Any wedding venue is going to look more appealing when decorated to your own particular taste and, even just a centrepiece of flowers along the dining table is going to add atmosphere to the location. Providing arrays of fresh blooms throughout the room is particularly appealing, making a fragrant entrance for guests arriving at the wedding reception. Flowers are always an appealing and key ingredient to decorating any venue, but how do you decorate your wedding venue with style? You can always decorate the chairs with swags and sashes, provide individualised wedding favours; these are all tried and tested ways to decorate your wedding venue with style.

Chair Sashes and Bows

Chair bows always make a room look special and adding bows to chairs doesn’t need to cost the earth. Bows are usually made from tulle or from organza; usually, some kind of satiny-look material that keeps its shape well when tied. To make each bow you need the material to be approximately 22cm wide, in 3-metre lengths. Materials, such as organza, have a right side that is shinier than the underside, so you need to be aware of this when you are preparing the chair bows. Tulle, however, is easier to use as it doesn’t have a right or wrong side right roll as being cheaper to purchase than organza. Tulle is 1.4 metres wide and comes in rolls of 3, 12 or 120 metres.

To make the bows for the chair you need to split the tulle in half lengthways so that you have a width of 0.7metres which is more than sufficient to gather up for an effective bow. A length of 3 metres is more than enough to tie around the back of the chair and gather up into an attractive bow.  After tying the bow you will be left with enough tulle to form into streamers. This can be achieved by using plenty of spray starch to hold the tulle in the shape you require.

Draping Tables

Bring the essence of romance to life with tables draped with tulle. The effect is particularly dramatic when you drape tulle across all the tables, including the head table, cake table and each guest tables, as well as any other tables that might catch the eyes of the guests. Dressing tables up with tulle looks particularly effective if you are using white linen table cloths draped over tulle is chosen to match the main colour scheme chosen for the theme of the wedding.

If you are decorating the banqueting table, try running lengths of tulle along the length of the table, bunched up at intervals with ribbons to match the wedding colours. You can always scatter confetti along the length to dress the table up; rose petals or glitter look good as well or even the little dolly mixture sweets trailed along the table.

Summary

There really is so much you could do to decorate your wedding venue with style. Flowers and candles are always useful props. Rich looking fabrics are always useful for draping for effect, finished off with tassels that you may be able to borrow for the day from a relative’s window tie-backs. A final little tip to decorate your wedding venue with style, buy a selection of fresh rose buds, remove the sharp bits on the stem and then cut the stem down so that it is quite short. Now for the individual bit – slip a rosebud inside each guest’s napkin which then needs to be folded intricately and placed on each guest’s place mat. I am sure this charming little touch will be greatly appreciated by all the guests at your wedding.

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The ‘SIGNATURE’ Range, mainly created for the top table, is making available unique commissions for creating personalised handcrafted solid metal labels in either 9ct Gold, Sterling Silver, Bronze or Copper that are then placed on stylish 140g pure honey filled glass jars of provenance, directly sourced with 100% pure silk & sealing wax seals. The labels can be further customised by adding a semi-precious gem bead from an eclectic choice such as Natural Baltic Amber or Freshwater Pearl. The most discerning range.

The ‘ARTISAN’ Range, with Timeless Handwritten Calligraphy on Luxury Paper Card or on Genuine Papyrus or Silver-Effect Aluminium or Gold-Effect Brass offers the selection of pure materials of unrivalled charm to create Bespoke labels on cute 40g honey filled glass jars with an Eco-ribbon colour of choice such as Magnificent Ivory, Royal Blue, Dark Woodland Green, Ruby Red or Lagoon Turquoise.

The ‘SERENDIPITY‘ Range takes the romantic favour to a whole new level. The current choice of ‘Love Pots’, little terracotta-soft white pots with real moss and a paper rose OR ‘Love Boards’, little blackboards – that can double up as ‘Place Names’ – made by BeeARTIsan using FSCertified Pine wood, in rectangle or heart shape with artistic finish details OR ‘Love Hearts’ romantic 3D metal lace white hearts that come with a choice of Eco-ribbon colour of choice are BeeARTisan’s ever evolving, trend setting or trend pegging, concept compositions.

BeeARTisan’s pursuit for attention to detail led to the design of its very own stylish art graphic, for its Guest Luxury Gift Bags to complete the presentation of its favours. Printed in Luxury silver tones each gift bag conveys a thank you message to the guest: ‘Your Original Keepsake – Love & Nature Inspired – We Thank You’. The favour inside is wrapped in quality acid free tissue paper and the gift bag is finished off with an Eco-ribbon colour of choice.

Since 2012 is the Queen’s Silver Jubilee Year, also the year of the Olympics, BeeARTisan made available the option to place a fine quality cotton woven Union Jack on its labels from the Serendipity range.

BeeARTisan’s creativity never stops, new additions are constantly in the making and -evoke- is its latest innovation aimed to be used with the ‘Love Pots’ & ‘Love Boards’ favours, whereby each can be infused from a choice of pure oil blend essential oils and fragrances with dominant aromas of: ‘Orange Blossom’ – ‘Rosewood’ – ‘White Rose’ – ‘Ylang Ylang’ – ‘Orange’ – ‘Rosa Damascena’ – ‘Cinnamon’ Or ‘Jasmine’. Due to demand the pure blend oil infusions can also be purchased separately.

They always welcome enquiries for creating a keepsake favour that becomes a mark of timelessness & elegance at info@beeartisan.com and wishes every couple a Happy Planning!

Swizzels Matlow, the confectionery company that makes Love Hearts, is launching the app on Love Hearts Facebook page facebook.com/swizzelslovehearts on 1 February. It allows fans to send personalised messages such as I Love You and Miss You on a digital Love Heart.

App users have the option to enter into a prize draw to be in with a chance of winning limited edition retro-inspired Love Hearts tins full of mini sweets. Fans who use the app to propose could also win a supply of wedding favours for their special day.

Sarah-Louise Heslop, marketing manager at Swizzels Matlow, said: “Our fans are a romantic bunch so launching this fabulous Facebook app in time for Valentine’s Day made perfect sense. Now that Facebook fans can propose online we could be responsible for a summer of social media weddings.”

Love Hearts has also teamed up with the music streaming service WE7.com, the personalised online radio website to develop Love Hearts radio. Visit lovehearts.com to listen to your favourite love songs.

Fans can still vote for the online ultimate top 20 love songs from artists such as Bruno Mars, Rihanna, Mariah Carey and Eric Clapton or make their own suggestions.

Whilst you have already provided your guests with a feast and possibly wedding favours as part of your wedding day; it is important to send thank you cards as a formal way of showing your gratitude for their attendance and any gifts. Attending a wedding can prove to be an expensive day for guests – especially those that travel from far away and face accommodation costs. So a little show of thanks will certainly be appreciated and leave friends and family alike with a final happy memory of your wedding day.

There aren’t any specific rules regarding when your thank you cards should be sent out and people will appreciate that you are busy with the honeymoon. However, leaving it too long can be seen as a lack of appreciation or perhaps leave guests worrying that you don’t like the present they gave. So try and get the invitations sent out within the first few weeks of your marriage and certainly no later than six weeks after. It is a good idea to order your thank you cards along with the rest of your wedding stationery so that you have them at hand and can write a few at a time when you get a chance.

Finally, there are a couple of mistakes often made when sending out thank you cards that can easily be avoided. Rather than sending out or delivering thank you cards as and when you write them; instead, wait until you have written them all and dispatch them in one go. Otherwise, you run the risk of someone who has received a thank you card mentioning the fact to a guest who you haven’t yet sent one too – which could leave them feeling slighted. Also, be sure to add a handwritten heartfelt message to each card; thanking the guest or guests by name and giving mention to any gifts. If you shared a joke or memorable moment with them during the wedding day, then drawing reference to it is a great way of making the thank you a little more personal. I’m sure you’ll agree that the extra outlay in your wedding stationery really is worth it to add the finishing touches to your perfect day.

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