Garden Party Theme Wedding

Garden Party Theme Weddings are undeniably one of the most beautiful and romantic wedding themes. Even when an outdoor wedding isn’t possible, the casual romantic elegance can be replicated indoors. Garden party theme weddings can be themed around the cultured garden of a historic castle, the manicured gardens at a ritzy private club, or a garden lush with wild flowers and flowing vines, featured on the hill of a rolling countryside. No matter where the event is held, romance and elegance will fill the air.

Choosing a venue for a garden party wedding will not only depend on its price, size, and the number of your wedding guests, but also accessibility for the guests and caterers, including parking arrangements. Many professional wedding venues, such as museums, country clubs, and historical buildings are experienced in catering to outdoor garden party theme weddings, and logistical considerations are largely resolved. If you are planning a backyard wedding, or in a secret garden that that you discovered as the ultimate setting for your wedding, logistics and decorations will have to be thoroughly planned for.

Decorating for garden weddings comes naturally, as the garden itself provides for the color scheme and décor. If you are venturing to hold your garden wedding in an untamed area, arrangements will need to be made to create a clearing for the wedding aisle, the wedding ceremony chairs, reception or dinner tables and tents, and room for guests to mingle and dance. Clearing out some meandering pathways for guests to privately step away for a moment or explore the beauty of the surroundings, is a thoughtful extra touch the garden surroundings. But bug control should be first and foremost on your mind. Clear the area well ahead of time, and be generous with bug-repelling candles. Just make sure the scent won’t interfere with food and wedding flower arrangements – and make sure the scent of the floral arrangements doesn’t attract the bees.

An outdoor garden party wedding theme has to pay close attention to flower selection. Do not decorate your wedding buffet table, dinner table, or even the wedding aisle with bee-attracting flowers. Wedding flowers that produce pollen and nectar should be kept as far away from the wedding area as possible. Bees tend to prefer flowers that are bright yellow, orange, blue, purple, and unfortunately white. They do not like red, and tend to avoid flowers that butterflies and hummingbirds are attracted to because the nectar is typically deep within the tube - they’d rather find open booms, clusters, or fat tubular flowers. If you plan your wedding around flowers that butterflies and hummingbirds enjoy, your chances of a swarm of bees invading your garden party theme wedding are slim.

There are garden flowers that bees steer away from. Gardening experts suggest flowers such as daisies, carnations, chrysanthemums, red dianthus, and zinnias as “bee safe.” Keep in mind that there are beautiful ornamental grasses available, and arranged correctly, these make impressive centerpieces and arrangements. Do some research on your floral choices before choosing your bouquet and garden party theme designs. Try and keep your wedding colors for your tablecloths and linen soft, and discourage any flowered patterns. They will override the beauty of the garden anyhow, and simplicity is the beauty of a themed wedding.

If a buffet is offered at your garden theme wedding, keep the food table away from the guests - the extra few steps will be worth avoiding an allergic reaction from a bee sting. Choose the desserts to be displayed on your dessert table in colors that won’t attract the bees. It is extremely important to keep the food and wastebaskets covered as much as possible. Have convenient foot-pedaled trash cans available for guests to throw out cocktail napkins if servers aren’t around to collect them fast enough. Keep in mind that bees enjoy the scent of flowers as much as bugs enjoy the scent of food, so save your flowery perfumes for another occasion. Adding a humorous note indicating such – and noting other bee-avoidance techniques - on your garden themed wedding invitations might make the wedding more enjoyable for many of your guests.

A Garden Party Themed Wedding is probably the most romantic themed wedding choice there is. The Garden Party Themed Wedding can be held in the garden of your dreams with some careful attention to the logistics of the area and the practical choices in complimentary garden décor. Find your secret garden and take the time to arrange for the garden party themed wedding of your dreams. Research your flowers and designs, and keep your wedding bee-safe and bee-autiful for wedding memories that will last a lifetime.