Tips For Tent Wedding Decorations

If you're planning an outdoor wedding, chances are that you've considered renting a tent for the occasion to avoid letting the weather dampen spirits. The professionals at the rental store have a lot of experience, and can offer excellent suggestions for tent wedding decorations, but you're likely to have ideas of your own. Especially if you've opted for a themed wedding, you'll want tent wedding decorations that fit your theme.

For starters, choose a tent style that suits the feeling you want for your wedding. If your picture of a tent wedding is based on a yellow-striped canopy set up in a back yard, the variety of tents and the amenities that go with them may surprise you.

The many styles of tents available range from simple, open-sided canopies to elaborate tents that are far more like an event hall than an outdoor tent. You can rent parquet dance floors, band stands and stages. A closed tent with heating can even make it possible for you to have an outdoor wedding in midwinter.

For a breezy, open feeling in fair weather, choose an open-sided canopy that can serve as shelter from the hot sun or a light rain. If there's a chance of more severe weather, you can rent a tent with roll-down sides for just-in-case. With this style of tent, you'll have few poles and supports to worry about, and Mother Nature will help with the decorations.

Start your tent wedding decorations by wrapping the corner supports in satin wedding ribbon and flower garlands or sprays that coordinate with the wedding party colors and table decorations for a coordinated look. If you use trailing ribbons, every light breeze will add a touch of festive color to the surroundings.

If the wedding is in the evening, decorate the wedding tent with light. Strings of miniature white Christmas tree lights twined around poles or strung across the canopy above and in the trees outside can lend a magical fairy-tale air to the yard or garden.

For tent wedding decorations that produce a more dramatic look, center spotlights on flower arrangements, or filter them through swaths of glitter-kissed tulle. If you've decided on banquet tables under the canopy, wedding table centerpieces that include hurricane lamp chimneys and slender tapers will add a note of sophistication and elegance.

If you've chosen a more substantial tent, you may find yourself faced with metal support poles in the middle of the floor or along the sides. Instead of despairing, make them a part of the tent wedding decorations by wrapping them in ribbons that match the wedding colors, or wind ivy and flower garlands around them.

Add a touch of romance with your tent wedding decorations by twining tiny twinkling lights in among the greens and flowers. You can extend the fairy magic by stringing the little mini-lights across the ceiling of the tent to mimic a starlit sky.

Let your theme suggest tent wedding decoration ideas as well. Nearly any decoration you could use in an event hall can be adapted for use in the wedding canopy or tent.

Brightly colored paper lanterns hung along the perimeter of the wedding tent create the perfect accent for an Asian themed wedding. Tiki torches placed just outside the tent for a Hawaiian theme wedding can serve the double purpose of decoration and bug control.

Finally, remember that both your caterer and your florist are excellent sources of ideas for decorating your wedding tent. They've likely attended dozens of tent weddings. Take advantage of their expertise and ask for suggestions on tent wedding decorations.