Cotswold Wedding Decor Trends for 2024

Sustainable Cotswold Wedding Decor for 2024

We have a great range of vintage and modern decor for hire which enables us to stay up to date with the latest trends for 2024 wedding decor. Here are our predictions for the hottest wedding decor trends in 2024:

Sustainable Wedding Decor - Vintage Hire Wheelbarrow with perennial flowers

Wedding Decor Trends 2024 - Vintage Decor Hire pinterest searches indicate

Hiring your wedding decor and wedding clothing for your wedding is a great way to keep costs down and be more eco-conscious about your wedding day. Wedding suits have always been a popular item to hire, but we are seeing more suppliers hiring wedding dresses and wedding guest outfit hire companies coming into the wedding industry.

Another great item to hire rather than buy for your wedding is your decor, you can get better quality items and more for less money.

As a wedding stylists and a wedding decor hire company since 2015 specialising in prop hire we create sustainable weddings that not only look fabulous but are kind to the environment and your pocket. In hiring your wedding decor rather than buying it will both save you money and waste.

Wedding Decor Trends 2023 - Vintage Decor Hire - Barns & Yard Wedding Venue

Great news for us as we specialise in vintage wedding prop hire that there has also been an increase in searches on Pinterest for vintage wedding decor. We design sustainable weddings using our vintage decor hire props.

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wedding decor trend 2024 - sustainable locally grown wedding flowers

Sustainable Wedding Decor - Locally grown sustainable wedding flowers

Many wedding flowers are imported from the Netherlands, Africa & Mexico. Couples are becoming more conscious of the impact this has on the environment and are now opting for British grown wedding flowers in their sustainable wedding bouquets and decor.

Potted perenneial and plants from garden centres can be more eco-friendly, cheaper than cut flowers. Then re-used as gifts to wedding guests and planted up in gardens as a lasting memory of your day. I used garden, seasonal perennials at our daughters wedding and this saved us at least £200 compared with a florist and cut flowers to add floral displays to the wedding day set ups.

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Which wedding decor colours will be popular in 2024?

Wedding Flowers 2023 - Viva Magneta Wedding Boquet

The Pantone Colour of the Year has an impact on the choice of popular colours for weddings. For 2023, Viva Magenta a vibrant, pinky, red signifies confidence and strength.

For 2024 its Peach Fuzz so expect to see plots of peach and apricot wedding flower tones.

Wedding Trends 2024 - Green & White Wedding Boquet

The white, green and gold wedding colour combination is still popular and is a classic wedding colour combination that will always be a popular choice.

We are seeing alot of dusky blues and sage green which are classic wedding decor colour choices.

Bold and unique wedding colour schemes are also on the increase. With black, bright blues, oranges being popular set against the white background of a marquee wedding and village hall wedding venues. This wedding trend is perfect for couples who love colour.

Wedding Decor Trends 2024 - Colourful bold wedding decor

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outdoor wedding venue choices for 2024

Outdoor Weddings are popular wedding venue choices for 2024 as the rules for getting married outside were changed and ceremony location rules are still changing making it easier to get married at outdoors wedding venues.

Wedding Decor Trends 2024 - Outdoors Garden Wedding Ceremony Parish House, Bath

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A sweetheart or couples table are popular choices

Wedding sweetheart and couples wedding tables are more popular and a little less traditional, a more intimate option on your wedding day. Couples wedding tables are alos popular for complicated family dynamics.

Wedding Decor Trends 2024 - Sweetheart table

The sweetheart table is a small table for you both to sit together rather than having a top table with family and close friends. If your wedding family group is too large for a top table then this is a fantastic solution.

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statement wedding backdrops trend for 2024

From ceremony flower arches to statement wedding backdrops these are both popular choices for 2024 to decorate wedding receptions & wedding ceremony spaces .

Wedding Decor Trends 2024 - Ceremony Backdrop at Clearwell Castle

Large statement wedding floral installations like asymmetrical arches are a fantastic option to frame the front of your ceremony and then repurpose your wedding flowers after the ceremony to go behind your top table or sweetheart table and for photos throughout the day.

Flowers are big budget items, but definitely worth it, if you can add dried flowers and grasses this may stretch your budget, also adding beautiful texture to your wedding day floral arrangements.

Organic, locally grown British wedding flowers and wild floral wedding floral design is a wedding flower trend that is on the increase.

Floral meadows are very popular aisle weding floral choices and then are repurposed to the top table afterwards.

Wedding Decor Trends 2024 - Colourful Floral Meadows at Orchardleigh Wedding

Wedding Trend 2024 - Wedding Floral Meadows Repurposed - Vintage Shutter & French Jardiniere Cake Table

Whatever your choice of wedding decor for 2024, we have this covered - please get in touch.

How to Plan & Style Autumn Sustainable Wedding Decor at a Rustic Barn Wedding

 This is probably one of the most timeless and versatile of wedding styling themes for your wedding and one of my personal favourite’s – as it is so versatile and can be adapted for any venue. It can be as eclectic as you wish or rustic and include modern touches. In fact I think the combination of all three is perfect to create a style just perfect for you.

cotswold sustainable wedding flowers

Source local British grown sustainable flowers - dahlias, chrysanthemums, roses, and cottage garden flowers. Autumn wedding flowers are available in such beautiful and warm collars, in coppers, oranges, burgundies, golds, and an opportunity to add colour to your wedding. These colours are complemented perfectly by copper lanterns from our lantern hire collection. Also hire stoneware wedding vases from our wedding hire collection.

cotswold rustic barn wedding decor hire

You can style a traditional Rustic Barn Wedding with vintage stoneware pots, wedding milk churns, hire galvanised tubs, vintage watering cans for wedding flowers, garden tools, vintage china and glassware hire, vintage seating, vintage shutters and vintage doors, garden benches, our vintage hire wheelbarrows, our vintage hire ladders, our vintage hire bicycles, our vintage hire shepherds crooks, our vintage hire lanterns and lots of pretty signs and touches, wedding candles, bunting, our vintage hire tree slices,our hire tealights and our hire flower jars. 

You can also style as a greenery inspired wedding with for without floral flower jars that’s perfect for trestle tables.

Cotswold Barn wedding day prop hire

I have an Indian Market Cart for hire from Rajastan which would be perfect as a wedding drinks cart , wedding cake cart and cheesecake as used here , wedding sweet cart, card cart and present display to compliment this theme.

Tips to design a cotswold sustainable wedding

We all need to our bit to help the environment and create more sustainable weddings by reusing, repurposing and recycling this is achieved when you hire wedding decor and hiring wedding props and by using seasonal and locally grown flowers and foliage where possible. decor and hire props you areither a large budget or small budget the best option is to hire your props and accessories as we have a fantastic range of unique vintage and modern props from the UK, France and India and accessories to create this look on any budget and for a fraction of the cost of buying new. You also are doing your bit for the environment by re-using. 

The larger the budget the more you can hire and have a larger budget for the flowers. Equally on a low budget add more tealights and also some home grown flowers or some from you family and friends gardens. You can supplement the florist’s table decorations with pots, jars with your flowers add tea lights and candles. 

Personal touches make all the difference, Style your table plan with shutters and pretty pots, greenery hoops, use an old window frame or pallet to have name places on, and of course the ever popular ladders with flowers, wellington boots filled with flowers.

Vintage linen, gauze table runners, chiffon table runners or cheesecloth table runners all help to add to the look or keep it very rustic with wooden trestles, foliage garland runners and vintage seating and lots of lanterns and tea lights.

Decorate wedding ceilings with muslin drapes, festoon lighting, floral or greenery hoops or cart wheels.

Credits

Venue Lapstone Barn

Florals Pip Hill -John

Photographer Katie Hamilton Photography

How to Style & Decorate a Rustic Barn Wedding in the Cotswolds - The Wool Barn

Styling Guide for a Rustic Barn Wedding - The Wool Barn - Frampton Court Estate - Cotswolds

The Wool Barn Frampton On Severn

The Wool Barn Frampton On Severn www.framptoncourtestate.co.uk

Bride wearing Augusta Jones Lace Dress

Beautiful Orangery Frampton Court

How do you chose the theme for your wedding decor?

Firstly, decide on the theme for your wedding – do you want a minimalist or a more elaborate style? Do you favor a rustic or an elegant, boho, festival, scandi, or minimalist theme?

If you’ve chosen a rustic theme there are different styling options for a rustic wedding – rustic with hessian and lace, rustic chic, rustic woodor why not combine all of them - always remember its your day so do it your way.

Choosing a venue that suits your wedding style will mean that you naturally will need to do less to create the wedding of your dreams and for a rustic wedding a barn has to be one of the first choices.

I always recommend visualising the day as it will unfold and imagine a walk through starting with your guest arrival. How do guests know where to park, is signage needed to the entrance, do you want some décor at the entrance other considerations include – would you like any of the following - a Welcome sign, card display, ceremony décor, your table plan.

Lastly any other items you would like to include such as photo opportunities, sweet or olive bars, drinks stations, cake displays.

Round table -With hessian runner, vintage milk churns, hessian and lace tea lights and flower jars - Photo Curtesy of www.louisebowles.co.uk

Wedding Styling tips for a barn wedding

When planning your décor whether it is large props or small tea lights always think in 3’s – a tall, middle height and low height item.

Aim to create a few area that provide impact and don’t be tempted to sprinkle a few props all around the venue – barns are large spaces and a few items in lots of places can look lost, unless you’re lucky enough to have a large budget.

Flowers in small necked glass vases or jars or garden centre plants or herbs in terracotta or zinc flower pots are a cost effective way to add additional florals to compliment your florists flowers for décor areas, as well as garden centre plants in hessian sacks which you can then plant in your garden as a reminder of your day – hopefully they will flower at the same time on your anniversary.

Long table dressed with hessian runner, vintage milk churns, flower vases and tea lights, chalkboard table name

Wedding Venue Entrance styling

This is the first thing guests will see and allows you the opportunity to welcome your guests, create an impact and set the style of your wedding. Opportunities for the entrance décor are endless and can include signage, step ladders, vintage or decorative bikes, wheelbarrows, milk churns, crates, lanterns, tin baths, rustic crates, shepherd’s crooks.

Entrance sign to drinks reception with vintage decorative bike, vintage milk churns ad flower vases

What Props to add to the wedding Welcome Area

This will normally have a welcome sign which can be personalised to your taste - options include calligraphy hand written signs on wood, Perspex, crates made for you and that you can keep as a memento of the day for the order of the day, sign writing crates, chalkboards, hanging hoops & shutters. You can include your card box here, there are many options that can be used which include vintage cases, hat boxes, wooden crates, galvanised tubs. Wicker baskets, tools boxes & vintage trugs decorated with flowers in jars, on log slices and with tea lights and candlesticks. I love using ivory or pastel coloured taper candles to tone with the décor colour.

The Wool Barn Wedding Frampton On Severn Gloucestershire, Cotswolds - vintage step ladder dressed with vintage school props as the bride and groom were teachers and dancing shoes galvanised bath

rustic wedding Table Plan ideas

Vintage bikes with decorated floral baskets look so pretty for these, as do pallets with hanging pots of flowers, wheelbarrows full of flowers, crates or ladders with photo frame table names, all decorated with flowers, greenery, glass jars of flowers, candlesticks and tea lights.

Other options include vintage window frames with floral or greenery garlands or shutters with flower pots with the name places on them or on mini hoops.

The Wool Barn Wedding Frampton On Severn Gloucestershire, Cotswolds - Table Plan created form pallet with galvanised flower pots and hessian table names

wedding Order of The Day ideas

One of my personal favourites is to personalise a pallet with calligraphy writing for the order of the day, other options include rustic style signs, sign writing crates, chalkboards, hanging hoops & shutters.

Alex Cars Vintage Bedford Bus fr the guests to get to the church

The Wool Barn Wedding Frampton On Severn Gloucestershire, Cotswolds - Order of the day

Wedding Ceremony Décor

How to dress your ceremony table, I love to use tall pillar candlesticks for the ceremony table along with wooden hoops in stands with a beautiful floral display in an urn or vintage galvanised mini feeding trough. Foliage and floral runners with pillar candlesticks, taper candlesticks with pretty coloured candles or ivory or a floral or foliage swag look amazing as well.

The Wool Barn Wedding Frampton On Severn Gloucestershire, Cotswolds -shepherds crook and sweet pea floral decoration

Aisle options include glass, copper, silver lanterns on log slices with foliage, pine cones and small wooden hearts at the base. Wicker hearts with floral or foliage décor. Floral or foliage hanging sprays from the chairs, swags on the backs of chairs or hessian or lace chair sashes- - I don’t use these as I prefer natural floral and foliage and candlelight.

If you’re having an outdoors ceremony you could decorate the aisle with shepherds crook with pretty floral jars and candles in jars

A tip if using hessian sashes please be careful that they don’t scag guests outfits or leave fibres on their clothes.

Barns afford fantastic opportunities for hanging installations – these can be hoops, canopy lights, cart wheels. Bunting, material swags in muslin look amazing, festoon lighting.

The Wool Barn Wedding Frampton On Severn Gloucestershire, Cotswolds - Hanging vintage cart wheel

 Wedding Confetti Trugs

I love to collect and dry rose and other flower petals and then put them in a Vintage French Trugs with or without cones, this is a lovey way to introduce some of your home into your day and also friends and relatives can collect them for you making it a lovely way to introduce friends and family into your day and an added bonus it saves quite a bit of money as well.

The Wool Barn Wedding Frampton On Severn Gloucestershire, Cotswolds - Confetti Trug

rustic wedding Table Decor

The choice of décor will depend on whether you have long trestle type tables or round ones.

You can use wooden trestles with foliage, hessian, lace or silk runners, there are now so many different runner options in natural materials or hand dyed or cheaper material ones available. Add small log slices, wooden pillar or vintage brass taper candlesticks of different heights with groups of three tea light and floral jars or vases in between with a delicate foliage runner looks so pretty.

The Wool Barn Wedding Frampton On Severn Gloucestershire, Cotswolds -Vintage Milk Churn Table Decor

I don’t think any round rustic table is dressed without a log slice –we’ve struggled as venue decorators to find an alternative to these, they help ground the table center and gave additional height.  There are so many options for round tables. Vintage milk churns and jugs, lanterns in glass, rose gold, brass or silver, geometric shape terrariums, wooden, glass or mercury silver pillar candlesticks, glass, silver or vintage brass taper candlesticks all accessorised with small flower vases, tea lights all in groups of 3 and not forgetting foliage, you can add pine cones or other small accessories . There is always the option with round tables to add foliage or material runners as well.

Trestle tables are increasingly popular and mu personal favorite, these can be dressed with runners in cheesecloth, chiffon, macramé candlesticks, pillar candles, tea lights they can be rustic with bare wood or more elegant with tablecloths and candelabra.

Table names can be displayed in vintage frames, on mini easels, written onto log slices, chalkboards or Perspex.

Name places can be written on mini blackboards, slate, marble, agate, card or vintage handmade paper with silk ribbons that match your invites. Other alternatives include Perspex, written on mini log slices, accessorised with foliage or flowers and ribbon, hessian twine

Barn wedding Hanging Décor

This can include hanging flowers from ladders, hoops, greenery garlands, fairy lights, festoon lighting, flags, giant hoops, paper lanterns, origami, bunting, pom poms, geometric shapes or lanterns.

The Wool Barn Wedding Frampton On Severn Gloucestershire, Cotswolds - Barn floral decor

Wedding Bar, Cake Table, Dessert table ideas

Individuality is the key here - Why not include an Indian Cart, Vintage Trestles for your drinks or back bar? Add crates, vintage scales, boxes to create impact. Gin, imp your prosecco, his and hers cocktails and whisky and cigar bars are all options. Prosecco bar. Of course no vintage wedding is complete without vintage galvanised tubs for wine, beer and soft drinks coolers.

The Wool Barn Wedding Frampton On Severn Gloucestershire, Cotswolds - Cup cake stand

Wedding Dance Floor Ideas

You can consider using a different canopy dressing over the dance floor to highlight this area.

Wedding Chill Out Area Ideas

Hopefully your venue will have gorgeous outside space where you can have fire pits, smores and toasted marshmallows, accessorised with festoon lighting, rugs, sofas, giant cushions, low tables, lanterns, poufs, flowers and not forgetting blanket displays in galvanised baths, on ladders or railway trolley for those chilly English nights.

The Wool Barn Wedding Frampton On Severn Gloucestershire, Cotswolds - dancing shoes in galvanised tub - very popular with the ladies

Gardens at The Wool Barn - Horse and Carriage Benford Carraiages

Credits

Prop hire, planing and stylist - www.rusticrentals.co.uk

Photographer - www.louisebowlesphotography.com

Venue - www.framptoncourtestate.co.uk

Brides Dress - www.cliftonbrides.co.uk

Designer - www.augustajones.com

Bridesmaid dresses - www.whistles.com

Catering - www.napiercatering.co.uk

Florist - www.sororidesignflorist.co.uk

Band - www.themoonloungers.com

Horse and Carriage - www.benfordcarriages.co.uk