Wedding planners expect royal wedding trends to inspire Cincy brides

CINCINNATI - There has been a lot of speculation about the nuptials for Britain's Prince William and his wife-to-be Kate Middleton.

Many royal watchers expect the receptions to be over the top with lavish flower arrangements and the best food royalty can buy.

Guests seated around a gold inspired table decorated by Tres Chic Event Planning and Courtenay Lambert Florals will make guests in Cincinnati feel like they're getting the royal treatment the moment they sit down.

There's the cake adorned with jewels, gold appliqué table linens, and even decorated pins in the flowers.

"The first thing you are going to notice is all of the layering. The more you add to a table, the more the price is going to increase. Here you see we have opulent linens layered on top of each other," explained Kristen Kloth, owner of Tres Chic Event Planning in Anderson Township.

To replicate the flowers at the royal wedding could cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, but Courtenay Lambert Florals in Mainstrasse Village in Covington suggests to stay on budget and choose an arrangement that inspires you.

"Create an inspiration board of things that you like and then choose the elements out of that inspiration that are most important to you. Once you pull those elements that are most important to you, whether you are going simple or grand, you can do something beautiful," Lambert said.

The total cost of the table presented by Tres Chic was $4,000, but they say you can do something similar for a lot less.

"The cake itself, if you were to have one cake per table, this would be a thousand dollars. Your chargers and your linens all laid together like this is what's going to push that. On the other hand if you took away some of these elements you could easily achieve a look similar to it, but a little more budget friendly."

Long after the music ends, the cake is eaten and the flowers wilt are the memories captured by your photographer. Wedding photographer Kortnee Kate Miller believes one of the things the royal couple will cherish most are the photographs of their special day.

"Even though they have this amazing status they are just a normal couple that snuggles up together on the couch at night and loves each other and I would want to capture that as well as all the grandiose amazingness of the day," Miller said.

The owner of i-do-weddings says there are several venues in Cincinnati that are similar to Westminster Abbey where Prince William and Kate Middleton will be married on Friday.

Some venues to check out are the Plum Street Temple Downtown, Hyde Park Community United Methodist Church and St. Francis Desales Church in East Walnut Hills.