Florals are an absolute must for a sweetheart table. This is going to be the focal point of the room. This is going to be where all your toasts happen. It might be in the background for your dancing, really. This is like an intimate moment for photos of you and your spouse. So I absolutely think florals are a necessity. However, there’s some ways you can either bring in, like, your ceremony arch behind it to kind of frame you. If there’s any floral pieces from the floor from ceremony, you can move those in front of the table. Your bridal bouquet can sit on there. You can have a couple of different bouquets from your bridesmaids on there. There’s a lot of ways to reuse florals for your sweetheart table. This is something that doesn’t need to be set up beforehand, so you can use all those ceremony florals for that. But I do think it absolutely needs to have some kind of center focal point just because there’s going to be a lot of photos of the two of you photographed there. And it just going to be really like a wow factor, especially during toast, those photos can be kind of boring, but I think adding that element really just elevates the experience.

Do not, do not sprinkle your floral budget around. So what I mean by that is when you start working on the design aspect of your wedding and you start thinking about a budget for just that. And maybe it’s not exactly where you want it to be, but that’s okay because what you don’t want to do is sprinkle the budget around. You don’t need to have flowers and candles and design in all areas of your Sarah ceremony or reception space. What I usually recommend is taking a large portion of that budget and putting it into one big dramatic bang. So let’s say you’re going to do a beautiful bar as you first walk into the reception and you decide to do a large dramatic floral kind of emerging from the center of that bar that’s giving you the big bang factor, right? The guests walk in, it’s kind of the wow. And it actually could very easily becomes an instagram moment for all of your guests. That’s what you want to do. You want that big bang factor rather than sprinkling the budget all the way through. And it kind of then feels like you really didn’t do much of anything because it’s kind of evenly spread out, right? You really don’t have a lot of impact anywhere. Maybe in those other areas you do lots of candles and maybe accent with rose petals, something a little simpler because we know we’ve had a big bang and that’s what people are going to really remember and talk about. So just keep that in mind when you start to work on your design.