table decs - can't afford flowers, not allowed candles - what else could I do??

luxor4t

Have a look in Dunelm Mill for good silk flowers & good but cheap fabric scatter petals
http://www.dunelm-mill.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Browse?storeId=10551&DisplayProductList=true&categoryId=14-14853&catalogId=11100&langId=-1

Wilkinsons also have good value silk flowers:
http://www.wilkinsonplus.com/bin/venda?ex=co_wizr-locayta&collate=pdxttype&collate=pdxtcolourn&collate=pdxtbrandn&collate=pdxtsizen&collate=pdxtpowern&termtextkeywordsearch=flowers&typekeywordsearch=keyword&fieldrtype=type&termtextrtype=invt&typertype=exact&termorder=keywordsearch%3Artype&template=wz_locayta&pagenum=1&perpage=10&threshold=43&spellcorrect=1&datasource=wilkinsonplusen&setpagenum=1&termtextpdxttype=Flowers&typepdxttype=exact&fieldpdxttype=pdxttype

tartantotty

How about the goldfish bowl filled with glass bead, or pebbles, and battery operated fairy lights? My mum does this quite a lot at dinner parties and the lights look lovely strewn through. She got her lights dirt cheap from Ikea

Or the goldfish bowl, with water, metallic wire (instead of grass etc) and a flower head. I was at our venue for tea last week and they had mini versions for the table centrepieces, and I though - Oooh I'll have that! You can get coloured wire from craft shops etc

BeckyArch

We got tall black lilly vases from Country baskets and are having fake black and white flowers, works out at about 8 pounds a table. As others have said supermarket flowers can be very pretty, and in nice cheap vases it would look lovely. Asda and other large supermarks do nice vases in their homewear sections.

If you know anyone with a country baskets card it is worth a look..i've got so much from that place!

I went to my cousins wedding on saturday, and she had shorter black lilly vases with black glittery twigs in, simple but effective

rene2b

how about small sq glass vases with your colour of jelly beans in MMMMmmm!! kids and adults will love them
sorry cant find the picture now :-(

missy_moo_5

Thanks everyone.

Absolutely nothing against supermarket flowers; it's just a logistical thing more than anything - I'm getting married away from home and we will be in a very small village quite a distance from a big supermarket (and certainly not a choice of them!) and we are arriving 2 days before the wedding, so I thought it might be gambling a bit to get them that far in advance and have them lingering around a hotel room for 2 days?

I did see somewhere a really nice picture of someones simple table flowers - I think it was on an ebay listing for something completely different (tealight holders or similar) where they had just got a goldfish bowl and put in it what I suspected to be a plain bunch of supermarket small roses and it really did look lovely - simple and clean - but then I start thinking that I doubt I could get 8 bunches of identical cream roses in the supermarket in one go anyway, regardless of the 2 day wait??! Maybe I just "think" too much!!

I quite fancy the submersible lights, but I can't find any pics of them lit up - what do they look like in reality?

Lovely ideas though - thank you!

missy_moo_5

okay - how does this sound.....

round mirror plate.... goldfish bowl.... submersible light....glass pebbly bits on top..... topped up with water...... silk flower head on top floating...... and a few silk petals scattered on the table?

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And what colour submersible? I love that blue one in the link wanttogetwed posted, but our colours are natural creams and greens. Anyone suggest which colour might look best?

Wish I had seen one of these submersibles in real life, they look fun!!

nozzy6

what is your colour theme? I love these as centerpieces -
http://www.broadwaypaper.com/images/BSLemonCenterpieceBig.jpg
down the centre of a table or arranged in the centre of a round table would look lush! Obv depends a bit on your colours though!

edited to add: My links won't work for some reason! But google lemon centrepieces and you'll get the idea, basically just fruit in vases! Simple but effective

morwenna

missy_moo wrote: »

I quite fancy the submersible lights, but I can't find any pics of them lit up - what do they look like in reality?

There's a pic of my centrepiece using submersible lights lit up on princesswoo's unusual centre piece thread. (Early on, probably first page as I recall.) We have tested them and they last once switched on for days! Batteries are replaceable too.

Saint_Chris

I bought the vases below from ikea 49p a vase, roses cost £2 for 12 from asda, food colour cost £4 from hobby craft, i just thought the coloured water gave some of the vases a bit of a different colour,

daughter wanted her flowers to be bud like roses so i bought them on the thur for the sat wedding

I'm getting married away from home and we will be in a very small village quite a distance from a big supermarket (and certainly not a choice of them!) and we are arriving 2 days before the wedding, so I thought it might be gambling a bit to get them that far in advance and have them lingering around a hotel room for 2 days?

make them up before you go, put the vases in a box in the boot of the car and hey presto

or if you buy the cream roses on a monday and put them in the coloured water on the mon by the end of the week, the roses have opened fully and the tips turn a blue colour. (or a colour of your choice)

cheap and cheerful, and for not much lay out

hayleythedaisy

Sorry to Hijack - Chris where did you get your organza? and how much was it?