Thursday 19 June 2008

Quick Theme Tips - Country

A long warm evening of friends and family laughing and having fun will be perfectly complimented with a country style wedding. Surround your guests with big bunches of dried flowers in wicker baskets which can be moved from ceremony venue to reception venue and add lavender and herbs to the arrangements to add the scent of summer. Dried flowers can also be used for table centres and displayed in old style milk jugs or decorated wooden crates.

These can be given away to guests at the end of the evening as lasting mementoes’ of your day. Carry the country theme over to the rest of your table decorations by wrapping coloured raffia around your napkins and using gingham cloth as table linen. Favours can be horse shoe shaped cookies with each guests named iced on to the front to double up as place names.

Don’t just provide a DJ or live band to entertain your guests, give them a barn dance teacher and band to dance to! www.hireaband.co.uk has plenty to choose from. Another great idea as a gift for your guests would be a CD of the music the band plays and instructions on one of the dances so they can dance their way home! Give your guests a place to relax and get their breath back by placing real hay bales around the dance floor draped in more gingham material.