Wedding Reception Table Centrepieces  

Flowers are traditional favorites for wedding reception table centrepieces but there are far many more elegant, creative and cost-friendly options to be considered. Whether you have your centrepieces professionally made or you decide to create all your wedding reception table centrepieces yourself, these table decorations are an opportunity to provide memorable, customized arrangements to compliment your wedding theme. 

Candles 

Candles can be a very cost efficient and elegant centrepiece while providing warm lighting to enhance the ambiance of your reception. A group of candles in various sizes and shapes, potentially wrapped with ribbon to match your color scheme are all items easy to make. By using special craft paint intended for use on candles, you can write words to commemorate your occasion such as Love, Joy and Forever and offer to let your guests take a candle home with them. Be sure to consider flammability issues when adhering anything to the candles. You should also re-think the use of candles if you are having an outdoor reception and be sure to check the candle policy of your reception site ahead of time.  

Potted Flowers 

Instead of using cut flowers for your wedding reception table centrepieces, try using potted flowers. You can purchase flats of popular, colorful flowers and place them in individual small decorative pots. You can cover exposed dirt with craft moss, marbles, glass rocks or river rocks. Using a colored cloth napkin to match your pallet, place the flowers in a circle so they look like a single arrangement instead of individual pots. These centrepieces can also double as take home gifts for your guests.  

Pictures 

If you are having planned seating arrangements, it is a wonderful detail to provide copies of photos with you and the guests. If it’s a table of people that are friends of your parents, then fun childhood pictures of the bride and groom are an option. Taking this level of detail makes a guest understand how much they have truly meant to your life. Instead of using frames, try using decorative wire photo holders, being careful to realize a table is usually round so the photos should have a backing on them of colored paper matching your pallet that may have a description of when and where the photo was from.

Fun and a Little Quirky 

If your personality doesn’t mesh well with traditional expectations, wedding reception table centrepieces are an excellent and subdued way to express these quirks. There are many ways to use items such as live, colorful Beta or goldfish in clear glass vases with flower arrangements sitting on top if you want to surprise your guests with something that starts out looking traditional until you get close enough to see the fish. You can also fill one or several clear glass containers per table with colourful candies, sweetarts or gumballs, collecting the containers before the night’s end and placing them on a single table along with small paper bags for take home sweets for your guests.   

Your wedding reception table centrepieces are an opportunity to share your personality with your guests in a fun or traditional way. If you happen to have one of those groups of bridesmaids that want to help- let them- it will free up some of your valuable time and save you money from needing to hire a professional to carry out your design. Whatever you choose, keep it in mind about what you plan to do with 10 or 30 or more centrepieces once your wedding is over, a thought which can help you narrow down your design decision.   

The wedding reception flower arrangement are an important part of the reception.