We’re often asked by our brides and grooms for some tips on how to make the most of their venues or to give them a little help with their wedding plans. Luckily, the Jacaranda team have learnt a thing or two about creating beautiful weddings in our experience, so hopefully we can share some of our knowledge here on the blog.
Today, our event manager Minty has been mining her Pinterest boards to bring you some styling inspiration. It’s over to Minty to tell you just why candles are the most wonderful (and wonderfully cheap!) way to create a beautiful, romantic ambience at your event.
- Candles make really great table decorations, whether you chose to incorporate them with floral centrepieces or make a feature of the flickering light in its own rite. If you’re having a summer wedding or event then you’ll find that as the sun starts to go down in the evening, the candle light will provide a stunning and very romantic atmosphere.
- The more the merrier! However many candles you have it can never look too crowded. Whether they are big or small, plain or coloured, round or long – you can’t overdo it. Do make sure you mix things up a bit though as variety looks much better.
- Little vases with posies in them dotted between the candles is beautiful idea – very shabby chic, but if you wanted a clean modern look, I would go for some dark coloured candles and then intersperse white and cream flowers between them.
- Wether you’re decorating a wedding or a private dinner party at home, you will need to use less unnatural lighting the more candles you have.
- I love the idea of using a variety of different height candles and varying levels of floral decorations as it’s then like the whole table is built up, rather than just having attention focused on a single vase in the middle of a table. Really go to town with the idea of creating a tablescape.
- Having a tree in the middle of the table creates a quintessentially Midsummer Night’s Dream theme. Hanging tealights from the branches will make your guests feel like they’re in an enchanted woodland!
{A really easy way to do this is to collect all your old jam jars, tie some wire around them & perhaps some pretty ribbing & then just pop a tea light in the jars. Quick and easy and very cost effective!} - Continuing with the magical forest, if your prefer a selection of branches to a whole enormous tree it’s a nice idea to cover the bottom of the branches in moss and flowers. Sticking the branches in an oasis covered in chicken wire will also keep them from tumbling over, and will keep the flowers watered.
- A really great way of keeping candles safe from falling over, but still being able to see them, is to create perforated votives. Whilst you can buy this decorative candle holders, you can achieve a similar effect simply by making making holes in tins or wrapping your vases in patterned material such as lace, or even bark with heart shapes cut out of them.
- Don’t forget that candle light is really rather flattering and also makes people look more attractive in photos!