Backyard Wedding? Embrace Decor with a Touch of Nature

Photos courtesy of the Green Bride Guide.

If you’re planning a backyard wedding, play to the outdoor setting with decor and accessories that embrace nature’s themes and use eco-friendly materials, like the items in the Garden Wedding line from the Green Bride Guide. We’ve highlighted some of our favorites in the pics above. Clockwise from top left: upcycled garden wedding invitations; jasmine head wreath for bride, bridesmaid, or flower girl; felt rose garland, plantable favor cards shaped like love birds and infused with flower seeds, lavender in a box wedding favors, and love bird wedding cake toppers. We love that the Green Bride Guide provides modern designs for eco-conscious wedding couples, and Huppahs.com is proud to be an approved vendor of the Green Bride Guide.

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How to Decorate Your Huppah #2: Attach Bouquets to Poles

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You can evoke a world of different wedding styles depending on the types of flowers and other elements in the bouquets: romantic roses, shabby chic lavender, rustic sunflowers, wheat stalks tied with gingham ribbon, simple white hypericum berries, or bright pink and orange gerberas for full-on fun.

To make this work, your poles will have to have a good anchor to attach the bouquet; either an indentation at the top of the pole to which you can tightly tie ribbons or florist wire, or an anchor attached to the pole.

Huppahs.com’s poles, both huppah poles for sale and huppah poles for rent, have finials with indentations at the top that are often used to attach bouquets. The poles also have circular screws at the top that are used for attaching the canopy that can also be used to attach bouquets or other decorations.

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Romance with Toile Wedding Decor Continues

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My romance with toile continues. Toile (pronouned twahl) table linens soften a formal table and elevate an informal setting. Mix it with striped ticking fabric for a richer visual look.

Toile, usually printed on cotton or linen, is an inexpensive fabric, so it’s great for DIY table cloths, runners, or napkins. A stroll around the Internet reveals that it’s being made in more colors than ever, not just traditional blue and black, but fuschia, lavender, green, brown, and more. These swatches are from Fashion Fabrics Club.

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Decorate your huppah with ribbons

Location: Woodend Nature Sanctuary, Audubon Naturalist Society (Chevy Chase, Maryland)

Ribbons are an easy and inexpensive way to add color and movement to your huppah. They should be long enough to catch the breeze.
Huppahs.com, the leading national huppah rental company, now offers ribbons in this year’s most popular wedding colors.
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