A rustic wedding theme creates a warm, earthy, organic and romantic atmosphere that is perfect for any winter wedding! Whether your wedding is in a trendy loft in the city or a charming country house in the country, this fun and unique wedding theme will work great for any budget.
When a rustic wedding invades, I imagine a sophisticated style, a kind of country, using many natural elements to decorate. This creates many opportunities for DIY projects, using things that could even come from your own backyard, such as twigs, bark, pine cones, or berries.
Here are some really chic rustic ideas for your wedding reception centerpieces:
• Use vintage tin buckets for your flowers. A rustic red color looks stunning, especially if the container is a bit worn, showing some of the silver can where the paint has rubbed off. Antique stores and flea markets often have many of these to choose from. Or, if you’re not on a budget, you can buy them at places like the Pottery Barn.
• Use fruits and vegetables, such as artichokes, pears, apples, or eggplants as your main focal point, placing them in unique vintage containers. Add other items in and around your fruit or vegetable centerpieces like herbs, flowers, twine, and candles to tie the look together.
• Branches look wonderful incorporated into a centerpiece, whether placed in tall vases or simply resting on the table along with the other centerpiece decorations. You can save a lot of money by collecting branches, sticks, and twigs yourself, or you can choose to buy them from craft stores.
• A large piece of wood from a tree trunk works great as a support for your centerpieces. You can even personalize each one in one corner with the bride and groom’s initials and the wedding date, perhaps surrounded by a heart. Place centerpiece items on top, such as cylindrical glass vases filled with candles and wrapped with tape, and then maybe some dried flowers resting around the base of the vases.
• Create your own rustic candles or pots by simply buying or finding old glass jars and cans, and then wrap and decorate them with things like cinnamon sticks, vines, twigs, twine, moss, fabric, or even buttons.
• An easy way to incorporate many natural elements is by using things like berries, nutshells, acorns, pinecones, and rocks in your glass candle holders or in the vases that hold your branches, twigs, or flowers.
• Vintage wooden bird cages can add a really lovely touch to your centerpieces. Surround them with things like moss balls, flowers, and candles.
• Lanterns are one of my favorite centerpieces. A large oil rubbed or black bronze lantern surrounded by moss and river rocks looks impressive! It is also easy to achieve on a limited budget.
Don’t be afraid that each table has its own unique style. With a rustic style, you don’t want a uniform look anyway! In fact, you can choose to make each table completely different and then give each one its own unique name. For example, you might have a “woodland walk” table with lots of wood elements and candles, and maybe a “romantically rustic” table with lots of antiques and ruby reds.
The best thing about choosing a rustic wedding theme is that you can really let your creative side shine through and have fun with it!
