Seven Steps to Home Wedding Decoration

So you’ve decided to get married at home? Decorating your home for a wedding can be a challenge. In most cases, the budget is limited and there are unique circumstances involved when deciding on ways to decorate for a wedding at home. Here are seven steps on home wedding decoration so your guests forget that they are sitting in your living room:

Create An Impression Immediately

Place a lot of wedding decorations at the entrance of the home to help set the ambiance. Rented columns serve nicely to define an entranceway. Don’t forget to dress up the small details such as mailboxes and tree trunks to help give an overall impression of elegance. Hang heart bouquets tied with pretty silk ribbon on windows and doors where your guests will notice them as they enter.

Work With What You’ve Got

Make use of what is already in your home and yard when deciding how to decorate your home for a wedding. Do you have a staircase in your home? It could serve as a grand entrance as you make your way down to the alter. Drape stairways with swags of fabric with a fresh flower in the center of each. Posts can be wrapped in ribbon or fake greenery and topped with a houseplant.

Make Use Of Rentals

One of the easiest things you can do to decorate a home for a wedding is to rent specialty decor items from a party supply store. They usually carry a wide array of fun items from chocolate fountains to temporary dance floors.

Not only does renting professional equipment make it easy to unify the space, but it also keeps you from having to go out and purchase these items. Put your regular furniture in the garage and rent tables and chairs. Nothing says homemade wedding like having Dad’s favorite easy chair in the corner.

Use Existing Plants And Flowers

Incorporate flowers and plants that surround your home into the decoration. This will serve to save money and unify the space. Dried flowers also add a touch of romance and are inexpensive to prepare from your garden or from the garden of a friend. Cut flowers and hang upside down a few weeks before the wedding. Tie with a pretty bow and hang as decoration.

Dress Up The Ordinary

In order to camouflage that 1970’s inspired wallpaper left over from the previous owners, drape fabric on the walls. You can use paint-protect double-sided tape to avoid damage to the walls. Bows are always a good way to hide imperfections or items that can’t be moved.

The giant big-screen TV that takes up an entire corner of the room can be draped with fabric and a bow applied to each top corner. Also be sure to remove all other kitschy decorations and pictures from the room to give it a feeling of a whole new space.

Pay Attention To Lighting

You may want to invest in special lighting so you and your new husband have an angelic glow as you make your first toast. Be careful of candles due to the risk of ending up with your veil on fire. Ordinary table lamps can be dressed up with fabric, but be careful not to drape fabric over the top. Also, the use of mirrors throughout the house can make the space seem twice as large and reflect the candlelight.

Appeal To The Senses

One of the great advantages to having your wedding at home is you aren’t bound by all of those stuffy rules that banquet facilities and hotels make you abide by. For instance, you can increase the “hominess” by having a cinnamon stick simmering in water on the stove.

You can also place scented candles or oils throughout the house that remind people of love and romance- jasmine, vanilla, cherry, etc. You may also want to incorporate small fountains so guests are relaxed at the sounds of flowing water.

The best thing about home wedding decoration is that it allows you the ultimate freedom to express your personality and make your guests feel right at home.