Cheap Wedding Centerpieces

Whether you are having your wedding reception in a tropical location or going with a tropical theme, there are dozens of tropical wedding centerpieces that will add character and charm to your special day. Best of all, because tropical themed weddings are full of color, it is easy to work a number of items into your centerpieces.

One of the most popular ideas for tropical centerpieces include using flowers. Tropical flowers are beautiful and colorful, so you can choose to stick with one or two colors, or use a multitude of hues. Some of the most common flowers include Orchids, Gingers and Heliconias. Choose to use your tropical flowers in a colorful or plain glass vase or use them to spruce up your centerpieces.

Tropical flowers look stunning alongside a candle, and the candles can be lit at the reception to let off a soft and natural glow. Choose pillar candles that can be placed on a piece of glass with a tropical flower sitting next to it. Or choose floating candles with flower petals in the water. Votive candles are another great choice and work great in little lanterns or small pails.

Another wonderful idea for tropical wedding centerpieces include fruit displays. There is nothing more tropical than having an arrangement of pineapple, kiwi and strawberries in the middle of the table. Choose to have fresh fruit cut up into bite sized pieces or dipped in chocolate. If you do not want your guests to eat your centerpiece at the start of the reception, leave the fruit in whole pieces instead.

If you are looking to capture the beach in your tropical wedding, consider using seashells and sand in your wedding centerpieces. Attractive shells and starfish can be purchased to place on the tables. Use small shells to sprinkle around candles or bud vases.

For those of you who like the idea of using sand in your centerpieces, a sandcastle design may be just for you. Small sandcastles can be placed on the tables and serve as eye candy for the guests. Perhaps the greatest advantage is that sandcastles are easy to make and include sand, a candle or glass jar.

If you want to make your centerpieces both functional and pretty, you may enjoy making fans for your guests. Fans are great ideas, especially if your tropical wedding is in a hot location. Fans can be made out of bamboo material and tied with a ribbon that complements your wedding colors.

The styles of tropical wedding centerpieces are endless, so keep an open, creative mind when choosing your centerpieces. Not only are they a main part of your wedding decor, but you can send them home with guests as a token of remembrance.

For most people, they think that their wedding centerpieces have to be flowers. That may have been true when your parents got married but that isn’t the case anymore. Unique wedding centerpieces are becoming more and more common as wedding themes become more interesting. Here are a few unique and cheap wedding centerpieces to consider when you start planning your wedding.

Candy centerpieces can be a very beautiful if you don’t over do it or make it very noticeable. Using rock candy can make very unique centerpieces and can be tailored to any color that you want them. Be sure to make them in advance as they take a couple of weeks to form.

If you are wanting a very beautiful, elegant look, then you could use floating candles in little glass bowls filled with seashells or marbles. Something that matches your theme but doesn’t take over the entire table. If you fear having the water spill all over your linens, then you can use regular candles as well.

Depending on the type of flowers you are using, a unique centerpiece can just be the type of flowers that you are using. If you are having a more beach themed wedding, than having a tropical flower like a Birds of Paradise is a very different idea that is not seen everyday.

One idea that is very unique that not many people have done is using pictures of the couple either from when they were younger or since they have been together. Lay out photos of the couple on each table and everyone gets to take one home. A nice frame, no matter the situation is always nice.

If you are having a fall wedding, a unique wedding centerpiece idea is to use fall colored leaves and fruits. You can get both inexpensively at the dollar store or a local craft store. Or you can even have fresh fruit centerpieces depending on the fruit that you are planning on using. Apples are a great, lasting fruit and then your guests can eat them later if they feel so inclined.

If you are in an area that it is not too hot or humid then some very unique wedding centerpieces you could create are chocolate centerpieces. They are fairly inexpensive and if you have even the most remote amount of artistic ability, this is a centerpiece that you can easily do yourself. You can make a simple monogram or a little design for each table. You can also do this in royal icing if you want something that will stand up to any kind of weather. If you are using either chocolate or royal icing however, be careful of the fact that it will and can break easily.

If you’re wanting an elegant centerpiece and something that everyone will remember why not have tall wedding centerpieces to adorn the table with? There is nothing worse than trying to take pictures of the couple’s first dance and getting a huge bouquet of flowers in your face that you can’t see through. With a tall wedding centerpiece, your tables can look classy and you can take all the pictures you want without ever having to worry. Here are some ideas for some nice looking tall centerpieces that are sure to add class to your tables.

If you are dead set on having roses at your wedding then you can make them taller by either using long stem roses or you could put them in tall cylindrical vase. These are usually anywhere from a foot to three feet tall. Some of them are really thin so you have to be careful of making them too top heavy, or you can get one that is a little wider and fill it with marbles or some other nice colored stones or shells.

Some tall wedding centerpieces are more tailored to a specific kind of wedding, for instance, if you were having a Halloween wedding you would most likely not want to have flowers and elegant things because that would not match the theme. But if you are wanting something more fantastic and classy than perhaps branches of cherry blossoms are what you are interested in. Cherry blossoms, whether in pink or white, are nice and tall on their own and have a nice fresh, subtle fragrance that is appropriate no matter the time. Cherry blossoms are great whether you are having a Japanese theme or a fun rockabilly themed wedding.

Calla lilies are one of the most elegant flowers that you can have at a wedding. White calla lilies will match any kind of a theme that you are planning on and the upside is that they are not that expensive. Even if you are putting them in a smaller vase. Or for a more fancy look you can put them in a nice tall vase filled with colored water or opalescent marbles or stones to accent the flowers.

There are many beautiful things that you can put in a tall vase and put on a table as a centerpiece, but there are some flowers that are just perfect for the event. No matter what you choose for your tall wedding centerpieces, remember that it’s your wedding and whatever design you choose, you have to be happy with it.

At my beach themed wedding, I had the most beautiful beach wedding centerpieces that were the cheapest and easiest centerpieces ever. I went to the dollar store and bought enough shallow glass bowls for all of my tables, two for tables that were longer. They had little bags of seashells in their arts and crafts section and I picked up some of those too. I had the idea that I wanted to have some kind of lighting that was romantic but not too distracting so I got some floating candles just to see what I could do. The outcome was amazing!

I filled the bottom of the glass bowls with the seashells and then filled them with water almost to the very top so the candles wouldn’t touch the seashells and had room to float around. When you drop the candle in there and light them it is absolutely gorgeous! If you want to prolong the life of your candles, don’t light them. Once they have burned for a while it soon just becomes a big blob of melted candle wax floating on the water.

A couple other ideas that I tried were using sand dollars and starfish as well, depending on the season though, they can be kind of hard to find. Many specialty shops sell them but they are kind of pricey. During the summer time, beach themed weddings are very popular and beach centerpieces are easy to come by on the internet. Flip Flop picture frames of the couple are very popular.

If you plan on ordering tropical flowers for your beach wedding centerpieces, be advised that they are not usually carried in-stock in the United States because we do not have the right climate in most places here. They are very costly and will have to be picked up close to the time that you plan on using them because they will wilt very fast. Another alternative you could use if you want flowers it to use silk blossoms but they do not have the same look and are not as attractive as the real flower itself.