Help - cherry blossom centrepieces!

Dinah93

Hi everyone!

Well I've finally started to properly plan our wedding, 5 months after he asked and only 7 and a bit to go! For the centerpieces I would love cherry blossom type brances in a vase with suspended candles, something like this:



only not plain branches, ones with white or pale pink cherry blossoms on. I'm not sure if this is the kind of thing a florist would do or I could make myself so any help in assembling my ideal centerpieces (and finding said branches and dangly candles!) would be greatly appreciated! x

jackieglasgow

Cherry blossom will be past it's flowering season by then, you'll need artificial stuff!

Dinah93

So not a florist then, anyone know where I can get the artificial stuff? At the moment I'm tempted to just go gather twigs from the park and use those and save some money.

chelbel1981

Dinah93 wrote: »

So not a florist then, anyone know where I can get the artificial stuff? At the moment I'm tempted to just go gather twigs from the park and use those and save some money.

That's what we're doing I'm thinking about spraying ours gold
Our wedding is autumn so I want ours bare and will be sprinkling fake autumn coloured leaves on the table

sezzie24

http://www.essentialweddinghire.com/page16.htm

I've been looking at the crystal trees from the above company. They are really pretty. A friend hired them for her wedding and they looked beautiful, she had candles on the tables too and the light reflected off the crystals.

Toothfairy4

sezzie24 wrote: »

http://www.essentialweddinghire.com/page16.htm

I've been looking at the crystal trees from the above company. They are really pretty. A friend hired them for her wedding and they looked beautiful, she had candles on the tables too and the light reflected off the crystals.

£75 each! :eek: That's a lot, hope u haven't got too many tables to decorate lol

lauren123210

Wow the crystal trees are gorgeous though... can anybody find anything similar but cheaper!!?

chelbel1981

It's easier and a hell of alot cheaper to make your own

chelbel1981

http://www.ehow.co.uk/how_5650082_make-manzanita-centerpieces.html

kte

I remember being tempted by the Cherry Blossom look as we had a Japanese theme...there is lots of cherry blossom stuff out there on the web, particularly from US sellers. There is also some stuff on the Martha Stewart Weddings site...
I found this one just now http://www.marthastewartweddings.com/article/its-all-about-birds-and-blossoms but I remember seeing something else on there where she showed you how to make the blossoms for the branches...

Good luck!

parklife12

Stylish Centrepieces .co.uk offer beautiful Crystal Candelabra's to hire.
We used them for our wedding and they were gorgeous.