Oooh! Me Three!! Decor help, please!

ladyciel · Jan 17, 2008

I''m giving in and jumping on the decor-help bandwagon, because I just can''t help myself. So, I would love to hear your opinions about how to best utilize our colors for our linens and centerpieces in this ballroom for our Sept 13th wedding. The ceremony will be in a garden at a different location, and I think I would like the reception to have a warm, relaxed romantic feeling to it. We''re most likely going to have live classical guitar music for the ceremony, cocktail hour and dinner before switching to the DJ for the rest of the evening.

The room:

Our colors (blue and plum-burgundy)

In real life, the pink shade of the walls is such that I think it should go nicely with the plum color and avoid clashing.

The bridesmaid dresses will be tea-length in the blue, and I definitely want the plum color to show up in the BM bouquets. Not sure yet if mine will be solid cream flowers or if it will have some color mixed in (probably a lighter shade of the plum color to make it more subtle - almost pink?).

I know the venue can offer dark blue, ivory, or mauve (like the walls) skirting for the head/cake tables. I''m not sure if they have alternate colors of tablecloths available to switch out for the ivory. Also, they have a no-flame rule so any candles have to be fake.

ladyciel · Jan 17, 2008

Sorry, looking back, I realize I didn''t really point out what I''m having issues picturing. I think the areas where I''m most confused on what would look good are how to include all the colors without it seeming too heavy/busy but without them getting completely lost in the room''s existing decor. Do you think I could use colored tablecloths or overlays and not have it feel too dark? I think if I did colored cloths I would stick to mostly cream flowers. If I don''t have color in the fabric, do you guys have any ideas on how I could get the colors into the flowers without them getting lost or seeming too dark? I guess I''m just having issues imagining any of it.

Hera · Jan 17, 2008

I'm not seeing blue or plum burgundy tablecloths (too dark) but I found these flowers that I thought would be a start. still thinking

Hera · Jan 17, 2008

You may be able to put an overlay of the sheer plum burgundy over the white table cloths. The only way I could see you making the tablecloths the blue or plum colors are if you decided to cover white chairs with white chair covers and put a plum or blue bow (or both!) on them. That may be expensive so maybe see if you could explore with a sheer burgundy. Your instincts are right, even if you use a sheer overlay, I would use white flowers.

bee* · Jan 18, 2008

I would probably just add those colours as accents-such as having them in flowers in the middle of the table, maybe if you''re doing chair covers, having them as sashes, if you have menus-have them printed on that colour paper. I''m not sure about having the full tablecloth in one of those colours-maybe have the underneath cloth in one of your colours and have a lighter smaller cloth on top so you can still see the colours on the side but it''s not really in your face and dark.

CrownJewel · Jan 18, 2008

I agree with bee. Print programs, menus, seating cards on plum or navy cardstock (or cream/white layered on top of the color paper). You could also use navy or plum votive holders and put flowers in that. You can wrap favors in purple paper and tie with a pretty navy ribbon.

For the centerpiece, I like the idea of a large low moss covered platform with purple flowers all over it. Kind of a combo of the two photos below.