Top 3 Fun Ways to Light Up a Wedding

When setting the mood for your wedding, proper lighting works like magic to provide a functional ambiance. Illumination turns ordinary space into emotionally elevating space for your perfect wedding. Various lighting options can be used for indoor and outdoor weddings including candles, light bulbs, lanterns, and colored bulbs, string lights, and chandeliers. Lighting also serves well in the décor and can be used as an alternative to flowers.  In this article, I will review the top 3 fun ways to light up a wedding for both outdoor and indoor wedding receptions that will inspire you!

Grouped Clustered Candles

Clustered candles can make things look better on your wedding day from cakes to the illumination of the reception. The candle flame creates a kind of magical ambiance that brings forth a feeling of consciousness from the magical qualities of a candle flame. Candles are considered sacred, and it is this quality that makes them appropriate for religious weddings. People burn candles to develop understanding and soothe their nerves. Clustered candles in a wedding are a perfect option to lighten up your wedding to attain truth in your relationships. Also, there is a wide variety of candles from scent flavored to colored candles that provide sufficient ambiance to you and your wedding audience.

Clustered Candles Wedding Tall Vase

Floral Arrangements with Suspended Lighting

Flowers are commonly used in wedding ceremonies. Therefore, adding suspended lights would be a fun way to add to the ambiance. Nothing sets the mood of a wedding more than flowers! Lighted flowers are functional as it makes them lively and sleekly colorful. Flowers also have healing and spiritual power which if illuminated can provide a magical inspiration to your wedding. Electric string lights or suspended candles can be used to lighten up floral arrangements. A floral arrangement with suspended lighting creates confidence, elegance, and positive vibrations at your wedding reception.

Floral arrangements with suspended lighting

String Lights

String lights can be used almost anywhere in the wedding reception to provide the required ambiance. String lights can be used on columns, tables, roof ceilings, flowers, or trees close to the wedding reception. One fun advantage of using string lights is that they are flexible to use and quickly lighten up indoor and outdoor wedding receptions. Strings lights are affordable and will not in any way mess up your budget. For expansive ideas on the usage of string lights, it is important to consider various illumination styles from your lighting designer. Some of the designs that can be made from string lights include; heart designs to display love, ceiling hangings for illumination, flameless fire pits, or spelled-out letters on walls and columns.

String lights

Conclusion

Your wedding lighting should match your style of the wedding venue and budget. Lighting designs have the potential of creating an engaging wedding reception and also can lighten up the emotions of the attending guests. It is important to consider the before and after arrangement pictures of lighting before the lighting setups of the venue. The commonly used lighting options are the color wash and string lighting as they are budget-friendly and can also be optimized to create the desired effect.  Consider the most appropriate color for weddings according to color psychology before purchasing colored lights.

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