Wedding reception centerpiece to make. On a budget, but still want elegance?

I am getting married in a month and cannot find anything I really like. I am making the centerpieces myself. I really like flowers and candles. The reception room has a very romantic feel to it with large wooden beams that are lite up and large stone fire places. The colors are ivory, sage green, gold, and pink. Also, I am getting married outside the location on the water and am arriving in a horse and carriage if anyone has suggestions for the centerpieces that involve either of those. Please help! :)

Wedding reception centerpiece to make. On a budget, but still want elegance?
Find inexpensive mirror tiles, place one in the center of each of your tables. Top with a glass vase (you can buy at walmart for less than $2.00 each), half fill with distilled water, float in a couple of flowers that match your wedding colors and a floating candle. The lights reflected on the mirror will be so beautiful.
Reply:Thanks, that's exactly what I am going to do. Also, I am putting votive candle holders on the mirrors with a couple different size vases. Thanks again! Report It
Reply:I made all of mine, too. Centerpieces, bouquets, all that stuff.



My best advice to you is a visit to your local craft store. (I had pretty good luck at Michael's.) They have all kinds of shapes of floral foam, and some silk flowers you can't tell aren't real. (And so much less expensive than the real thing!)



I'm thinking you could get a trio of really tall candle holders in a gold finish, and some nice nice ivory or sage candles, then surround them with silk flowers in pink, cream, and soft green foliage. Maybe some vine types that you can wind up into the candleholders, too. For your water theme, you can get bags of beach glass (It's frosted from the sand and waves) in a soft sagey color, and use that as kind of an edging.



You may have to trust someone to get this stuff set up at the location for you, but DIYing your flowers saves a pile of money.
Reply:You can buy large glass bowls real cheap at craft stores. Buy bags of flat colored marbles, I would use just one color, maybe green. Then buy floating flower candles, pink sounds pretty. Put layer of marbles in glass bowl add water, put in floating candle. Very elegant. It should cost only $3-$4 per centerpiece. I used to set up weddings and this is a very beautiful and elegant centerpiece.
Reply:We were at a wedding that had some really simple, elegant centerpieces. They were round glass fishbowl type vases about 4-5 inches in diameter. They put some colored stones in the bottom and wrapped some leaves from some grassy plants around the inside of the bowl. The filled the bowl about half way and floated a flower in the vase. They probably cost a couple of dollars a piece to make.
Reply:Well, if you lived anywhere near central Missouri, I would let you use the 30 centerpieces I have in my garage. I bought a glass bowl that is low and kind of flat, added a white small flower candle ring inside and then added a white pillar candle in the center. They were very elegant and didn't cost much at Hobby Lobby. I used three different size of pillars so it make each table kind of look a little different. I have also seen people take this low flat kind of clear glass bowl (it's almost like a smashed fishbowl) and add water with blue food coloring and some floating candles.
Reply:go to flea markets garage sales etc--get brandy snifters of graduated sizes and in the bottom put those glass pieces you can get at any dollar store to match you colors--say maybe gold and clear--put about 1/3 in the bottom of snifter and you could put a pillar candle of matching color--or silk flower or both--you can get a person at a grocery floral place to save the pink and white rose pedals for you and sprinkle them on the tables and to look real elegant you should get clear crystal type taper candle holders and then get your candles at the dollar store (taper) for a little of nothing and have them everywhere--get bud vases and tie a pink narrow width bow around them--and put a single pink rose in each for your tables--get the cloth look white table cloths for your table--most card shops and walmarts carry them--use crystal bride and groom glasses and tie small bow on them==babys breath looks very elegant with the flowers also--you can get small gold horses at a craft store and make a carriage to go with it for a centerpiece Hang bells (walmart) from those wooden beams get a couple of clear vases at yard sales and

flea markets and make a floral arrangement yourself with a few sprigs of fern, baby's breath and roses--roses always look elegant and the green and pink will go with your color motif--be sure to put candles and a centerpiece on the mantle of the Fireplace--also you can make favors using netting from the cloth store or walmart and small ribbon--get the gold hershey kisses and put them in white netting--that would look good--and then get baskets at yard sales, thrift stores or flea markets--spray paint white or gold and glue gun lace around your baskets to hold your favors--dont forget to get some bubbles and some crayon/coloring books etc for the kids who might come! you can get matches that say our wedding day on them--they aren't inscribed but still add that special touch! Also don't forget a guest book (get it at card shop) and a nice pen (goldtone) so that you will remember who all came to your reception-- Hope these ideas are helpful--and Congratulations!

Take some disposable cameras with you and hand them out to your family and ask them to take pictures for you--you can never have enough pictures even if you do have a professional photographer! People will end up getting different shots--things another person might not get! Have fun!

elaine