Original Wedding Reception Ideas

If you are looking for some original wedding reception ideas, this is the page for you. I have good ideas for you to try. Perhaps one of them will spark your creative energy and you will think of even better things to do for your reception. If so, please share them here.

My first idea is for a reception in a rented tent. As long as you have a tent, why not have a circus theme wedding reception? Put up circus animal posters and large stuffed animals that you would see at a circus. Use centerpieces that reflect the circus such as a collection of porcelain clowns, porcelain circus animals, or merry-go-rounds.

Have a cotton candy making booth and a movie popcorn cart, both manned with someone to make the cotton candy on sticks and popcorn served in red and white striped bags and hand them out.

A snowcone machine would be great as well as an ice cream stand.

Circus wedding favors could be bags of peanuts in shells. Place cards can be cut-out paper elephants with the names of the guests handwritten on them.

Another one of my original wedding reception ideas is to have an Asian themed reception. Brightly wrapped chopsticks and fortune cookies with the wedding guests' names written on them could be put across each plate. A large Asian buffet could be set up. There are so many great Asian dishes to serve. I would serve a variety of egg rolls, along with some sweet and sour dishes, like sweet and sour pork, beef, and chicken and lemon chicken.

Make sure that you serve regular iced tea as well as hot green tea in tea cups.

Decorate the space with cherry blossom branches and white twinkle lights. Asian fans and parasols can be hung on the walls or placed on tables. Hang paper lanterns above the tables. Create floating candle centerpieces on each table. Bamboo plants would also make good centerpieces.

How about a tropical island theme for the third of my original wedding reception ideas? Put up large island cut-outs of palm trees, coconuts, birds, lizards, turtles, and sea creatures. Decorate tables with orchids. They can be silk as real orchids are very costly. Use floating candles in bowls as well.

Serve seafood and shrimp kabob appetizers. Give everyone a coconut favor with each guest's name written on it. This doubles as a place card. Have waiters or your friends who are servers dress up in Hawaiian style clothes.

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