Tall table flower designs

Tall table flower designs

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Wedding venues vary greatly in style and space, with some being lovely intimate venues with low ceilings and cosy space, others are like vast caverns with lots of room and high ceilings. You need to bare this in mind when choosing your table centrepieces. You don't necessarily need to go high with high ceilings and stay low with low ones but the overall look as you enter the room will change depending on the height of your designs.

If you have a venue with high ceilings, then it is advisable to have a few taller designs to take your eye through the space, you can combine with low designs or have a few different designs of varying height if you prefer.

Another point to bare in mind is leave room for your guest to talk across the table. Taller designs shouldn't block the view, they should be either able to see through or underneath, or your guests will move them and then all your effort will be wasted. (yes they will move them, I have seen it happen even after explaining the problem and being told no-one would dare move them)

Tall designs don't have to  break the budget. Simple lily vases with 3 roses and bear grass adds height and colour to your tables.

Pastel or white roses add a touch of romance

Lilies also look fabulous in these vases, a good stem (or 2) of scented lily will fill the room and bring colour to the top end of a marquee for example.

Or keep it neutral for a classic look.

For a more dramatic style these cerise pink lily added with willow for even more height look stunning with the dark tables.

A fuller design of cream lilies in a lower vase but with two heights of flowers allowing guests to see through.

If your venue is very decorative you may decide to keep it simple with foliage, here we have palm leaves in a large trumpet vase, add in leaves across the table to complete the style.

A marquee will always take colour, it lifts the plain white of the walls and ceiling. Add flower balls on top of tall candlesticks, lots of autumn varieties used for these.

Or pastel summer flowers for a contemporary style at Cleatham Hall.

Lily vases can also be styled with flower balls, Keeping it all white for an Easter wedding

or pretty in pink for a summer reception at The DoubleTree Hotel.

Larger summer flower balls with Salmon pink flowers

and pink and blue summer loveliness at Doddington Hall on tall conical vases.

Matching in with the same flower mix on tall silver candelabras ring the changes if you are having lots of tables.

Another candelabra with pretty pastel pinks and ivory bring a classic style to your reception

or go full on with crystal gem candelabras with a full flower garland to wow your guests.

A budget friendly option is to hire the candelabra and let us drape foliage around it with a single hanging rose from each arm

either on it's own or with added flowers at the base.

A fuller garland of gyp, eucalyptus and wax flower adds lots of scent to your venue.

Martini vases are another option, lots of heights/bowl sizes to choose from. The most popular are these 60 cm filled with lots of lovely flowers and foliage.

Getting married at the same venue as your reception? Use them to line the aisle (making it longer for a more dramatic entrance)

Then add to guest tables to create that WOW when your guests walk in.

They work with any colour and flower, from pastels to bold reds

pretty peaches

Country yellows

or pinks and purples.

Our smaller designs with 50cm vases, are easy to fill with smaller flower varieties.

Or if you want to blow your guests away, these huge flower balls stood own top of our gorgeous silver urns make fabulous displays. Use on their own to make a statement entrance display or on your tables for a magical setting for your wedding breakfast.

White/cream flower ball at Cleatham Hall

All colours can be created with lots of flower choice to suit your style.

Red flower ball on a 4 seater table

I hope this has given you an insight in how to dress your tables with taller designs, lots more are available. Please talk us through your venue choice and how you see it styled for your day and we can advise you on what will work best within your set budget.

All tables are set for you on the day where possible (or left with venue if turn around required) and all hired items are collected the next morning, if at a hotel while you have breakfast, to save you the hassle of returning anything to us.

Get in touch today to book a consultation, looking forward to speaking to you soon

http://www.sandrasflowerstudio.co.uk/get-in-touch/

Sandra x

Marquee weddings

Marquee weddings

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Today we are going to start to look at the different types of venues for your wedding breakfast. There are many styles from country house, castle, hotel, barn, marquee, village hall as examples. Today we are focusing on marquees - whether a permanent marquee at your venue or a temporary one you have had erected in a field or garden. The insides and styles are again very varied today with traditional styles or tipi like designs many of these designs will work with any.

Most marquees will have areas of high ceilings and are a cavan to fill. Tall centrepieces work well, drawing your eye up and through the marquee, adding WOW factor once you are inside.

These tall conical vases filled simply with pink lily and tall twisted willow are an excellent use of space and colour, lifting the black tables and matching the bows and runners.

We teamed these with low cube designs for the outer tables, where the ceiling is much lower and in the quiet area on the coffee tables. Keeping the same flowers/foliage lets the theme run but different designs add interest to your tables.

Add a pop of colour in a low design to a dark table will work too. The contrast adds the interest and shows up through the marquee

Natural and country style designs always work well in marquees as their very nature means the setting is usually pretty green. How about these gorgeous wooden bases with log upright for hanging the table numbers on filled with jars of a mixed selection of flowers? Add in a candle or two for later on in the evening.

The best way to fill the large ceiling space is to hang decorations. Hoops, ladders and rails are all popular but we love these hanging birdcages. They were hung over half of the guest tables and looked amazing

An easier way to have tall designs is our large 70 cm martini vases filled with summer gorgeousness. These certainly look the part and the WOW when you walked in was amazing!

Teamed with low fish bowls for the other half of tables and for the top table keeps the colour running through the whole marquee.

Want to keep to a white and cream theme? Add tall lily vases oaf oriental lilies and steel grass. This creates a classic look and the scent was divine.

Start as you mean to go on...add WOW to your doorway... A gorgeous archway filled with lots of country foliage, roses and gyp.

Keeping the country theme - small zinc watering cans filled with summer sunflowers, gyp, foliage and twigs. Stand on wood slices and add in small tea light lanterns.

If the marquee has space out side, create a buzz for your guests with signage  and a peak into what's in store for the reception. Large watering cans filled with sunflowers and country yellow flowers surrounded by logs and lanterns.

Add another design to the entrance to the marquee to lead the way

and don't forget the entrance/exit to the marquee. If a fine day many people will be milling in and out, keep it simple but effective.

More tall designs of our martini vases

and a top table set up to mirror the flowers already installed in the permanent marquee.

Don't want the traditional long and low design? Is there lots of room between top table and the guest tables? If so these garlands are a great addition, adding colour and interest to what otherwise would be a plain space but keeping the table free for the meal ahead.

Tall candlesticks are an alternative to vases, The balls can be made as large (or small) as required.

Are you having a marquee reception? If so get in touch to see how we could work our magic with your style and colours. We have many more photos of other set ups in marquees to show you, book a consultation today and let the flower journey begin

Sandra x