Are there people who 'style' rooms for weddings??

[Enid]

I'm thinking of having my wedding reception () in our village hall...but I really want professionals to come in and transform it for me. Does anyone have any idea whether there are people that do that? What would they be - set designers? interior designers? Does anyone have any idea or is it just a mad dream?

general party planners/wedding planners would do it for you (at a cost obviously!) eg this woman who I found randomly on google and have no idea if is any good...

www.kdweddingsandevents.co.uk/homepage.html

She refers to using "venue decorators" on her site - so they must exist!

We had our wedding reception at the local village hall (local to where I grew up) which was a really horrible building. We got a marquee company to line it - lots cheaper than a full marquee and the effect was spectacular. Outside your normal municipal building - inside fairyland. They have things like starlight roof panels, and can also supply all the tables/chairs etc.

I second the starcloth idea (dark blue with little lights twinkling through). I had a marquee and asked for the starcloth to go all around the sides instead of on the roof. They thought I was mad but the effect was magical - like you were outside on a terrace at night surrounded by stars, with just a canvas roof overhead. The marquee company haven't stopped doing it that way since, they thought it was fab! Could have just as wonderful an effect in a village hall I'd have thought, where the ceiling is probably fine and its the walls that are very drab....

prufrock, will you marry me instead Thats exactly the kind of thing I was thinking of, I remember seeing a marquee with navy linings and loads of twinkly star lights and that has really been in the back of my mind all along.

And I'll clearly have to commit bigamy with pph too

mine was a christmas party, not my wedding - so you can marry prufrock and both come to my xmas parties!

enid, any of the better quality wedding magazines will be advertising services such as this. good luck!

Didnt think of that bossykate...ooh how exciting a wedding mag! I'll feel an idiot buying one in Smiths looking every day of my 36 years and with two children in tow...

Honestly Enid, you know 2 girls can't get married (or so my dd tells me)

Also, only 36, you're a spring chicken, I did it for the second time at 41

dd1 told me (tearfully) that she didnt want me to get married because then daddy and I 'would be ladies'.

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Enid, I'm getting a lot of vicarious pleasure from your engagement ring and wedding plans! Love these girly threads since I rarely get the chance to chat weddings in real life... Dh has recently made me a divorce settlement offer so it looks like dp and I may also be contemplating a quick wedding later this year. If it's any comfort, not only will I also be looking every one of my 36 years with 1 ds in tow, I'll probably be about 7 months pregnant too (hmm, you could be too if you let your broodiness get the better of you!). Not white for a dress methinks The sparkly stars idea sounds great. Can't you just let everyone here give you ideas - you don't need wedding stylers, you need the wisdom of the collective!

i love wedding talk, love going watching and can't wait to be a mother of the bride. Where are you havign the ceremony Enid? I love the twinkly lights idea!!

Maybe Mumsnet can branch out into wedding planning...

Ooohhhhh - wedding magazines are addictive - all those pretty pictures and beautiful, clever ideas, just like baby magazines (catch the feeling broody thread!!).

Am so jealous - would love to do it all again (may do one day too).

What colour are you going to wear and what about your bridesmaids and pageboys, are your children going to be involved - what about food - buffet or sit down and flowers - I love flowers (I want to be a wedding planner when I am grown up!!). Have been to no weddings so far this year and have been to at least one every year for as long as I can remember.

When are you getting married - you could do like a theme thing - not tacky of course but get everyone to come in a certain colour or something- oh no that is tacky isn't it and I am getting carried away.

Please tell us more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry I got all excited - weddings and babies really set me off - please do tell us more though.

Well, ok, since you asked

Thinking of having the wedding in December as dp and I LOVE Christmas and that time of year. Have asked our local village church if they will marry us and they think that will be fine but rector is away for a couple of days so they have to check with him. I actually want a woman to marry us, she lives in the village and she 'qualifies' for weddings in November so we'd probably be her first wedding and she is more excited than me! The local church is lovely and will look gorgeous I am sure.

My original idea was to hire a 'venue', theres lots of stately homes near us that do that kind of thing. But I've slightly gone off that idea and want to do something a bit more personal...originally wanted a marquee in the field next to us but all the companies I rang were dubious about doing a Dec wedding in a muddy, waterlogged field (cant think why ). So my latest plan is to decorate the village hall - dp unhappy as he thinks it will just look like a barren village hall and he thinks getting married at a village hall is the 'lowest of the low' - his words not mine. I think it will be nice! My plan is to cover the walls with dark blue starcloth and have lots of Christmas trees and holly and mistletoe everywhere, incense burners and tealights and lovely seasonal Dorset food.

Any more input welcome, you creative lot you!

Ooooh... Christmas wedding. Candles, holly & Ivy, deep coloured velvet cloak with a white dress... Sigh.

I think one of the Home Front type programmes decorated a village hall for a wedding reception a couple of years ago. I think they attached acres of cheap muslin to the ceiling/walls to create a tented effect. Heaven know what you do with that quantity of muslin afterwards though.

We also considered Babington House (dp is member) but it costs £9,000 just for the venue...I think not!!!

Yes! They did and I remember it...am I going mad, will a village hall be at all nice?

I should be having this conversation with best friends and possible bridesmaids, so going now to do exactly that x E

God - now want to get married and have a baby!!!

Christmas theme lovely, can get some lovely winter wedding dresses and the flowers are so much more robust (god I am getting old) than those that are used in the summer - can use gold coins (chocolate ones) as favours instead of almonds or maybe little biddy christmas cakes.

You could have the path up to the village hall covered in red carpet and holly bushes either side with bows on them, have a swag of holly over the door and little xmas trees on the tables(will be cheaper than fresh flowers!!).

Went to a wedding a while ago in Faversham at a beautiful place called Banks or blakes (I think) they did not have any music after the sit down meal and was really nice just to sit and talk (and drink of course) also made the bride and groom swap from one table to another with each course - made it far more informal and the groom said that he enjoyed it far more than his first wedding as he actually got to speak to everyone!!

Am busy not doing any work but thinking up ideas for great xmas wedding ideas.

It may look dodgy from the outside but from what I remember, it looked fantastic inside. No idea of whether you'd get somewhere posher for the same sort of money once you're tarted the hall up though. Maybe "tarted up" isn't an appropriate phrase for a wedding

Sob! Clearly none of us are being considered as Enid's bridesmaids

Ooooh... chocolate coins. Fab idea! I need to divorce DH and then remarry him.