Backyard Weddings Ideas

by Lynn
(San Antonio)

Backyard weddings ideas really depend on the type and amount of space you have available. For instance, here in San Antonio, the yards are fairly small in most newer neighborhoods.

Our backyard has a 3 tiered deck and a small above ground pool and a shed. That does not leave much room. We could fit maybe 50 guests crammed around tables in the yard with the food on the deck. Okay if you have a small family and best friends type wedding reception but it would not work for more than that.

Also, music would have to be off by 10pm per the city laws and neighborhood association laws.

Parking would be a logistical nightmare. If cars are not parked in driveways, or along the main road at the top of the neighborhood, they are towed within a few minutes of being parked. The neighborhood pays someone to patrol around and call a tow truck immediately if one is left. They waste no time. Several friends who live here have told me they were towed while unloading groceries in front of the house. This is idiotic so unless you have a big yard and no neighborhood association, you cannot have a backyard wedding in San Antonio.

Now we used to live in some great places around the country where you can have backyard weddings ideas galore. Such as Lagrange near Poughkeepsie, New York. We had a very large lot with 2 driveways for parking. A spring wedding in that backyard would be perfect with all of the beautiful flowers, bushes, and trees in bloom. Tables for several hundred guests could be set up there and there would still be a lot of room for children to play in the swingset area. It was a great yard and all of the yards in that area are huge.

There is no neighborhood association and there are plenty of trees surrounding the property for privacy. I grew up there and the yard was so perfect for parties and hide and seek. The flowers are tremendous there.

Spring flowers could be the theme in the spring. Put buckets of fresh cut flowers on each table for a centerpiece. Each table could have a different type of flower, matching those growing around the yard, from tulips to daisies, to roses, to dogwood, to lilacs, to violets, johnny jump-ups, buttercups, black-eyed susans, daffodils, pansies, and the list goes on and on and on.

In the fall for backyard weddings ideas, each table could be decorated with branches and leaves from a different tree in the yard. There are so many. What a perfect place for a wedding! Anyone who has any creativity at all could come up with fabulous backyard weddings ideas in this yard. I wish my dad had never sold the place.