How long does it usually take to decorate before the wedding?

I actually like the orange & purple lights idea & my final cake choice was inspired by that cake...mine will be 3 pumpkins stacked on top of each other each smaller than the other. & glowsticks & fog machines are now a must! lol! & I'm highly concidering making the wedding start at 5pm. I'm so tired of planning...lets' get this thing over with! lol!

I'd plan AT LEAST 4 hours to decorate...and that's for a pretty modest decorating plan. Also, recruit all the help you can get. Prep EVERY SINGLE thing you can (pre-cut ribbons, assemble all but the fragile items, etc.). Don't leave any thing for "oh, we can just do that, there". The only things that should be done at the venue are the things that simply can not be done and then transported.

Invest in some giant plastic tubs so you can transport everything gently packed and safely.

Carry one box of supplies. Several pairs of scissors, rolls of tape, string, fishing line, etc.

Be sure that everyone helping you knows the venue's rules. If you aren't supposed to use tape on the walls, for example, make sure all your friends know that and follow the rule.

Good Luck!

Lol! I'm so ahead of you on the giant, plastic tubs, lol! & that sounds like a good plan. Like I know I have to carve the pumpkins ahead of time, because I've never carved pumpkins before, & these are pretty advanced designs...in my opinion.

I hate to disagree, but everybody keeps saying, "the more people the faster it will go". Pick the most artistic, hard-working people you know to help. 2 or 3 really dedicated, motivated people can do twice as much as 6 or 7 slackers who stand around and talk and distract everybody who is trying to get things done! I have had people offer to "help" and usually I end up doing most of it myself while they mess around. It should be fun, but the party is at night. I would expect it to take at least 4 hours. If you get it done faster, great! But, I would get there right at 10am and try to get as much done as early as possible so if you hit a snag, you have time to fix it. Make sure you bring a quick bag lunch or energy bars so you don't poop out before you're done. A small crew of people who know exactly what to do and understand the rules of the venue is going to be much more productive. I wish you were getting married here. I would LOVE to do a Tim Burton theme Halloween wedding.

That makes a lot of sence. I do agree with you on that. I'm a perfectionist & so it's prolly going to take a lot longer. So choosing people who know how I am & will take their time to make sure that I will approve of it & not have to go back & fix it would be a great idea. Because doing things once is going to take long enough, but having to go back & do everything again because people didn't do it right the fist time would take a lot longer. Thanks so much for your input. I am really looking forward to the wedding, I'm pretty sure there hasn't been anything like it before, atleast in my town. The venue seems too excited to have had it done before, & I love that. I love that we are different & that our wedding will stand out & be remembered. It's definetely going to be a night to remember.

JUST LOVE THE THEME. I have friends that had a Halloween wedding. It was the best wedding I ever went to & help coordinate. All the guests wore costumes. It was both of their 2nd marraiges & each had a child. They were a King & Queen & the kids were Prince & Princess. The person that married them dressed like Father Guido Sarduchi from SNL. The cake topper was a haunted house & the layers were all crooked leading up the path to the house with monsters.

They had a fog machine. They had stations...a fortune teller, photo ops(Now you can rent photo booths), a 'candy bar'

(a must for Halloween) & pumpkin carving. Plus dancing.

They had orange & black helium balloons with long streamers just hanging down...great decoration. If the room is too big you could do them only in the restrooms. Yes don't forget to decorate the restrooms. Spider webs everywhere.

The favors were small pumpkins filled with Halloween candy.

Con't...did all decorating ourselves including helium balloons. It was an evening wedding, it has to be that for Halloween. It took a good 5 hrs to pull it all together. We had creative people with the helping of this.

Maybe you could have a small caramel fountain at the candy bar & have apple slices for dipping.

The pumpkin carving station, we had them ready for carving, they weren't too small or too lg. Less mess. This was pretty popular.

I love your suggestions! I really like the fortune teller idea & I did not know you could rent photo booths, I'll have to look into that. The pumpkin carving station sounds really cool & I just know I'm going to use lots of balloons even though the celing is pretty high (I'll just use longer strings) I don't plan on using them in the food room, not the actual ceremony room. Imma look up the fortune teller & photo booth thing. Thanks so much for your awesome ideas!

Originaly I wanted to use the Corpe Bride as my wedding cake topper, and have Jack as the groom!

Then I found out my mother-in-law-to be will be making our cake being she works at a bakery, so there went that idea! She would probably think we were nuts!

I loooooove halloween!

I thought that that would be the case, but his family is looking forward to it. I couldn't believe it, but they are very excited!