Ideas for Decorating Wedding Arches

A wedding arch, whether it is placed at the entrance or in the center of the wedding venue where the bride and the groom take vows, can add to your wedding decorations like none, provided you make use of some unique ideas for decorating them. These arches can be decorated by professionals or by the couple themselves with some help from their close ones. While planning the arch decor, the location of the wedding, theme as well as the wedding colors should be taken into consideration.

Decorating a Wedding Arch

These days you can easily find artificial wedding arches for less than $50. These can be installed anywhere, right from in an outdoor wedding to a beach wedding. There are a number of options that you have for beautifully decorating these arches, here are a few selected ones.

Flowers
Decorating wedding arches with flowers is perhaps the most popular choice. The selection of flowers depends upon a lot of factors such as the season of the wedding, its location and colors used in other wedding decorations. For instance, if it's a beach wedding, tropical wedding flowers such as giant roses and muscari should be used on the arches. If it's a fall wedding, flowers such as chrysanthemums, iris, carnations and helenium would be suitable.

Cards
Have all your guests write a message for the bride and the groom and then string all these messages together, to hang on the arch. The couple will feel blessed getting married under an arch which has well wishes from all those close to them. For implementing this idea, send each of the guests 3*5 inch cards along with the invitations in wedding colors. You can ask them to return these with the RSVP cards.

Fabrics
Another idea is to drape it in fabrics like organza and tulle. For this, take narrow rolls of the material, let it fall from the top of the arch and make rungs by pinning it at appropriate distance on the polls. Leave some extra material on top of every pinning so that it "pools". Preferably use white colored cloth for draping. Keep bouquets at the base of the arch and attach some of these at various places on the fabric. Another idea is to get bows made in silk cloth and have them attached on the fabric, instead of flowers. Whether you choose bouquets or bows, see to it that they are in contrasting color to that of the fabric.

Leaves
One of the simplest ways to decorate your wedding arch is to put a garland of leaves on it. Choose decorative leaves such as maple leaves for making the decor. A wedding arch with garlanded leaves is ideal for outdoor wedding, where there are already lots of flowers around or used in the decoration. You can even opt for artificial large leaf wines available in craft stores to carry through this decor.

Balloons
Now now now... you would say that decorating wedding arches with balloons will make them look very kiddish. No, they will not, especially if you have red heart-shaped balloons around the wedding arch and place a lot of these, on the floor, all around the wedding venue, giving it a very romantic and dreamy feel.

Bamboo
This idea on decorating a wedding arch has been borrowed from the orient. For this, make a square, four feet "chuppah" with bamboo poles. On the roof of the arch, crisscross bamboos so as to form a number of mini squares. From the corners of these mini squares, hang things like metal bells, small lamps, flowers and leaves. This combination will certainly add to the look of your wedding decor!

In the end, whichever way you choose to decorate your wedding arch, see to it that you do not over-do it. There is no doubt about the fact that wedding arches should stand out and look fabulous, however, instead of over using the decorations, rely on your creativity to make them look amazing!