Cheap Wedding Decor Reception Ideas
You can design a tasteful wedding even if you are on a strict budget. Contrary to popular belief, a wedding reception can be decorated with little money with some creativity and careful planning. Prepare wedding decor for the reception that looks like it costs a fortune for next to nothing.
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Room
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Get creative as you design the room. Make a photo wall of the couple as you print out 8-inch-by-11-inch photographs of the couple and tape them on the wall. Choose pictures from their childhood and include photographs of them dating leading up to the wedding. Create an arch in the entrance by blowing up balloons and tying them together. Tie Christmas balls onto ribbons or streamers and hang them from the ceiling.
Tables
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Ask friends and relatives for tablecloths that they no longer use or are stained or torn. Also scour thrift stores for these items. Pick the color scheme for the wedding and use these colors to dye the tablecloths. Dye the ones with holes a different color from the other tablecloths. Cut the dyed tablecloths with holes into 13-inch squares for napkins and the size needed to make table runners. Use iron fusible webbing to hem the sides.
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Centerpiece Containers
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Rather than purchase vases, make your own. Save old mayonnaise containers and ask friends and family members for their old ones. Clean the jar out well and remove the label. Find a leaf, star, flower or scroll pattern you like in a stencil. Tape it to the glass and spray paint the mayonnaise jar with frosted paint. Other options include wrapping the jar with ribbons in the wedding colors or leaving it plain if you plan to fill it with colorful items.
Centerpieces
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Create a bouquet of cut flowers from your garden to put inside the jars. Even out the spaces in the design with cut branches of shrubbery. Or you can fill the containers up with inexpensive bags of candy bought at the sales after Valentine's Day, Easter or Halloween. Mix up the candy into different jars as you add foiled-covered chocolates, M&M's or small wrapped candies. Add scoops to keep fingers out.
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