When you close your eyes, do you picture a wedding full of soft, enchanting light? Create DIY wedding decorations that light up the night as you and your guests dance until dawn with 33 Ways to Create Magical Wedding Lighting. There are tons of options to achieve beautiful DIY wedding lighting, and we have compiled the best of the best just for you. From flickering candles to elegant chandeliers and string lights, you will find the DIY wedding lighting of your dreams here. We even included a bonus section for you brides searching for the brightest and the boldest DIY wedding lighting crafts. Scroll down to find inexpensive and easy ways to light up your dream wedding.

33 Ways to Create Magical DIY Wedding Lighting

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Incandescent Candle Crafts

How to Make a Charming Chandelier

DIY Suspended String Lights

Lovely DIY Wedding Lanterns

BONUS! The Brightest and The Boldest

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Incandescent Candle Crafts

When people catch sight of the clusters of flickering candles lighting up your reception tables, everyone will be awe-struck. Candles can be a delicate touch that adds gorgeous and romantic light to your special evening. All you have to do is light them up and watch the flames dance merrily as everyone laughs and enjoys your event.

• Regal Rose Tea Lights

• Literary Jam Jar Tea Lights

• Tea Cup Candles

• Chalkboard Mason Jar Candle Centerpiece

• Fresh Carved Apple Candle

• Romantic Woodland Faux Birch Lanterns

• Brilliant Personalized Paper Bag Luminaries

How to Make a Charming Chandelier

If you are looking for intricate DIY wedding lighting that is inexpensive and easy to assemble, you need a luminous chandelier to help shed some light on your reception or ceremony.  Your guests will marvel at how gorgeous these handmade chandeliers look. Suspended lights also allow you to create widespread lighting throughout your event.

• Remarkable Rustic Wedding Chandelier

• Hanging Mason Jar Chandelier Planks

• Elegant Silhouette DIY Chandelier

• Rustic Wedding Mason Jar Chandelier

• Wispy Yarn Chandelier

• How to Make a Paper Flower Chandelier

• Mason Jar Candle Chandeliers

• Drifting Leaves Fall Wedding Chandelier

DIY Suspended String Lights

Suspended DIY wedding lighting is all the rage right now, and it definitely creates an amazing scene. These lights will transform your ceremony and reception into a fairytale.  Your guests will admire your handcrafted, enchanting DIY wedding lights all night long. These lights are more involved because they are suspended above your ceremony or reception set-up, but the effect they create makes them worth the work.

• Dripping in Diamonds Outdoor Lighting

• Suspended Outdoor Wedding DIY Lighting

• Evening Glow Hanging Votives

• Cute Cafe Lights

• Whimsical Mini-Fabric Lamps

• Glowing Grapevine Orbs

• Cascading Mason Jar Lantern

• Filled with Fragrance Flower Pendant Light

Lovely DIY Wedding Lanterns

Lanterns provide easy DIY wedding lighting options. You can hang them around the church or reception venue to create a soft light that encloses your party. Your guests will love the intimate and lovely lantern lighting. You can create lantern centerpieces to shed more light on the meal and conversations. These DIY wedding decorations are a great choice if you are looking for small hanging lights.

• Sparkling Winter Wedding Mason Jar Lanterns

• Doily Lanterns

• Summer Cottage Mason Jar Lantern

• Vintage Wedding Paper Lantern

• Frosted Pinecone Mason Jar Lights

• Fire and Ice Lanterns

Are you planning a wedding straight out of a fairytale? If you answered yes, then check out this stunning collection of DIY wedding ideas: Wedding Themes: Fairytale Wedding.

BONUS! Electrify the Night

Light up your wedding photos and reception hall with these bold electric wedding signs.

• Lovely Lighted Welcome Canvas

• Modern Marquee Heart

• DIY Light Up the Night Letters

• Glowing Mason Jar Wedding Sign