5 Favorite Wedding Reception Settings

What I love about memorable wedding venues is that they can be simple locations, like an outdoor space under a huge tree. The top photo shows a country wedding, and the venue matches the wedding themes perfectly, right down to the cowboy boots that the bride and bridesmaids wore. I've selected other great wedding reception photos, too, and you can click on each one of them to see more photos from each wedding. 

 

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Wedding Video - The Essentials of Planning a Great Event

It's abundantly evident from the following video by Virginia photographer, videographer Josh Gooden that he covered a wonderful event. First off, Gooden's eye for framing, pacing, composition, and storytelling produced a lovely wedding video keepsake that Sara and George, the happy couple, will cherish for a lifetime. Second, the event is at a spectacular natural setting, River Farm, and between breaktaking wild flowers and lovely event spaces, it was an excellent venue choice. Earlier in the video, we see beautiful wedding invitations and wedding printing, there are table settings for the reception that tie in the wildflower theme from the outdoors ceremony, the venue is decorated beautifully, the processional flowers are delightful, the food is presented in a chic way - in short, the key elements that a good wedding planner should take care of are evident in this particular wedding.

Interested in learning more about planning a picture-perfect wedding for yourself or clients? Explore the Sheffield School, New York, NY. Sheffield began as an Interior Design school in 1985, and then expanded our course offerings to train people in other design-related fields, including Feng Shui, Wedding and Event Planning, and Jewelry Design. With thousands of active students and more than 50,000 graduates, Sheffield has trained more design professionals than any school in the world.

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100 Layer Cake: Let's Go to a Speakeasy Theme Wedding

In case the thought has crossed your mind, the answer is yes. You can plan a stunning wedding in NYC while living in London. You’d need a fab planner & stylist like Jillian Event Design as your go-to-execute-the-wedding-of-my-dreams gal, along with the best talents in NYC, but it can be done.
 

While this wedding didn’t have a sit down dinner, the Getaway Car and the Rat Pack cocktails + mouth-watering raw bar is warning enough that this party was a success. It was romantic, loungey, and had just the right amount of reds and warm indoor feeling perfect to share before the recent holiday weekend. All this without mentioning the signage. Fans of calligraphy and type, this wedding is to lust over!

Ladies, don’t ever miss a sample sale. That’s how Shannon found her Alice Temperley dream dress. Could it be any more perfect for a speakeasy themed wedding?

The best looking (little) men at the wedding, hands down, their two twin boys.

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100 Layer Cake: DIY Festive Wedding Streamer Backdrop

We’re always excited to hear about real brides and real wedding planning projects, aren’t we? Rachel‘s super super cute wedding really came together with her “statement” project ... the streamer backdrop. We’ll let Rachel take it from here!

We knew we needed some kind of backdrop for the ceremony, because the layout of the venue had us getting married in sort of an awkward location. The backdrop would serve to make the ceremony area stand out and would also hide the french doors with their cheap vertical blinds that would otherwise be directly behind us.

We thought about painting a sheet, just as we did the tablecloths, and I still think that would have been a great option. But we liked the idea of the color and movement that the streamer backdrop would give us. I’d seen some pretty photos floating around of ribbon streamers and I was imagining something like that, but with this fringey crepe paper instead.

Please note, if you have extreme color matching needs, they will not be satisfied by the usual suppliers of cheap crepe paper. And fancy crepe paper is expensive. We decided to go with a range of colors to give us the overall effect of our color scheme (which was supposed to be teal/turquoise + coral + sunny yellow but got boiled down to blue + pink + yellow in the crepe paper world).

Supplies

Wooden dowels, in the length you need to cover (we had two 5′ dowels and three 3′ dowels) – $5
Hot glue gun + glue (already had the gun) ~ $10 on glue sticks
Crepe paper folds (I used 27 packages for a lot of coverage) $40
Additional fancy crepe paper (if desired) $50 (you don’t need as much as I bought!)
Metallic gold fringe (if desired) $25

1. Choose your materials.

I bought plenty of cheap crepe paper from

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100 Layer Cake: Festive Mexican Style Wedding

100 Layer Cake - Prepare to swoon over today’s wedding. It’s got all the makings of a true Latin celebration. Bold colors + festive details + lots of sweets + the MOLAA (Museum of Latin American Art) in Los Angeles. We can only imagine how much fun Christina, of Simply Modern Weddings, must have had designing around Elyzza + Michael’s Mexican and Ecuadorian cultures! Considering our current Pop-up Shop is all about honeymooning in Mexico, we couldn’t help ourselves from sharing this colorful gem, shot by Ashley Rose.

Helpful tip to know about some venues: E + M saved $1,000 on booking both the reception and garden area (where the ceremony took place) at the MOLAA by switching their date to Friday instead of Saturday!

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