel of the day. Your guests expect you to treat them the best you can. So, how can you serve them cheap food without anyone notice? Well, it’s obvious that your food must taste and looks good in the same time in order to be on their liking.
Saving money on the wedding food can make a difference in the state of your budget. You can break or make it fit all your wedding plans. The most expensive types of receptions are the catered ones. The traditional sit-down type of meal is for certain the costlier. It involves three or even four main courses, an open bar and the cake cutting ceremony. You can check first with different halls and restaurants to see what their offer is. If they don’t have anything to suit your budget, don’t despair. You can do this on your own without sacrificing the smooth running of the event.
Cheap Wedding Reception Menu (Photo by: John Tornow)
Everybody knows that a good wedding menu is not based on quantity, but on quality. We think you can have them both if you are wise enough to make a few adjustments. Too much is too much, and we all can agree on that when it comes to wedding food. There is no need to bring in dozens of kinds of treats to flatter and satisfy your guests. Make sure that the food you serve is fresh, delicious and elegant enough for the type of event you’re planning. What do you think of a brunch reception? This style is elegant and popular because it’s more affordable than lunch receptions. Nevertheless, the couple must have a morning or early afternoon wedding to serve a brunch menu. The food included in a brunch menu is cheaper and sometimes even tastier or more fun than the courses served at a dinner reception.
The food can be both filling and hearty, so don’t hesitate to consider a brunch wedding reception. If you want to offer more diversity and freedom to your guests to choose something they really like, have a buffet-style meal. This type of serving is also inexpensive and more enjoyable for your invitees. To make it look more inviting, bring in an omlette station. Serve finger sandwiches, bread and muffins, breakfast sausages, scrambled eggs, fruits and veggies. Have a self-catered reception based on hamburgers, hot dogs, barbecued beef and cold salads, or a diverting potluck reception.
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Decorating Outdoors Wedding Reception Chairs
Published September 27, 2012 | The décor of your wedding reception seems the most important thing to solve ahead. And it’s true. There are many aspects involved at this point. The couple must decide on the most beautiful items to reflect the theme and style of the event. Every single item and detail from the flower centerpieces and cakes to the napkins and guest favors must express the uniqueness of the theme. This means selecting the right flowers, recipients, colors and fabrics. Think about a motif or a few details to insert in the setting for a uniform look. One of the most exciting things to decide on when planning a wedding reception is the décor for the chairs and tables.
The bride already has a few ideas on how to make the chairs look more inviting and outstanding. She can follow a simple path and use classic fabric covers or a more personalized way and add a little bit of spark and creativity to the guests’ seating. The possibilities of making the wedding chairs look original and elegant are numberless. It depends how elaborated you want your wedding site to be. The choice of wedding colors and chair decorations must also be done according to the formality and level of elegance of the event. There are special covers to use for the chairs that you can buy from specialized stores. But if your wedding features a unique color or theme, you may be obligated to opt for custom-made decorations.
Decorating Reception Chairs Outdoor Wedding (Photo by: LornaWatt)
You can buy fabric in the colors of your reception and have someone sew them for you. This idea is not very expensive and laborious. Nevertheless, it’s not mandatory to be classic chair covers. You can adorn the chairs with any other item, like flower corsages, floral wreaths, hats, fringes or garlands, doilies or other paper decoration. It depends on what type of statement you want to make. The budget is another important aspect to consider in this regard. Don’t spend too much on the chair decorations and cut at the wedding menu. The foods and drinks are essential in a wedding.
These aspects must be solved first and then the couple can preoccupy more for the décor and aesthetical appeal of the room. The only thing you should keep in mind as important is that your chair decorations must fit within the overall theme of the celebration. This means using the same colors and motifs you picked for the centerpieces and wall décor. Tulle is one of the most popular and inexpensive option for reception chair decorations. Chair slip covers can dress up simple dull chairs and make them look more impressive. Antique chairs in different fabrics and designs can look great without extra embellish in a vintage-themed wedding.
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Casual Wedding Reception Ideas
Published September 26, 2012 | When we’re talking about casual weddings, the great outdoors is the first choice of venue to think of. Some couples decide for a beach wedding, while others choose to wed and party in their own backyard! Although these are the most popular locations for a casual wedding there are more options for those who are more creative and prefer a unique space. Weddings are extremely elaborated in their traditional way. But contemporary brides and grooms have the change of selecting a less formal style for their wedding ceremony and reception.
There are many elegant alternatives to formal style weddings planned in banquet halls and ballrooms, although many think that casual nuptials are simple, cozy and less elegant. This is completely false! The pair can enjoy more freedom in creating unique and fancy decorations whole still experiencing a more comfortable and fun party. The relaxed attitude they and their invitees can enjoy can make the ambiance even easier to experience. Casual weddings are simple yet creative and extremely fashionable. Forgo the expensive traditional wedding and go for a more casual celebration! This is what most of our wedding planners say!
Casual Wedding Reception Ideas (Photo by: Vera Devera)
This advice is not awkward anymore for our modern newlyweds. They understand that the informal style is more indulgent. The bride and groom’s interests, hobbies and likes can be now part of their wedding without sacrificing the level of elegance of beauty of the wedding. Casual weddings can have a theme, and in most cases they actually have a unique one. Couples of today decide to get married in a more exotic place, like on an island, in the middle of the desert, in the woods, on a mountain top, in a safari or at the base of a waterfall. Beach resorts are the most inviting ones and the most affordable for our modern pairs. Home based weddings are also cheap and fun. They can suit perfectly well the commodious couples who are a bit more advanced in age.
Mature brides and grooms and encore couples have this opportunity of planning a home wedding. If you like this idea, you can use your backyard or garden to set the scene for the ceremony or only for the reception. Backyard weddings are more practical and help couples to save more money for the décor and other important items of the wedding. Some great themes for backyard wedding receptions are: picnic style, English garden, royal courtyard style, exotic or tea party theme. Choose the perfect décor based on the theme of the party. Allow Mother Nature to guide you towards the most beautiful and affordable backdrop for your reception. Enhance the trees, bushes and alleys in your backyard or garden with hanging paper lanterns, string lights and floral arches.
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Cheap Wedding Reception
Published September 25, 2012 | Saving on wedding flowers is a great way to cut down the costs for the reception. The bride has a lot of affordable alternatives to consider to luxurious centerpieces. You can compose the table décor with seasonal flowers and simple vases and obtain a clean elegant look. Cheap wedding centerpieces based on flowers are a great to adorn the entire event and reduce the overall expenses. The tables don’t have to be pompous and elaborated. The contrary, they need to feature a chic natural decoration that can allow your guests to enjoy the wedding and freely converse over the tables. If the centerpieces are too grandiose and tall, your invitees might not be able to communicate well or see each other during the reception.
Besides this, experts in weddings admit that less is always more. Simple is elegant and outstanding. Before deciding on a pompous décor for your wedding we suggest you consider the amplitude of the event and size of the room. Take into consideration the shape of the tables and the number of guests when making this decision. The centerpieces must be eye-catchy and dandy. Anything simple with good taste can fit. This can be done by the couple itself. Many brides and grooms choose to make their own wedding centerpieces in order to reduce the costs of the wedding and add their own mark on the décor.
Cheap Wedding Reception (Photo by: liz west)
The DIY method is efficient, economical and satisfactory for the couple. They get to do it in their own manner, without spending a fortune on the décor. This seems like the ideal thing for us all! You don’t have to buy expensive flowers in order to obtain a high class look. After all, simplicity is always the faster way to a stylish classy look. The simpler the centerpieces are the more visible the unique items of décor you used will be. The focus must fall on the bride and the groom all night, and perhaps on the cake. Don’t follow an elaborated trend if you want your invitees to still see you and admire you and your amazing look. Seasonal blooms are fresh and inexpensive. They can add a natural touch to the entire event and match any color scheme.
You can play with daises for a pretty wedding day. Use clear glass vases and a few blooms to obtain a really graceful and fashionable effect. Dress up the bottom of the vases with iridescent marble or other unique accessories. Use colorful daises to add more brightness and vitality to the tables. Wildflowers are ideal for countryside and rustic inspired celebrations. You can find them in your mother’s yard or at any local flower shop. Opt for a mismatched style and focus on a wide variety of blooms and colors.
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Appetizers For Wedding Receptions
Published September 24, 2012 | Choosing the best food for a wedding seems like one of the most important and difficult tasks to solve as a couple. There are different types of menus one can choose for his wedding reception. This choice is always based on the generosity of the wedding budget. But in most cases, the personal preferences of the couple are the most important factors of decision in this sense. What tastes good to you has more chances to be on your list than something too spicy or unknown to you. People tend to choose the meal for their wedding based on their own taste and opinion. It’s more challenging to assume the risk of serving a unique exotic menu.
You need to taste the food first and then decide on the final wedding reception menu. Serving appetizers at a wedding reception is crucial. You can’t just skip this course. It is the first course and the sign of the beginning of the evening. Appetizers are essential in a sit-down meal reception. This course is usually served after the cocktail hour and hors d’oeuvres. Soon as the couple and their wedding party arrive at the local, the waiters can start serving the appetizers. The couple can choose from different types of serving. They can use a waiter or a buffet where the appetizers are displayed on a long table, in a wider diversity and creative recipients.
Appetizers For Wedding Reception (Photo by: Ismar Badzic)
The appetizers can be included in the table buffet or they can be served separately, especially if the wedding has many ceremonies and rituals to host. The appetizers can also be regarded as a prelude to a larger menu or as the principal course of the evening – if the wedding is casual and less sophisticated. The buffet style that contains appetizers is more adequate for informal weddings. The guests will also enjoy more freedom of mingling among the foods and choosing the ones that fit their taste. You can serve the same type of food at a casual buffet style wedding as one serves at a formal sit-down meal party. You need fresh foods in vibrant colors to compose the appetizer trays and make them visually appealing for your invitees.
You have to include vegetables, fruits and cheeses. This type of food is light and enjoyed by everybody: vegetarians, picky eaters or dieters. Even guests with food allergy problems can find something tasty on your trays. The specific of the wedding venue should have more to say at this point. You can choose sea food if you’re at the beach. Use fried or grilled shrimp with different sauces for dipping, along side with crab cakes and sushi. Sandwiches, soup and salads, meats and poultry, Italian wedding soup, fruit melange are just a few suggestions.
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Wedding Reception Centerpieces
Published September 24, 2012 | Deciding on the most adequate types of centerpieces for a wedding party can be a daunting task or a beautiful experience, depending on the couple. If you are already stressed out with the other plans of your wedding you might not be able to make this experience feel nice and pleasant. But the bride can ask her bridesmaids, her sisters and her mom to give her a hand. If you’re doing this on your own you could use a little bit if help from your family and best friends. The DIY bride has many options when it comes to wedding reception centerpieces.
Making the best choice is always a matter of wedding formality, theme and style of the wedding. The season and time of day are other important aspects to keep in mind when deciding on the most adequate decorations for the party. The venue seems to be the most powerful criterion of influence for a bride and her centerpieces. Alfresco weddings require a different type of setting than an indoors reception. Outdoors affairs are less elaborated and more causal. The bride and her crew can start collection all kinds of crafty recipients and old-fashion items for the tables.
Wedding Reception Centerpieces (Photo by: zoe.wang)
You can use honey jars, wine bottles or even birdcages if you’re having a garden, park or vineyard wedding. Use urns, antique cups or pitchers instead of fancy floral vases. To make sure that the effect will be authentic and natural, use freshly-picked blooms from your garden. If you don’t have this option, look for seasonal flowers at a local flower shop. You should be able to find beautiful species from the season at attractive prices. If your wedding occurs in spring, focus on peonies, hyacinths, lilies of the valley, lilacs, narcissuses, freesias, tulips or garden roses. If your wedding is booked for autumn, choose dahlias, gladiolas, sunflowers, chrysanthemums, asters, Billy Balls, zinnias or gerbera daises. You should be able to arrange something nice and pretty for your guests. Don’t complicate yourself with extravagant bouquets because it’s trendier to use single-bloom centerpieces.
The more natural the reception the more inviting it will be. Your guests will be able to feel the warmth and fun ambiance you managed to create for their comfort. It would be wise to use a clever color-scheme so that you can add more contrast to the tables. White and red, green and yellow or cream and pink centerpieces can fit different types of weddings. Get inspired from the theme of your wedding and use specific motifs or decorative items, like bird nests, eggs and birdcages if it’s a bird or Easter theme, pine cones, branches and wheat if it’s a rustic wedding in the countryside, etc.
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Table Arrangements For Wedding Reception
Published September 21, 2012 | As a couple getting ready for the big day you will surely enjoy the planning of the reception tables. This process is fun and exciting, especially for those who have a special design they wish to implement. You can look for ideas on the Internet or ask for the advice of a specialist in field. Go and see more venues in your local area and analyze the display of the tables. Ask if they have other arrangements to recommend you.
Many brides and groom of today want to make their wedding unique and for this they are willing to design their own setting. If you want to enjoy more freedom in arranging and decorating the tables at your wedding, you can choose an open field or any other outdoorsy venue for the party. You should be able to envision the perfect setting and backdrop for an alfresco wedding reception easier than for an indoors party. The reception is the moment of grand celebration for the newlyweds and their guests. They are all happy for the sacred union of the bride and groom and now they are ready to party all night long.
Table Arrangements For Wedding Reception (Photo by: Andrew Malone)
You can choose the right venue for the party only after you’ve finished the guest list. You need to know how many people will attend your wedding so that you can arrange the tables and the seats. There are many criteria to focus on when selecting the best table display for the reception. You have to calculate the number of all tables required in the party. You need the head table for you and the wedding party, the dessert table, the gift table, the guest book table, the food table and the guest tables. Make sure that the venue you select is roomy enough to fit all these. You can renounce at the cake and food buffet table if the space is smaller. Serve the food to each guest in part when it’s ready. The centerpieces are also trickier to plan when considering the specific of the venue.
If you’re having a countryside wedding you might want to go for the rustic or western style. Aside from the linens and cutlery the venue is offering, you must decide on the flowers, napkins and other details of décor. If you’re having a colored themed wedding the venue might not even have the desired color for the linens and china. Focus on your wedding theme and try to connect the ceremony décor with the reception setting. Consider your personality when creating the head table and the guest tables. Think about the things you like and share, like music, reading, etc, and try to use a symbolic motif to reflect your hobbies.
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Red White Black Wedding Reception
Published September 20, 2012 | When planning a wedding by color everything seems more exciting for the bride and groom. And we can understand why. The thrill is bigger when you get to play with your favorite colors to create a magical space for your friends and guests. There are so, so many unique color mixes you can consider for your wedding! So, how can you make the best choice? Perhaps it’s easier to take into consideration all the important elements of your wedding when selecting the perfect hues for the décor, like the formality, the venue, the season, the amplitude and style of the wedding.
The locale and time of year are essential to consider when choosing the color theme for the ceremony and reception. Don’t forget to think of your own preferences. If you have a favorite color mix you would like to infuse in your wedding, see how you can adjust your wedding formality and style to fit it. The color combo we’re recommending is based on three colors: white, black and red. We’re all familiar with the black and white theme. This is a classic beauty, chosen by those who want a modern-vintage wedding. The red accent adds more uniqueness and intensity to the monotone white and black pair. Those who don’t want to have a plain and boring décor can insert a few red details to make the setting a bit more outstanding and inviting.
Red White Black Wedding Reception (Photo by: garann)
You can be sure that your guests will adore your accents and the way the atmosphere is so bright and stylish. We can’t think of a more elegant and sensual color theme for a wedding than this. White, black and white is formidable because it confers a brilliant contrast to the formality of a high class wedding reception. You can use white and red flowers in black vases. It would be fabulous to bring in black and white anemones and arrange them in red recipients. Or, you can focus on red and black and add just a few hints of white. There are many combinations you can make by changing the focus on a certain color.
We like dramatic weddings and this color mix is extremely bold and beautiful. It can suit indoors locations, like fancy restaurants and ballrooms. But you can adopt this tonality even for a woodsy like wedding. If you want a rustic woodland mood for your reception, plan the party in the forest or in the woods. The effect will be fantastic! Use gerbera daises in white, black and red colors so that you can obtain a unified effect. These flowers are lavish and romantic and distinctive from the classic roses. They should help you obtain a trendier ambiance for your guests.
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Wedding Reception Dresses
Published September 19, 2012 | The attire for the wedding reception is in some cases different from the one worn at the ceremony, for both the couple and their attendants. Although it’s more customary for the invitees to change into something fancier for the nigh party, many newlyweds of today decide to wear two attires at their wedding. The bride usually chooses two dresses for her big day: one for the religious ceremony and one for the reception party. It may seem only natural for a bride to want something more decent and serious for the church and then change into something a bit more attractive or comfy.
Those who are having a cathedral wedding and a pompous gown with a long train and veil might want to wear something a bit more simplistic and ‘realistic” at the party. You won’t be able to move, dance and enjoy the wedding in an elaborated gown. This is the primary reason for choosing a second bridal dress for the reception. Only those who have a big wedding budget can afford to make this move. Nevertheless, we think that any woman can save some extra cash for an extra gown for the wedding party.
Wedding Reception Dresses (Photo by: Brian Turner)
Giving the fact that this effect will only happen once in your life, you need to compromise on other wedding items and make everything in your power to give you the ideal attire of your dreams. It’s fun to juggle with two outfits as a bride. We know that women love this opportunity and they won’t miss it. If the wedding has two themes or two styles, the bride has more reasons to change into something different for the party. She can make her grand entrance at the reception wearing the ball gown dress she worn at the ceremony and after the first dance with her husband and a few guests’ visits at their tables she can change into her second outfit. This will offer you a lot of satisfaction.
Your invitees will get the chance to see you once again in your fabulous white church wedding dress. You can now out on the new outfit, one that is more commodious and practical. If you’re planning on dancing all night long, choose something simpler or at least smoother. The reception dress should be in the same tonality of the wedding. It must be formal and elegant, no matter how comfy the design it may be. You can change into a colorful gown if you want more diversity for your wedding. Choose a party cocktail dress, or go for a beauty contest dress. As for the wedding guests, they should be able to read the dress code for their attire in the wedding invitations.
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