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.

Suppliers

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

Cotswold Wedding Decor Trends for 2024

Sustainable Cotswold Wedding Decor for 2024

We have a great range of vintage and modern decor for hire which enables us to stay up to date with the latest trends for 2024 wedding decor. Here are our predictions for the hottest wedding decor trends in 2024:

Sustainable Wedding Decor - Vintage Hire Wheelbarrow with perennial flowers

Wedding Decor Trends 2024 - Vintage Decor Hire pinterest searches indicate

Hiring your wedding decor and wedding clothing for your wedding is a great way to keep costs down and be more eco-conscious about your wedding day. Wedding suits have always been a popular item to hire, but we are seeing more suppliers hiring wedding dresses and wedding guest outfit hire companies coming into the wedding industry.

Another great item to hire rather than buy for your wedding is your decor, you can get better quality items and more for less money.

As a wedding stylists and a wedding decor hire company since 2015 specialising in prop hire we create sustainable weddings that not only look fabulous but are kind to the environment and your pocket. In hiring your wedding decor rather than buying it will both save you money and waste.

Wedding Decor Trends 2023 - Vintage Decor Hire - Barns & Yard Wedding Venue

Great news for us as we specialise in vintage wedding prop hire that there has also been an increase in searches on Pinterest for vintage wedding decor. We design sustainable weddings using our vintage decor hire props.

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wedding decor trend 2024 - sustainable locally grown wedding flowers

Sustainable Wedding Decor - Locally grown sustainable wedding flowers

Many wedding flowers are imported from the Netherlands, Africa & Mexico. Couples are becoming more conscious of the impact this has on the environment and are now opting for British grown wedding flowers in their sustainable wedding bouquets and decor.

Potted perenneial and plants from garden centres can be more eco-friendly, cheaper than cut flowers. Then re-used as gifts to wedding guests and planted up in gardens as a lasting memory of your day. I used garden, seasonal perennials at our daughters wedding and this saved us at least £200 compared with a florist and cut flowers to add floral displays to the wedding day set ups.

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Which wedding decor colours will be popular in 2024?

Wedding Flowers 2023 - Viva Magneta Wedding Boquet

The Pantone Colour of the Year has an impact on the choice of popular colours for weddings. For 2023, Viva Magenta a vibrant, pinky, red signifies confidence and strength.

For 2024 its Peach Fuzz so expect to see plots of peach and apricot wedding flower tones.

Wedding Trends 2024 - Green & White Wedding Boquet

The white, green and gold wedding colour combination is still popular and is a classic wedding colour combination that will always be a popular choice.

We are seeing alot of dusky blues and sage green which are classic wedding decor colour choices.

Bold and unique wedding colour schemes are also on the increase. With black, bright blues, oranges being popular set against the white background of a marquee wedding and village hall wedding venues. This wedding trend is perfect for couples who love colour.

Wedding Decor Trends 2024 - Colourful bold wedding decor

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outdoor wedding venue choices for 2024

Outdoor Weddings are popular wedding venue choices for 2024 as the rules for getting married outside were changed and ceremony location rules are still changing making it easier to get married at outdoors wedding venues.

Wedding Decor Trends 2024 - Outdoors Garden Wedding Ceremony Parish House, Bath

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A sweetheart or couples table are popular choices

Wedding sweetheart and couples wedding tables are more popular and a little less traditional, a more intimate option on your wedding day. Couples wedding tables are alos popular for complicated family dynamics.

Wedding Decor Trends 2024 - Sweetheart table

The sweetheart table is a small table for you both to sit together rather than having a top table with family and close friends. If your wedding family group is too large for a top table then this is a fantastic solution.

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statement wedding backdrops trend for 2024

From ceremony flower arches to statement wedding backdrops these are both popular choices for 2024 to decorate wedding receptions & wedding ceremony spaces .

Wedding Decor Trends 2024 - Ceremony Backdrop at Clearwell Castle

Large statement wedding floral installations like asymmetrical arches are a fantastic option to frame the front of your ceremony and then repurpose your wedding flowers after the ceremony to go behind your top table or sweetheart table and for photos throughout the day.

Flowers are big budget items, but definitely worth it, if you can add dried flowers and grasses this may stretch your budget, also adding beautiful texture to your wedding day floral arrangements.

Organic, locally grown British wedding flowers and wild floral wedding floral design is a wedding flower trend that is on the increase.

Floral meadows are very popular aisle weding floral choices and then are repurposed to the top table afterwards.

Wedding Decor Trends 2024 - Colourful Floral Meadows at Orchardleigh Wedding

Wedding Trend 2024 - Wedding Floral Meadows Repurposed - Vintage Shutter & French Jardiniere Cake Table

Whatever your choice of wedding decor for 2024, we have this covered - please get in touch.

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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