Cheap Wedding Chair Covers

One of the easiest ways to dress up your reception is to make cheap wedding chair covers. You can actually rent beautiful chair covers in a variety of colors that look great, but they cost a lot. If this is not in your budget, you can purchase some decorations and fix up the chairs yourself.You will need a six foot length of tulle per chair. Tulle is that sheer, barely there fabric, similar to netting, but the holes are tinier, that is at so many wedding receptions. The great thing about tulle is that it comes in a variety of pretty colors suitable for any wedding and it makes everything it touches look magical.

I checked at Wal-Mart today and they are selling bolts of 60" tulle in a variety of colors. Most colors are $1.17 a yard, with some of the whites, ivory, and lighter colors dirt cheap at only 97 cents per yard! Can you believe that?

Wrap the tulle around the chair back and tightly tie it in a double knot. Then tie a big bow on the back of the chair. After tying, arrange the tulle so the entire chair back is covered. This looks very pretty as is or you can add some flowers to the chair with a ribbon or a flower holder.

Instead of tulle, you can make cheap wedding chair covers using very wide ribbon tied around the chair back in the same fashion as the tulle above.

For a hanging flower decoration that you put on one side of each chair back, roll a piece of decorated paper into a cone and tape. Poke two holes into the top of the cone, about 1/2 inch down from the top halfway across the cone from each other. Insert a 12 inch length of thin ribbon into one hole and tie in place. Insert the other end of the ribbon in the second hole and tie it as well. Just don't pull the ribbon too tight or the cone will tear. Then drape the ribbon over one side of the chair back and add a few flowers to each cone.

If you are having a beach or tropical-themed wedding, try draping the chair backs with colorful Hawaiian leis. They can be the plastic ones you can find at party stores or the ones made out of silk flowers. The silk flower leis cost a little more but they are very pretty.

Use Christmas garlands to wrap around the chair backs any time of the year. Just be sure that you buy enough garland while it is out at Christmastime or you won't be able to get it at a local store when you need it.

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