A plain staircase....

You could have crepe bows or mini bunches of flowers spaced up the hand rail. I don't know what your theme is but you could have bunting or something at eye level, this would draw the eye up from the carpet! 6 days, how exciting! x

You could have flowers, but that would be reallt expensive (depending on size of stiar case), or you could twwist organza fabric all the way along the hand rail? To add to this you could twist in some ivy (real or silk).

I'd go for the roll of organza twisted round, and florist pull bows (30mm) - they're cheap and fairly easy to put together.

You've just made me realise there's a few steps at our venue into our rooms - and we hadn't factored in decorating the rails. I think we'll do just that.

Thank you everyone. I knew it was such a simple solution, my mind was just blank!

and yes AJ, just when you think you've covered everything....

I will be - covering it in organza and bows ?

I was going to suggest floral garlands. I purchased 85ft from ebay and it was very reasonable. Just seen your ticker so not enough time, perhaps the organza or pull bows as suggested is easy enough for you to source.