Centerpieces: Bud vases or a s single arrangement?

TerriandJoe · July 2009

Hi! My reception ideas post! Anyway - I have looked at more websites than I care to count and after figuring the cost, not including labor, the bud vase costs only about $1 more per person than than getting a regular vase with a dozen flowers. So - what do you think about this idea? On a post below I noticed what alot of you are doing for favors, but I didn't see anyone mention a bud vase, so I was wondering why.Do you think this is a good idea? Centerpieces are not included at our venue, so we have to pay for them seperately. We are making a donation to a few charities that have affected our families. And at the end of the evening will have a "to-go"station of most likely cookies and coffee (since most of our guests will be driving home).So would having a bud vase as the centerpiece/ favor idea be too much? Or is it a good idea? Getting mixed reviews from other sources, figured I'd ask others planning a wedding too.Also, if we don't do the bud vases, we would have a single arrangement of flowers on the table. What do we do with it at the end of the night? Have the DJ do some sort of participation event? Or run up to family members and ask if they want the flowers? What's your opinion of the bud vase idea? Or would they be left behind? Or do you think that is it too much ?Thanks in advance!

TerriandJoe · July 2009

Sorry about the confusion! There was no post below about favors - that was on the favors board, but since I can't directly copy and paste, I had to change a few words. and I didn't take out enough.Anyway, to answer howthey would be displayed - they would be grouped in the center of the table. Like a centerpiece. There would just be 5 or 6 per table so at the end of teh night, there would be basically one per couple (or single person).I am not sure that I want to do an anniversary song, it would be a flashback to my sisters wedding. She did that and once the dj got past 30 years, not many couples were left. We would have now a good group to go as high as 35 years, but after that it would be down to 6 couples - 5 of whom were in the top 6 at her wedding. but I will consider it after looking at the years of marriage. Now you have me thinking how to pull that off!I know that the cookies would be counted as a favor - but I was looking at the vases as an additional one, or a centerpiece that could be divided up. Do you really think that people won't take these? Or they would get tossed out? We are donating the decorative flowers that we use at the recption hall to a nursing home or hospital, but since I am spending so much time on focusing on the centerpieces, I kind of want them to go to people who were guests at our wedding.

danieliza1127 · July 2009

Well now that you describe it better, I think it could work.

MOBinFL2008 · July 2009

Now that you've described your idea better, I think it would work. I would take the bud vase but I wouldn't take the coffee cup/mug. I get tons every year from my students and end up either giving them away or tossing them at the end of the school year. The ones I use at home are all matching. I severly dislike random coffee mugs.If you are giving your guests cookies and coffee to go, use the to go cups with lids that you can get at Sam's, BJ's, or Costco.

TerriandJoe · July 2009

Sorry about that! Yes, I meant styrofoam to-go coffee cups and wax paper pastry bags and cocktail type paper napkins! All the type that get thrown away! I just didn't want all the stuff too be too much for people to carry!

TerriandJoe · July 2009

So, it's not too much then?

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