Weddings Reception Decorations

decorations for wedding and reception? clueless!?

I am so bad with this sort of stuff...were having our wedding at a church and the reception at the fire hall banquet hall area. all the tables, napkins, etc are white (not my choice, its from catering) the colors for the wedding party is dark blue. how should i get flowers? where should i put them? do you put them up at the actual wedding too? on the tables at the reception? since its at a fire hall i don't really know where i would go to get decorations for the tables and such. I feel so lost i just want it to look nice. any ideas of budget things? im the first of my friends/family to get married so im kind of at a lost (also have been to few weddings)

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1. I'm a wedding videogrpaher. To the delight of my wife I planned our wedding. you don't state how many people, tables and/or hall size. Acouple of things I've seen are as follows. Yes-flowers can be in the church. Table decor you want sort of small. We created our own decor. I love dolphins. So we took one foot by one foot mirrors and placed them on a table. The next is a wide mouth glass bowl with glass pebbles in bottom. Fill with water and add tea lights and rose pedals (or any other pedal that coincides with your wedding. The candles can be lit. Before the reception put a name tag sticker on the bottom of one chair at every table. On the name tag says "you win." You or oyur DJ announces for all to look under chair. The one with sticker takes center piece home as a souvenier. Receptions don't really have flower decor. Baloons always work. You can find sinple baloon bouquets all th way up to big baloown themed stuctures. We had a purple and white arch that all walked through and had pix taken under it. If you have children invited. Keep them busy with gift packs. go to the dollar store and pick up coloring books, crayons and a little toy. You give these to the kids in attendacne--age appropriate of course. Another thing was a candy toss for kids with the Bouquet and garter toss. MY MAJOR PIECE OF ADVISE WITH WOULD BE THIS IS YOUR WEDDING. yOU DO WHAT YOU WANT TO MAKE YOU HAPPY. YOU WILL NOT PLEASE EVERYONE SO DO NOT TRY.
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3. There is a website called Wedding tips and Ideas that may be able to help you out alot as for expenses and great ideas in general. It also helps to check out a couple of decorating bridal books also. I usually look at the ones in Walgreens or floral stores. Just breathe and have fun.
4. First of all Congrats! My first suggestion would be to find a good wedding planner in your area, if however budget is a concern (this day and age isn't it always!) you can call local florists and see if any offer a free consultation to help you find flowers that you like and that will work with your colors and the time of year for your ceremony. Finally check on line, just enter the color of flower (and type if you have any that you know you like) centerpieces, into your search engine. There are so many sites that you can look at that will give you ideas from the very complex arrangements to simple blooms in a vase with ribbon. Once you have an idea in mind you can check local farmer's markets for fresh flowers or craft stores for artificial ones. (on line check Crafta.com and Budgetbride.com) Just remember it's your day and the flowers should be something that you love.
5. A church can look lovely with fairy lights put around the place. You could get flowers to put on the end of the seats (closes to the aisle) You would be best to call into your local florist's to inquire about wedding flowers, maybe talk to some friends/family/work colleagues for recommendation on who they used or know of other people who have used them For the tables you can use flowers, a nice idea is to have small clear candle holders (a bowl or vase shape) with stones the colour of the bridesmaids dresses then a small candle on top. Very simple and not too OTT For your budget, first work out what you think you can afford to spend on a wedding, and then work out what the venue's, your dress,bridesmaids dresses,flowers,suits,hair and make up, photographer,celebrant or priest,cars etc will cost. The easiest thing to do is to sit down and dream up what you would like your wedding to be and then start price searching from there. Congrats!!
6. OK first off, what in the world is that dude talking about flowers not working at the reception? What month is your wedding in? If you have flowers you have to think of whats going to be in season. You can have flowers in the church and if you are on a budget you can have someone move them to your reception site while everyone is outside the church, taking pics and socialising. First Id tell you to kinda decide on some sort of a theme. You dont specifically have to narrow it down to any one thing, but more of an idea of what you want. Classy? Country? Chic? Fancy? Fun? Candles always work. For the tables you dont want anything too high, so people cant see over them. Bowls of water with floating candles or containers with flowers submerged with a floating candle on top is a nice look. If dark blue is your color Id pick 1 or 2 accent colors. Something to lighten it up. Flowers in blue seem to be very hard to find. If the wedding party incorporates another color (a sash, tie, hankerchief for the pocket, or cumberbund) that would help tie in with the color scheme of the flowers. You can google all kinds of ideas just type something in the search box and see where it takes you. Try "Blue wedding themes" or the OffBeatBrideTribe is a great source for ideas but you have to join the group.
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