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How to Make Cheap Wedding Decorations Using Christmas Items

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Use Christmas items for cheap wedding decorations!
Use Christmas items for cheap wedding decorations!

You can use Christmas decorations and items for cheap wedding decorations if you use your imagination and creative instincts!

Difficulty: Easy
Instructions
  1. Step 1
    String lights around trees or columns for beautiful but cheap wedding decorations.
    String lights around trees or columns for beautiful but cheap wedding decorations.

    Use your string lights to wrap around artificial trees or the columns in the room you're using for your reception. They can also go around door frames, windows, and any other border.

  2. Step 2
    Your Christmas garland can be used in a variety of ways for cheap wedding decorations.
    Your Christmas garland can be used in a variety of ways for cheap wedding decorations.

    You can string your Christmas garland along door frames and columns as well.

  3. Step 3

    Take solid colored ornaments and put them in a nice dish or on a fancy plate for cheap wedding centerpieces. Dress them up by sprinkling shiny confetti underneath the setting.

  4. Step 4

    Put dishes with Christmas ornaments in various spots along your buffet table. You can also run your garland around this table for a festive touch.

  5. Step 5

    If you have rolls of fancy ribbon that coordinate with your wedding colors or with each other, put them in long strips in a crisscross pattern on your tables or string them decoratively between dishes on your buffet table.

  6. Step 6

    Once you take a fresh look at your Christmas ornaments and items as possible cheap wedding decorations, you might be surprised at the possibilities! Silver bells can be strung together for centerpieces, wreaths can be wrapped with large ribbon that coordinates with your wedding colors, and stand alone decorations such as a snowman can be used on your buffet table for a winter wedding.

Tips & Warnings
  • If you don't have Christmas decorations or don't have enough, check with friends and relatives. You might be surprised at what they're willing to lend you for cheap wedding decorations and centerpieces.
  • Make sure cords and other items are out of the flow of traffic so that no one trips!

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