A colorful summer wedding

Love is in the air! See how to create a festive yet relaxed mood with relatively little effort. Put a tropical twist on a wedding, graduation or any celebration you want to burst with color.

Spacious, industrial interior set for a party with textiles, decorations, plants and the end of a car with trailing tin cans.

Harmonize with textiles

Finding enough chairs and tables is always a challenge, let alone matching ones. Instead, use fabrics for tablecloths and other details to bind it all together – harmonizing any mix of furniture, your own or borrowed.

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Interior with set tables with lengths of UGGLEMOTT fabric as tablecloths, a criss-cross of SOLVINDEN lighting chains above.

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Hang flowers and lights together

Combining lighting and flowers sets the mood, for the day and the evening. (To carry any extra weight, be sure to reinforce lighting chains with fishing line or similar.) And with artificial flowers, you can use them again for wedding anniversaries, too.

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BLÖTSNÖ lighting chain with lone SMYCKA artificial flowers hanging at intervals from it, strung over a decorated set table.

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Decorate from the ground up

An easy way to boost the effect of your decorations is to think about the room in layers: bottom, middle, top. Unused floor space will come alive with lanterns and flowers, then build from there.

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Patch of rough floor with ROTERA and ÄDELHET lanterns placed on it, flowers and petals strewn around them.

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Mix and match, and mix some more

Once you get going, there’s no need to hold back. Juicy colors and brave patterns tend to go well together, even if they don’t match to begin with. Above all, mix!

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Part of a table colorfully set and decorated with FORMIDABEL plates, bold-patterned textiles, artificial flowers and leaves.

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Napkins can be decorative, too

Long dinners require extra napkins. Take the opportunity to create a patchwork with mixed colors and patterns, and use layers and placing for extra effect.

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Knife, fork and spoon lying on a patchwork of SOMMARLIV and FANTASTISK paper napkins as parts of a festive table setting.

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Seating fit for center stage

If you don’t have thrones to spare, make them yourself. With minor alterations, ordinary chairs can be made into seating worthy of royalty and newlyweds alike.

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A pair of decorated GRÖNADAL rocking chairs side by side, surrounded by colorful textiles, tropical plants and flowers.

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Leaves, ribbons and more

Add details that go along with the theme, or the festive occasion, or both. For a wedding with a tropical feel, ribbons, leaves (artificial or real) and some love is all it takes.

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A GRÖNADAL handwoven-rattan rocking chair decorated with a tied-together bunch of SMYCKA artificial leaves.

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Clothes racks as a wedding gate

Place a clothes rack or two at the entrance. Draped in fabric, they can set the mood right at the start. You can leave warming throws on the racks for guests to use when they go out for some fresh air.

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A NIKKEBY clothes rack draped in SOMMAR 2020 fabric and loaded with piles of POLARVIDE throws. Party decorations all around.

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We love to see our customers get creative with our products. Go for it! But please note that altering or modifying IKEA products so they can no longer be re-sold or used for their original purpose, means the IKEA limited warranties and your right to return the products will be lost.