Flower Ideas for Wedding Tables
Most brides dream of their wedding with lots of beautiful flowers. Flowers set the tone of the wedding from formal to fanciful. Whether your budget is tight or extravagant there are lots of ways to use flowers to create a festive mood that's just right for the picture-perfect wedding.
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Masses of Flowers
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Flowers in large quantities look extravagant but the flowers themselves don't have to be expensive. Fluffy clouds of baby's breath, their vases wrapped in netting and tied with a bow, provide color from the netting and bow and an ethereal quality from the baby's breath.
One large bowl of carnations with two smaller bowls on each side make a lovely centerpiece. Carry the theme through by placing a carnation by each place setting using a votive candle holder as a mini vase. Other flowers that work are roses, gerbera daisies and peonies.
Unusual Containers
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Reflect the season in the wedding flowers by using unusual containers. Hollow out a pumpkin and fill with red, bronze and gold mums. Nothing is more springlike than daffodils and tulips. Hollow out large green apples. Place a votive candle holder inside the apple as a vase for short-stemmed spring flowers. Put a few tall wine glasses in the center of the table, surrounded by shorter wine glasses. Put an apple vase in each glass.
Flowers arranged in the bottom of round fish bowls would be perfect for a beach-themed wedding. Borrow 5-gallon aquariums. Place a shallow floral arrangement in the bottom of the aquarium. Spread salt to mimic beach sand and strew a few seashells around the floral arrangement.
Tiered
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Make a tiered flower arrangement by using wine glasses half filled with water with a single blossom floating in the glass. Place a clear glass plate on top of those wine glasses and arrange three more glasses with flowers floating on top. Circle the wine glasses with more flowers that have just been placed on the plate and among the wine glasses. They won't be out of water long enough during the wedding and reception to wilt.
Fruit
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Use fruit as part of the floral arrangement. Push wooden skewers partially through small oranges, apples, lemons and limes and arrange among the flowers. Wire a cluster of grapes to a skewer and drape them over the side of the vase. Slice citrus fruit and push them down the sides of a glass vase to hide the stems of the flowers and add a pop of color.
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