Two most important things to consider when designing a wedding
Design is intuitive and quite often it’s hard to explain why a designer would choose one thing over another. Having said that, there are certain rules and if you follow those, you are bound to create pretty amazing results.
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Dinner reception is where most of the effort usually goes when designing a wedding. There’s a lot of mingling and moving to a wedding day with a well planned flow, and dinner is the time when everyone is seated for a few hours, and able to fully take in the environment and all those design details.
Would you like to guess what’s the first thing I look at when assessing the venue? It’s not the amount of flowers we could put on the tables, it’s not the venues own centerpieces, it’s not even colours or room layouts. I first want to know what their CHAIRS and TABLE LINENS linens look like.
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CHAIRS:
Are they nice?
Do they work with the room?
Do they complement or detract from the overall look?
Are they visually heavy and clumsy or are they light and easy to the eye?
LINENS:
Are they nice?
Do they reach the ground and cover the table legs?
Are they the correct shape? Too often you’d see layers of one colour skirting and another colour square covering it. It doesn’t look good, it just isn’t right.
If the linens are bright white, do they clash with the room?
Do the fold lines show, making them look checkered?
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You can cover the room with flowers, if the chairs are ugly and visually heavy, and if the linens are wrong shape and clash with the room, they will be visually overbearing and distract from your florists magic and any other effort you’ll make to personalise your venue.
Chairs and linens are the two things that make the biggest difference in wedding styling and if they don’t work, this is where your first decor investment should go.