How to Create Unique Wedding Table Centerpieces

Wedding centerpiece ideas can come from a variety of places--from florists, craft sites, friends, other weddings, photos, and books. There is a wealth of information on wedding centerpieces out there, but there is one important principle everyone can follow when designing a wedding centerpiece: the centerpiece should reflect you as a bride or a couple.

Instructions

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   *How to Display Wedding Centerpieces

   Wedding centerpieces can be placed in a variety of vases, bowls, dishes, planters, and containers. It is definitely possible to create an elegant centerpiece using an unusual container. Even at a formal wedding, centerpieces don't have to be too serious.

   Centerpieces can be beautiful using a variety of objects. Flowers aren't the only thing that can be used--candles, rocks, shells, small objects, glass beads or rocks, water, moss, sand, and wood all work in wedding centerpieces.

   Wedding centerpieces can sit on the table themselves or on top of other objects such as glass, mirrors, fabric, a nest of twigs, fabric (like colorful bandanas, retro prints or elegant solid sheers), paper, or moss. The possibilities are endless when it comes to centerpieces; don't think you have to be traditional. The great thing about them is that you can personalize your wedding without having to take too many risks. While some people make their weddings memorable by choosing unusual songs or dancing up the aisle, you can choose to have a traditional wedding with unique centerpieces. If you are more the traditional type and less of a risk taker, this is the place to express creativity.

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   *How to Create a Personal Centerpiece

   Flowers can be incorporated into personal centerpieces. If a flower has special meaning to you, then use it. If you have always wanted to have pink roses at your tables, then use them but think about using unusual containers to hold them.

   Centerpieces can be created from fruit (cut into flowers, dried or whole), sea shells, drift wood, plants and topiaries, porcelain decorative balls, feathers, flower petals, and gourds. More unusual centerpieces will have a twist to them--they might have a few personal items stuck in them to reflect the couple, or they might be something unconventional themselves.

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   *Ideas for Unusual Wedding Centerpieces

   *Glass bowls or vases filled with Betta fish and plants

   *Record albums you like placed upright in a triangle of three--punch and tie them together on the sides

   *Postcards or photos from travels you've taken or your honeymoon location--these can be in color or black and white. They can be displayed in different sizes of acrylic frames (which are very inexpensive at places like Walmart) for a unique arrangement on the table

   *Photos of the couple in various activities--black and white or color--can also be played in various sizes of acrylic frames for personal centerpieces

   *A mini cupcake stand (available from discount or craft stores) with colorful cupcakes

   *A large glass canister filled with giant fresh-baked chocolate chip cookies or colorful wrapped candies, tied with a piece of 3" wide grosgrain ribbon

   *A bowl or glass canister filled with fortune cookies

   *A cupcake stand with mini spray painted flower pots on each pedestal filled with flowers, candies or a variety of different objects

   *Inexpensive glass vases filled with colored water of varying heights

   *Origami cranes in a variety of sizes attached to thin wooden dowels and placed in a flower pot (floral foam in the bottom) or a vase

   *Bare light wood branches placed in "earthy" pots with floral foam in bottom; cover foam with floral moss--these can also be spray painted in any color or have photos hanging from them or Christmas ornament favors displayed on them

   *Galvanized pails with a large chunk of colorful grosgrain ribbon around them; southern brides can fill with small Coca-Cola bottles and bags of peanuts. Other fillings might include an arrangement of colorful glass bottle sodas (they don't have to be cold--they're just to look at), sand or floral foam and taper candles of varying heights, pinwheels of varying colors and types or they can be stuffed with paper on the bottom and filled with different candies, cookies, or treats

   *A flower pot, tub or container with floral foam on the bottom and various flavors of old-fashioned candy sticks or giant swirl lollipops stuck inside

   *A giant wooden or foam letter representing the couple's last name spray painted any color

   *A centerpiece that displays pride for the city where you met--miniature St. Louis arches, a bowl of baseballs for Chicago, a bowl of matchbox cars for Indianapolis, a bowl of mini bagels for New York. Think about what makes your city unique and go

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   *Holiday Wedding Centerpieces

   Weddings that take place around the holidays can have extra-special centerpieces that include apples, gourds, mini pumpkins and Indian corn for fall, colored eggs or elaborate baskets near Easter, gold wrapped coins near Hanukkah, or wooden candle carousels for Christmas. The possibilities are endless.

5. *Traditional Wedding Centerpieces

   Of course, you are entitled to having a more traditional wedding centerpiece if you wish. A slight twist can make it something different. Here are a few things to think about:

   *Use wildflowers for a fun and beautiful display

   *Have fresh flowers wired and arranged in a row for a more contemporary look (it's something you can do yourself to save money)

   *Have pieces of colorful fabric embroidered with your initials and line your glass vases with them; embroidered ice buckets can work for this too.

   *Find monograms or initialed items and placed throughout the flowers--you can have embroidery places make large buttons that can be attached to wooden dowels. Initial ornaments or decorative letters also work for this.

   There are so many ideas for wedding centerpieces that you shouldn't limit yourself to pink carnations or white roses. Add an unusual twist to make a memorable wedding. To impress guests at any event, the details are the most important thing to pay attention to.