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Calla Lily Wedding Bouqet Part 3.wmv
How to easily make a wedding bouquet using calla lilies. How to make a centerpiece for your wedding, and a bridesmaid bouquet. Wedding decorating that you can easily do yourself.
Calla Lily Wedding Bouqet Part 1.wmv
How to easily make a wedding bouquet using calla lilies. How to make a centerpiece for your wedding, and a bridesmaid bouquet. Wedding decorating that you can easily do yourself.
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Wedding Reception Decoration & Centerpieces For Weddings
Reception Centerpiece Ideas:
- Place 3 large pillar candles of the same width but different heights onto a framed mirror. Put flowers or shells around the bases of the candles. The mirror will reflect the centerpiece and make it appear twice as large.
- Purchase large bowls made of clear plastic or glass. Place one bowl at each table and surround it with flowers. Fill each bowl with water and put in three to five floating candles. Light them just before the reception begins. You can also use this idea with goldfish instead of candles.
- A beautiful vase of flowers (real or silk) will do the trick. Again, make sure it’s low enough to talk over of high enough to talk under.
- Suspend groupings of chinese paper lanterns from the ceiling directly over each table. Again, position them just high enough for guests to see one another, but low enough so they appear to be part of the table decorations.
- Place a balloon cluster at the center of each table. Make sure it’s high enough so guests can still see each other
- If you have long rectangular tables for your reception, place bows of evergreens, green foliage, rose petals, or votive cups down the centers of the tables. Work in a few pretty flowers or ribbon here and there.
- Take white or colorful tulle and gather it down the center of each rectangular table. Nestle votive candles in glass holders at various locations in the tulle. (Make sure the tulle does not contact the flame)
- Place fish bowls on small-framed mirrors or mirror tiles. Fill with water and add live fish or shells. This one is great for a nautical theme wedding.
- Rent large candelabras with pillar candles for the center of each table. Some can be very formal and hold flowers amongst the candles. Check with your florist and rental shop to discuss these options.
- How about a gingerbread house or miniature Christmas tree for a holiday themed wedding?
- Hang large Christmas ornaments from the ceiling with ribbon or fishing line. Tie a bow at the top of each ornament. Hang in a staggered pattern directly above the tables.
- Freestanding topiaries shrubs make wonderful centerpieces by adding height and drama. Decorate them with flowers, fruits, ivy or ribbons.
General Ideas:
- Beautifully folded and pressed napkins add an elegant touch to the table. Just search on the internet or YouTube for elegant napkin folding instructions.
- Make or purchase napkin rings to match the formality of your event. Wrap a single silk rose around a napkin or use small cookie cutters or decorative beads as the ring. The ideas are endless on this one.
- Scatter a unique confetti that coordinates with your reception theme, season or colors. (check that yur reception center allows confetti first as many dont.)
- Place a small vase with a single rose at each place setting. Give them as favors.
- Wedding favors add that final touch to your tables and can be created in endless shapes, colors and themes. A simple, yet elegant, favor is to take 5 sugared almonds and wrap them in tulle circles. Tie with a beautiful ribbon and put one at each place setting, simple, traditional & not too fussy or silly.
- Skirt your tables to the floor for an elegant effect. White or ivory table linens work best and show off the table accessories and centerpieces. (You can rent these or sometimes purchase them from online stores for less.)
- Place card holders can also be as simple as a pear or apple slit to hold the place card. Decorate each one with ribbon or natural materials. This idea is great for outdoor garden-themed weddings.
Peacock Wedding Theme Decorating Ideas
Peacock feathers are a very colorful & gorgeous thing. I should however say that some people think they are bad luck.. I Do not know why & You know what…? I dont believe in those silly superstitions anyway! I say you make your own fete & a peacock feather here or there won’t change things! But if you are not sure you may want to look into it & decide if you believe them to be bad luck or not for yourself.
(Full credit for the above mood board goes to tastefully entertaining) Peacock feathers have beautiful colors & work well with many wedding color schemes. They work well with purples, greens, blues, blacks, silvers and whites. Also with brown & bronze depending on the shades.
Where to source them?
I found that many craft stores carry them or can order them in for you. As well as fabric stores, art supplies stores and Dollar stores. You can also find many online craft supplies stores or ebay stores. Make sure they deliver to your area though before you get your hopes up.
They are available in long or short with eyes, as well as the swords (without eyes and more feathery)
You can also get them as earrings which may be useful to dangle from a champagne flute as a wedding favour for female guests. I have also seen them with dyed stems so you can add them with another color like pink or yellow etc stems (otherwise the stems are a natural beige/white colour.)
What to do with them?
Centerpieces
Ask your florist to incorporate 2 or 3 only in amongst their arrangement, get them to use a low round fishbowl type vase with masses of short stemmed bright dark pink and purple flowers with lots of greenery. Have the feathers slightly taller than the flowers to stand out. A Purple table cloth works well too.
For a more subtle look and to highlight the peacock feathers you could use a tall vase with 3 long stemmed white lilys and some wicker or sticks or stick twinkle lights. Include 3-5 peacock feathers and use some of the swords (shorter greener peacock feathers that sometimes do not have an eye) that sit lower in the vase.
Also, you could use plain wicker & dodder vine to create a nest at the top of a vase, with a few feathers coming out the top.
Invitations
See above mood board – a card with a sleeve made out of colored card and the feather.
See below for pics of peacock papers & invitations – from Cristina Re papers
Placecards & napkin accents
Use a peacock paper (as above colourful or as below subtle) or place a feather on top of each napkin inside the napkin ring.
You can use peacock feathers in any manner of ways for your wedding (just dont go too overboard as they are a very colourful thing, max 3-5 used together in any one thing. Remember – less is sometimes more.
Have fun researching & don’t forget to comment on my article with your thoughts. If you end up having a peacock themed wedding, I’d love it if you could share the pictures with me & the rest of my readers after your big day.
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