Add sand dollars to a beach wedding centerpiece.
Put your imagination to work as you save money and make your own inexpensive centerpieces for a wedding. Many items can be transformed from unsightly into elegant and tasteful by a little old-fashioned ingenuity and elbow grease. Decide on your theme and wedding colors and then walk around your home for items to re-purpose.
Romantic
Spray paint an empty glass pickle jar ballerina pink, which is a soft pastel pink. Purchase several pots of bright pink, rose pink, peach and orange azaleas and cut their blooms for your centerpiece. Place pastel pink cut glass into the jar and fill it with water before arranging the azaleas inside. Spread out the flowers, allowing them to cascade over the sides of the jar. Wrap a pink ribbon around the neck of the jar, not the ends, and allow it to dangle down the front of the jar. Tie a smaller peach ribbon over the pink, which allows you to see the pink one, and make a bow.
Elaborate
Pick up several small potted plants of the same flower in different colors. Choose ones that are in season and have full flower heads such as chrysanthemum, gladiolus, hyacinth or hydrangeas. Arrange the pots inside a wicker basket spray painted white and cover the pots with moss. Group the colors into a pleasing design either by mixing the colors up in the display or creating one where the flowers gradually move from a light to darker shade. Make a big ribbon bow to the side of the handle and stick a bright peacock feather inside the bow for an unexpected punch.
Aquatic
Make different height and shaped sand candles for your centerpiece display as you fill several containers, such as milk cartons, juice boxes or oatmeal boxes, with sand and pour in melted wax. Place a cake plate on the table and lay one white rose in the center of the plate. Add two sand candles on both sides of the rose, one on the top, the other by the bottom. Place jars of layered color sand with a snuggled tea light inside around the cake plate and arrange seashells around the candles, such as fan, conch, mollusk or sand dollars.
Seasonal
For weddings around the holidays, consider a holiday theme. A Valentine's Day wedding centerpiece may consist of tall jars of different types of chocolate candy or a huge stuffed red heart in the center of the table with two gold rings sewn into the fabric. A Christmas wedding centerpiece can use Santa's sleigh as the vase as you add poinsettias to the inside or use holly with cranberries instead. A Halloween wedding may go Gothic with a black-and-silver themed centerpiece of iron with black paper flower.
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