Village Hall Receptions

Hi Poppyseed, we are having a village hall this July and decorating it has been a big consideration for us. We bought hundreds of metres of floral bunting from ebay which cost about £70, we bought these cheap net curtain things from Ikea which we'll use to swath and hang in various places. I have bought wee shabby tables from charity shops & lace table clothes to pop into wee corners, 100x tea cups and saucers, jars for flowers...you get the picture! We set aside a couple of hundred pounds for decoration plus what I have spent on crockery from charity shops. Having said all that I went to a wedding in December in the same village hall and all the bride had done was put a bunch of helium balloons in her signature colours on each table and it looked smashing!

These were taken at her friends wedding, this is a village hall - it looks like the inside of a hareem! Lots of swags

I shot this wedding last year.

http://www.greenleafphotography.co.uk/blog/?m=201111

there is a shot of there village hall decor. She mad all the name places out of wood, Bunting, and then during the break they organised a rounders match, Everything was made themselves and all done in a cost effective way.

We are having a village hall reception and are also a bit stuck for ideas on how to decorate it - I don't want it to look just like a few tables in a village hall, if that makes sense! Our hall has six big floor to ceiling windows so I was planning on wrapping fairy lights round the curtains. We are having chair covers to hide the bucket type village hall chairs and I was thinking of getting a screen of somesort or maybe some drapes to hide the noticeboards, mini library etc that are in the entrance of the hall, and maybe also something for the walls that don't have windows. I am really excited about having a village hall reception though, there is so much that can be done!

Just got back from viewing the Hall, and now actually excited about it, yes its a bit dated, 1960's build but very clean and she said that the whole hall id due to be decorated before our July Wedding, can really start to see how it could look.

Ther are restrictions, like a sound limiter, although thats not a problem, we are not allowed the floor to ceiling doors open once the disco starts, but there is air conditioning, and we have to finish the disco by 11.30pm as we have to have cleaned up and leave the hall by midnight, but i guess not a huge problem either.

As a bonus there is enough plain white crockery there we can use so we wont need to hire any, plenty of tables and chairs although chairs are orange so will need chair covers, and basically as long as we respect it we can do anything we want!

So now I'm fairly happy about it all, and can't wait to get started!

We draped fabric along the walls with small bunches of flowers along the way, bunches of blue and white balloons and fairy lights. Our tables had blue and white white table cloths on with vases filled with flowers and candles and ballons It looked so big and empty when we viewed it before hand but looked totally transformed once we had decorated it.

We aren't doing much, but our hall has a huge vaulted wooden ceiling and wooden floor, so not doing anything to that main room. We'll have some candles and flowers of some sort on the long tables, and that should be OK. There are 2 smaller rooms - one bar where we may hang some bunting, and one room they use for wedding ceremonies but again, not doing anything with that since it's nice enough. Our main problem is the corridors linking the rooms, and the loos, both of which are very functional and insitutional. I think we'll have to have some sort of garlands / bunting etc (even though I'm not keen on it) along the corridors for continuity, and flowers in the loos as well.

For info, our hall is https://www.hattonvillagehall.co.uk/