What are some cheap wedding reception centre piece ideas?

I am getting marrried outside and we are keeping everything very small. I love Flowers and Candles.

What are some cheap wedding reception centre piece ideas?
You can get silk flowers fairly cheap at a craft store. For my wedding, we skipped the centerpieces and sprinkled glittery stars in our wedding colors down the center of each table. You can try the Dollar Store for cheap candles though.
Reply:Someone from here gave me my answer to that very question! How about bowls with floating candles on a mirror? You can sprinkle rose petals around the centerpiece to give it a larger presence. This gives you the option of using the candles to tie in your colors too. Doing an idea similar to this has cut my centerpiece budget by two-thirds!
Reply:Plant low teracotta pots with brightly colored flowers that trail over the edges so you dont see the pot and surround them with tea lights. I did something similar at my wedding and everyone loved it. Or take tall glass vases fill 2 inches in the bottom with pretty glass marbles and put 1 or 2 sturdy flowers (roses or calla lillies work well) in it fill with water and top with a floating candle.
Reply:For my wedding we used a mirrored tile and on that we put a small glass bowl, filled it with water and some votives. then we put some rose pedals on the tile and in the water. for each center piece the cost was around 2.00..so not very expensive at all.
Reply:Love the candles!! I would only do that if its not windy, you dont want the candles blowing off. You can also buy little crystal glass bowls and fill them up with clorful rose petals or with any other type of flowers you like and place them in the center of each table. They also have these little cystal glass center pieces of a wedding cake or even of a bride and groom and you can buy different ones and tie balloons to them and place them on each table as well.





Go to theknot.com. They have so many wonderful and beautiful ideas for things like that.
Reply:Do not please do not do the fishbowls! It's a terrible idea - the fish die and then you have floaters on your tables. My friend did this and she was trying to push all the fish (that were still living) off on her friends with children. (She told my kids they could have all the fish they wanted without asking me first! ARGH)





The prettiest and most simple thing I have seen is a tiny round mirror (or any shape you want) in the center of the table with one flower (these were daisys) on it. You could do more than one but it is very classy looking!
Reply:If you have a Christmas Tree Shop around you then they have great centerpieces. We got some weathered looking lanterns for about $2 each and they looked beautiful with tea lights in them. Good luck!
Reply:My friend did fishbowls...Each with 2 goldfish....Then had people take them home if they wanted
Reply:try Orientaltrading.com


they have lots of fake flowers, candles, centerpieces and odd and ends.


Just becareful with Candles- don't want to caught anything on fire.





Also ebay had really nice candles and cheap centerpieces. I think people even sell used ones!!
Reply:To get both flower and candle centerpiece put three pillar candles different sizes on a silver round platter and surround the candles with flowers. I did that for my wedding and it looked wonderful.
Reply:we used a very simple decoration and it looked beautiful, simple, and elegant. we had white tablecloths....provided by the reception hall...we ran a simple gold ribbon down the center of the table (about 2 inches wide smooth, shiny texture) and then set a small gold candle holder with a glass globe on the ribbon... these had a small bit of greenery with little babys breath and the color flower of our wedding....
Reply:You can get "fish bowl" vases cheap at the craft store and have floating candles and flowers in each one.





With an ouside wedding, you definately need your candles protected from any wind. The slightest breeze will blow them out.
Reply:Candles are waaaaay cheaper than flowers. Go with some votives in your wedding colors surrounding a bowl of floating candles and some flower petals. I bought my wedding candles at a local store. (The votives were 30 cents each when I bought more than a dozen of them) (I'm including their URL) Their estore isn't very good, but if you email or call them they can help you. They even offer a professional consultation service for your event if you're really stumped.
Reply:I am doing a mixture of bubble bowls with floating candles and vases w/ flowers and candles around them. It is very pretty and isn't overly expensive. And often you can find a place where you can rent items so it helps on having to buy them all and then having to find something to do with them when its all over. Definitely search theknot.com because it has a lot of pictures and gives tons of ideas. Good luck...my wedding is April 28 and I know every woman out there planning a wedding needs it!