How to Make a Mason Jar Wedding Centerpiece
While unadorned Mason jars add rustic whimsy to garden weddings, covering the jars in tissue paper or fabric transforms them into custom vessels for your centerpieces. Press slices of fresh lemons, limes and oranges against the glass jars for a simple summer arrangement. For a winter wedding, fill them with berries and cinnamon sticks. Decoupage tissue paper, magazine clippings and photographs for "stained glass" candle holders with battery-operated tea lights or use jars tied with colorful ribbon to hold crayons, colored pencils and other art supplies for a kid's table.
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Things You'll Need
- Mason jars
- Ribbon
- Decoupage glue
- Tissue paper
- Scissors
- Fruit
- Berries
- Spices
- Flowers
- Water
- Floral foam
- Floral tape
- Floral wire
- Etching cream
Instructions
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Coordinate your centerpiece style with the overall aesthetic of your wedding. Tying simple raffia bows around the necks of the jars will work better for a rustic or garden theme. Tissue paper "stained glass" or funky etchings and paintings on the jars work best with colorful, quirky weddings.
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Obtain your Mason jars. You can purchase the jars in bulk, ask friends and neighbors for old jars, recycle pasta sauce jars or scour thrift stores for jars of various sizes that you can use for your centerpieces. Colored jars in shades of blue, green and amber mixed with classic clear jars create a shabby chic style for your arrangements. Using clear, uncolored glass jars offers more versatility.
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Decoupage tissue paper, collage clippings or photographs onto the jars. Decoupage simply is the art of affixing colored paper and other decorative items onto an object. Use decoupage glue to affix and seal the images in order to protect them from water damage. Cut or scratch designs into the decoupaged paper to add dimension to the stained glass.
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Fill the jars with water, sand or floral foam. For fresh flowers or fruits, use distilled water to minimize bubbles or tap water to encourage delicate bubbles to cling to submerged fruit slices or berries. Sand, rocks or coffee beans can support manzanita branches, for example. They also can support glittery halo sticks or crayons and markers for non-floral centerpieces that double as entertainment for younger guests. Floral foam supports artificial flowers and can be found at craft supply stores in a variety of colors.
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Tips & Warnings
Puff paint, etching cream or other glass treatments can further customize your centerpieces with your name, monogram, wedding date or a meaningful verse.
Battery-operated tea lights work better than traditional candles if you have flammable objects such as raffia or tissue paper in your centerpieces.
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