| The right wedding decorations can transform any | | | | flowers will be in season. Candles and candelabras |
| location into a magical place. However, the location | | | | are equally magical and few things are as |
| itself will influence your choice of wedding | | | | romantic as a wedding ceremony by candlelight. |
| decoration. For instance, are you having your | | | | For added drama, shallow bowls of water with |
| wedding indoors or outdoors? Is the wedding | | | | floating candles. Votives are a great idea as well. |
| ceremony going to be held in church? If not, will | | | | However, the amount of natural light you get at |
| the wedding ceremony and the wedding reception | | | | the wedding location is something that you should |
| be held at the same place or at different places? | | | | check out before you go in for this option. |
| What time of day will the wedding be held? Also | | | | Ribbons are also a popular options especially when |
| what time of the year will it be? All these factors | | | | combined with flowers or candles. Ribbons are |
| should be kept in mind while choosing your | | | | also a great way to enhance a certain theme. |
| wedding decorations. | | | | The ribbons can be of satin, organza, tulle or even |
| Before you decide on your wedding decorations, it | | | | simple netting. |
| is extremely important to check out the locations | | | | Now that your choose a theme or the wedding |
| and find out if they have any specific rules or | | | | decorations, you can decide and select wedding |
| regulations regarding wedding decorations. If you | | | | favors. The exact origin of wedding favors is lost |
| are getting married in a church find out what | | | | in the mists of time. However, clearly the custom |
| decorations will already be in place on the day of | | | | of giving guests something to take back with |
| your wedding. After all, you don't want to spend a | | | | them has been around for sometime in many |
| lot of time and money getting beautiful wedding | | | | cultures. Records from Rome at the turn of the |
| decorations and then find out that they look all | | | | first millennium show that nobility frequently |
| wrong in the location or that the rules of the | | | | handed out gifts to the guests at a wedding |
| place forbid you from using those or that you | | | | banquet. In 16th and 17th century England, it was |
| didn't need them in the first place. Also keep in | | | | common for the happy bride and groom to give |
| mind the style and colors of the wedding and the | | | | their guests love knots made of lace and ribbon. |
| theme, if any. When thinking about the wedding | | | | Whatever the origins, the custom has stayed on |
| decorations, keep in mind not just the decorations | | | | and is today one of the integral parts of the |
| themselves but also the kind of lighting you need. | | | | wedding celebration. |
| For the ceremony itself, focus first on getting | | | | These days there are a variety of favors to suit |
| your wedding decorations for the altar or the | | | | every taste and every budget. However, if you |
| altar equivalent. This is because that is where you | | | | like the simple elegance of the days gone by and |
| will be getting married and that is where the | | | | are having a traditional wedding ceremony, you |
| entire focus of the guests will be. The other two | | | | may want to take a look at some traditional |
| important areas requiring wedding decorations are | | | | wedding favors. You may get some ideas that will |
| the pews and the doorway through which you will | | | | help you find a wedding favor that fits right in |
| be entering. When it comes to the location of | | | | with the traditional theme of your wedding. |
| your reception, the areas that deserve top | | | | The earliest of wedding favor traditions consisted |
| priority for decoration are the head table where | | | | of ribbons and lace knotted together to symbolize |
| you will be sitting and which will be the focus of | | | | the knot of marriage. If you like the idea of |
| the celebrations, the centerpieces for the tables, | | | | ribbons, but are looking for a way to update it a |
| the entrance and the dance floor. In addition to | | | | bit, one way of doing so is to tie up your favors |
| this, there may be some other aspect unique to | | | | in a mass of different colored ribbons. That's a |
| the locations of your wedding that you may want | | | | combination of the old and new that you just |
| to highlight or camouflage through the use of | | | | can't beat. |
| wedding decorations. | | | | Is there anything that symbolizes love better than |
| When it comes to wedding decorations, the most | | | | flowers? Flowers, especially orange blossoms, are |
| popular tend to be flowers, candles and ribbons. | | | | very popular at Spanish weddings. For a traditional |
| Flowers, both real ones and silk ones, can | | | | wedding favor with a modern twist, consider |
| transform any place. Ideally, pick flowers that | | | | giving your guests orange blossoms in a bud vase |
| come in the wedding colors. Also if you decide to | | | | or even seeds or bulbs for flowers that they can |
| go in for real flowers then keep in mind what | | | | go back and plant in their own gardens. |