Photo (above): Wedding Planner: MeetMarcel - Photographer: MARTIMAX Photography
1. Winter flowers
Even in the winter months, you still have a beautiful selection of winter flowers to dress up your bridal bouquet, the decoration on the chairs or the reception tables. Think of Amaryllis, Anemones, Hyacinths, Jasmine, Orchids and tulips. Combined with fragrant pine greenery, fresh green moss and pinecones, you’ll create real winter gems.
2. O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree...
Getting married during the Christmas period? Then a Christmas tree is ab-so-lute-ly essential in the ceremony space or reception venue.
You can (have it) decorated in classic red and green, but you can just as easily style the tree in the same colors as your wedding theme—or even with the same flowers from your bridal bouquet. Using the same flowers in your bouquet, on the tables, on the chairs, and in the tree creates a beautifully colorful, cohesive look.
A Christmas tree instantly brings out that cozy winter atmosphere. Not only can you use it as a beautiful decorative element in the room, you can also put the decorated tree center stage and draw all attention to it. Here’s how:
Hang your guests’ place cards in the tree, and each person picks theirs and discovers which table they’re seated at.
Or hang personalized Christmas baubles in it as a wedding favor. Alternatively, you can give a mini Christmas tree as a wedding favor.
The Christmas tree can even become a guest book. Place cards with a ribbon on a small table next to the tree and have your guests write a sweet message, then hang it in the tree. Or hang colored, plain, unprinted baubles in the tree and let everyone “sign” a bauble or write a fun message on it with permanent ink.
3. Christmas greenery garlands
What looks especially beautiful on the tables isn’t just vases filled with winter flowers, but also table-length garlands or swags of Christmas greenery. Snip a few lovely pine branches and combine them with holly, small Christmas baubles and lights. Winter flowers—even feathers or pom-poms—can also be beautifully paired with pine greenery on the tables.
These Christmas greenery garlands don’t have to stay on the tables, by the way. You can also make smaller versions and hang them with a colored ribbon on the chairs around the reception tables or in the ceremony space.
4. Kisses under the mistletoe
Hang up mistletoe right when you and your guests enter the reception venue. Then it’s time to kiss! A kiss under the mistletoe? It makes for a picture-perfect moment!
5. Warm wood & moss
Do you like creating more of an outdoor feel at your wedding? Then think of plenty of warm wood, a crackling fireplace, and moss decor. You can cover foam balls in various sizes with fresh moss and hang them around the space. It becomes extra festive if you add little lights as well. And you can use wood for candle holders, for example, or place small wooden blocks under the cutlery, or use wooden blocks as place-card and menu holders.
6. Pinecones
Finally, pinecones are a wonderful element to fully immerse your reception table in a Christmas and winter atmosphere. You can scatter them casually across the tables, or gather them in stylish large glass vases or bowls. You can keep them natural in their raw wood tones, or spray-paint them in a color that perfectly matches your palette. You can also place one on each guest’s plate as a place-card holder. So many possibilities!
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