Fun Wedding Reception Drinks Ideas

Why not get creative with your wedding drinks stations and have fun displaying and serving your wedding breakfast drinks and celebration cocktails.

We have lots of hire items to create unique wedding champagne bars, cocktail stations with our wedding hire props. You have chosen and paid for lovely drinks and they will look so much prettier and have the wow factor for your guests if their display is given a little love and attention.

Wedding Fizz Bar Inspiration

Champagne or Sparkling Wine: Toast to your special day with a glass of bubbly. Champagne or sparkling wine is a traditional choice for wedding receptions and will help set the mood for a joyous celebration.
A champagne tower is a popular trend for wedding drinks receptions

Wedding Signature Cocktail Ideas

Create a special wedding cocktail that reflects your personality or love story. Serve it in personalized glasses as a keepsake for your guests.

Wedding Reception Mocktail Ideas

Wedding Mocktail Ideas

For non-drinkers or those who prefer non-alcoholic beverages, consider offering a selection of mocktails. These can be just as delicious and creative as cocktails.

Wedding Reception Wine Tasting Ideas

Set up a wedding wine tasting bar with a variety of wines to sample. Offer small tasting glasses and let your guests explore different flavors.

Wedding Craft Beer Ideas

Craft beer is becoming increasingly popular and is a great way to add a unique touch to your reception. Choose a few local brews to showcase your region.

Wedding Reception Lemonade Stand Ideas

On a hot summer day, offer refreshing lemonade or iced tea. You can even set up a DIY lemonade stand for a fun and interactive touch.

Wedding Coffee Bar Inspiration

If you're having an evening reception, a coffee bar is a great way to keep guests alert and energized. Offer different types of coffee, teas, and syrups for a customizable experience

Wedding Dessert Ideas

Ice Cream Sundae Bar: Who doesn't love ice cream? Set up an ice cream sundae bar with a variety of toppings and let guests create their own desserts

Wedding Hydration Centre

Fruit Infused Water Kilner Jars Keep your guests hydrated with a selection of fruit-infused waters. This is an easy and elegant way to quench thirst and add a pop of color to your drinks reception.

Wedding Reception Mini Bottles

Personalized mini bottles of wine or champagne make great wedding favors and are a unique way to toast to your marriage

Lapstone Barn Cotswold Spring Wedding Inspiration

Spring barn wedding inspiration at Lapstone Barn in the Cotswolds with whimsical, timeless styling, romantic and colour popping spring wedding colours perfect for stylish and modern couples.

Floral ceiling hoop Lapstone Barn Cotswold Wedding

Spring Wedding Breakfast Table Inspiration

Foliage wedding table runner with succulents, eucalyptus, wax flower & soft ruscus decorate the wedding table, along with vintage gold china, cut glass and vintage brass candlesticks paired with rustic dinner candles, gold tealight holders creating timeless, elegant wedding decor.

The green foliage, white and gold wedding table design is perfect for spring, winter, summer and autumn weddings, just change the colour of the candles and accessories to compliment your wedding colours or why nit add coloured wedding napkins from the knotted napkin company we stock their colours and materials and coloured wedding tablecloths from 88events luxury wedding linen hire. We also stock dinner candles in different sizes and colours.

Lapstone Barn Table Decoration

Lapstone Barn sporing floral arch backdrop

Vintage A Frame Ladders were used for a wedding floral arch backdrop with hanging candle tea light holders, with floral bikes and rugs, cushions with Moroccan lanterns.

Spring Floral Wedding Crown

The bold pink florals in the wedding flower crowns and wedding bouquet, not to mention the floral hanging hoop in the barn ceremony room. Spring wedding flowers peonies, roses & ranunculus in bright hot pink.

Spring Floral Wedding Crown

Lapstone Barn Spring Wedding Bouquet

Spring wedding bouquet flowers with peonies, roses & ranunculus in bright hot pink and pale pink. Foliage bouquet with peony and hellebores.

Lapstone Barn cotswold Spring Wedding ceremony decor

Cotswold Barn wedding ceremony decor with pink chair sashes, silver lanterns & floral ceiling hoop.

Grooms Country Barn Wedding Suit

Featuring country tweed groom wedding suit

Country tweed groom wedding suit

lapstone barn spring wedding colour popping wedding cake

A semi-naked wedding cake, with artist palette markings and gold leaf. The pop of bright colours and macaroon off set the soft pinks and greys.The trailing jasmine foliage create shape and ‘grow’ around the cake. This gave a real sense of romance by adding our vintage brass candlesticks and tealight holders.

bridal looks

Options for wedding dresses were classic and timeless and another wedding dress style boho with a twist of glamour unique with its stunning over skirt train complimented with an off the shoulder merino wool shawl. The shawl; not only did it keep our bride cosy and warm but the beautiful mink colour went perfectly with the brides flower crown.

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Spring colourful wedding cake with it’s painted brush stroke effect and lush blooms, delicious!

Photographer | Katie Hamilton Photography

Organiser, stylist & florals | Cotswold Caboodle 

Photographers assistant | Laura Martha Photography

Wedding dresses | Butterfly Bridal Boutique

Cake | Laura Urschel’s Kitchen

Suits | Country Master

Hair | Blushes Salon

Make up | Beauty by Lexi

Head dresses | Kate Latimer Millinery

Wool Shawl | Only Wul

Props | Rustic Rentals

Venue | Lapstone Barn  

Vintage China | Vintage Gold China 

Stationery | One Last Thing

How Do We Decorate Our Marquee for Our Wedding?

wedding venue marquees are big spaces to fill.

How can we add atmosphere to your Bath, Somerset & Cotswold Wedding Marquee?

Hamswell House Bath Marquee Wedding Decor

Photo Christophe Bourgeois Florals Coppergreen Flowers

Marquees weddings are wonderful blank canvas spaces with lofty ceilings that are easy to transform into unique, elegant venues. Many are located within beautiful surroundings and hopefully weather permitting the walls can be left open.

I love decorating marquees for weddings as you really can be creative and make them your own.

With any blank canvas wedding venue you can DIY it with wedding hire props or call in the professionals to help decorate and set up for you.

When decorating a marquee I recommend zoning your marquee, the areas I would zone include:

Marquee Wedding Entrance Decor

This sets the tone of your wedding - add milk churns, shepherds crooks with floral jars to line the entrance, an order of the day to let you guests know what will be happening and a when, you can add a welcome sign, personalised, a sign post directing guests to the destinations of your wedding.

Bittenham Springs Wedding Marquee Cotswolds Photographer Captured by Katrina

Marquee Wedding Gift Display

Create an area where your guest can leave their cards and gifts, create a display with lanterns, hire wedding suitcases, hire vintage wooden crates for cards and a personalised wedding guest book is a great idea - why not ask guests to sign a map of places they recommend you visit, or to suggest special date nights written on postcards and put in a jar?

Marquee Wedding Hire Welcome Table Sign Wedding Styling Rustic Rentals

Marquee Wedding Ceiling Decor

I really recommend getting creative to create the wow factor for your wedding hanging decor and wedding hanging floral decoration. So many options to have hanging hoops - either vertical or horizontal but horizontal are harder to level up, foliage or wedding floral ladders, fairy light installations, paper lanterns coloured or white and a modern alternative is folded fabric draping.

Marquee Wedding Drinks Reception & Bar

Wedding day drinks stations are an opportunity to make your wedding Pinterest worthy - you can hire a barrel bar and then add vintage a frames for hire , our indian cart and vintage dog cart are unique items to display your drinks.

Add straw bales with vintage galvanised baths for beers, lager and soft drinks or baths, vintage wine and champagne crates Don't forget water and soft drinks and hire some kilner jar dispensers filed with homemade lemonade, flavoured water or mocktails.

Marquee Wedding Seating Area

All guests will, appreciate somewhere more comfortable to sit after dinner ad especially more elderly guests, this is quite often overlooked and you can ask yo borrow friends or families rattan garden furniture, or we have vintage rattan chairs for hire. Add hire wedding rugs, hire wedding cushions, lanterns, some hire wedding blankets displayed on a hire wedding step ladder or in hire wedding apple crates to create a focal point for when it gets chilly and even add a fire pit and s’mores for later in the evening.

Marquee Wedding Cake Display

I advocate that you add decor and style the items you have already arranged. Your cake is a perfect opportunity to make this individually yours- you can use vintage hire console tables, ladder a frames, vintage indian hire carts - why not add some vintage hire shutters, arch or draping behind to create a backdrop?

Hire Wedding Cake Ladder Display

Marquee Wedding Photo Booth

These can be made from a few hire vintage picture frames and you can add props if you wish for fun and they don’t need to be a special hired in unit. create a hash tag for guests to upload the photos.

Wedding Vintage Hire Picture Frames

Hat Storage Display for Guests

This can be a fun way to create an area where guests can put their hats - you can use hire a frame ladders, or hanging rope to pin the hats onto, or vintage hat stands on a table.

Marquee Dance Area

Some couples chose to have a separate marquee for the wedding party dance floor, curtained off for the reception. Options include coloured dance floors, uplighting, and ceiling laser displays, or coloured lanterns - there are specialist events companies or you may have a dance floor within the main area of the wedding marquee.

Which Wedding Day Signage and Wedding Day Stationery Do I Need?

Wedding Signage and Stationery

How to chose the style and design of wedding day stationery and what wedding day stationery do I need?

Style of Your Wedding Day Stationery

There are many options to chose for your stye of wedding stationery.

Calligraphy and chalk pen writing are popular on wedding invitations, wedding name places, and other wedding signs & wedding stationery. Chalkboard signs, perspex wedding signs, shaped backdrops, wooden logs, kilner jars, stoneware are all options for adding calligraphy writing.

You have numerous font styles of writing to chose for your wedding stationery

Hand made paper stationery is elegant, timeless and beautiful

Wedding Chalkboard Sign - Barns & Yard

Card box

Use a box , basket, French Trug or modern gold lanterns for your guests wedding cards. The card box should be placed near your wedding entrance and with your wedding guest book.

Chalkboard signage

Our hire blackboard signage & hire vintage easels are popular for rustic weddings and vintage weddings

Name Place Cards & Table Plan

Individual cards for the guest name and their table name or number. Table Plans direct guests to their reception tables and decorated to make a statement with your decor, displayed on the dinner plate, or on the table above the place setting.

Hashtag Signage

Encourage guests to upload their photos with your personal wedding hashtag

Our hire blackboards are perfect for wedding signs

Wedding Hashtag Blackboard Sign

Wooden, acrylic signage & wedding neon signs

Laser cut, wooden and acrylic is popular for name cards and signs. A popular trend is wedding neon slogan signs.

Wedding Neon Sign

Menu cards

Individual guest menus or a large menu sign can be used to tell guests the menu for the wedding breakfast.

Wedding Menu Stationery

Signature cocktail sign

If you're serving special wedding drinks include the ingredients and descriptions on this sign.Why not have a couples choice of two wedding signature cocktails?

Wedding Indian Cart Bar

Wedding Table Number Or Wedding Table Plan

Wedding Table Numbers and names identify each reception table and are usually placed next to or inside of the wedding centerpieces.

Wedding Rustic Table Plan

Wedding Guest book

This can be a book where guests can sign their names and a messagefor the couple. The guest book is traditionally displayed on a table at the reception entrance. Framed portraits, recipe cards, post cards, maps, date night suggestions, holiday destination recommendations are all great ideas for wedding guest books.

Travel Inspired Wedding Guest Book Sign

Wedding Welcome Sign, Plan Of The Day, Venue Signpost

These signs that greets and inform guests as they enter the ceremony or reception. Displayed on one of our hire table top easel and can include the wedding day timeline or other fun wedding details.This is an area you can get creative with your wedding decor.

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