The choice of artistic solutions for how to decorate the yard for a wedding begins with determining the functional purpose of this space.
Only the bride's ransom can take place there, but in the warm season it is better to use such a platform to place a wedding table, a dance floor, areas for holding competitions and a break between them.
Fresh air along with thoughtful design of the yard will make it possible to maintain an unclouded atmosphere of celebration throughout the entire event.
The space for fun will be useful for guests, hosts, and photographers.
What zones to divide into?
Initially, decide what you are going to change, whether you need any drastic changes that require additional materials, or “cosmetic” ones, when spot decoration of the yard is enough.
The simplest and most affordable option is “cosmetic”. You can play with any element already on the property: a wooden barrel, an unnecessary rusty basin, a watering can, a ladder. Even the utility block, if desired, can be decorated with balls, branches (imitating wattle), satin ribbons or textiles (lace, tulle), etc.
But before you start transforming, divide the area into zones that will be really important to you during the event.
Moreover, first divide them zonally, for specific functions:
- Place of registration.
- Banquet.
- Place for a photo shoot.
- A place to relax.
- Dance floor.
And then combine them with unobtrusive details made in the same style. Usually these are garlands or flowerpots with flowers.
Determining the place
The wedding venue should be level, free from foreign objects and outbuildings. Therefore, we need to hold a large-scale cleanup day. If courtyard buildings such as a utility room for storing equipment and a toilet are in plain sight, they need to be decorated, for example, with the help of wicker fences.
Such designs are easy to make and look incredibly stylish. They can be decorated with fresh flowers, climbing plants and simply household items: clay pots, pots, jars. A wicker arch will also fit harmoniously into the design concept.
A wedding arch is generally a wonderful idea for an open-air celebration. It symbolizes the entry of young people into a new stage of life, inextricably linking them both into one whole. The arch will decorate the venue of the celebration and become a magnificent backdrop for a wedding photo shoot. You can decorate it with flowers, fabric, beads, ribbons. Which form to choose is up to you. It could be a traditional “horseshoe” - a symbol of happiness, a U-shaped arch - a symbol of stability, home and comfort, a heart-shaped arch - a symbol of endless love. Here is a photo of each type as an example:
Natural style
If your house is a wooden frame, then against its background you can embody a rustic, Provencal or Bokhovsky story.
There is no need for ruffles or an abundance of glamorous decor, but rather a wooden table, an ordinary long bench and flower arrangements using spikelets, dry winds, and a variety of wildflowers. A haystack and striped runners are appropriate here, while airy paper pompoms are also relevant, as they will add tenderness and airiness to the design.
How to decorate a wedding table
The decoration of the festive table should be combined with the overall style planned for the wedding. Typically, a wedding celebration at a dacha is planned to be held in a rustic style, that is, organizing a party as close to nature as possible. Decorating a wedding at a dacha in the chosen style involves excluding pomp and frills from the celebration. There should be more natural and natural accessories on the table: you can cover the tables with embroidered towels, more pottery, make bouquets of wildflowers. Seating for guests can be made from seasonal fruits, for example, attaching a leaf with the name of the guest to an apple - it will look unusual and summery.
All this also applies to treats - more dishes that are simple and understandable. Pickled cucumbers and tomatoes, sauerkraut, filled pancakes, pies are appropriate, and instead of a multi-tiered cake, a delicious loaf stuffed with berries or fruits. Alcohol at such a wedding can be represented by mead, pepper, moonshine, and homemade wine. To quench your thirst, kvass, fruit drinks, homemade lemonade and mineral water should be offered. To avoid the hassle of cooking and serving guests, it is better for the hosts of the celebration to hire waiters from the restaurant and use their cooking. Modern restaurants and cafes provide such services.
Read more: Sultry summer wedding: how to decorate everything in an interesting, bright and original way
Find an accent
If you have a beautiful tree on your property, make it an accent tree by decorating it in any way, even with a simple garland entwined around the trunk and lower branches. Regardless of the season - whether it be summer, spring, when the tree is green (in its sap), or autumn, winter (no longer leaves) - it will in any case fulfill its role, decorating the common area.
You can put garlands on the branches (paper, LED, balloons, fans, ribbons, thread balls) and thus organize a place for registration. Or place a small table under it, decorated in accordance with the theme, two stylized chairs, and arrange a magnificent photo zone.
Bride's room decoration
As you know, for a girl, a wedding day begins with a long gathering in her room with her girlfriends. Therefore, it is important to decorate the bride’s room so that the surrounding space looks beautiful in photos and videos.
Getting ready for the bride is a very tender and touching moment, so the design should be the same. When decorating a room, you should use beautiful flowers, delicate fabrics, ribbons, etc. Helium balloons are also useful here. Make colorful garlands out of them or simply place them randomly around the room. You can also take several large inflated balloons, throw tulle over them and tie them with a beautiful bow at the bottom - you will get original compositions that can be successfully used to decorate the bride’s room.
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Decorative elements that will decorate and delight
Today it is fashionable to use a variety of wooden frames in decoration, and the older they look, the better. They can be concentrated in one place or on different branches, which will definitely decorate and add style to the overall picture.
Watch a master class with interesting ideas that you can easily implement yourself.
I offer another design option that will add a touching and cheerful atmosphere to the wedding process. To do this, you need to use a simple rope and a Polaroid. You can, of course, do it without him, but then everything will be more restrained.
So, hang a rope on the branches of neighboring trees so that it sags slightly, and attach your coolest photos to it, maybe with some “bloopers”. And on simple wooden clothespins. The result is an original solution that fulfills two roles at once:
- entertaining;
- decorative.
What is Polaroid for? And so that guests don’t lag behind you and take their own cool photos during the event, immediately adding them to yours on pre-prepared clothespins.
The same balls, paper pompoms, and life-size flowers can decorate any holiday yard. At the same time, it is not necessary only with balls or only pompoms; they are also interesting in combinations.
For example, balls are the easiest way to decorate a gate, path to a house or an arch. Today, with the help of aerodesign, fountains and all kinds of shapes are created, which are a win-win option.
How to decorate the yard for a wedding with your own hands - choosing decor
The main status part of the courtyard wedding-themed composition is concentrated above the level of the newlyweds’ table, since it is this area that will be displayed in a significant part of the photographs and recorded on video. The rest of the decorations complement it and radiate in different directions, like rays from the sun.
The classic design style traditionally includes:
- inscriptions (names of the bride and groom, wishes, slogans);
- hearts, rings, crowns, figures of swans, doves, deer;
- balloons, shiny details (beads, rhinestones, glass pendants);
- fresh and artificial flowers;
- bows, ribbons, garlands, pompoms.
In combination with the program, toastmasters use a projector to show videos and photos from the life of the newlyweds.
Fabrics
With the help of airy fabrics you can create a unique and intriguing atmosphere of the event. Professionally chosen lighting can instantly change the tone of the environment. A large gazebo will turn into a real fairy-tale castle.
Flowers
Bouquets, wreaths, garlands, individual buds are appropriate almost everywhere. Freshly cut plants are distributed no earlier than 2 hours before the start of the holiday.
This video shows one of the ideas for decorating a wedding yard:
Flowers in pots can be displayed, moved to another place and removed, based on the plans of the organizers.
Fairy lights
The spans between vertical supports, the designation of passages, doors, arches, and the towering parts of buildings are draped with garlands of paper, foil, and balls. You can insert inscriptions, photographs, silhouettes, and symbols into the resulting picture. If the wedding style does not include a riot of colors, then use 2-3 delicate colors, one of which is white.
Ribbons
Long strips of fabric of different widths can be used both as fixing parts for other decorative elements and as independent decoration.
Satin fabrics look great as hanging compositions on a gate, fence, or building wall.
Graceful thin ribbons, rippling under the gentle movement of the wind, charmingly fill the space and hide the background. You can hang other decorations on them.
Seasonality is not a hindrance
In our case, it is worth taking into account the characteristics of the season, since each has its own color palette, which affects the overall design.
Moreover, I advise you to initially consider some kind of canopy or open tent in order to be on the safe side, given how unpredictable our weather can sometimes be. After all, both the summer heat and the rainy spring and autumn leave practically no other choice.
In winter and late autumn, we can talk about decorating the yard only in the context of certain zones - the gate, the approach to the house, perhaps some kind of photo zone using natural resources characteristic of a certain season (foliage, berries, pine cones, dry branches, etc.) , and the wedding itself, off-site registration (if planned) and the banquet will most likely be celebrated in the house or, if possible and the size of the site allows, in a tent installed in the backyard, where a full-fledged event with the main decor inside will be held.
In a winter tent, heating is immediately installed using cannons, which can also play a decorative role, as they have a rather aesthetic appearance.
Here you shouldn’t be afraid that guests will freeze, but the design will be completely different, mostly textile, and the amount of fabric will be measured in hundreds of meters.
Of course, if your ceremony is planned for the warm season, when you want to enjoy the rays of the warming sun, natural floral aromas, and conifers (if there are coniferous tracts in the neighborhood), then the more open space is used, the better.
Watch a video tutorial on how to make a heart out of branches that will decorate any wedding.
Preparing to decorate the yard for the celebration
You need to start preparing for your wedding celebration early. First of all, take a fresh look at your yard - what outbuildings, objects and details are striking in their ugliness, or will definitely not fit into the theme of the wedding.
All these moments need to be eliminated, or decorated to the maximum, so that none of the guests would guess that behind the beautiful photo zone is hiding a shabby wall of a barn or garage.
The second and no less important point is the advance floral design of the yard. Most weddings are planned for the summer, and this has been known since winter and spring. Therefore, you should take care in advance about what will grow in your flower beds and where to place them this year. The grass and lawn should also be in good condition, well-groomed and trimmed.
Vintage style
Or you can decorate the site in a vintage style, using aged, rare things, the same doors, window frames, not used in everyday life, but with the addition of light charm in the form of lace napkins, various openwork elements, in delicate pastel colors.
Perhaps there are cages lying around in your yard that can become quite original decor.
If you have old lamp shades, decorate them too, play with candles, flowers or feathers, and then use them to decorate a banquet area or other important objects.
Photo zone in the yard
You can decorate it with artificial flowers, or you can take care of it in advance and grow climbing plants and flowers, and add a few accents to this hedge in the form of ribbons, small lanterns and garlands, so that the photographs will turn out not only during the day, but also in the evening.
As a fashionable and bright accent, you can use 1-3 large artificial flowers made of crepe paper. You can not limit yourself to one photo zone, but make two or three, for different times of the day.
For evening photographs, you can use small jars with lit candles inside. Such jars can be hung on ropes of different lengths, or they can be randomly placed on a small table, and supplemented with details like an old candlestick, a tattered book, and other vintage attributes.
Test 1
White traces are drawn with chalk towards the house: each step is an answer to a question. If the groom answered incorrectly, he takes a step back or pays a ransom if he does not want to waste time and moves one step forward. Questions may vary:
- How many years ago did you meet your fiancee?
- What color are your lover's eyes?
- What size shoes does she wear?
- Ring size on your right index finger?
- What did you give her for your last anniversary?
- How old is your father-in-law?
- What's your fiancée's favorite dish?
- Where was your first date and so on.
The groom reaches the threshold of the house, where he is met by a smiling father-in-law.
Father-in-law: - Once you got to the second test, you have a good memory, son. But now we will check whether you will be my daughter’s support and hope, whether you can cope with a man’s job?
Large parts
Oddly enough, quite familiar objects can act as such interesting attributes with which you can take a photo. For example, a bicycle is the only thing that will have to be completely covered with acrylic spray paint.
A watering can with flowers sticking out of it, a woodpile with candlesticks placed on it, and other details will look very interesting.
As an additional and cute decoration, you can use a photo of the newlyweds placed inside a regular aluminum hoop.
Wrap the hoop itself with chiffon or a nylon bow, pull and fasten the ropes, on which you attach the photographs with simple wooden clothespins. You can add simple details between them, like paper hearts, leaves and more.
From time immemorial
During the times of the primitive communal system, when the ancient tribes lived in isolation and were in a state of internecine wars, it was customary to take wives from another clan. This guaranteed the birth of stronger and more viable offspring. However, the neighbors were in no hurry to part with their grown daughters or sisters.
As a result, the bride was usually either stolen or obtained in the process of battle. However, there was another way - to buy the girl you liked.
Over time, intertribal issues began to be resolved primarily peacefully. The ransom ritual has also changed. They began to come up with all sorts of tests for the groom, which would reveal how strong, savvy, generous, kind and pliable he was.
Advice from a couple
We advise all couples to trust their specialists, be on the same page with them and choose only those who will become their soul mates. They will do everything and come up with it themselves. Your task is to talk about yourself and your feelings.
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IN FRONT OF THE GATE
Guests came in large numbers from all distant volosts. At the parade, everyone is beautiful, It’s a miracle, it’s such a miracle! Come on, guests, don't grumble! Can I ask you a question? Why are you all surrounded by this house? What attracts you to this place? Answer me.
(Guests answer: Bride!)
Oh, bride, you say, Well, then don’t demand it. Prepare to give a ransom to take that bride away. There are too many guests in the house, but the owner of the house is the father-in-law. So worried, sick. If he doesn’t drink, he’ll die! You, guests, for the sake of decency, Yes, according to our custom, Give him some vodka - So that there is no grief in the house.
(The witness gives the ransom - vodka. If there is no vodka, you can say: “There is no vodka, say, So you pay dollars”)
Oh, and how my mother-in-law is crying! My daughter won't let me leave the house. But we will persuade her, if we give her champagne!
(The witness gives the ransom - champagne. If there is no champagne, you can say: “You didn’t take the champagne? Come on, they gave us the Euro!”)
Oh, and my girlfriends are roaring! Tears flow day and night! But they love candy, they'll give it for candy! If you take a closer look, there are exactly thirty-three aunts (!).
(The witness gives the ransom - candy. If there is no candy, you can say: “If you don’t have candy, give me gold coins!”).
THERE ARE TWO SIGNS ON THE GATE: “FOR SUCKERS” and “FOR GROOMS”
Witness (points to the sign “FOR GROOM”):
If you want to pass here, pay double the fare everywhere!
It is understood that the groom and his groomsmen go through the “FOR GROOM” gate, i.e. must further or immediately pay the “double tariff”.
Well, brave guests, if they are so clever, let's start the test. Here's your first task. Sing ditties to me loudly, The one who sings loudest will go into the house with me!
(sing ditties or pay money)
Pros and cons of a home wedding
Every medal has two sides. Also, any event can combine pros and cons. This also applies to a wedding party at home. To avoid regretting your decision in the future, think about it in advance. What are the advantages of such a chamber event?
– there are only your closest and dearest people around, sincerely rejoicing at your happiness;
– a familiar environment that helps you feel more comfortable and relaxed;
– an opportunity to save on expensive meals and entertainment; it is better to spend this money on arranging a cozy nest, or a honeymoon. By the way, recently many couples are going exactly this way.
Among the disadvantages of such a celebration:
– inability to invite a large number of guests due to limited space;
– the prospect of decorating the apartment and preparing holiday dishes, and then putting things in order on your own;
– not a very comfortable option for a wedding in the summer heat.
If all of the above hasn't changed your decision to host your wedding party at home, then start planning!
