Everything you do during your ceremony and reception is going to be accentuated by your choice of venue. On balmy spring days with clear skies, there’s nowhere better than an orangery, conservatory or glasshouse venue. 

It’ll be light, airy, and let the beautiful outdoors inside.

Artificial trees or cherry blossom trees immediately soften a venue and bring it to life. If you have a high-ceiling venue, tall trees fill the space without making the room feel busy. Lots of greenery goes really well with a woodland or rustic theme, while 

cherry blossom lends itself to an elegant or fairytale look.

Inject your spring wedding reception with a little creativity by displaying your table plan in an usual way: a rustic mirror, trellis or peg board is cute. How about wrapping your plan in a gorgeous frame of seasonal wedding flowers for spring?

There’s no way your guests will be able to miss it then!

If you’re all about clean, minimalistic décor when it comes to reception planning, just add subtle seasonal hints to your tables by creating simple arrangements of gypsophila, tulips or daffodils in jars and vases that have a rustic vibe to them.

Gingham is the perfect print for spring. Use gingham fabrics as napkins, table runners or as ribbons around bouquets.

Daffodils and other varieties of narcissi scream spring and are cheap, cheerful and pretty. Put planted pots of these on the tables for a sweet spring centrepiece and let guests take them home as favours at the end of the night.

You can use potted spring plants as your table names too! Get different varieties and use them as the centrepiece for that table, so you could have tables named iris, hyacinth, tulip, snowdrop, pansy, daffodil, heather, and let the flowers 

speak for themselves. It works with herbs too!

Serve confetti in a big rattan basket for guests to take handfuls from. It’s good for the environment not to have individual confetti packets and it makes such a cute looking confetti stand.

Hang paper poms poms from your ceiling (especially in a marquee or barn) or around doors for a whimsical way to brighten the space.

Set up a lounge area using garden furniture for an English country garden vibe – even if it’s indoors! We’ve seen weddings where they’ve even got an indoor water feature and topiary hedges inside a marquee just to recreate that atmosphere.

Shabby chic ladders have been around for a while, but they’re not overdone. You just need to find a new way to use them, such as using one as shelves to hold jugs of ready-mixed cocktails, stringing polaroid photos around it as a fun guestbook 

idea, having it as part of a dessert play, or hanging a backdrop between two ladders to use for a DIY photobooth.

We love different kinds of altar backdrops, such as pastel ribbons or a macrame hanger. Utilise this in more than one place, but moving it into your reception space as a photo backdrop, to drape on chairs or to section areas off.

We adore acrylic invitations and menus, printed with the florals from your wedding. It’s a chic and modern look, and hugely pretty.

Alternatively watercolours look beautiful as the backdrop to your stationery and then carried through onto table numbers and place cards.

Beautiful stamps of botanicals, flowers, trees, birds and bees look stunning printed on invitations, wedding signs, napkins and more for a little twist where real flowers can’t be used.

Looking for spring wedding ideas with a whimsical or retro twist? Vintage inspired décor works so well with this season – think birdcage centrepieces filled with seasonal flowers, or antique items used as decorations.

Pretty vintage-style bunting is a lovely accompaniment to a spring reception. If you fancy getting crafty, check out our tutorial for making your own wedding bunting.

If you’re predicted any rain, have some fun with it. Use old wellington boots to plant floral arrangements and have them outside doors or even down your aisle. This works so well for farm or barn weddings.

A vintage bike with a basket full of flowers is a cute piece of wedding décor and it can also be used to display wedding signs or for the couple to pose on in photos.

It will be getting darker later, but there’ll still be plenty of opportunity to use lighting in your décor. Wrap fairylights around trees, string across courtyards or even create a curtain of them.

Fresh fruit makes a wonderful centrepiece. Bundle lemons into large bowls with pretty linens or tumble fresh apricots among peach flowers, lanterns and candles.

Should you have been gifted with a scorcher of a day, provide a basket of parasols at the back of the aisle for guests who might need some shade, such as elderly relatives. They’re great for outdoor weddings or during your reception drinks. Fans on ceremony chairs work well too!

If you’re trying to keep costs down, consider using lots of dried flowers, e.g. in centrepieces, buttonholes and bridesmaid bouquets.

Use vintage floral china as charger plates and serve cocktails in tea cups for a luxury afternoon tea feel.

Think about your chairs. French-style bistro chairs are wonderful for an outdoor, garden wedding vibe; chiavari chairs give a classic look; while ghost chairs and modern, elegant and look incredible in an orangery or glass setting.

Swings are not just for children! A swing is great fun for all your guests and looks amazing in your couple photos.

Trellises have such a glorious spring vibe. Use a trellis entwined with flowers (real or fake) around your bar, as a backdrop to a table plan, to cover any walls or décor you might not like, or to section off parts of your reception space.