Cheap centrepieces

katie1812

I know you said you wanted something different, but for our wedding, I got thin tall vases from Morrisons supermarket which were about £2.50 and then we just had a tall flower arrangement in them. As they were thin, not many flowers, so should bring cost down. They gave height to the tables as everything else is smaller and everyone commented how lovely they looked. Just an idea

Fruit_and_Nut_Case

my_definition wrote: »

Cheap centrepieces

The word you're looking for is Inexpensive. Much nicer.
Have a great wedding!

Cathieness

Hiya,

We are getting hitched in February and have a small budget (£2,000).

For our center pieces we are having fishbowl vases which are £5 in dunelm (£4 in asda but we had a Dunelm gift card for xmas so we are using that towards the vases), and having cream pillar candles in the vases (£5 for 6 in asda). We were going to have glass pebbles to match our colour scheme, however they are coming out quite pricey, so we are now thinking of using water crystal pearls. So much cheaper (I have ordered enough from ebay to fill a litre vase once soaked, for 99p!).

We are having a small meal and so only have 6 tables, but we are going to end up spending less than £20 in cash and our £20 voucher.

piglet25

Just to say to use caution with candles and fish bowls as they have a tendency to shatter when they get hot, also check with the venue that candles are allowed as some places won't let you use them due to their insurance

Cathieness

We popped to Dunelm today to get our vases and saw some really lovely candle holders, they are sinilar to vases and decorated with small roses, ribbon and hearts. They were the same price as the fishbowls so we went for those. I am glad now after seeing piglet25's advice about shattering fishbowls.
We have opted for Votive candles which we got in the sale at asda 4 for 50p! (even better than the pillar candles) as the candle holders are smaller than the fishbowl vases.
Here is a link to the medium ones, I can't see the larger ones online which are the ones we bought. The ribbon looks smaller on ours as the holder is bigger.
dunelm-mill.com/shop/wedding-collection-glass-candle-holder-287863

I am unable to post the link as I am new, but that is the address without the w's

my_definition

Thanks again for all the advice people. My mum managed to get 6 fishbowls for £10 so we will be doing something with them. Thanks for the advice about the shattering fishbowls when they get hot i think i will try and get some inexpensive flowers for them so i can give them away to family at the end of the night

Kyrae

I'm making some cheap flower centre pieces from Ikea! Vases are 65p each, and they have tons of plastic flowers for 50p a stem in the sale at the moment including gorgeous sweet peas etc!

holly_hobby

How about using coloured water in your fishbowls, and having either floating candles (which are only tealights), or a contrasting colour waterlilly floating in each (try aquatic suppliers) or indeed any flowers floating (esp chrysanthemum's or any densly packed head would look lovely and dramatic) .... theres loads of things you could do.

You could also wrap a couple of long calla lillies around the inside of each bowl and pop in some battery powered small led lights (obv being battery powered they may fade before your ready), but you get the idea.

Have a lovely wedding .... !

Hope this helps

Holly

minniemaus1970

ALL free:
Milk bottles/ water/ wine bottles, scrubbed of labels, put in one tall flower accompanied by grasses/ fern and ivy ( all free from neighbours or woods) bottles can be aquiered from restaurant or pub
you can also print off labels with table number on it and stick on to bottle

or you can buy cheap long drink/ juice glasses and use them as a vase

then use after as glasses

MM

Daxx

Depending on your colour purple...i went to a wedding where they had marshmallows in their centrepieces.

They looked very quirky and kids loved them later on in the day