Top table - two colour swags?

I haven't got any pics of 2 colours together but what you could do is the actual swag in one colour & the bows in another or twist the 2 colours together:

One of the ideas I had was to divide the length of the table into, say, 5 sections, and have the colours alternating along "tight at the top" and "the dangly bit between the bows"?

The bows you have - are they those "pull bow" things I've heard mentioned before?

Yes the bows on the red pic are just florists pull bows, they do them in Burgundy & Hunter Green. Personally I would use either the green or ther the Burgundy to do the actual swag & then the other colour for the bows as using the 2 colours together will change the colour of the organza.

Does this quick and dirty sketch in MS Paint explain better what I meant?

I take your point about the colours mixing though, but if we used these two colours like my bodge above and ivory bows do you think that might look too hideous? I think we might get away with it.

It could look ok, but I would stick to ther 2 colours either Burgundy or Green with the Ivory. One or the other of the darker colours not both to be honest.

What's the normal recommended pull bow size for this sort of thing by the way?

50mm is the best size to use for the top table, for pew bows the 31mm size.

Here you go Hunter Green:

https://www.easyfloristsupplies.co.uk/ribbons-and-pull-bows/pull-bows-50mm-/50mm-hunter-green-pull-bows/prod_1289.html

Ta muchly Think we're going to end up going with green for the swag, and red bows.

We've got some ideas for red and green room decor as well so that should work out nice - plus there's a red patterned carpet at the venue too.

Just need to work on the walls etc now so it doesn't look too much like a conference...

Honestly I wouldn't worry about the walls, once you have decorated the tables & have your cake etc no one will be looking at the walls. There will be lots at eyelevel going on and most people will be sat at the table for most of the time. These are all conferance rooms & once you have everything in there no one will even know:

This is our room, partly set up for a wedding - apologies for the poor photo quality. The room is a large suite that has a removeable divider down the middle .

The ceremony will be held in this part of the room, which will then be cleared afterwards and the band/dance floor set up in this end. The registrars will be standing in front of the fireplace shown.

After the ceremony we will move to the gardens for photos. The above half of the room will then be cleared to make room for the band and dance floor for the evening. Again, the band will be set up in front of the fireplace.

The WB will be held in the other end of the room shown below with the divider still up. Along this side is the room to the private bar we have.

When the band are ready - about 7.15pm, we'll get the hotel to remove the divider to make one big room, ready for the first dance.

As we aren't having a disco for the evening, we were just a little concerned that the room would look a bit insipid in the evening without flashing lights etc - maybe I should get a few cheap sets off Ebay or uplighting for the walls or something?

Whats wrong with that room???! It doesn't look like a Conference room at all, it's a lovely room don't worry too much. I did a venue very simialr with stairs down into the room here:

You can use tealights in the evening or even if you have a vase centrepiece you could use floralytes that will give a light in the evening on the tables. I am sure the Band will have some kind of lighting with them, might be worth a quick email to ask them if they can supply or what they use.

For the ceremony and wedding breakfast, absolutely nothing is wrong with it. However, my concern is that it doesn't look very "party like" and once you get to the evening, normally with the lights down and the candles flickering, added to the lights from the disco it would be fine, but as we'll not be having all the disco lights and stuff I just wasn't sure if it would look "partylike enough"?

I had forgotten the red curtains that match our colours too until I looked those pictures up. Most of them will be pulled during the evening otherwise there'll be sunlight glare (as you can see from the afternoon photos I took it's quite exposed to the sun which is great to a degree).

Our evening band is a barn dance - not normally renowned for their 3kw sound systems and light shows...