How to Make Your Own Dinner Chargers for Wedding Receptions

Add a personal touch to your reception by making your own dinner chargers.

A dinner charger is a large, decorative plate that is not meant to touch food directly, but rather is a plate for courses of your meal to be served on. You can create dinner chargers for your wedding reception using elements of nature. Once you have made a charger for each of your wedding guests, place the chargers on the reception tables. Soup, fish, meat or salad courses are generally served on the chargers. You can even allow your guests to take their chargers home as wedding favors.

Things You'll Need

• Pencil
• Cardboard
• Scissors
• Sun-dried corn husks
• Hot glue gun

Instructions

1. Stencil the shape you want your dinner chargers to be by drawing it onto a piece of cardboard with a pencil. You may want to trace around the actual plate that will be used at the wedding reception and make the cardboard stenciling slightly larger.

2. Using scissors, cut along the edges where you stenciled your charger shape.

3. Separate and flatten strips of sun-dried corn husks.

4. Cut the corn husks into sections that are 1 1/2 inches long. The width of each section will vary.

5. Glue each corn husk section that you cut out onto the cardboard charger base using a hot glue gun. Start at the outer edge and work your way inward like a coil. Overlap each piece slightly so that no cardboard shows through.

Tips & Warnings

• Pair this dinner charger look with a fall or nature wedding theme.

• You will likely need the husks of one ear of corn for each dinner charger you create.

References

• Bellenza: Make Eco-Friendly Plate Chargers for Your Place Settings Using Corn Husks
• Manners International: Table Manners-Tip # 208