Creative table runner ideas for your wedding
If you’re planning to get creative with your wedding decor, one thing you might be thinking about is how to decorate your tables. Whether you just have a long top table, or you’re going to have long tables for all your guests as well, a pretty table runner is just what’s needed to create a beautiful table setting worthy of your guests’ Instagram feeds. Here are some ideas to spark your creativity…
Simple and rustic
For a simple look that will suit a rustic wedding, a long, plain strip of brown hessian makes a great base for mason jars full of wildflowers and tealights. If you’d like something slightly more sophisticated but still maintaining that country theme, you could embellish the hessian with long strips of ribbon in a colour to match your wedding palette.
Elegant and refined
For an elegant look, light and whimsical tulle or organza fabrics make a chic table runner that can be perfectly matched with your chair sashes. You can let it hang floatily off the ends of the table, or you can gather each end into a sophisticated knot or ribbon.
Nature’s bounty
A fabric table runner isn’t the only choice for long tables; you could instead opt for flowers and/or foliage placed all the way along the centre of the table. There’s lots of scope for customising this idea to your theme. For example, if you’re having an autumn wedding, you could use long branches covered in red and orange leaves for your runner, while olive branches could work well for a Mediterranean-style wedding. If you choose to have flowers, you can make the idea even more dramatic by having them cascade off the ends of the table.
The personal touch
Finally, to really put your own stamp on your table decorations, you could also make your own table runners featuring photos that mean something to you as a couple. For example, you could print and stick together a collage of photos from your travels together, or photos from when you were growing up. Alternatively, you could create table runners using pages from books you both love for a more literary theme.
