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honestly, the tent receptions i've been to have had minimal decorations. As you said--lights-white christmas lights and the hanging paper lanterns. I have seen more elaborate decorations using tulle draping from everywhere, but IMO that is too much work since we will be doing it ourselves :p
@underwoohoo: same here. I want chandeliers and maybe one hanging floral decoration but that's it.
I'm having a "enchanted forest" theme wedding under a tent. Haven't looked too much into cost, but to help with the "forest" part of the theme, I've thought about bringing in lighted trees (kinda strange- but there is literally a place where I live that you can rent trees) and hanging butterflies from them
Mrs. Tiramisu used paper lanterns in her tent. Here is a post about it.
And I have instructions on various ways of lighting them at this link.
Ivy garland and mini lights are used a lot for garden weddings in a tent.
Grapevine balls :
we will be doing what you said, some christmas lights and lighted paper lanterns. maybe some tulle or fabric or some sort to create a backdrop behind the head table
@2dBride: Thanks! The links you provided had a lot of great information.
This picture is one tented event that I have been too. It isn't a great picture because I took it on my phone, but you can see that they used branches, and christmas lights as well as hanging lanterns. They had those led fake candels in them. It looked really nice high up and you really couldn't even tell they weren't the real thing. Plus you don't have to worry about the wax or them going out.
I have also been to tented weddings where they have hanging lanterns
I saw a picture of one where they had beautiful umbrellas hunging upsidedown all over. It was really neat.
There are a lot of options out there to decorate above, it just depends on the amount of work that you want to do.
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We will be under a tent as well and there will be strung lighting and these little cherubs randomly that go with the foliage, I love the simplicity!
I'd just make sure to jazz up my tables and do some fun lighting if you can do extra!
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@CupCakeMeg: We are going to have two chandeliers hanging from the ceiling so I don't know if lanterns would be overkill or not.
I think what looks most unique is how you set up the table arragements. Here is a look that might be fun for a tent! Check out the cross in the middle and the round tables and etc.
We used cafe lights, hanging paper lanterns and tree branches around the center poles, also covered in lights, and I thought the effect was very nice...
Sorry this isn't the greatest photo to illustrate my point, I can't find the one I originally had in mind but you get the idea!
I'm doing tissue paper pom poms. So easy to make and affordable. Here are instructions:
http://diy.wed-central.com/?p=62
Or if you're not the crafty type, there are several Etsy sellers who have pre-assembled ones that you can buy.
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Finally found a couple of inspiration photos to reflect what I am going for =) I plan on having a lot more chinese lanterns (all round in varying sizes of pink, orange and turqouise), but this is the basic outline that I plan to use. I plan on having the tables on the grass though...the carpet kind of defeats the purpose of me being outside.
...and at night.....
I am so excited!! I can rent the tent for $550 including delivery, set-up/break down.
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I have been googling images and I can't figure this one out based on the images being returned. What else do you decorate the tent with for the reception? I mean other than linens, centerpieces, and lighting, what other decorations are there? I just want to make sure the tent doesn't look plain but I don't want to go overboard either.
Any ideas?