One aspect of planning your wedding that can be a great deal of fun is choosing the location for your wedding reception. However, even after you have chosen where you would like your wedding venue to be, you still have some fun decisions to make and planning to do. When it comes to your wedding reception venue, a great location to choose is going to be a rustic location, such as a barn, a farm, or other location that has a timeless, country feel to it. Decorating these locations is also going to be a lot of fun as well, but you want to make sure that your decor matches the rustic feel of the venue. This article is going to discuss 2 ways to decorate a rustic wedding reception venue.

Hanging Lights

One awesome way to go about decorating your rustic venue, whether it is indoors, outdoors, or a combination of the two, is to use hanging lights. Hanging lights are a perfect way to add a much-needed feature and serve a decorative purpose. You can hang the lights from the wooden beams that make up the ceiling of the barn or other old building that the reception is being housed in. You can also get some wooden or metal poles for the outdoors and string the lights from these as well. Hanging lights on the trees, the fencing, and the tables is also a great way to light up the area. Hanging lights are also generally not going to be incredibly expensive to purchase, and you may even have the option of renting them for an even cheaper price. This can help to keep your wedding budget in check, while still allowing you to have gorgeous decor for your wedding reception.

Wooden Tables And Chairs

In order to go along with the rustic look and feel of your wedding reception venue, you should consider renting some wooden tables and/or chairs for your wedding reception. These chairs are going to give a timeless feel to the location, and they will match much better than the traditional metal tables and chairs that are generally used. You can even switch things up a bit more and get long wooden tables with benches along them to give the reception decor even more of a classic look and feel. To decorate the tables, you can add simple while tablecloths with vases full of fresh flowers on top of them. 

For additional ideas, contact a venue like the Rolling Meadows Ranch.