Popular Western Wedding Decoration Ideas

Western weddings are popular among modern brides. No longer do they have to reside in Texas to have a western style wedding, complete with hay bales. A western wedding decoration for your wedding and reception can be as creative as you wish from the hot chili pepper lighting down to the last cowboy boot shaped flowerpot.

A popular western wedding decoration is the cowboy boot. It can be used in a variety of places for your wedding. It has been used as a planter, a motif on tablecloths, as a drinking glass for your guests and as paper favor holders.

These variations can be found in retail stores, craft stores and in wholesale glass dealers who sell to restaurants. Of course authentic leather boots can be used for the plants, but it will be hard to separate them from their owners.

Another popular western wedding decoration is the lighting. Although you can choose to use the ever popular mini white lights to drape an arch way or across tables, the authentic western wedding may employ the use of unusual decorator lights such as red chili peppers or even mini cowboy boots. These can be found in some retail stores and on the Internet.

The flowers that you use in your arrangements can be as special as this western themed wedding. Depending on the time of year brides may choose yellow roses, sunflowers in either yellow or red, straw flowers, zinnias and red or white geraniums.

These flowers are very popular as a western wedding decoration and can be displayed in galvanized tubs, hung from little pails on Shepard's hooks and used in tin pails on guests tables. Just be sure to use a plastic liner in the pails to avoid having spots on your tablecloths if one should leak.

They hay bale is a pre-requisite for any western style wedding. This perennial favorite western wedding decoration can be used in many places at the reception. It can be used at the entrance to doorways and as part of the backdrop for photo areas, such as an oak archway decorated for the western theme. It makes a nice place for guests to sit in photos and while waiting for the dancing to begin.

The bales can be placed around the dance floor as well and create the perfect ambiance for a square dance. Just be sure to ask for the right colored bale- if you want gold, ask for straw, if you want green ask for hay.

The bride will have fun choosing her favor box and using it as a western wedding decoration on her reception tables. She can choose from many shapes and sizes including cowboy hats, cowboy boots and boxes. These can be filled with small gifts and chocolates.

If you choose to use a simple box you can wrap it with ribbon that matches your chosen color theme and add a small western style charm to the ribbon in keeping with your wedding theme.

The bride is sure to have fun designing a western themed wedding. If she includes her bridesmaids and family the planning, they will have a hoot selecting each western wedding decoration that is available on the market.