16 Elegant DIY Wedding Arch Ideas Every Bride Will Love
Create a DIY wedding arch for your big day. These stunning decor ideas are sure to make your special day spectacular. A beautiful wedding arch can anchor an outdoor ceremony and serve as a photo backdrop. Read on for our favorite DIY wedding arches you can use to get inspired and create elegant structures that align with your own personal style.
Bohemian Arch
Choose a DIY wedding arch like a wooden triangle for a rustic and bohemian themed wedding. The wood is simple to bind together. What really makes this arch beautiful is the carefully arranged bouquet of flowers adorned on the legs. This arch reminds me of a picture frame that will help attendees zoom in on the bride and groom as the seal their vows with a kiss with an amazing view in the backdrop.
Floral Forest Arch
This DIY wedding arch is easy to construct with materials you can find in your backyard. For those getting married and always dreamed of exchanging vows in the woods, here’s the next best thing. You can bring the forest to your backyard instead of dragging your family and friends through rocky terrains by creating this arch and adding petals of your favorite white flowers to line the aisle.
Rustic Wedding Arch
Go rustic with a DIY wedding arch that is full of simple earth colors that embody nature-inspired textures. Here, it’s not just the flowers that add depth and dimension but also the branches that make up the essence of tranquil country-life living.
Fall Floral Wedding Arch
This DIY wedding arch is perfect for a fall wedding. The orange and purple flowers are just the touch of autumn needed for a September or October ceremony. For a nice contrast, add evergreen leaves to the flower bouquet or a draped copper runner wrapped around the wooden arch frame.
Goth-Inspired Arch
What better way to celebrate one of life’s biggest milestones than near a body of water. With this DIY wedding arch, you easily transport it to any body of water, big or small. The dark colors will give you all the right moody, romantic-gothic vibes that will look amazing in pictures especially if the weather is a little less than ideal.
Blooming Flowers Wedding Arch
This DIY wedding arch is perfect for spring when flowers are in full bloom. Spring represents new beginnings, so what other way to start a new chapter in your life than getting married under this wedding arch. The arch can even serve as the entranceway inside a garden or park to usher and guide guests to the secluded point in the grounds where the ceremony will take place. Then later becomes the backdrop for all the bridal party pictures.
Wild Flower Arch
Pretty flower arrangements can get very expensive. Choose instead to create a DIY wedding arch with hand-picked sunflowers to bring warmth and a bright pop of color to your wedding. Sunflowers can work for both summer and fall weddings.
Copper Arch
A minimalist dream come true! Choose unique and feathery flower arrangements to adorn a simple copper arch that is perfect for laid back couples who believe less is more. This DIY wedding arch is both simple and aesthetically pleasing to the eye.
Colorful Outdoor Arch
The best DIY wedding arch is the one you actually don’t have to build. Ever dream of getting married under a gazebo? You can transform an ordinary gazebo with bright and colorful flower arrangements in variations of pink, red, and purple carnations or roses.
Beachside Wedding Arch
This simple floral arch was created with the help of peonies and roses. Add white drapery for an elegant wood structure that will stand tall in the sand.
Minimalist Wedding Arch
Capture natural light indoors with this white and gold canopy. Hang three gold rings from the ceiling to intertwine the drapery from the ceiling to create an arch over the couple.
Paper Parasol Wedding Arch
Any artist will enjoy this DIY wedding arch that is simply created out of paper parasols. Whether you are looking for something to keep the sun off or a stylish and creative prop for weddings, parasols are a great and creative way to add color and uniqueness to any ceremony or reception. There’s no wrong way to arrange this wedding arch, just make sure to choose parasols in various colors, patterns, and sizes for a quirky and fun-filled wedding day.
Vintage Wedding Arch
I can’t picture anything more hopelessly romantic than having rustic wooden doors as a makeshift wedding arch. For this DIY wedding arch, twisted vines and pink roses are all you need for this fairy tale inspired structure.
The Never-ending Story Wedding Arch
The perfect wedding arch for any book lover. You can have your typical flower-adorned arch with all of your favorites flowers and greenery. But what makes this arch so unique is the carefully lined novels molded together to form this gorgeous DIY wedding arch. If these books could talk, I’m sure they’ll say your marriage will last just like the words printed in each of these novels.
Purple Rain Inspired Wedding Arch
If you are a fan of Prince or just like the color purple, this DIY wedding arch might be perfect for you. Back in the day, purple was the symbol of royalty. It’s only fitting that you should feel like a queen walking down the aisle to your future surrounded by a pink and purple bouquet of intoxicating flowers. Bring balance, by choosing all-white décor, such as white folding tables to not over-whelming the senses.
All White Wedding Arch
Exchange vows under a romantic canopy flanked by gorgeous bouquets filled with baby breaths and eucalyptus.
