Centerpieces

bellaluna290

Does anyone want to share their centerpieces?

Because of cost, I decided not to do floral centerpieces. I now have no idea what we will be doing for our centerpieces! We are getting married in a restaurant (irishbistro.com), so we don't need anything super lavish.

kellibastien

We are using wine bottles. I took Arbor Mist bottles (because of the frosted glass), cut off the bottom and am painting table numbers on them and putting an LED candle underneath for a beautiful glow. I am also making bows in our 3 colors to tie around the top of them, and alternate between every table. I am also painting a rose on the back of all the bottles. We'll also have other small candles to accompany then in the center of the tables.

dluberts

because of cost I decided to do all my own centerpieces and bought all supply items from dollar tree and michaels. I will be ordering my flowers through sams club. Approx cost for everything is going to be around 400 give or take a little.

kiafocused

I'm going to do pictures, candles, and fake rose petals for centerpieces!  It will be much cheaper than floral and still looks great to me!

http://www.pinterest.com/pin/51298883229393263/

tammym1001

@kiafocused - I think those centerpieces are very pretty.

All your centerpieces sound very nice. As of right now, the plan is to do these centerpieces with votives around them.

pumpkinsandturkeys

I'm a total flower person, so it's flowers all the way for us! FI wanted them in wooden boxes, so we opted for a rectangular shape, and we're going to have garden roses, antique hydrangea, lavender lisianthus, succulents, stock, scabiosa pods, and a bunch of foliage.

klburke88

I'm making my own gold glitter mason jars, and plan on having blush pink peonies in them. I'm also going to have a few tea lights in the middle and table numbers in picture frames. Simple and very cost effective. Plus, making the mason jars is really a lot of fun. 

akopitzke

I also am having issues figuring out centerpieces... my church has this big room full of donated wedding supplies and there are tons of these garden vases (not able to find a picture but they're short, fat, with a vase-like opening at the top?) so hoping to incorporate those somehow.. I really like this idea: http://www.pinterest.com/pin/217439488232740224/ but not sure about finding a large flower in the right color... but definitely using candles as well as they're a lot cheaper than flowers!

Kristen625

@klburke88 (apparently I've been tagging you like crazy today) I LOVE your idea.  I love it so much, I'm just going to have to steal it...only I plan on painting the mason jars silver and then have a glitter bottom.  I may mix it up and do a stripe in the middle or the top to mix it up.  Then I'll add purple flowers to it.  Probably gerbera daisies.

swood9614

Were going with our theme and doing baseball type center pieces.

bellaluna290

@kiafocused those are so cute!
@klburke88 I really like those too! I wonder if I could do that with regular glass vases.

A friend of mine at work does these cute drawings on mini-canvases. I was thinking of having her do a couple for us, but I don't know what else would go with them. Decorating is the hardest part of planning this whole thing!

klburke88

@Kristen625 they're so easy to do! After I spray painted the jars and let them dry, I used mod podge on the bottom half for the glitter. My glitter isn't perfectly even like the one in the picture, but I like the home-made feel of it. They are so incredibly easy to do, and I've seen people do them in gold, silver, black, rose-gold, pink, and red. If you try it, let us know how they turn out!

Kristen625

@klburke88 I plan on giving them a try when it warms up a bit here.  I can't spray paint when it isn't even 10 degrees!   And I have mod podged glitter to glass before, I just haven't spray painted prior.  But like you said, it should be super easy.  I'll probably do it close to spring, cause it shouldn't take me more then a weekend to do all of them.  I do plan on practicing at least once before doing a bunch. 

Soon to Be Mrs Jay

@kiafocused  Your centerpiece idea is pretty. Are they hard to create?

vmj23

I'm doing lantern's with candles in them.   I may still do small flower display - a small/low vase, but nothign elaborate.  

livinlavida123

We're doing something like this: 

http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/originals/85/9b/18/859b18f03026592872d2742aa799e984.jpg

The floral marbles are more expensive, and we have like 12-15 tables, so i'm considering using white landscaping rock. The vases are from ikea like $2-3 each i think. total I think it will cost something like $5-6/table. 

kiafocused

Thanks @tammym1001 @bellaluna290

I'm not sure @Soon to Be Mrs Jay.  I haven't started doing them yet...but shouldn't be too hard, just candles, frames, and fake flower petals.

KittyKaty20

What room are you doing it in?

What time of day is your wedding?

Are either of you Irish?

Do you have a theme in mind?