Description
Most people who style a wedding table start with the flowers. That is why so many tablescapes end up as a pile of lovely items that do not quite work together, cost more than they should, and block the view across the table.
The Tablescape Guide gives you the framework professional stylists use instead. You learn to decide the story first, choose your star element, then let everything else support it. Once you can explain why a table works, you can sell it to a client, brief a florist, and repeat it wedding after wedding.
What is inside
- How to think like a designer before you touch a single vase
- The six elements of design, explained for tables
- The six principles that combine them, including the scale and proportion rules for centrepieces
- The eight golden rules of tablescaping, in the order you should make each decision
- Centrepiece placement and candle arrangement guidance
- Accessory rules that always work, and the mistakes to avoid
- A printable design brief worksheet for client meetings
- A table by table spec sheet and a feature table planner
- Tableware checklist, place setting quick tips and a styling kit list
- A six step set-up order for the day itself
Who it is for
Wedding stylists and planners building a styling arm of their business, event designers who want a repeatable process, and anyone styling their own wedding who wants it to look considered rather than collected.
After you use it, you will walk into a venue with a written brief, a spec sheet for every table and a kit that covers you. Your set-ups get faster, your quotes get more accurate, and your photographs finally look like the work you want to be booked for.
What’s inside
- Elements and principles of design for tables
- The eight golden rules of tablescaping
- Centrepiece placement and height rules
- Candle and lighting guidance
- Printable client design brief
- Table by table spec sheet
- Tableware and styling kit checklists
- Set-up order for the day
