Posted on February 2, 2010.
What are the central ideas of marriage cheap? I married a blue and brown, possibly with a little pink and / or orange thrown here and there. What ideas inexpensive centerpiece that could incorporate these? Has anyone found some very good sites for this? Thank you!
I made my own and they cost centers under my $ 15 per table. To save money go with something that uses candles instead of flowers. Flowers can add up quickly (even if you plan to buy and organize them yourself) and candles are great because they really set a romantic mood for your tables.
I have all my candlesticks dollar store. I used a large glass vase 9 "on each table that was $ 1.50 each. And then four smaller, 6" vases, which were $ 1 each. The great that we are glass flakes of gold in the bottom and filled with water and had a candle floating in dark red (our wedding colors were gold, silver and dark red). The glass flakes were in a kitchen store and cost $ 4 a tub that filled 2-3 vases, and candles are so cheap handicrafts, household or Ikea stores (I had most of my candles from Ikea, great prices on this kind of thing).
For smaller pots I made vellum covers so they looked like lanterns custom. I printed some on my computer with the table numbers on them and then used the double-sided tape to adhere them to the outside of the vase. I Tealights jumbo Ikea (24 $ 8) for the bottom. Everyone thought it was a very unique way to display the table numbers, as part of the central screen. I had two lanterns on each table number table and two lamps customized with our initials on them. (We had long tables rectangular, not round, but I think the same could work with round tables, too.)
To do custom lanterns, I used a rubber stamp of a series Martha Stewart Crafts, that comes with the letters to personalize. So I just used red ink to stamp each piece of tape and wove those on the vases. They looked really pretty! And we used the stamp for our programs and the baker had to emulate the design for the cake, if everything is tied together very well.
This is what the tables and lanterns like:
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It would be easy to incorporate your colors with these types of ideas, because you just use the right colors for candles, sand for vases, ink, etc. I got the idea for lanterns vellum the Martha Stewart Weddings site, and they even print models with patterns to print directly on the vellum, instead of using rubber stamps. I know that blue and orange were popular with pictures of her magazine last year, so I think some models even come in orange and blue from your printer!
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Again, all the tables cost less than $ 15 each. We had 8 tables, so it was just $ 100 for table decoration ... and he looked so good, people would certainly not think that we did not spend much money on the decor!
Good luck!
If you are looking to save money I would come with something you buy and put in place yourself. The centerpie.
