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Centerpieces
Coming up with wedding decorations can sometimes be hard, especially if you are not hiring a decorator. Here are some reception centerpiece ideas to get you started.
traditional/classy
- Hurricane cylinder filled with sliced citrus fruit, water, and a floating candle
- Hurricane cylinder filled with flowers/flower heads (i.e. hydrangeas, peonies, roses) and water
- Topiaries
- Candelabras
- Leaves plastered around edges of candles
- Wheat stalks or long grasses around edges of candles
- Luminaries-white paper bags with glassine lining and decorative tops and ribbon tied around
- Shallow bowls filled with water and floating flowers (i.e. hydrangeas, roses, peonies), rocks, shells, marbles, petals, candles, or fruit
- Silver platters with flower petals, candles, candy dishes, etc. on top
- Decorative mirrors with flower petals, candles, candy dishes, floral arrangements etc. on top
- Bowls or vases with monochromatic fruit and/or flowers (i.e. red—apples, cranberries pomegranates, roses, etc.)
- Bowls full of fruit (pears, oranges, lemons, limes, apples, grapefruit, etc.)
- Numerous shallow bowls, one with floating flowers, one with floating candles in your colors—looks especially nice on long rectangular tables
- Baskets full of fruit and/or flowers
- Floral spheres
- Painted buckets with decorative stick-on table numbers with floral arrangements inside
- Picture groupings of the couple
- Vases with tree branches/flowering tree branches
- vases filled with seashells—with notes written to the couple thrown inside throughout the reception
- Platter with favors on top
- Square vases wrapped with rice paper and candles inside
- Miniature cakes (in lieu of one large wedding cake)
- Dessert towers
- Hors d’oeuvres towers
- Old wine bottles with drippy candles
- Watering cans filled with flowers—satchels of flower seeds for favors
- Oil lamps
- Wrapped boxes filled with favors
- Porcelain figurines
-Monogrammed letters
- Individual flowers in bud vases (can double as favors)
- Teapots
- Old clocks
Contemporary Style
- Bamboo Plants
- Bonsai Trees
- Glass fishbowl with fish (fish could double as favors)
- Branches with mini Chinese lanterns
- Birdcages
- Vases of glass bowls filled with sand and coral or seashells
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