Decor for your Valentine's wedding.

Choosing Valentine’s Day as your wedding date has more implications than most people consider. It means that most of your guests had to put off any romantic plans that they may have made with their significant others in order not to miss your wedding. Therefore, it is only fair that you make your wedding day an equal, if not better, plan for Valentine’s Day. Create an atmosphere of love and affection on your wedding using décor components such as table linen, seat covers and tie-backs, centerpieces, tent draperies and not forgetting the ever-so-important flowers!

It starts with color

It all starts with the color scheme of you wedding. Having a Valentine’s Day wedding theme implies that the color of choice for your wedding would be red. Red is an excellent color as it exudes feelings of warmth and love. However, it is important that you match it with softer colors such as light shades of pink; baby pink, for example. You can also blend it with fiery colors such as silver and gold. However, it is advisable that you insist on the appropriate shades of silver and gold as most locally available shades look like just grey and yellow.

One does not necessarily have to use red to depict love at a Valentine’s Day wedding. Seeing as Valentine’s Day is mostly a woman’s affair, what better color to depict women than pink. I am particularly fond of screaming pink because I think it is edgy and different and does an excellent job of bringing out feelings of love in and unconventional way.

Centerpieces

A centerpiece is a vital component of wedding décor and therefore, it is an excellent tool for enhancing the love theme in a Valentine’s Day wedding. Here are just but a few ways in which you can love-up your centerpieces:

Source for pictures of the couple and mount them on frames in different shapes, designs and sizes then bunch a couple of these together for use as a centerpiece. You can use colored as well as pictures in black and white with rose petals sprinkled all around them.

If you opt for flowers as a centerpiece, go for flowers that symbolize love, such as red roses. Stick to one type of flower and have them bunched together to form one big ball of red roses, or any other colored roses. This may not look as splendid with other types of flowers such as lilies.

Chocolates and love are very characteristic of Valentine’s Day and so what better choice for a centerpiece than a chocolate sculpture of cupid? If this is not possible, sculptures of cupid are available in various metals and ceramics. With rose petals sprinkled all around the sculpture, the Valentine’s Day theme is complete.

Clear big bowls are now becoming the centerpiece of choice for many couples these days. How about filling them with red rose petals to the brim? Or mixing red and pink rose petals? You can also fill them with chocolates which the guests can pick as they leave. Stay away from chocolate sweets that may make your wedding look like a kid’s birthday party!

Table Numbers

Instead of using table numbers, get creative and label tables with names of famous couples celebrated for their love for each other. The couples can be drawn from history, fiction, local and international celebrities and even politicians. A few examples include Romeo and Juliet, Will and Jada Smith, David and Victoria Beckham, Nameless and Wahu. Even more celebrated in recent times for their love for each other is President Barrack Obama and his wife Michelle.

Poetic Love

What better way is there to express love than beautiful and poetic words? Many bookstores have books that contain poems and beautiful compositions on love. Some of these books are bound very beautifully; they are a great idea to use as place settings. Alternatively, you can wrap them in decadent ribbon and stack them neatly as a centerpiece. Add a little excitement in your wedding by having your guests read a selected poem to each other from these books. If you like, your guests could take them home as favors.

Whatever décor you choose for your wedding on Valentine’s Day, be sure to make it personal and intimate so that all the couples in your wedding can also celebrate their love for each other together with you and your new spouse.