Wedding Centerpieces With a Difference

Are you tired of the same old ho-hum floral arrangements and, instead, looking for something different and out of the ordinary for your wedding centerpiece idea? We’ve done some searching on the ‘Net and come up with a few ideas that just might strike your fancy! These refreshingly different table décor items will not only tell your guests that you have good taste, but will also go the extra mile toward complementing and enhancing the rest of your wedding decoration scheme. Enjoy!

Floating Candles

At Wicks End, you’ll find an assortment of lightly scented floating candles to set in pretty bowls at your guests’ tables and to make a striking wedding centerpiece at a buffet table. Choose from Macintosh apples, daffodils, hearts, pansies, and roses with some of them offered singly, others in sets of threes and fours. For your wedding party, you can put out groupings of three to five candles floating in either a raised bowl (on a wire pedestal) or on a flat or elongated, low-profile bowl. For a touch of whimsy, mix ‘em up – roses for one table, apples at another, and so on.

A La Napa Valley

One couple getting married at a winery in Napa Valley is bringing the “vino” theme to the guests’ tables as their wedding centerpiece: They’re setting wine bottles (such lovely labels!) filled with candle oil and with wicks inserted on the tables and then surrounding them with real grapes. We feel this idea could go anywhere – not just in wine country! Candle oil and wicks can be found online at www.eOilCandles.com. You provide the empty wine bottles!

Betta Bowls

Another interesting and very pretty idea for a wedding centerpiece is this: For each table, set a globe-style (or any style you wish!) fishbowl with a betta fish in it. Place the fishbowls on mirrored tiles and get a different colored fish for each table. You can dress up the effect even more by surrounding the bowls with greenery (silk or real) and using polished river rocks or colored glass pebbles in the bottoms of the bowls.

If children are attending your wedding, you can give the fish away to them. Otherwise, you can have the guests draw straws for them to take the fish home with the winner after the event is over. Betta fish are very inexpensive and can be purchased at many pet stores; even many Wal-Mart stores carry them in their pet-supply section.

A wedding centerpiece for your big day doesn’t have to be expensive to be appealing – but you do need to put some thought into it for it to work with your other decorations. So take a little time to browse the sites above and other on the ‘Net, and you most likely will come up with your own ideas for a delightfully different decoration. All it takes is a little looking, thinking, and planning ahead to have your wedding tables getting “oohs” and “ahhs” from your guests on that very special day.