Outdoor ceremony- alternative to arch

we're thinking of doing bamboo arches, D1rty posted an example of that above, here is another idea:

So many great ideas...I think I had the ugly plain white arch in mind that I always see, but some of these are so gorgeous...definitely making me think more creatively!

Awesome ladies- I'm so glad I found pw!

My friends wedding...

~ HMM :)

You can completely cover the plain arch.  This one is a little too much IMO with the flowers on the side too, but I love the idea of draping the fabric to make it more flowy!

What about just hanging twinkle lights or lanterns, etc. in a tree.  Or, like Lori said, you may not want to block out the view of the beautiful river.

My dad is building me something like this...

Here are the instructions

http://www.do-it-yourself-weddings.com/wedding-canopy.html

Mine will have more pink though and I am replacing the front two things altogether or replacing them with something like this...

OK I CANT FIND THE PICTURE DIRTY!!! once you posted a wedding that down the aisle they had HUGE cylinders with submerged flowers and the wate was dyed blue. Can you post it again :) thanks!

Anytway like that but the water would be pink instead of blue

Yay I found it! I looked through a LOT of threads lol

I love the look of the extremely large cylinder vases with colored water and submerged flowers so I am trying to incorporate it up by the alter somehow...

I also found these. Very reasonably priced and would make a great little addition to the arch/aisle decor

http://www.abcdistributing.com/home/catalog/cat_item_pg.asp?G=569&P=370&Rec=1&Ntt=topary&N=35&Nao=0&R=442454-5D22ROS2

ok well the link wont work...as usual so if you search for topary they have the regular ones but also the pink rose ones :)

Heres a picture kinda lol

These have given me such great ideas- I think I'm going to do more of a grape-vine covered arch in more of a squared shape or look about hanging things in the trees...fantastic ideas ladies!