 5 Indispensable Tips for Your Wedding Reception Tables |
Once you have decided where to have your wedding reception,
you can start thinking about the design of your reception tables.
1. Place Cards & Place Card
Holders
Using place cards and place card holders not only direct guests to their seats,
but they are the perfect way to dress up your reception tables or to continue
a theme. Today, many place card holders can do double duty by also serving as
a wedding favor
for your guests.
2. Centerpieces
Another aspect of reception table decoration is the centerpiece. You want
to be sure that the reception centerpieces are not so large that they keeps
your guests from seeing each other. One really clever idea is to create a
larger floral or candle arrangement using smaller vases and candles. At
the end of the reception, the individual pieces serve as wedding favors when
each person seated at the table then takes one of them home.
If you are planning to have a head table for you and your
wedding attendants, be sure to put it at the front of the room. It is
customary for the head table to seat each of the attendants facing the other
wedding guests.
A very popular decorating idea is to use wedding party toasting glasses at
each place setting. Another idea is to consider decorating the head table
with one of the accent colors used elsewhere at the reception. For example,
if you have chosen garnet and gold for your wedding colors, the guests’
tables may be covered in garnet table cloths, while the head table is covered
in shimmering gold with garnet accents.
4. The Gift Table
Many of your guests will bring their wedding gift with them to
the reception. Place your gift table near the entrance of the reception so
that your guests don’t have to worry with storing it during the party. You
can also move your guest book from the ceremony location to the reception
venue and place it nearby. Be sure to use make the table inviting by using
the same decorations as the other tables in the room.
  5. The Cake Table
Perhaps the most important table in the room is the table that
holds the wedding cake. Because today's wedding cakes are available in so
many beautiful designs, this table needs to be centrally located so that the
wedding cake serves as both dessert and decoration. If you are planning to
have people serve themselves wedding cake, then be sure there’s enough room
for people to move on both sides.
Many brides purchase whimsical
cake tops that fit the bride and groom's personality or custom
personalized cake tops to set next to the cake as additional decoration and
as a keepsake!
~ The WhereBridesGo.com
Team
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