Wedding Table Decorations

You’ve spent months picking out the perfect wedding dress, bridesmaid dresses, clothing for the groom and best man, flowers, rings, etc. But have you thought about the wedding table decorations? It’s easy to get caught up in thinking about everything else that’s involved in planning a wedding and then to either not think about the wedding table ‘til the last minute or to forget about it completely! Ugly, barebones tables with brown metal folding chairs do not a pretty wedding party make! Here are some ideas to help keep you from having a wedding table “disaster.” Read on!

Dressing Up the Tables and Chairs

Part of the wedding table decorations – a big part! – includes cloths to cover the tables and chair covers. It’s amazing how something so simple can make such a huge impact. Stick with neutral tones so that anything you put on top of the table “goes” with your chair and table coverings.

Stay away from vinyl or plastic – even for the most inexpensive wedding parties – and give your tables/chair a look of refinement with real cloth. Ready-made cloths and chair covers can be found online at a host of Internet Web site retailers, or you can find these at many brick & mortar home décor shops.

What to Put on Top of the Tables

Of course, it goes without saying that what goes on top of the table as far as wedding table decorations go rates high on your list of making the party memorable, too. Today’s wedding motifs can range from traditional to eclectically themed to decor based on seasonal holidays, so just about anything goes as long as it’s attractive and done in good taste.

Fresh-cut flowers are always a welcome treat for the senses at the table, as are groupings of candles in staggered heights. Floating tea lights in pretty cut-glass or crystal bowls makes an eye-catching decoration, as do satin napkins and anything made with the elegance only silver can give (even if it’s only silver plate!)

Decorating the Main Buffet Table

Carved-ice centerpieces for the main buffet table make a bold and beautiful statement, but for something that can be used again and again, consider a wrought-iron planter filled with vining ivy or with the blooming beauty of a trailing bougainvillea in flower.

For a tropical feel to the main wedding table decoration, place a glass planter in the center of the table amid colored glass stones or sea glass and add live goldfish with the top of the planter festooned with gold-colored ribbon.

It’s nice to have an unlimited budget, but you can still create wedding table decorations that wow for less than you think. Shop around, read magazines, talk to friends and relatives, and go online to check out what others are doing in the way of sprucing up tables for the party.

Once you “tune in” to all the ideas that are out there, you’ll be amazed at the choices you’ll find to make this one wedding party that just might go down in history! So enjoy yourself, have fun with coming up with new and innovative ideas. Who knows? You may just have found yourself a career calling you’d never expected!