Beautiful for a day, without buying it all: Why hire your wedding décor
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You’ve saved the inspiration pictures and started imagining how your wedding will look. Perhaps there’s a beautiful floral arch, tables filled with candlelight and florals, or long garlands weaving between lanterns and pretty bud vases.
Then you start working out how many pieces you actually need… and the shopping list grows rather quickly!
Before you begin filling your spare room with boxes, it’s worth considering hiring your wedding décor. From making the most of your budget to giving you more time to enjoy the celebrations, there are some lovely benefits 🤍.
Make your decor budget go further
One lantern or pedestal might seem like a small purchase. Multiply it across your guest tables, add the candles, candlesticks, votives and florals, and those individual costs soon add up.
Hiring gives you access to a collection of beautiful pieces without having to buy everything new or spend hours sourcing individual items from resale groups. This can be particularly helpful if you’re dreaming of full tablescapes or a statement ceremony backdrop.
It’s always worth comparing the complete cost, too. Alongside the decorations themselves, think about delivery charges, materials for assembling arrangements, batteries for candles and décor, transport to the venue and any help you might need with setting everything up.
Beautiful faux florals, without buying every stem
Good-quality faux flowers are an investment, especially when you’re creating generous arrangements for a backdrop, an aisle or several guest tables.
Hiring allows you to enjoy those fuller floral displays without purchasing all the flowers and foliage yourself. There’s no watering or worrying about blooms wilting during the celebrations, and faux florals give us flexibility when bringing your chosen colour palette to life.
At The Wedding Library, I personalise our faux floral arrangements to complement your colours, helping the ceremony and reception feel beautifully connected.
Fewer hours spent searching and shopping (win win!)
Finding pieces you love can be a lovely part of wedding planning. Finding enough matching pieces, in the right sizes and colours however can take rather longer than you expected!
There are quantities to calculate, measurements to check, time and money spent to collect items and those online orders that arrive looking a little different from the photographs!
With an existing hire collection to choose from, you can see how the pieces work together and get guidance on what will suit your venue. At The Wedding Library, I’ll help you bring your ideas together, whether you have a clear vision or simply know the feeling you’d love to create.
A look that feels beautifully brought together
You might love several different centrepieces, an arch you’ve spotted online and a welcome sign from another wedding. The next step is making them work cohesively throughout your venue – from your welcome to your ceremony, reception and evening celebrations.
This is where styling experience can make such a difference.
The height of your centrepieces, the proportions of your backdrop and the balance of flowers, foliage and candlelight all help shape the finished space. Hiring with styling support means you have someone to help you choose pieces that complement each other and make an impact where it matters most.
No spare room full of wedding boxes
Where do you keep a wedding’s worth of lanterns, floral arrangements, signage and candle holders in the months before the big day?!
These pieces can take up more space than you might imagine, particularly when they need to stay carefully packed and protected!
Hiring means you don’t need to find a home for everything beforehand. There’s no need to work out how it will all fit into the car, either, when delivery is included in your service. That’s why we have a mahoosive van, with space to pack everything with the love and care it deserves.
More time to enjoy your wedding preparations
The day before your wedding can fill up surprisingly quickly! There are people to welcome, final details to check and, hopefully, a little time to pause and enjoy the excitement.
It’s easy to imagine that setting out your decorations will only take an hour or two. In reality, styling a whole venue usually takes much longer, especially when there are boxes to unpack, centrepieces to arrange, an arch to dress, signage to position and all those lovely finishing touches to put in place.
As a guide, for a full venue set-up with our All-Inclusive Styling Package, we usually allow around four hours with a team of two or three stylists, depending on the size of the venue and the décor and florals you’ve chosen.
If you’re planning to ask your bridal party, family or friends to help, remember that they’ll need to know where everything goes and how you’d like it arranged. Even with plenty of willing hands, directing everyone, answering questions and keeping an eye on the time can feel a little stressful when you have so much else to think about.
It’s also worth bearing in mind that not every venue offers access the day before your wedding. In some cases, your venue may not be able to confirm access arrangements until just a couple of weeks before the big day.
If you can only get into your venue on the morning of your wedding, the time available to set everything up can be much more limited. Having a professional styling team on hand is often essential, leaving you free to enjoy getting ready while we transform your space. At The Wedding Library, you can trust us to take care of setting out and styling your chosen décor, so you and your favourite people have more time to enjoy this special part of the celebrations 🤍.
No big clear-up or selling everything afterwards
After the last dance, packing away a room full of decorations is probably quite low on your wish list!
Then there’s everything that comes afterwards: cleaning vases, sorting boxes, taking photographs for resale listings and arranging collections. Selling your décor can recover some of the cost, but it takes time, and there’s no guarantee everything will find a buyer.
When pack-down and collection are included, that part is taken care of too. You can head into married life without a garage or spare room full of wedding décor waiting for your attention.
Less waste, with lovely pieces enjoyed again and again!
There’s something rather lovely about beautiful décor being part of more than one celebration too. It's always so sad to see single use decor discarded and left behind after a celebration.
When you hire, pieces such as lanterns, vases, candle holders and faux florals can be carefully maintained and used again and again. It means fewer new items need to be bought for a single day, and there’s less packaging and unwanted décor for you to deal with afterwards.
Each time our pieces are styled, they’re brought together in a different way to suit a new couple, venue and colour palette. The same lantern or floral arrangement can be part of so many unique celebrations!
It’s the personal details that make it yours
We’re passionate about helping you include those little details that mean the most to you. Family photographs, treasured keepsakes or something you’ve made together can sit beautifully alongside your hired décor, adding another layer of personality to your day.
We can also personalise lots of our pieces to reflect your plans and your style, often at no extra charge. From your order of the day, to bespoke table names and seating plan cards, these thoughtful touches really help bring your story into the room.
We don’t believe in cookie-cutter weddings! Every couple is different, and every wedding is unique. Whether you’re including a special memory, a shared interest or simply a colour palette you both love, we’ll help you create a celebration that feels wonderfully you 🤍.
Let’s bring your ideas to life!
For me, wedding styling is about creating a setting that feels like you, while making the process feel easier, stress-free and more enjoyable.
Whether you’re dreaming of soft, romantic florals, colourful tables or a barn filled with warm candlelight, you don’t have to buy and organise every little piece to make it happen.
At The Wedding Library, I offer individual item décor hire and a wonderful All-Inclusive Styling Package for weddings across Dorset and Somerset, with set-up, styling and pack-down included as standard.
If you’re wondering where to begin with styling or would like help to create a beautiful personal celebration styled with love and attention to detail, our venue styling consultations are the perfect place to start! Simply pop me a message - I’d love to hear your ideas and help you bring them together 🤍.
Happy wedding planning everyone!
Naomi x
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