Making my own table decorations - Help, please!

smileysheep

Hello All,

I have my wedding booked for 15th August 2009 and am trying to organise things while I have some time off work. I am not a flowery person and so am hoping to have candles as my table decorations. I have found some super storm vases in Ikea (£7.49) and now need champagne/gold sand/gravel to sit the candels in and some cheap, reliable church candles to go in them ... i am then getting the florist to surround them in Ivy ...

So ... does anybody have any ideas of places to get cheap gold sand/gravel and or reliable cheap church candles ?

many thanks in advance ... very excited bride to be! x x

Horace

Try looking on ebay?

I found this gold sand on there:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/GOLD-SAND-ARTS-CRAFTS-HOME-DECO-FLORISTRY-460gram_W0QQitemZ180275689792QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item180275689792&_trkparms=72%3A1121%7C39%3A2%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C240%3A1318&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

Look here for candles:

http://www.somethingforthewickend.co.uk/acatalog/Candle_Shop_Online_Church_Candles__9.html

Tired_Mom

Hi

When we got married I was like you didn't want loads of flowers on the tables. I bought cheap terracotta pots which I spray painted gold. I then wedged florists foam in these into which I stuck the candle. We like you then got the florist to put ivy around the candles and they looked great. We asked certain people if they wanted to take them home and they still bring them out at Christmas time as the ivy can easily be replaced.

The place we had our reception had a huge fireplace in and we also got two very basic cast iron type candle holders which we put huge church candles on and wrapped ivy around these.

Hope this helps, ours was a September wedding and the candles in gold pots didn't look too christmassy.

x

debs2327

:rotfl: hi ya i know this sounds silly but try in the pet shops at the gravel for fish tanks they have a big range of colours and they come in big ish bags , we used to buy all the different colours for our tank you never know you might get the colour your looking for , i suppose it would be the same stuff , :rotfl: ha ha pet shops for wedding stuff i sound off my rocker ha ha lol:rotfl:

smileysheep

Thank you all for all your ideas ... hopefully I will be able to save some pennies.

Chickenprincess_x

This site is always good, I got my pink sand, fish bowl vases and round mirrors from here

http://www.easyfloristsupplies.co.uk/sand-and-stones/glass-sand/gold-glass-sand/prod_2652.html

mummyyummy_2

debs2327 wrote: »

:rotfl: hi ya i know this sounds silly but try in the pet shops at the gravel for fish tanks they have a big range of colours and they come in big ish bags , we used to buy all the different colours for our tank you never know you might get the colour your looking for , i suppose it would be the same stuff , :rotfl: ha ha pet shops for wedding stuff i sound off my rocker ha ha lol:rotfl:

this is just my opinion and although its a great idea, have a sniff of it first as I think our fish tank gravel has a certain whiff to it lol:eek: :rolleyes: