What are some good ideas for original and not to expensive ideas for wedding centerpieces?
April 17, 2009 by Unique Wedding Ideas
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I am getting Married next year and I’m just starting to plan my wedding. My Fiance’ and I are at the begging stages of planning, but we are looking for ways to plan an elegant reception on a budget. Just to get the ball rolling I was hoping that maybe someone would have a good suggestion for creative and preferably cheap wedding centerpiece ideas. Please let us know what we could do for a dressed up look that won’t break our bank!
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I am getting Married next year and I’m just starting to plan my wedding. My Fiance’ and I are at the begging stages of planning, but we are looking for ways to plan an elegant reception on a budget. Just to get the ball rolling I was hoping that maybe someone would have a good suggestion for creative and preferably cheap wedding centerpiece ideas. Please let us know what we could do for a dressed up look that won’t break our bank!
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Weddings Feedback: Candles
Weddings Feedback: I found gazebos on ebay and paid $80 for 10 of them then decorated them myself. total cost… about $100 for 8 centerpieces…..the bridesmaid’s flowers will be used for the head table……floating candles are also a good idea…
Buy a glass bowl and fill with water…you can put colored stones at the bottom to relfect your wedding colors, buy two floating candles for each and put a fresh flower or two in it as well….then maybe put two tapers on each side and sprinkle silk (or fresh) rose petals on the table around it… VERY elegant and if you shop right (dollar stores, walmart and walmart) it’ll probably work out to $5-$10 a table.
Weddings Feedback: Have a really simple vase, and place only two single flowers in there on each table. This will be romantic and beautiful as it represents you and your fiance. It would be very inexpensive and also very elegant to do things this way. You could place a few small candles around the flowers as well, to give it something extra special. Personally, I would choose something like this, no matter what kind of budget I had, large centrepieces look tacky and overdone.
Congratulations and good luck with your wedding!
Weddings Feedback: To use less but make it look more… Get mirror squares and use them as your base. then have a couple different candle holders of your choice and the candles. Place them on top of the mirrors. them get gems of your choice and place strategically.
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Use medium size bowls. Take flowers with decent length stems and swirl them on the inside of the bowls. fill with water and use floating candles.
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Here is my centerpiece. Medium to large candle holders. filled 1/4 with sand. Candle in middle. shells starfish and sand dollars place inside with candle.
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Look at your dollar store for the candle holders and such.. That is where I got a lot of my items for cheap and they look great.
Weddings Feedback: me and my fiance had a budget too.
What we did was get a bunch of glass bowls, bought bulk at a discount, a bunch or round mirrors, and a sloo of floating candles.
Then, we filled the bowls with water. Set them on the mirrors on the tables, floated the candles in the bowls, and for the finishing touch, rose petals in our wedding colors across the piece. It made the room sparkle, it was simple and elegant, and everyone complimented them.
Weddings Feedback: The mirrored tile on the bottom…Check. The small glass bowl…Check. But instead of filling it with a flower or a candle or two, fill it with water and add a goldfish. Or spice it up and add a Beta (Fighting Fish). My friend even bough little rubber duckies to float on the water. You can add pedals or decorative stones on the glass too. It gives people at the table something to talk about during all the humdrum moments of a wedding reception. Plus the kids get to take the fish, the rubber duckies and the bowls home with them when they leave. Keeping the little ones happy is very important at a wedding reception. Cheap and easy too.
Weddings Feedback: If we would have had a regular reception, I wanted to use fish bowls with a beautiful beta fish in them. This would have been a conversation piece, and I would have told people they could take them home to enjoy. It would have cost about $5.00 a table,and wouldn´t have died as fast as flowers do.
Weddings Feedback: We are getting married in less than a month and our budget was small too. We decided to get some round serving trays and fill them with dinner mints. Then surround them with tea-light candles and glitter and confetti. Very cute!
Weddings Feedback: Theme it. A very cheap but still elegant theme is “Perfect Pair”.
For centerpieces do a mix. Have a few that are submerged pears with candles floating on top. Lower centerpieces you can turn a cake pan or baking pan upside down (your own and borrow from family. Cover it in moss and wrap a ribbon around the bottom. On top set pears and accent with a few blossoms.
Don’t do the fishbowls…I have been to several receptions that have them and it sounds nice in theory but there is nothing that will ruin your appetite more than a dead fish in a bowl.
Weddings Feedback: we saved money on centerpieces and the wedding cake. we got a smaller wedding cake and had cakes on every single table. they were all a different flavor, some carrot, red velvet. We bought these cute picture holders to put on the cakes and got black and white pictures done of me and my husband, all different. we made the cakes at home, the picture frames cost $1 each (so about 14 bucks) and the pics cost about 49 cents at walmart. people had more choices on what to have for dessert. we offered some of the cakes to other people when they left.
and the thing is, they can fit your theme. if you are having a garden theme, make the cakes decorated with flowers and butterflies.
It was so much cheaper than flowers and it made the guests happy, the ones who did not share my love of chocolate.
oh, also, as part of the centerpieces, we bought clear dishwear to hold the cakes up ( a large plate, an ice cream dish, then a small plate)
Then i got to keep them as my dishes. so almost nothing was wasted 
Weddings Feedback: Hopefully there is a Joanne’s and Michael’s around you….get on their email/mailing list and you get half off coupons all the time. You usually cant use them on more than one item, so make your friends/co-workers get on the lists too, then all go shopping. I was able to get 10 mirror plates at Michaels for about 25 bucks, and then 10 vases at Joannes for 5 bucks each. Then I went to a wholesale florist and bought 50 light pink and 50 dark pink roses for 60 bucks. Less than $100 bucks and it looked really nice.