Garden Wedding Ideas & Themes

It does not necessarily need to be an outdoor wedding, but the views from the venue should be of a beautiful garden.

An important thing to consider when you have a garden wedding is the amount of space available for guests.

What makes a good garden wedding is the garden itself. Search for garden venues in your area:

• Public parks - city, county or state
• Botanical gardens
• Historic homes with gardens
• Inns with gardens and garden views
• Restaurant or hotel venues with gardens
• Backyard gardens

Once you decide on a location, you’ll find that using a garden wedding theme makes a lot of the decisions about colors and decorations easy.

Ideally, you should try and match the colors of your wedding to those that will be found in the garden on the day of your wedding. This might be difficult to predict, so let the flowers of the season you're getting married in inspire your color palette:

• Bold colors for summer flowers – using bold and true colors often found in summer flowers, like yellow, will really make your wedding stand out in a garden setting. For example, have each of your bridesmaids have the same dress cut but in a different bold color to imitate the variety of colors in the summer garden.
• Go natural for spring or any season – all garden wedding ideas should take their inspiration from the environment, so you could choose to pick out natural colors such as whites, creams, browns, natural greens and accents of muted flower colors like pinks, blues, peaches and yellows. Any colors, as long as they are muted, will let the natural beauty of the garden setting shine through.
• Rich colors for fall weddings - For fall garden weddings, choose the rich colors of fall flowers and foliage like golds, oranges, browns and wines. Metallic gold also works with fall wedding colors.

Garden wedding ideas for decorations can become clichéd very quickly. For example, avoid ivy covered trellis wall decorations and tulle wrapped topiaries. To make your event stand out, try:

• String white lights or paper or metal lanterns through the trees – lighting the trees for the reception will give soft lighting and a magical feel to the event.
• Age cement garden statuary from a garden center and place them on side tables and buffet tables as decorations.
• Potted plant centerpieces - Age terracotta pots and fill with ivy, moss and seasonal flowers.
• Garden flowers - Use flowers from the garden, as one reason for having a garden wedding is to keep the costs down. Wildflowers and homegrown flowers in simple glass or tin containers have a charm that hothouse flowers cannot achieve and are perfect for vintage weddings.

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Vintage Garden Weddings

A celebration in a garden will always make people think of 1950s America, so you could choose your fashion and color scheme to reflect that association. Dress your bridesmaids in floral prints in your selected colors or simply set the reception up as a 1950s garden party.

Even the best garden wedding ideas can be undone by the weather so you should always have a back up plan just in case nature interferes.

This could be to move the whole wedding inside, if the house is big enough, or book a venue with an indoor space large enough for your guests.

It may be best for early spring weddings to plan to have the reception inside with the option to open the venue doors to the garden and move the wedding outside.

A tent is another option, but plan early. Tents must be reserved ahead of time, like a venue, and can be just as expensive as a venue. Tents are not a good last minute option.

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