Wedding Table Centerpiece Ideas

Finding  new ways to decorate your buffet table on a budget can be an extreme challange if your clueless on what to do.  The two important factors that you must decide on is your color theme, and secondly how to display your food.  I found that if you display your desserts or horderves at different levels like a tiering effect it will give your table a dimensional look that is more appealing to the eye.  

When entertaining in your home most of us normally don't have the fancy chafing dishes and pedastal dishes, You may be surprised to know that possibly you could have some items in your home that you can use to give the same tiering effect without having to go out and buy something.  We all don't have thousands of dollars to spend on extravagent dishes to be used for one time, personally I'd rather spend all the money on the food than what I'm serving it on.  Take a look around your house before we get started and see if you have any glass vases that your not using, candle sticks, baskets, old jewelry boxes, glass bowls, sometimes these itemes can be used to put your plates on different levels.  To make the display on this page I used several kinds of glass vases that I had from a previous wedding.  (You can find most of these vases at Michaels Arts & Crafts), Tall and medium sized cylinder vases, and small square vases.  White and yellow ribbon to wrap around the top of the vases, Yellow daisies were hot glued onto the ribbon for decoration.  The clear plastic trays were bought at the Dollar Tree and hot glued onto the rim of the glass vases, it held very well preventing the trays for tipping over. 

                                       

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The cake was very simple to make,  Believe me I am not an expert cake baker.  I used 1 box of  yellow cake mix,  a few daises for decorations, and yellow ribbon wrapped around each layer.  Cake was held up by a large square glass vase underneath.

Daisy Do Wedding Arch

                   

Daisies!   Daisies!   Daisies!                      

Who can't help to smile when they look at daisies.  The "Daisy Do Wedding Arch" is ready to exchange vows and promise you a daisy of a wedding day.  What other flower can capture the sun and surround it with white pedals of endless love.   If your wedding theme is daisies let me share with you some of my ideas using daisies for your wedding.

A simple wedding arch using white tuell, daisy flowers mixed with white roses and lilies.                                   

                      

  There are many arches and arbors available to buy and decorate.  Some are pre-lit arches that come in handy when you want to light them up for your reception indoors or outdoors.  The one used for this picture was purchased at Michaels Arts and Crafts.  Also used for the Daisy Do Arch were several spring bushes from Michaels Arts and Crafts in the Ashland Spring Collection.  Used were daisies, Roses, and lilies.  1-30 yard spool of white tuell, and 6 -Ashland Classic Tradition garlands.

Used to weigh down the tuell in front of the arch were two glass square vases filled with daisies.

 

Calla Lily Arch

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The calla lily stem is so beautiful that it will add to any wedding grace and elegance.   Like arms reaching out from heaven to bless the bride and groom are the long arms of the calla lily stems bending, always reaching out to bring love and happiness to your wedding day

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Materials used to make this arch consisted of 1-Pre-lite (All occasion 8' arch)purchased at Michaels Arts and Crafts, 1 spool of white tuell (30 yrds), purchased from Michaels Arts and Crafts,  28 to 30 calla lily long stems(purchased at Old Time Pottery),   6-white floral garlands (Ashland Traditions from Michaels Arts and Crafts.)

Start by taking 2 of the 6' foot white floral garlands and twist them together to make them fuller and then attach it to the arch starting at the bottom left, (White pipe cleaners are great for attaching the garlands onto the arch).  You will repeat that process two more times.  (Six garlands will make 3 pieces when joined together  that will go around the whole span of the arch from left to right).  Randomly weave the calla lilies in and out of the white floral garland attaching them using the pipe cleaners.  Slightly bend the calla lilies to make them curve more than look straight.  Add more stems to the top then on the sides.   The final procedure is to pull out several yards of the tuell and gather it at the top of the arch (as though your making a big bow)  attaching it with pipe cleaners or floral wire to the top of the metal arch crossbar.  I let it come down on both sides and attach it with wire so that it stays in place.  If you need further directions you can e-mail me at r.fishermusicflor@yahoo.com

Tall White Feather Floral Arrangement For Weddings

Hello and welcome to my blog. There is nothing more elegant than tables for your wedding adorned with tall beautiful floral arrangements. Now don’t get worried that it could cost you a fortune because really there are ways to make a statement with out the extreme cost. Now the point is the taller the arrangement the easier for people to see each other across the table, you don’t want something that is going to be eye level where it could be very distracting. I like the really tall arrangements myself because I just think they stand out more, especially if the ceilings are tall. Glass containers are wonderful, pretty much anything looks good in them. If you think you want to try one of my arrangements in this post and you haven’t any floral experience I will show you how to step by step, I understand that you may just be starting out doing this but I will try to explain as if I myself did not know anything about floral, and believe me I understand how difficult first time doing things can be very frustrating. This post will be longer than any other post because I really want to help you, and not just post a lot of pictures that are going to confuse you. We will start out with products you will need

1   White floral garland (6' long) (purchased at Michaels Arts  & Crafts)

2.  Glue gun and glue sticks
3.  Wide clear tape, (like packing tape)
4.  Wire cutters
5.  White foam ball 6"
7.  6 tall white calla lilies
8.  7 large white feathers
9.  1 tall vase (opening at top of vase is about 7" wide)
10. One box of white rose pedals
11. 2 bags of clear marbles

Now before you go out and buy your materials remember that checking your paper for coupons and sales will drastically bring down cost. Example (you can go to Michael's Arts and Crafts or other crafts stores that have coupons for up to 50% in either the weekend paper or on there web site. To be able to get the coupons on line you will have to register with Michael's and then they will send you coupons, and information on special offers. Watch for there 50% off sales on spring stems.

        
Step 1 is to fill the vase with marbles and then top with white rose pedals. The marbles will help weigh the vase down just in case it gets top heavy, and the rose pedals are just to give a soft texture for inside the vase
                                      
                                    

Step 2 is to insert your 6" white Styrofoam ball into the vase and hot glue it by adding glue around the top of vase.  If your vase at the top is wider than 7" wide than you will have to buy a larger styrofoam ball. 

                                                           

            
                       

Step 3 is to wrap wide clear tape around the top of the vase including about an inch of the styrofoam ball to make sure that the Styrofoam ball is secure. It is always safe to make sure that everything will stay in place.  I always do this because glue by itself sometimes doesn't hold well on glass surfaces.

                                    
                                               
Step 4 is to cut your calla lily stems the length that you want them, usually around 24" tall and insert them into the top of the white ball. Make sure they are all the same length.


                                         
Step 5  After you had added all 6 of your calla lily stems you are now ready to wrap the white ball with your 6 foot white floral garland. You start at the top and keep wrapping the ball until it's covered using floral pins to keep it in place, Floral pins can be found in any craft store. 





Step 6 After you've wrapped all the garland around the Styrofoam ball it should look like this.

 
Step 7 is to cut your large white feathers so that there not too long before inserting them into the Styrofoam ball. You can begin by placing them into the top around the base of the calla lily stems.





AS you can see in the picture the feathers were inserted all at the top of the arrangement .                                

              

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