The Art Of Draping

The Art of Draping

Dressing your chosen wedding venue is not just about chair covers and sashes or table top decorations. There is also Draping.

Draping is becoming more popular with brides and grooms, who want to add that extra special touch to their wedding day. Although it is true, that draping can hide a wall or disguise something that you may not want to be seen, draping also provides a chance to enhance venues and create an environment specific to you and your guests.

Of course draping is not only used for wedding venues, draping has been used to provide Corporate events and special occasion events with some fantastic imaginative ideas.

 The Basics:

Wanting to disguise something?

You may love your venue, but you just wish that you could hide the large green EXIT sign that is right behind you and your top table guests – the solution could be a Fairylit Backdrop. Venue: Stanley House

Not only, as above shows, are they beautiful to look at, but they are great at hiding stages, doorways and signs or even large windows. They can also incorporate your colour scheme with bows being added. Venue: Rivington Hall Barn

Have Large beams at your venue?

Your chosen venue may have large beams, which whilst looking beautiful on their own, you may find that you want to enhance them with draping as shown below. Or to create a completely different look,in the next picture, the whole of the ceiling was transformed with a canopy of organza to create a soft, romantic marquee look.

Venue: Bartle Hall.

And if your lucky enough to have chandeliers at your venue, these can be incorporated by using chandelier drapes.
Venue: Great Hall at Mains

Incorporate your colour and material scheme into the draping, by adding bows to highlight the drapes. On this photograph and the one above, we also used fairylights to add that special lighting effect.

Want Something different or to transform the venue of your corporate or special occasion event?

So you have chosen your venue but you want to add the wow factor, the photographs below show just what can be achieved with our imagination and creativeness coupled with the direction of the client.

This spectacular ceiling drape had colour and fairylights added to create an effect that was truly breathtaking. Venue: De Vere Herons' Reach Hotel.

This photograph shows the over all effect, including the use of the fairylit backdrop.














 

Walkways are always popular especially with fairy lights and swathes of material.

            This photograph shows the use of ceiling drapes alongside fairylit draping. 

            Venue: Twelves Restaurant.

Want to include draping into your wedding but not sure how?

Then take a look at these creations we have done, and see if they give you some inspiration. Civil Ceremony draping at Mytton Fold, top table draping with blue fairy lights and top table draping with white fairy lights at Singleton Lodge.

                                       

When used alongside your flower designer, your wedding venue coordinator and your wedding venue dresser - draping can bring the whole room together giving you and your guests a unique and beautiful room to enjoy your big day in.