Top 5 tips for choosing your wedding table design
Natasha Grant
Wedding Styling: Five tips for choosing your wedding table design
Your wedding table design may not be at the top of your wedding planning list. However, it is important. Your wedding table can really impact on the look and feel or your wedding reception. It is a place where you and your guests may spend quite a bit of time (if you have a sit-down meal). I absolutely love developing wedding table designs, for my clients. You can be SO creative and seeing the result, gives me a fantastic warm feeling. So today, I thought I would share 5 top tips to help you when deciding on your wedding table design.
1. Gather your wedding table design ideas
Before you do anything with your wedding table design, get your ideas together. Wedding Inspiration can be taken from all areas of life, not just other wedding table designs. For example, focus on the things you’re passionate about whether that’s travel, food, interiors, history or fashion. Also think about the colours, visit your local homeware store, and see what paint samples or wallpaper you are drawn to.
2. Create a mood board
Create a mood board, whether that’s on Pinterest or something else, or even collect material samples, cuttings from a magazine. It’s a fantastic way to start to bring together all the inspiration and ideas that you have collected about your wedding table. Narrow down your ideas, by starting to look at the common elements of your wedding table ideas, such as is there a clear style (relaxed, elegant, modern etc) and tone, are you drawn towards vibrant colours, relaxing pastels or perhaps a more monochrome palette.
3. Select the key elements for your wedding design
Consider what aspects you could bring out in your wedding table setting through the type of table you choose (such as long trestle tables or round tables) the place settings, tableware, centrepieces. Your wedding table is a fantastic way to showcase your wedding style and both your interests. And don’t forget fun elements too like table names or mascots. All of this is so important to consider especially if you are using a dry hire venue, regardless of whether you are having an intimate wedding or a larger one.
4. Source exquisite items
Search for talented wedding suppliers who can provide the items you need. Ensure that you use exquisite items from the glassware to sumptuous high-quality linen (tablecloths, napkins) or furnishings, to make it feel exceptional. Also consider getting items made to customise and personalise the experience for you and your guests. Especially if you are having an intimate wedding, you can really go to town on your gorgeous wedding table setting.
Don’t forgot to include candles within your wedding table design. Candles will help add impact to your table and great ambience when lit (do check that your venue allows real candles, some only allow LED's). Consider what type of candles you will use such as votive, taper candles or pillar candles and how you will use them throughout your table design.
A clear wedding design and exceptional styling will help make any space look amazing. With wedding table styling all the details matter, including the little ones. Each element on your table should help to enhance the overall design.
Ensure that you have someone who knows what they are doing to help set everything up in a beautiful way on your wedding day, so that you don’t have to worry about it. You want your delightful wedding table design to be shown at its absolute best.
If you want any help with developing your wedding table design and/or setting up all the exquisite details on your fantastic wedding day, I would absolutely love to help you. Contact me natasha@pearlineevents.com and lets chat.
Natasha x
About the Author
Natasha is the founder and lead planner at Pearline Events, a London-based wedding planning business specialising in vibrant multicultural celebrations and dry-hire venues. With her background of over a decade of experience in Civil Service project management, she brings unparalleled logistics and problem solving skills, plus creative flair to create seamless, colourful weddings. Her work has been featured in numerous online and print publications.
Named after her late grandmother, 'Pearline' means precious, reflecting Natasha's belief that every love story is unique and deserves a wedding that reflects its true spirit and you. She helps couples fuse their cultures into an exquisitely elegant day, ensuring they arrive relaxed and joyful.
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