Help! The curtains and carpet are hideous!

If you don't love the venue you may want to consider looking at others. But if you are staying there, you can rent a dancefloor for the center of the room and cover some of the carpet. You could also choose wedding colors that manage to complement the ugly green somehow so it doesn't look so bad? You can only distract so much from curtains though. Will the venue let you take them down for the day and just have a lot of light?

Consider pipe and drape to cover the curtains? Or have them completely open and tied back?

Sarah C's idea about the dance floor will also work nicely. I also agree that if you don't like the venue, get another. You can always go there to take pictures and capture the view, but try to find a place that you can afford that will not require a lot of decorations. That adds lots of money if you have to "remake" the venue. I passed on a few places because of this very issue.

The dance floor is already in there actually, and yes, it does cover a good amount. I will ask about the taking the curtains down. The venue comes with a wedding planner. I will post some pictures of some events that were done there. it's a very beautiful place for a good cost... it's just the damn curtains that are the big problem. the floor can be dealt with, but the curtains... oh the curtains... lol

The very best advice i have gotten on selecting a venue -- is realize that you have to work with what is there... and the best way to be happy and have the event you want - is to find a location that already works with your style / colors / feel. you will make yourself crazy and spend thousands of dollars trying to make it over.

if you have that big a reaction to the curtain / carpet -- i hate to say it... but this may not be your venue. you need to fall in love with the place -- not just the price.

i would definitely talk to them and see what the options are - and look at images from other events... pipe and drape is an option for sure -- can you pull them back at all? maybe at least minimize them... if you get any pics, post them and see what we can come up with. )

Here are two couples that pulled it off nicely:

http://studio-eternity.com/myblog/tag/wedgewood-wedding-photograper/

http://studio-eternity.com/myblog/tag/wedgewood-wedding/

And here are some other basic pictures of the place. THe curtain on the stage lights up and is very pretty, so I am thinking we'll put the sweetheart table up there.

These people seemed to make the ''green'' theme work for them nicely... lol I just don't want green...

You might notice.. the carpet and curtains look very dark in the pictures... almost black sometimes... I think if the lights are turned down and you have candles on the table you will be fine..... but I will find you some up lighting pictures so you get the idea of that too...

What colors were you thinking? black, white red, right?

And here is an example of the light up background for a sweetheart table:

Hayley C: yes, black, white and red. and yes, i have been starting to notice how dark they look, which was why i was thinking maybe the decor would be a nice distraction.

I saw you comment on the other post... did you already order your invites? If not, you could still move your ceremony to the same venue if it would save you money....

and those chair are pretty neutral... I don't think you need to cover them.. put your money elsewhere.

Well, the ceremony and the reception are both at the same place. the ceremony is just outdoors, and then we would go right into the reception which is on the same grounds, like right there. and no, we have yet to order invites. They have given us a free ceremony, which is about 300 dollars off. so that is good and does save some money, which i was actually going to put into the chair covers! lol

but i'm not sure yet. i am going to go look today probably with my fiance to see what he thinks about the whole thing. We do have one more option for a venue, but it also has some HUGE down sides.

Out door ceremony will be very pretty... that is nice that they threw that in....

Skip the chair covers... the white chairs are nice... spend the money on colored table linens or a runner if you want a dramatic table.

I agree with Hayley. Don't use chair covers. Spend the money in another area.

With the curtains drawn it doesn't look that badly.

Our venue is laid back, so our decor had to be laid back, with just a touch of casual elegance.

The one thing I told my daughter about picking her venue, choose your colors around your venue, especially if she had her heart set on a certain venue(which she does). This way there is no clash, and no expense on draping.

I wouldn't worry about it. Your guests really aren't going to notice the color of carpeting or the color of the drapes. They will notice the uplighting, your decorations - so go with what you want. It's going to be dark enough in there and the drapes in the pics look pretty dark as it is, so I think you'll be able to pull it off. You get enought of black/white/red in there and that's all people are going to see.

Thanks so much for all the help girls I am going to go look at it again today and take my camera so i can get a whole ton of pictures to show y'all and my FH as he works too often to come see it, lol.

I'm so worried about that actually! He says it's ok with him as long as i love it. I'm just not used to making huge decisions without him! lol

I have a similar problem - carpet and chairs are this dark red I do NOT like. We are just going to dim the lights and that makes a huge difference in the viewing of the room.

When you said it was awful I was picturing like a light green or an olive color - the dark green that it looks like in the photos shows up pretty dark in photos so I wouldn't worry too much. Have the curtains drawn back and no one will notice the carpet. Think of it this way... the curtains and carpet could be that institutional pink/salmon color that so many banquet venues have and then you'd really have a problem! Try not to over think and just make sure you have the pops of color in your decor and no one will notice.

Well, here is the thing about the chair covers: They do make it look a lot nicer and they really do add to the mood, however, I could save a TON of money, at least a few hundred if i don't have them and I'm sure that would work nicely toward something else. Here is what my theme/style/decor is going to resemble:

p.s. we may not end up having uplighting, so keep that in mind as well.

Also... here are some more of my ideas: i really like the damask thing with a little red added in there. The invitations that i'm probably going with also have the damask on them, lol