Garden Wedding Reception

You can hire a wedding planner for the purpose of organizing your garden theme reception or do it on your own. You can use the beautiful flowers and plants in your garden for the purpose.

However, before finalizing your backyard for the purpose, you have to prepare the list of guests to be invited for the ceremony and reception party. Based on the list of your guests, you have to check out whether ample of space is available in the garden to accommodate all your guests.

If it is not possible to accommodate all the guests then you can go in for the booking for a different venue for the reception. You can check out with the planner or friends and find out the best venue.

You can bring about slight variations in the decoration and seating arrangements as per your own ideas. This will add a style and innovation to the party. You can go in for preparing the cake, invitation cards, and favors on your own. This will help you to save lot of money and give you the satisfaction that you have fulfilled all your dreams.

You have to also make an arrangement for the indoor location which could be used in case there are any unexpected showers or stormy weather. You have to also check the basic amenities at the venue and make other arrangements.

The garden wedding reception is fantastic and can be even better with the perfect presentation of food, music and cake.

The music

The live performing band of music at the venue adds to the beautiful atmosphere. In an outdoor location, proper arrangement for a live orchestra is necessary. However, if you have a shoe string budget, playing your favorite collection in a CD player is also fair enough. The local bands cost less; however you need to enquire well.

The Wedding Attire of the Couple
The dresses of the bride and groom are foremost important. The designer's wedding gown suiting the outdoor green theme would be the perfect. Ornaments in the green stone like emerald would suit the theme.
The bouquet of white and green flowers would mark the day. The groom's wedding attire is in the wide range.

The Decoration of the Garden

There is plenty of scope to decorate a garden. The decoration would be minimal because of the plants, flowers, etc which serve as natural décor accessories. You just need to take care of the lights, seating arrangements, tables, candles, figuring out the aisle, arranging earthen plant pots, etc. You can use white curtains in the background. Arrange the sections for the altar, music, food, separately. White would look beautiful along with green. Using plenty of flowers in the decoration would be apt for a garden theme. You can also use balloons, candles, pearls, sparkles, etc.

The Menu

The menu for the wedding reception would be entirely your choice. However, you need to consider the taste of your guests as well. After all, they should like the food. If you plan a full course meal with starters, main course and desserts, you have plenty of options in vegetarian and non vegetarian food. You can experiment with cuisines other than American. A nature’s treat would be savory salads and sea food along with fresh fruit juices. This kind of menu is perfect for a garden theme. You could serve food in glassware or eco friendly disposable plates. Desserts would depend on the season. If you have a summer wedding, you could serve ice cream, cake with ice cream, truffle pudding, etc.

The Reception Cake
The cake is the centerpiece of the day. Hence, a special cake complementary with the garden theme should be there to surprise the guests. The indoor garden wedding reception is also possible for the cause of avoiding the bad weather. With artificial arrangements the magic of garden can be created indoors for the celebration.
Thus garden wedding reception especially at the evening will be the magical to remember it throughout the life. The ideas mentioned here will surely help you to plan out a garden wedding reception and cherish some sweet memories lifelong.