Without any table decorations your overall reception decorations don’t quite do the job of creating the atmosphere. Table decorations help things feel more festive and can include wedding favours and decorated place cards. For inspiration, consider these 5 things.

Using our natural elements such as water and fire

It’s easy to create stunning table decorations using our natural elements as the inspiration. Create your table centre pieces from earth, water and fire in interesting ways such as fire floating on water or small water fountains. Try and be unique and make each table slightly different so they will be plenty to look at.

Choose to use your wedding colours as your table centrepieces

If you have wedding colours then use these as a starting point for your table decorations such as vases, flowers, balloons, favour boxes, name cards and candle holders.

Use Colour Coordinating Disposable Cameras

Adding further colour and dimension to your reception tables, disposable cameras are a great way to ask your guests to share there moments throughout your reception with them. By placing them on the tables you’re asking them to take pictures for you. When you develop those pictures you’ll have loads to choose from for creating another wedding album. It’s a nice touch because it lets your wedding guests get really interactive and is a fantastic ice breaker.

Different Heights of Vases on the Same Table

Different heights of the objects making up your table centrepieces add interest. Most couples only consider having their table decorations at one height. Using different heights will give you a more professional look.

Tasty Reception Table Decorations

Reception table decorations that your guests can eat are a great idea. There are two very different types of edible wedding table decorations. These are sweets and fruit.

Fruit arrangements are difficult because as the reception goes on, the appearance of the nicely cut fruit diminishes. If you want to look more into using fruit as your centrepiece there are many companies who specialise in this.

Sweets can be a great way to keep your guests happy while they’re waiting to be fed. Place the sweets in decorative bowls or wide vases.

There’s no limit to the things that could be used as table decorations at your wedding. The best thing to do is to try and make them unique and reflect the overall theme of the wedding. You want your guests to remember how brilliant they were. Since you want all your hard effort that went into creating your wedding table decorations to be noticed, take your time on deciding exactly what you want because it’s your table decorations that make your reception decorations.

When it comes to choosing wedding heels, you might think the higher the heel the better. However, before you choose the sexy 4 inch heel, you might want to give your feet another thought, after all they will take a bit of a battering on your wedding day.

You need to wear your wedding heels all day, from walking down the aisle to dancing at the reception so they need to be bearable if not comfy. While it is acceptable to take your wedding heels off at the end of the night (after your first dance of course!) it won’t look fantastic and you might trip on the hem of your wedding dress – you’ve seen all those wedding videos right?

When choosing the height of your wedding heels, first think about the size of the heel you normally wear. This is a good indication of what the height of your wedding heels should be. For example if you’re used to wearing flat shoes don’t choose a wedding heel higher than 2 inches, otherwise you may struggle to walk down the aisle in a graceful fashion and you might not even make it to the first dance without ripping them off and tending to your painful blistered feet. If you normally spend your days in a 3 inch heel then anything up to 4 inches will be fine.

A good rule of thumb is that for every half inch increase in heel height than you’re used to wearing, will hurt your feet 30 minutes earlier than normal due to the extra pressure on your feet. There are also a wide range of shoe cushions available such as party feet which can help to alleviate the pressure that some wedding heels can put on your feet.

Once you’ve chosen your wedding heels make sure you wear them in by wearing them in the house for a few days, this will allow them to stretch to your feet and if they are going to rub then any sensitive skin or blisters they may cause will be healed by your wedding day and you’ll be aware of any problems your wedding heels may cause before your wedding day.

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Why use bridal bouquet gems

The most simple bridal bouquets can transformed with strategically placed bouquet crystals or gems.  These can often be bought by the florist but you might want to buy them yourself on line to save costs or if you’re feeling a little creative you could make them yourself.  All you need is the beads that you want to make into the bouquet gems and craft wire.  Craft wire is available in a wide range of colours but I tend to use either silver or gold plated wire to give a more elegant finish.  The type of crystal or stone which you use depend on the effect your trying to achieve and it would be better to match it to the stone that your bridal accessories are created from such as Swarovski crystal, pearls, or diamante.

Creating your own Bridal Bouquet Gems

It’s pretty easy to make your own bridal bouquet gems all you need is the crystals, craft wire, wire cutters and some time.  For this example I’m going to use Swarovski crystals in clear AB.

Take your crystal (for solitary bouquet gems uses crystals the are 6mm in diameter, thread through a length of 0.4mm craft wire at least double the length you want the stem to be so the crystal sits in the centre.  Bend the wire so the ends of the wire meet and hold between your finger and thumb with your spare hand hold the crystal and twist until the wire is twisted all the way to the bottom.  It will look something like the image to the right.

For those who are used to working with wire, you could always use a thicker wire 0.6mm and thread the crystal on to the top of the wire, wrapping the wire under the crystal to give a neat finish.

If you can afford to use Swarovski crystals as these are the highest quality of crystals available and nothing else achieves such as wonderful sparkle for bridal bouquet gems.  If you’re looking for cheap Swarovksi crystals, eBay is always a good place to start and you can see all the 6mm crystals available for sale by clicking this link  - Swarovski crystals.

How to use Bridal Bouquet Gems

Bridal bouquet gems can be placed in between flowers or pushed in to the centre of flowers such as roses to add further interest.  If you are planning on pushing the bridal bouquet gems through the centre of flowers you will need to make them with 0.6m wire with a short stem so they can be inserted without bending out of shape.

The bridal bouquet gems can also be wound around the handle of the bouquet adding further interest and holding any ribbon in place.