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Affordable Ways to Add Breathtaking Beauty to An Indoor Wedding Reception

In the USA, the average cost of a wedding is $35,641, according to Fortune.com While a beautiful wedding and reception are undoubtedly well worth spending money on, there are affordable ways to add breathtaking beauty to indoor wedding reception décor, which may help you to lower the final tab for your very special event. When you add hanging flower baskets, choose colorful glassware for table settings and utilize indoor water features, you’ll glamorize your reception venue and show off your personal style.

Add Hanging Flower Baskets

Flowers aren’t just for table settings. In fact, they are often used to better effect when they are suspended above banquet tables, in hanging baskets, according to Theknot.com. Then, they don’t obstruct views at the table and they also keep the eyes of wedding guests moving upward, which is great news if the carpeting or flooring at a reception venue isn’t first-rate. The flowers and baskets don’t have to cost a bundle. If you want to save money, look for cheap baskets, fill them with colorful blooms that cost a few bucks apiece and then suspend them with care. Make sure that they are completely secure.

Choose Colorful Glassware for Table Settings

Red, citrine or cobalt glassware takes on a “lit from within” glow in candlelight, or while displayed under glittering crystal chandeliers. Colored glassware is available at dollar stores and looks amazingly costly and rich when combined with nice plates, tablecloths and cutlery. Use this type of glassware to add jewel-like beauty to table settings (and to make wedding guests feel like royalty). One easy option is placing ruby-hued wine glasses or water glasses on banquet tables, for a pop of color that is glamorous, timeless and exciting.

Utilize Indoor Water Features

The tables at your wedding reception will be noticed by your guests. They are the places where your guests will hang out when they aren’t dancing. According to Glamour.com, a lot of wedding guests spend time worrying about which table they have been placed at. With all of this in mind, you should take care to make tables as beautiful as possible. One original and gorgeous table centerpiece option is an indoor table bubble fountain. With this type of fountain, the water is enclosed in a transparent, sculptural form, and bubbles within the water travel up and down.

Get Help with Wedding Planning

Doing some of the wedding and reception preparation yourself is smart, but don’t be afraid to outsource the tough stuff, such as general lighting for the event, A/V equipment setup and music. When you add hanging flower baskets, choose brightly-hued glassware and add table bubble fountains to your reception décor, you’ll be choosing glamorous design elements that make your reception breathtakingly beautiful, without busting your budget.

Liana & Phillip

May 26 2018 Liana and Phil put on a fantastic wedding at Cafe Escadrille in Burlington Massachusetts. Here is a wedding trailer of their wedding video featuring some of the key moments.  They were delivered a special flash drive with all of their footage on it as well as this fantastic online presentation. Congratulations to this fantastic couple!  Shot by Harry and edited by Jason.

CKE provides amazing Videography services.   If you need other services we have many services available for your wedding or event.  These services include:

DJ – New Englands best DJ/Emcee’s all trained by Curtis Knight.
Videography – Some of the best cinematic videos with a wedding trailer too.
Photography – Our photography services include full rights to all of the digital images.  We do not make you buy the images that we feel you already paid for!
Uplights –  Second to none!   Our uplights are wireless and battery powered.  They can completely transform your event.   The colors are mixed wirelessly and we can create any color but black to really finetune them to match your event colors.
Photobooth – Not only do we have the biggest and best photobooth but we also print a sovenir for every guest that goes through.
Gobo/monogram
Justice of the Peace

Think of CKE for all of your event services needs!