Any creative and inexpensive idea for a wedding center piece?

My wedding is in two weeks! My colors are chocolate, champagne and a rusted orange is my accent color and the color of my flowers. I'm also using hydrangea in my bridesmaids bouquet, the tables are round. Any suggestions?
Any creative and inexpensive idea for a wedding center piece?
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I had them and they look great.

Mix the colours and textures and use ribbon to decorate.

You can make weights with fancy glass bottles filled with sand, rocks covered in material or paper etc

Trust me !
Reply:Edible fruit centre piece.
Reply:I agree with the floating candles idea. put the glass bowl with water and floating candles on a mirror in the center. Then scatter some tealights around that. Very romantic.
Reply:Go to your local arts and crafts store (or even Walmart), buy a glass bowl, fill part way with water and float some blooms in the water. Much less than a typical florist arrangement. If the bowl is shallow enough you can also put a pillar candle in it. Check out the neat centerpieces (figure h) they did on Design on a Dime wedding, link below.



Another good idea is to buy a bunch of different types of tea light holders. They're usually .50 to $1 a piece and scatter them in the middle of the table. They can also be used as favors if you put one for each person in the middle.



I also loved Teekay's first idea. All of her ideas are good actually.
Reply:A good friend of mine went to Hobby Lobby and purchased small canisters to use for a centerpiece. We painted them her colors and then filled them with flowers that were the color of her accents. Plastic fruit is also a cheap, inexpensive way to decorate as well. A really cute idea I saw on DIY Network was to take a clear "floating candle" holder and fill it with tea-stained sprite. It gives the illusion of champagne but without the alcohol that can be dangerous to the candle. Place your colored candle in the center and lite! Spread some chocolate bars that have been broken up around it and you have a cute, romantic, and partially edible centerpiece!



Good Luck, Best of Wishes!
Reply:here is great find for you to use as an center piece.

http://www.uniquewedingfavors.com/index....
Reply:get little glass dishes at Michaels and put floating candles in it with little rocks or gems in your colors in the bottom. its really cheap and looks nice. good luck.
Reply:i work in a functions department...i've seen some great cetrepeices and i've seen some awful ones...

if you want to go simple: go with candles - maybe three: a large (either really fat or a slightly wide one but tall) chocolate one, a smaller champagne one and an even smaller orange one...stagger them....whatever you think looks nice...

you could even make the sizes and different for each table...like a middle sized chocolate and a large champagne? i've seen some where people have put them on small round mirrors



you could buy some nice vases (from a discount store) and fill it with feathers of the right colours/funky shaped and coloured sticks/flowers...if you're crafty you could make something to go in the vases



heck you could even do some really nice bowls filled with chocolate or something





one wedding i did had a sqaure dish filled with sand in the in the middle there were 4 or 5 chop sticks which were tied up the top by a ribbon and then stood up in the sand by moving the chop sticks like legs
Reply:Well I'd love to see what your arrangments look like as I was going to use the same colors.

I was going to use gerbera daisies as my flowers and just make a "nature-like" floral arrangement with twigs, dried flowers and dried berries. My wedding is going to be in the fall of next year. You can also log onto the brides.com, theknot.com and other bridal planning sites and they usually have pictures of other peoples weddings on there and you can get some ideas. Also try Michael's ( or any other craftstore) for ideas.

You can do the glass bowl's, but they can get expensive. You can try just a basic pillar candle and hurricane with dried flower and ribbon around.

Keep your eyes open for sales for these items and most times you get them for next to nothing.

Good luck!!
Reply:How about a nice candle centered on the table with pedals of flowers around it.
Reply:a floating candle, they are gorgeous!!!

use a glass bowl, your banquet hall should be able to provide, fill with 1/2 water, place floating candles {I suggest 1-3 depending on the size of the bowl} on top of water.....

If you want, place decorative clear stones in the bottom of the bowl. Your colors sound pretty, that will leave a wide choice of floating candle colors, I would suggest tan or white!
Reply:If your table linens are cream you can add a small square of chocolate fabric (1/2 yard or so from your local store) in the middle and then another smaller square of the orange. Add three to five cream candles of varying sizes on a pretty plate in the middle. (Vary according to your linens -- chocolate with cream and then orange)



Tie with pretty gold wired ribbon or leave free. If you like you can place them lengthwise instead of huddled together. Add some gold twirly pieces, hydrangea petals, and scattered crystal rocks on the table. Maybe some pretty twigs tucked in here and there, some greenary.



Or you can use tulle under the candle plate -- just bunch it up. Tulle always looks romantic and soft and is cheap. Just figure out the size you want, buy wide width's and cut!



All cream tables look lovely %26amp; elegant too -- cream linens, tulle, clear candle plate, cream candles, cream ribbon, and then maybe just a hint of color with the hydrangea petals sprinkled round.



Pretty, simple and cheap!
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