Homemade Wedding Centerpieces
Tips To Save You Money On Your Wedding Table Decorations

Homemade wedding centerpieces are a great way to save money when you are planning your wedding - well, everything costs so much more than you think! But they can also go terribly wrong!

One bride decided that she was going to create her own floral centerpieces and thankfully had a practice a few weeks before her wedding. After a few hours of creating her centerpiece she realized that flower arranging was not her strong point and so ended up asking the florist that was doing her bouquet to also make the centerpieces as well! One great lesson to learn from that is to have a trial run quite a while before your big day. The other lesson is that wedding flower centerpieces are a lot more time consuming than you think they are going to be, plus they can only be done the day before at the earliest and there are not many brides that want to be busy making their floral centerpieces the night before.

Wedding flower centerpieces work well if you have an army or a group of very creative friends and family that will be able to create the look that you are looking for, or keep it very simple!

Simple flower centerpieces would be a bud vase with a single stem, a plant in a pot, or a submerged flower in a cylinder vase with a floating candle. Anything else more elaborate you won't have time for.

Another way to have inexpensive wedding centerpieces is to have the experts make them for you. This is not as mad as you think! Rather than ordering a centerpiece for every table, instead have them at the tables that they will make the most impact. This could be at the tables closest to the head table or the ones on the edge, or every other table. Then at the other tables you create your homemade wedding centerpieces, which will be much more simple but still in the same colors. You can see from this photograph that having different styles of centerpieces in the same colors looks really good and also saves money too! If you can incorporate candles into the florist's centerpieces great as you can then use the same style of candle in your own.

Candle centerpieces are really easy to make and if you shop around for all the bits you will need they can cost very little. A simple candelabra is a classic, or a bowl with floating candles and petals would be an easy way to incorporate the colors and elements of the florist's centerpieces. Having a mixture of centerpieces works very well and the professional wedding florists often use this idea to create a better overall look to the room.

Homemade wedding centerpieces that you can make weeks in advance are perfect and silk flowers are a great way to have the flowers that you want, whatever the season, in the style that you want. The best silk flowers are expensive but you can always resell them after your wedding, or gift them to your wedding party.

Homemade wedding centerpieces don't just have to be flowers, think about your wedding colors and the theme that you have. Would a fruit centerpiece fit with your colors? A clear glass bowl filled with bright green apples would look great at a Spring wedding. A pot plant as a centerpiece will add color without the stress of flower arranging! Photo frames filled with photos of the two of you is another idea, or if you have themed each table then an arty picture of the table's theme would fit in the frame very well.

There are lots more wedding centerpiece ideas.