Things You'll Need:
- Natural and store bought craft items including:
- Candles
- Twinkling strings of lights
- Wreaths
- Flowers
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Step 1
Choose your winter wedding colors and theme. You might want to go with the traditional red and green of the Christmas season. Similarly, you could choose blues and whites of Hanukkah. A silver and gold theme works nicely at a winter wedding, too. Choosing your colors allows you to look at natural decorating elements to decide which ones you want to use.
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Step 2
Choose a red and green theme if you want to save money. Arrange to use a church during the Christmas week, when it's already decorated. If you schedule your wedding in the days just following Christmas, you can pick up Clearance Christmas items to make your centerpieces. Bustling around and busying yourself with centerpieces in the days before the wedding are a lot more productive than stressing out over your shoes.
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Step 3
Choose cool blues and icy silvers and white wedding colors to take advantage of a temple or synagogue decked out for Hanukkah. In large communities with a population of Jews, you might find discount Hanukkah supplies for making your centerpieces.
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Step 4
Look to nature for decorative elements like white birch branches, make, mold or order icicles or an ice sculpture. Float tea lights in a shallow dish of water for twinkling table decor. White faux fur can be a soft element to add to your decorating.
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Step 5
Consider using a wreath as the base of your centerpiece. Whether it's a cedar, pine or birch branch wreath, it gives you a nice round base of natural materials that can be flocked to look like snow or simply surround a shallow dish of water for floating candles, tiny round glass ball ornaments or red berries.
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Step 6
Fill a sink with water and a little bit of bleach (1/2 cup per gallon) to remove the paint from round Christmas ball ornaments. Hold the ball down into the water so the solution can fill the ball. The bleach will remove the paint. If any of the paint is sticking you can swirl the liquid around in the ball to get it off. When you're done, rinse it out and let it dry. These balls have beautiful reflective qualities and look great strung up with white crystal twinkling lights.
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Step 7
Keep your centerpieces low to encourage table conversations. Your guests might be bothered by having to look around the centerpieces if they're too tall.
