White wedding flowers for your wedding table decoration
I was recently hired as a wedding coordinator for a wedding that took place over Valentine’s Day weekend and I wanted to share with you the options you have with white wedding flowers for your wedding table decorations.
For this wedding, we used white wedding flowers as the wedding day happened one day before Valentine’s Day. As a wedding coordinator, I always advise my clients to try to stay away from big holidays where flowers are an important element like Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, or even Christmas. Wholesale flower costs always increase temporarily during these times of the year.
However, wedding dates are set and as wedding coordinators we have to work around them and offer our brides the best for their money. For this wedding, the wedding table decoration consisted of white flowers as the theme was Winter Wonderland.
White roses and hydrangeas were used along with white votive candles wrapped with lemon leaves and white ribbon. In addition, white floating and pillar candles were also part of the wedding table decoration. The linen was white sequined and the silver napkins were tied with white ribbon. (For more theme ideas, including napkin folding instructions, check out my easy-to-read book, Budget Bash.)
The Winter Wonderland theme worked perfectly for this past weekend as Valentine’s Day was the day after the wedding and we were able to avoid using the expensive red and pink roses that usually ship on Valentine’s Day. In fact, for additional floral decoration, we also interspersed crystals in the centerpieces.
We followed the lead of decorating the guests’ wedding table and incorporated the same look and feel for the bride and groom’s table using tightly packed white wedding flowers along with floating white candles and clear crystals.
The guest game table also illustrated our white Winter Wonderland theme with a white silk tablecloth and a tall glass tree draped in white wedding flowers. Clear glass beads and battery operated votive candles hung from the tree to enhance the wedding table decorations. The guest cards were white and for the party gift, the white cake boxes were filled with wedding cake for the guests to take home.
One of the important functions of a wedding coordinator is to make sure that all the elements of the wedding flow from the invitation to the ceremony and finally to the reception of the guests. Sometimes, like this wedding, last minute changes are made.
Although the original theme was a black and white art deco theme used on the invitations, we were able to coordinate the new Winter Wonderland theme within two days of the wedding. We did this by substituting colored flowers for white wedding flowers, swapping black and white linen for white sequined linen, black napkins for silver, and black chiavari chairs for see-through chiavari chairs. And no one ever knew!
I hope you found this article on white wedding flowers and wedding table decoration useful for your wedding day. For more helpful tips and cost savings on wedding planning, check out Budget Bash – Simply Fabulous Events on a Budget and remember to keep the Budget Bash mantra in mind; Make it simple, delicious, classy, fun, and inexpensive for everyone!