Three Unique Wedding Centerpiece Ideas

If your wedding centerpiece ideas do not follow along the lines of the traditional rose decorations most soon-to-be-married couples select, take heart! You are not alone! Many couples are opting for the non-traditional. Here are a few ideas to consider or maybe use as “jumping off” places in order to come up with your own ideas.

Roses in wedding centerpiece ideas no longer rank as de rigueur. Candles, seashells, glass marbles, and other items paired with clear glass cylinders, copper bowls, or – depending on your budget – crystal or glass fishbowls can be a novel way to accent wedding reception tables.

Float Candles on Your Special Day

A large bowl can be the basis of just one of many wedding centerpiece ideas. If possible, splurge on as large a lead-crystal container as you can afford and fill with crystal-clear water (distilled is best for clarity). Add glass beads, marbles, or shells for interest.

Float candles colored to match the color theme of your wedding. Be sure to use an odd number (more artistic!) of candles and don’t light until just before the reception. You don’t want them to burn out before the reception is over – or maybe even begun!

Another of our favorite wedding centerpiece ideas involves doing the same as above – except using a huge copper bowl. Copper reflects marvelously and images of whatever objects you have floating in it will be multiplied. Copper is expensive, however. You might want to substitute, if you’re on a budget, with a copper-COLORED bowl. They’re a lot less expensive, and some look just like the real thing.

Candles + Salt = Elegance

One of the least expensive, yet most elegant wedding centerpiece ideas we’ve come across takes only a few minutes to assemble, once you’ve purchased your items, and consists only of two components – candles and rock salt.

Rock salt – you know, the stuff your grandmother used in her ice cream freezer? – can be bought at nearly any supermarket for next to nothing. Buy enough to pour out and spread on the reception table in a simple shape. (Getting elaborate detracts from what could be simple beauty in many wedding centerpiece ideas!)

Purchase an odd number of neutral-colored candles (remember the art!) in graduated sizes and place them all the same distance apart in the bed of rock salt. Don’t line them up like soldiers, but set them in a freestyle-type design. Light reflects off the salt crystals and combined with the romantic glow of the candles, this centerpiece is a hit!

Just Gotta Have Flowers After All?

All right, so you just can’t imagine wedding centerpiece ideas that don’t include flowers. So try this: Purchase a long rectangular mirror – one that fits across the table you’ll be using – and make a bed of pure white sand along it (similar to the rock salt above).

Buy small, decorative baskets (little straw hats work well for this, too!) and tie wedding-color-themed ribbon around the handles or the brim of the hats. Set them in the sand interspersed with dried or silk flowers of your choice (color-themed, of course!) anchored in the sand around them. The mirror helps multiply the effect and the entire arrangement makes a stunning reception-table focal point.

These three wedding centerpiece ideas should give you a running start for ideas of your own – or just go ahead and feel free to use these! All or any of them will make you proud on that very special day – if, after you say, “I do,” you even have the wherewithal to think about things like that!

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