Budget Candle Centerpiece Ideas
Cheap And Stunning Table Decorations

Candle centerpiece ideas are great as they add a beautiful atmosphere to your party and they don't have to cost a fortune. At the end of the day it is not the candles that will cost a fortune, it will be all the other bits that you have with them.

Candles fit with any theme, you can buy them cheaply from dollar stores and home stores and you don't have to do a great deal to them to make them look stunning. When choosing candles for centerpieces where you are dining it is worth not getting scented as they can be a bit overpowering when you come to eat.

Pillar candles work well if you group them together, either on a plate or a platter. Add extra decorations with ribbons or twine tied around the candles, or have flowers and fruit surrounding the candles.

Floating candles are cheap to put together, you could have a wide glass bowl filled with glass pebbles and water, and you could have flowers floating with the candles. Floating candles also look great floating in glasses, try and get the candles the same size as the glass otherwise the candles end up floating to one side. It doesn't matter if the glasses are not the same, infact that adds to the charm if they are not. Try and use lots of different heights to make it look more interesting.

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Tealights in glass votives are simple but if you have lots on a table they will look great, scatter petals or have them sitting on mirror tiles for extra sparkle. Tealights are so cheap to buy, we all must have a bag that is forgotten in the back of a cupboard, have a look! You don't just have to have them in proper glass votives they can also be in decorated old jam jars, old glasses, bowls - have a play around and see what you like.

Old fashioned taper or dinner candles are easy to find and you can buy them to fit with your color scheme. It is worth asking your venue if they have candelabras that you can borrow for your event, quite often they will provide them free of charge. Add extra decorations around the base of the candelabra with ivy and flowers.

Thin taper candles can also be secured in pots filled with sand, this is a fun relaxed centerpiece. Works really well for a beach themed party as you can decorate the pots and add shells to the top of the sand.

All candles look even more magical if they can reflect and sparkle, a really cheap and gorgeous way to lift any candle centerpiece is to place it on a centerpiece mirror.

As with all candle centerpiece ideas you need to check with your venue that they allow candles and make sure the candles are secure and safe. Plus it is not always a good idea to use scented candles as it can get quite over powering especially in a small room and detract from the meal you are serving.