Wedding Reception Ideas

Looking for unique and great ideas how to spruce up a simple ceremony with style and elegance?

Here’s another cost-saving, yet scrumptious and very elegant reception idea that becomes very popular recently among Westerners. Organize your reception in an AFTERNOON TEA PARTY.

This is one of the most stylish and memorable ways to celebrate your wedding on a budget and to offer something very unique to your guests. This is highly trendy, practical and will cost you less than a full meal reception.

This reception idea exudes elegance with a taste of grandeur  and sophistication. Afternoon Tea Party tradition started in the royal household during the Victorian Era. It is now continued with Queen Elizabeth II organizing an Afternoon Tea Garden Party twice a year in the ground of Buckingham Palace.

Normally, this party kicks off at 4:00 pm and ends at 6:00 in the evening but you can adjust the time of your wedding at 2:00 pm so that you will have your Tea reception at 3:30 pm to 5:30 pm.

One of the best advantages of having an Afternoon Tea Reception is that you can enjoy the event more in a very relaxing atmosphere, plus it will give you an opportunity to exchange pleasantries with your guests and relatives with less tension.

Organize an Afternoon Tea Party  based on your theme and motif and should  reflect your personalities.

Here’s how to organize an Afternoon Tea Garden Party Reception:

• Look for a conducive garden in your neighbourhood that can accommodate the number of guests you plan to invite.
• Choose a garden with plenty of green plants and flowers to avoid the cost of additional ornaments and decorations.
• Keep everything cozy by using a stone walkway with whitewashed bushels basket brimming with blooms.
• Add wild blooms to tables.
• Put separate tables for canapes, teas and other drinks.
• Set up a Tea service of tea pots, tea cups with saucers, bowls of lemon and honey.
• Play classical music in the background.
• You must include in your wedding invitation or at your wedding site that you’ll going to have a Tea reception in order to alert the guests of what they might expect when they get there.

Choices of Food to prepare:

Cucumber Tea Sandwich

Asparagus Brousin Tea Sandwich

Guernsey Cream Scones

Bruscetta

Toasted Tea Cakes

Raspberry Linzer

Lemon bars

Fruity cheesecake

Apple Tea biscuit

Boiled eggs mashed with mayonnaise and chopped parsley mixed with thin ham.

Tarts with Lemon Curd

Cranberry Pistachio Biscotti

Drinks:

Green tea with a choice of mix either milk or honey

Apple Cider Tea

Honey Dew Juice

Tropical Punch

Afternoon Tea Garden Party adds spike of excitement and fun in your wedding, the  unique preparation and setting can be very memorable to everyone. It implies creativity.

A garden party is very relaxing and fantastic because of the breezy and green environment, it is a perfect idea to loosen up and chill after the stressful period of preparation. You can enjoy a beautiful afternoon with ease and pleasure laughing with friends and relatives, less tension, less clutters.

This is one of the great ways to spare yourself from spending more on your wedding while enjoying the rest of the celebration. Reserve your big expenses on your honeymoon instead.

Dare to be different on your big day. Learn to be creative and playful with your planning ideas. Afterall, it’s the only time of your married life that you will enjoy the moment while there’s still no kids and mounting debts and troubles, so make the most of your preparation.

OTHER WONDERFUL IDEAS FOR A WEDDING RECEPTION VENUE

Wedding should be organized in excitement and lots of fun to minimize tension and stress. Not so much about tradition, as long as you are not hurting someone with your ideas, then it’s okay to experiment.

If you are marrying under a tight purse and still want to organize a memorable and splendid wedding ceremony, you know exactly where to cut cost for your expenses by now. One of these areas to reconsider when preparing a tracking sheet and thinking how to minimize expenses, is the wedding reception venue.

True enough, one of the most costly essentials of the wedding ceremony is the reception venue. Aside from its distance, scouting a reception venue entails number of considerations.

1. Its distance from the church and the number of people that can be accommodated.

2. Its packages and inclusion, its dos and don’ts.

3. Is the venue guarantees comfort, convenience and memorable ambience?

4. Is the place could match the theme of the ceremony?

If you already made up your mind to wed in a limited budget, the last thing to happen is to assign another cost column for additional flowers, linen and other decorations for the reception venue. So the best thing to do is to look for a cheaper venue which would not ruin your plan for a happy gathering. There are only three locations which would give you some peace of mind: BEACH and COUNTRYSIDE.

BEACH
Beach wedding is a perfect choice for couples who want to have a memorable wedding party in style, simplicity and fun under the beauty of the tropical sea and a gorgeous surrounding.

A beach wedding theme is more relaxing to you and your guests because they can don any outfit and need not to be very formal for the occasion. For a more stylish and unique ambience, everyone attending may even come barefoot to have more fun and excitement. It will not only offer a good breath from the rigid wedding tradition, it will also offer a thrill of adventure and surprises. So make the best out of your big day, be creative!

COUNTRYSIDE GARDEN
If you cannot find a good beach resort to hold your reception, try scouting for a garden venue in the countryside. It need not to be an exclusive garden resort, a small farm of your friend or a vacant lot with a beautiful landscape of flowers and hills will do.


Try considering a garden or a farm with bed of flowers, or plants or a small river in it. The soothing and tranquil sceneries of the mountain or hills or even a landscape of plants will provide a very romantic and more memorable gathering of friends and relatives. The magical backdrop of nature will make everything perfect and wonderful.

It is suitable for all seasons and wedding themes. A garden wedding reception provides a different type of relaxation because the charming fragrances of plants and flowers beckon in the surrounding. Explore your creativity and imagination and relish the idea of getting away from the traditional reception venues which are now dull and boring.


These locations will not only minimize your wedding cost, it will also provide a unique place of fun, excitement, romantic sceneries and grandeur where everyone can truly enjoy and unwind.

Most of all, it is your big day so no one can dictate you what type of ceremony you will going to organize. The most important thing is you can enjoy the occasion. It is a time to be happy, to socialize to feel beautiful and to bounce on life full of magic and love. It is day that you have dreamed of ever since so no one  is permitted to spoil your day not even your gossip-loving friends and relatives.