Wedding Reception Layout

The layout of the reception determines the entire tone of the setting. A number of factors need to be incorporated while determining the layout and setting of the wedding reception. The two most important factors, style and practicality, can sometimes prove to be contradictory in nature. What looks nice may not always be the most appropriate or comfortable for a setting and vice versa. The key guiding factor should be ensuring that all the elements of your layout sit in balance with one another. While a bare hall looks spacious, airy and full of never-ending decoration prospects, once full of hundreds of guests, furniture and decoration, it will hardly be so. Hence, keeping in mind factors like manoeuvrability, space, size and aesthetic appeal, choosing the layout can be quite a challenge.

The first step is to select a room or hall that is large enough to hold the wedding you have planned. This involves you to have an idea of the number of people attending the function, whether you want the dance floor or not, the scale of decorations and your budget. When furniture is added to a room, a lot of free space is lost. Add to this the wedding decorations like the arch and the ornaments and flower arrangements, even less space is left. And the number of people who can sit comfortably is thus affected. Hence it is important to choose a room that can incorporate all of the above.

An excellent idea is to hold an outdoor wedding, provided the season is appropriate. Outdoor weddings are not only more spacious and airy, but they also allow one to use the natural elements such as trees and wildflowers in an aesthetically pleasing way. The seating arrangements can be more scattered, the food banquet can be set up at a distance and the trees can be used to bear a number of decorations. Using the elements of nature to your purpose is an excellent option, often easier and more reasonable than renting a hall.

Dance floors need to be rented or installed and the same holds true for tents and canopies which are a must for all weddings. The placing of the dance floor has to be in accordance with availability of electric sockets for the music systems and speakers.

Seating arrangements have to be made in such a way that the tables and chairs are accessible but have enough space in between for the guests to stand around without having to manoeuvre their way through tight spaces.