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I’m referring to the new addition to our venue at the entrance to our ceremony area that appeared after we booked. This thing:
Source: Kate Crafton
One would think that it would be the perfect thing to decorate with bunches and bunches of flowers. Except I’m not a flower person. At all.
I shun floral printed fabrics and paintings of wildflowers. Plus, flowers are pricey, and seeing as this was an unexpected expense, I don’t want to go off the deep end with it.
We’re thinking of decorating it fairly simply with some sort of sheer material, like organza. I also have several chandelier crystals to use somewhere, so this may be the perfect place for them.
Does anyone out there have any other decorating ideas that are fairly simple and non-floral? I thought of strings of lights, but since it will still be daylight during the ceremony, it would kind of negate the effect. Your thoughts and any photos you can find would be most helpful!
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Are you against greenery? Maybe just a garland of greens and/or branches/vines?
i think paper lanterns make nice design motifs as shapes alone - even if you just have the globes and no lights in them…
One word for you—RIBBON. I also have some sort of arbor at my wedding site and don’t want to spend all my money on flowers. You can get reams of ribbon in your wedding colors and actually make something quite lovely!
ha, i was going to suggest a combo of poster 1 & poster 2 comments… branches/greenery & ribbon!
hanging votives. you can make them yourself with wire.
At CB2 they have these cool orbs you can fill with candles or just pretty things, and hang them from fishing wire so it looks like there’s bubbles floating around you 
fabric! buy some in your main wedding color and wrap it all around, leaving the white peaking out in intervals. it will look elegant and be super easy.
I think your idea sounds great! Some shear fabric wrapped around and a chandelier would look AWESOME!
You could use some short of lanterns to hang, or go a little clam a do a chandelier like Mrs. Avocado.
Arches draped in fabric… gorgeous! http://www.alohaislandweddings.com/blogs.htm
Arch with ribbons & flowers… just use more ribbons, less flowers! SO PRETTY for outdoors, blowing in the breeze… http://www.flickr.com/photos/lalalaurie/1172225829/in/set-72157601552931283/
Arch with greenery… http://www.wisebread.com/green-wedding-tips-for-real-people#comment-119618
I have been to some outdoor daytime weddings with white lights, they were lovely and subtle in daylight. I agree with Miss Meatball, those globes from CB2 are really cute too.
@Miss Meatball: maybe I’m a dummy, but what’s CB2? Those sound like what I’m looking for!
@almostananderson: CB2 is Crate & Barrel’s new, more affordable store for the younger crowd. They have a few stores, but it’s mostly online.
What about something like this with fabric drapped across the tops and down the sides like curtins. It would be another way to bring your colors into the ceremony.
About halfway down the page: http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://photos.weddingbycolor.com/p/000/003/311/m/7900/p/thumbnail/22675.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.weddingbycolor.com/canadianbride&usg=__p12ceMyVZJl6MjQBVqzV1AvMpFg=&h=267&w=179&sz=16&hl=en&start=58&um=1&tbnid=0oOBTAIqsq3iSM:&tbnh=113&tbnw=76&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dwedding%2Barbor%2Bdecorations%26start%3D40%26ndsp%3D20%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1T4SUNA_enUS292US292%26sa%3DN
Otherwise I think the Lantern idea is a good one or greenerly, maybe some nice ferns to tie in the woodsy feel of your site.
it’s quite versatile and many of the listed options above can look great, but honestly it looks plenty fab without additional decor!
fyi - it’s called a pergola We got married under a pergola my dad and I built and we draped some fabric on it and it looked fabulous. Ours is a bit larger than yours, so maybe thinner pieces would work. Below is a picture that kinda sorta shows the fabric we draped on ours. My mom just sewed some heavy white fabric into panels to drape.
http://www.photoreflect.com/pr3/orderpage.aspx?pi=0ITS00CK000188&po=106
@Habibi: Do you think black fabric would look too….depressing? Would white be better, even though the structure itself is white?
@K: Thank you for all the pictures! I’m a very visual person!
@almostananderson: I had no idea what it was either, haha. Probably because we don’t even have Crate and Barrel around here.
@Bridediy: Oooh, that’s really pretty! Thank you!
@Allison: Yay another search term! Yours looked absolutely lovely!
I love the way Allison’s looked so clean - just simple fabric that’s not bunched up at all forming floaty panels to frame the couple. If I were in your shoes, I’d do something like that, and pull “U”s of fabric down between the panels of the pergola. AND hang the crystals you have. AND probably add a bunch of other jazz until it looked gaudy (I can’t help myself!)
It might be more work than you need, but this idea is kind of cute — it uses 1000 origami paper cranes as a curtain:
http://charmingpaper.blogspot.com/2008/05/shopping-1000-paper-cranes.html
There are also stars:
http://compelledtocraft.blogspot.com/2008/03/packin-it-in.html
Just leave it the way it is.
could you come up with some kind of hanging paper decorations that subtly fit your geek chic theme? silhouettes of characters? i’m sure you can come up with something cleverer… if only i were more geeky… 
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Age and Occupation: 27, Technical Analyst
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 25, Network Admin Student/Senior Game Advisor
Engagement Date: December 25, 2007
Wedding Date: May 2009
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