Sumptuous silk petals provide a decadent and delicate finishing touch for your wedding scheme. Wholesale Wedding Superstore has been gathering the best ideas to inspire you.
Many venues have strict rules on what can be used for confetti, often restricting the use of paper, real petals or rice. Silk petals are a fantastic option here, as you can offer bags or favour boxes of them to guests on arrival at the ceremony and it provides a great opportunity to emphasise your colour or style theme. Go for a bright colour for this use so they will stand out in photographs.
- Silk petals are a great way to emphasise or create an aisle at your venue. A really popular trend is to aim for an ombre effect, with the colour changing subtly as the bride progresses along the aisle. Although achieving this look does take time, it requires little artistic skill and can create a real wow factor.
- As well as marking the pathway to marriage for the bride, silk petals can be a great way to create a path for your guests to follow, perhaps from ceremony location to reception venue, or to guide them away from one area to the next for photographs, dining or dancing.
- Petals are simple to incorporate into your wedding table decorations. For long, refectory-style tables, try using silk petals to create a runner along the centre of the table, perhaps with clusters of candles at intervals. Silk petals look fantastic clustered around the base of candles or floral table centrepieces. Scattered petals are a great shortcut to a casual, romantic feeling for more informal wedding receptions and ceremonies.
- Creating garlands using silk petals and fine thread or fishing line can be fiddly but creates a beautiful and romantic detail and is a great creative wedding craft to do in the evening while relaxing on the sofa. Garlands of petals can be used to disguise or highlight furnishings or details at your wedding venue and are a simple way to make a basic space look more soft and stylish.
- For a really simple and affordable table centrepiece, use bowls of water filled with floating candles and scattered with silk petals. Easy to make, stylish and romantic, these work best with silk petals as freeze-dried ones will rapidly lose their colour and disintegrate.
- Finally, use petals to line the inside of clear balloons for a cute and quirky look. Moisten the inside of the balloon and push in as many silk petals as you can before inflating. Shake to distribute around the inside of the balloon, and the moisture will hold them in place at the sides. If they start to fall off—or to celebrate the end of your big day—the balloons can be popped to create a shower of petals.
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