Designing Your Wedding Tablescape

A tablescape, as the name implies, is the landscape of your tables. When you are designing the tablescape for your wedding reception, you will consider many of the same concepts as when planning a landscape: color, texture, and visual interest. The way you put it all together is what will make your reception shine.

The tablescape includes all of the different elements that you will use to create your place settings. These things include: the tablecloth and napkins, plates and chargers, utensils, glasses, centerpieces, favors, table numbers, and menu cards. With so many things involved in creating a tablescape, it is important to give thought to how they all work together as a whole.

As an example, if you are having your wedding reception in a hotel ballroom that provides white table linens, clear wine glasses, and simple white china with a gold rim, there would be a number of different choices as to how to transform the basic to the beautiful. The great thing is that if you are trying to work within a budget, just doing one or two things is enough to give your tables that customized look that everyone is going for these days.

If your wedding is very elegant, you might choose to keep the white linens and play around with special stemware instead. Brides who have bedecked themselves in crystal bridal jewelry can make their tables equally dazzling by substituting sparkling cut crystal wine glasses for plain ones. To further enhance the theme of elegance, you can even have some Swarovksi crystal drops added to the centerpieces to sparkle like your bridal jewelry in the candlelight.

Of course, if you are working with a venue that does not provide any of the table needs, you will be able to choose any combination of pieces that you like. This gives you the freedom to truly customize your tablescape. Just be sure that all of the pieces look as fabulous together as they do individually, and you will have a stunning looking reception!

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