Wedding Centerpieces?

I want some honest opions please..even critical ones too!


I am getting married Sept 15 of this year and still wondering about table decor and center pieces. The tables are long and rectangular. I was thinking of using tall vases with 3 lilies/peonies (switching it up on tables) and putting some stuff called ice crystals in them and having votives on the sides and for the tables that I do not put flowers on putting a round bowl that isnt very deep with the ice crystals and putting floating candles and rose petals in them. My colors are pool blue (kinda teal) and a dark pink color. I was also considering putting candles on mirrors. I have been considering using rock salt and putting different sized candles in there instead. Im confused and do not know what will work best. I want different things on my tables and not all of them the same. Like on half of them flowers and the other half candles with something. HELP!!! I just dont know what will work the best!!!

Wedding Centerpieces?
What you mentioned sounds great. I think they will look really pretty. Alternating them is a good idea. The vases with flowers will be pretty, and putting the candles in rock salt is very unique and should go really well with the ice crystals in the vases. You have great ideas, just go with what you have pictured in your head and you won't go wrong! Congrats, and good luck.
Reply:I think you've got some great ideas. I like the idea of mixing it up and not doing the same thing at every table. I say go for it!
Reply:Avoid the candles, especially if they're just votives sitting on the table, or on mirrors.





It is harder to manuever your stuff on a rectangular table than on a circular one. Appetizer plates, water glasses, purses, dinner plates, favors, etc. all get pushed around to make room for what the person is eating right then. It's too easy for something to knock one of the candles. Go with a simple vase with a few flowers, and leave it at that.
Reply:Don't use scented flowers. You don't want anyone breaking into a sneezing fit if they are allergic. But it sounds okay to me with the lily replacement. Not sure how peonies smell.





I'd skip the rock salt and go with that rock stuff that goes in the bottom of fish tanks.





Remember don't go to tall on the vases, people like to see each other when they are talking. Tall vase will cut the table off from each other.
Reply:I think because your tables are long and rectangular, you don't want to use tall vases and lillies that will create a vacant empty look unless you are planning to line the table with them - say spread them apart by a foot. Just putting one in the middle of each table won't work. I've seen what you are talking about and usually it sits in the middle of a round table. For longer tables you want to use shorter vases or do the fish bowls filled with the crystal ice - that would look lovely. And if you put a votive in the middle of the bowl AND sit the bowl on mirrors, it will give it a very pretty sparkly glow (if you use this on the tables remember to keep the lights "expensive restaurant" low to get the ambiance you want). Whatever you do I'm sure it will be lovely - just try to avoid too many variations on a theme, you don't want it to look confusing and uncoordinated. Good luck.
Reply:I think you have some great ideas, and plenty of them too. Just because it's a rectangular table though, I don't think I would do vases with 3 flowers in them. It's going to look pretty bare. An idea I thought of while reading your question was this.





You can go to ikea, and purchase odd shaped, preferably long and narrow (rectangular shaped) glass pieces. it would be really neat to have almost a long pond down the centre of the table. Fill it with water, put some of the glass chips (in your colours) at the bottom, have some floating candles in some, flowers in others, maybe lil other floating things that you can find, you could get assorted shapes of floating candles I assume. You could also do a long mirror and have assorted things on the mirror, like you had mentioned, the candles, that are different sizes. Mixing the tables up sounds neat too! I just think that with a large rectangular table, it's not a good deal to have small bits here and there on it, use the space that you're given! :)





Good luck!



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