Advice please! Wisteria Flowers for Ceremony or Reception? *pics in comments also*

Reception Inspiration

Very pretty do you already have your venue picked? I'm just wondering how high the ceilings at the reception would be that would determine how long the wisteria would need to be and if you would need any special equipment to get the flowers up there like a crane or lift

Also since you are watching your budget have you seen this tutorial http://ruffledblog.com/diy-paper-wisteria-backdrop/

Yes my venue is at a manor with a garden. My reception will be in the patio area. The ceiling isn't to high, a latter would do. The wisteria I was looking at isn't as long as the ones in the pictures. I wouldn't want guest to be bothered by it by having it to close to their head when they stand (that would be annoying haha). I was going to get a garland of wisteria to wrap around. The top of the tent has these long metal rods ( not horribly ugly) but it would cover them up for sure! So it would be easier to hang rather then doing it all piece by piece which is also time consuming.

You're thinking fake ones, right? Thats what all my venues do. They're beautiful!

Yes fake ones! I was a bit afraid it would look wierd but it is good to know you have seen other people do it!

Wisteria is magical and repurposed floral decor is a great idea. I'm glad you've chosen reproductions and not the genuine article. Are you DIYing this, or are you paying a designer to do the work? I don't know how many stems you're buying or how many tables you have, but you could absolutely have a wedding planner (or someone close to you) pull out all of the wisteria stems after the ceremony. During cocktail hour, they could put two or three stems (depending on how many stems and tables you have) and place them right into an eiffle tower vase (you can spray paint those vases -- silver, gold, white, black light pink, light purple...whatever. It's easy). Or you could hang them from the ceiling as you stated. But definitely, reuse them.

I really like that idea I just need to fimd someone who can move it all to the reception! Thankyou so much!

Great flower choice. I hope you can find someone to help do it the way you envision. That will be so pretty.

Me too. Its very hard though to find silk florist around my area though I'm finding out. Keeping my fingers crossed!

You can have it on an arch and put the arch behind the sweetheart table after the ceremony.