Making Your Own Individual Wedding Decorations

You should always make sure that your wedding decorations match the location and the style of the wedding whether it is taking place in a traditional ballroom or you have chosen to have a boho barn, or industrial style wedding. Choosing the style of wedding that you would like to have should be right at the top of your to-do list. Once you have decided on a suitable location, you can start putting the decorations together. We'll show you some great decoration ideas that you can try out.

Tip

Make sure to choose a colour scheme for your wedding decorations so that everything matches. It is best to choose one main colour and two or three secondary colours. If you have more than four colour tones it can start to look too busy. You can find inspiration for the ideal colour scheme that would best suit your chosen style on Pinterest. There you will be able to find a range of colour schemes and styles to help you get inspired.

Whether you are getting married in a registry office, a church or at an outdoor venue a lovingly decorated wedding venue will certainly make the bride and groom and their guests look forward to this special day. Below you will find a couple of tips on how you can lovingly decorate your wedding venue:

• Decorate the guests' chairs or the church pews with some flowers and ribbons.
• Hand out individually designed wedding programmes or church booklets to each guest.
• Place handkerchiefs for tears of joy on each seat.
• Decorate the altar or marriage arch with some flower arrangements and ribbons.
• Decorate the bridal couple chairs with flowers and pompoms.

So that your guests can celebrate your special day with you as you leave the ceremony, place small baskets filled with soap bubbles, petals or sparklers at the entrance to the wedding venue. Carefully wrap them in wrapping paper and decorate them with small tags or stickers. Make sure that they match the theme of the wedding so that everything looks fantastic.

Use a picture editing programme to make some individual stickers which will need to have a diameter of 4 cm. You can then simply upload them as a JPG file onto our website or via the ifolor Designer. Stickers with sayings such as "Love is in the air", "Let’s get hitched" or simply your name are great choices. You can stick these stickers directly onto the paper or baskets or you can make some individual tags with kraft paper and ribbon.

The photo stickers are available in a round or rectangular layout and they are great for decorating small items, tags or even gifts.

You will spend most of your time at the wedding reception so it is important that it has been decorated beautifully. Whilst decorating the room make sure that everything matches the theme of the wedding and it is also important to take the size of the venue into account. A function room in a hotel usually needs a bit more TLC and decoration than a ballroom in an old manor house for example. Follow the tips below to help you get started on decorating your wedding venue:

• Venue décor such as ribbons that you can hang from high ceilings.
• Balloons, pompoms and honeycomb balls that you can hang up.
• Fairy lights and lanterns for atmospheric lighting.
• Vases with fresh or dried flowers and greenery for tables or as decorative elements in the room.
• White or natural coloured wooden boxes and side tables to decorate empty corners and large open spaces.

In addition to decorative elements that match the colour scheme it is also important to have some decorative elements, which have some personal touches. Personal memories and photos should also be included and used at your wedding reception.

Welcome your wedding guests with an individually designed welcome sign in keeping with the style of the wedding decorations. The ifolor photo poster which is available in various layouts comes with an optional matching frame.

A natural or monochrome background with embellishments like subtle floral patterns or more minimalist with design tools like Canva. You can use this to easily create the perfect design for your welcome sign. For the text you can simply write "Welcome" or address your guests directly with "Thanks for coming". You can also add the wedding date and the names or initials of the bride and groom to the welcome sign. Save your finished design as a JPG file and upload it onto the ifolor Editor to create your own individual photo poster.

Choose a matching frame or you can use the poster hanger to hang it up. In the frame you can present the welcome sign on an easel, which you can also decorate with flowers and ribbons to match your venue design. After the wedding you can put your individually designed welcome sign in your hall at home as a great memento.

The ifolor photo poster is available in various sizes and you can also choose between a glossy and a matt surface. You can also order a matching wooden frame in black, white, or oak.

You can use the poster hanger to help make your individually designed welcome sign stand out. The welcome sign for your wedding can be stuck onto the magnetic strips in no time at all and hung up on the wall in the entrance at your wedding venue.

You can make a homemade photo garland with your favourite photos, some string and matching pegs, which you can then hang on windows, blank walls, between trees or on railings. The best photos to go for are photos of you and your partner and photos showing all the great memories you have had together. We recommend using large photos which all have the same size as this will prevent it from appearing too busy. Your pictures will look particularly chic on a garland if they have a white frame such as our chic square prints which have a modern square layout. Our retro prints also offer you enough space for a small note at the bottom.

The square photo prints are 10x10 cm and they can be ordered with or without a white border. They come as a set of 24 and they will be delivered to you in a secure box.

The 10x10 cm photo prints will have a trendy polaroid look. Your pictures will have a white outline and the bottom is just a bit wider so that you have enough room to add a small note. They come as a set of 24 pictures.

You can use signs to decorate your wedding reception by showing the guests the way to the photo corner, bar or dance floor and you can also make a sign for your guest book. Using signs at your wedding reception is a great way to guide your wedding guests and it makes it easier for them to find what they are looking for. You can easily make such signs yourself by designing them with a photo editing programme. You can then upload them as an image file onto the ifolor Design Editor and use them, for example, to print photo displays or folded greetings cards that you can easily put up anywhere.