centerpiece ideas

Coming up with wedding decorations can sometimes be hard, especially if you are not hiring a decorator. Here are some reception centerpiece ideas to get you started.

traditional/classy

• Hurricane cylinder filled with sliced citrus fruit, water, and a floating candle
• Hurricane cylinder filled with flowers/flower heads (i.e. hydrangeas, peonies, roses) and water
• Topiaries
• Candelabras
• Leaves plastered around edges of candles
• Wheat stalks or long grasses around edges of candles
• Luminaries-white paper bags with glassine lining and decorative tops and ribbon tied around
• Shallow bowls filled with water and floating flowers (i.e. hydrangeas, roses, peonies), rocks, shells, marbles, petals, candles, or fruit
• Silver platters with flower petals, candles, candy dishes, etc. on top
• Decorative mirrors with flower petals, candles, candy dishes, floral arrangements etc. on top
• Bowls or vases with monochromatic fruit and/or flowers (i.e. red—apples, cranberries pomegranates, roses, etc.)
• Bowls full of fruit (pears, oranges, lemons, limes, apples, grapefruit, etc.)
• Numerous shallow bowls, one with floating flowers, one with floating candles in your colors—looks especially nice on long rectangular tables
• Baskets full of fruit and/or flowers
• Floral spheres
• Painted buckets with decorative stick-on table numbers with floral arrangements inside
• Picture groupings of the couple
• Vases with tree branches/flowering tree branches
• vases filled with seashells—with notes written to the couple thrown inside throughout the reception
• Platter with favors on top
• Square vases wrapped with rice paper and candles inside
• Miniature cakes (in lieu of one large wedding cake)
• Dessert towers
• Hors d’oeuvres towers
• Old wine bottles with drippy candles
• Watering cans filled with flowers—satchels of flower seeds for favors
• Oil lamps
• Wrapped boxes filled with favors
• Porcelain figurines
• Monogrammed letters
• Individual flowers in bud vases (can double as favors)
• Teapots
• Old clocks

Contemporary Style

• Bamboo Plants
• Bonsai Trees
• Glass fishbowl with fish (fish could double as favors)
• Branches with mini Chinese lanterns
• Birdcages
• Vases of glass bowls filled with sand and coral or seashells