How to Decorate a Wedding With Hidden Lighting

Lighting will add the finishing touch to your wedding day.

Decorating with hidden lighting creates a soft glow that brightens an area without the appearance of lightbulbs. When decorating for your wedding, hidden lighting provides an elegant method of brightening the area. You can select hidden lighting in the theme colors of your wedding to draw the entire design together subtly. Decorating your wedding with hidden lighting requires only a few supplies and areas to place the décor.

Things You'll Need

• Battery powered lights
• Frosted vases or bowls
• Strip lighting
• Light ropes
• Ribbons, flowers or soft fabric
• Vases of flowers

Instructions

1. Place a hidden lighting decoration in the center of each table at the wedding. Make these centerpieces by placing battery-powered lights inside a frosted vase or bowl. You can also place rope lighting beneath the edges of a lazy susan for a recessed lighting effect for your centerpieces.

2. Run strip lighting beneath the edges of anything low to the ground. Examples of things to decorate with strip lighting include a stage, covered tables and chairs, pews and the pulpit. This will project a soft glow onto the floor beneath the object.

3. Decorate any high surfaces such as the walls of a building, a gazebo or tent with rope lighting. You can effectively hide rope lights within ribbons, flowers or behind soft fabric to create decorative hidden lighting. Line corners where the walls meet the ceiling if your wedding is indoors or the edges of a gazebo or tent outdoors.

4. Place vases of flowers throughout the wedding with rope lighting within the water. This will produce a soft glow beneath the flowers, drawing attention to your wedding décor. Experiment with using different colors of lighting in the same vase to create a blended affect.

Tips & Warnings

• Always ensure that all lighting you use is new and undamaged to avoid the risk of electrical fire or the light burning out.

References

• "Colin Cowie Wedding Chic: 1,001 Ideas for Every Moment of Your Celebration"; Colin Cowie; 2008
• "Lighting: Good Ideas"; Marta Feduchi; 2005