Wedding Reception Details - Lighting

One of the best, most effective and relatively economical ways to enhance your wedding setting is with lighting.

Great lighting creates an instant ambience, whether it is low, subtle mood lighting, lighting to ‘show off’ your décor or lighting to liven up the atmosphere. This can all be achieved by working with a good lighting specialist.

The most common form of display lighting is pin spotting. A lot of venues have this ready set, in house. This is where ceiling set lamps project directly onto the centre of a table to highlight the arrangement. This is really effective and can discount the need for any peripheral lighting, thereby creating a look of warm pools of light shining onto the table centre arrangements as your guests walk into the room. It is instantly elegant and atmospheric.

Lighting is also a great way to ‘pace’ your wedding. Varying the lighting at each stage eg drinks reception, dinner and then dancing creates a differing energy and helps maintain the pace of the day.

If you are dining in the same room you are dancing, think about having some lighting around the dance floor or at the end of the room where dancing is taking place. This instantly ‘funks it up’ and makes the feel of the room more conducive to dancing. By doing this, you are also creating a new feel to the stage of the evening; it energises it and makes guests feel more like getting up from their tables and joining in the party.

Article by London Based Wedding Co-Ordinator Siobhan Craven-Robins

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Wedding Cake - Freeze London

Dance Floor - Sim Canetty Clarke Photography

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