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Dressing your venue > Centre Pieces: Basic cost effective table centrepieces?

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- CommentAuthorEmmaB196
  
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Hi all
I'm getting married in August on a very small budget (of which I've just blown a huge chuck on my dress) so need some costs effective centrepieces that maybe could double as favours?

I loved the idea of a fishbowl with flowers and candles in but pricing them up I seem to be looking at around £60 for the insides and about the same for the bowls (for 7/8tables) which seems far too expensive.

Does anyone have any tips where I can get them cheaply, or alternative ideas? Today I saw vases filled with "old skool" sweets which I love the idea of but not sure if it will look cheap and tacky?

Help - please!!??

Thanks!
- CommentAuthorKimD7
You can buy the fish bowls for 2.99 in bargain shops....
I am using vases form a well down furituture shop with single flowers in, lil paper lanterns , black table runner, black crystals, lil red bags with chocs in, plack card place names , champage glass bubbles and silver scatter mini champagne glasses
- CommentAuthorOWB
I think sweets is a fab idea, people will love it.

Another inexpensive alternative is a fruit bowl. Like this:
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Or books:
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- CommentAuthorNicoleee_x
i really like the idea of the sweets and as you said they could double as the wedding favours. I used to work at a wedding venue and never seen anybody have sweetie centrepieces i think it's a fab idea !!
- CommentAuthorLinzi-jo
Sweet trees are quite popular at the moment (there is actually a thread on here that was made by Brilly (forum member) showing you how to DIY them). They look really effective and people can take the sweets off of the trees to eat and take home with them, plus they can work with any colour scheme as you can pick sweets to match it! xxx

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- CommentAuthorMrsMoran
The sweets idea is definitely a good way to double the centrepieces as favours xxxx
- CommentAuthorsarah
Candles are really nice if they are allowed.
- CommentAuthorGlitterfairy
I had sweets in my fish bowls with lights and organza. Have you looked locally into how much it would cost to hire them? I was going to buy but ended up hiring as the woman gave me a good price and I probs would have ended up paying more if I purchased everything myself.

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- CommentAuthorAmyK
Mine are foam flowers in vases from charity shops, and in the bottom will be some £1.99 battery operated fairy lights amongst some scrunched up opaque material to match the colour scheme.

Depends on your theme, but pebbles and shells look nice, as do pine cones. Big candles are available at a really good price from the big green supermarket - it's where I got mine.
- CommentAuthorMichelleB2b
You can get the bowls from cheap shops quite easily and they work out a good price, AND you could then sell them afterwards to get some of the money back!
- CommentAuthorOfficially Mrs M
the bowls for £2.99 are plenty big enough hun and you could put candles in with just some sand or even water beads if you wanted to go down that route, bay of e has then really cheap you just need to grow them in a bowl of water.

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- CommentAuthorOfficially Mrs M
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- CommentAuthorNEDebz
Set up a notification on the bay, thats what I did, did a search and then saved it so the bay sends me daily emails of new things listed. I ended up getting 8 hurricane vases in red (my theme) with candles, sand and mirror plates for a total of 99p!!!

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- CommentAuthorHayley Elizabeth
Fantastic idea to do saved searches, gonna do that myself now! 99p wowzer! xx
- CommentAuthorMrsC2bee
NEDebz how do u do that email thing Is it on 3bay? Sounds fab and something I'd like to do x
- CommentAuthorKatherineR45
i found a load of really pretty old glass medicine bottles at my Dad's house and have filled them with artifical flowers, total cost for 10 tables £4.98! I'm really pleased with them fits in with our 'rustic' theme and I'm a pharmacy tech so ties in with what I do x
- CommentAuthorMichelleB2b
KatherineR45 that is such a good idea, I really like the personal touch!
- CommentAuthorEmilycakes89
How about a 3 tier cake stand with little organza bags filled with sweets on it, you could tie a little tag on each bag with peoples names :) You could also dot a few artificial flowers on there so it doesn't look bare when people take the sweets away
- CommentAuthorMrsA-J
Sometimes my local poundland have plastic bowls. I know there not glass but youd get same effect?
Although Im not sure if the heat would melt the plastic? lol

keep your eye on ebay!
Debz you got a fantastic bargin!
All the 99p starts I see end up going for going on £50!
- CommentAuthorMrsThomson2B
try the swedish homeware store... you might get glass bowls there, order some coloured glass beads and floating candles or get cheap flowers the day before wedding and ask venue to put flower heads in bowls for centre pieces xx
- CommentAuthorsarah
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- CommentAuthorKatya
I am using jars from 99p shop and fake flowers from there and the elm of dun the black flowers from elm of dun were the most expensive at £2.49 for each stem which had 3 black flowers on.

In total for 6 centre pieces I have spent £22.44 This includes...
6 jars
6 black flowers
42 red flowers
6 litres of water pearls in 2 seperate colours (Red & Black)

I will have 1 black flower surrounded by 7 red flowers tied in a little posie inside a jar containing water pearls. I will be using these as thank yous for the parents after the meal.

Works out at £3.74 each (pics on my wedding diary thread)

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- CommentAuthorKatya
I have noticed alot of people have suggested "Candles if they are allowed" well the shop where everything is £1 have LED pillar candles that are battery operated, I have bought one for my remembrance section, they just need batteries!

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- CommentAuthorlouise5
im having 12 tables with bird cages and fake flowers on a mirror.
and 12 tables with a tall glass vase on a mirror with a single rose inside with white salt!!
my bird cages was £4 each.
fake flowers £40 for a box.
mirrors £2 each.
tall glass vases £3 each. heres some pics of cages.. x
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- CommentAuthorx~Hails~x
Try on the bay or even the book of face selling groups for brides who are selling off things after their days, can work out cheaper for you and Ive got some fab bargains this way!

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- CommentAuthorCatrinaP
iv just may,d centre pieces for my tables from branches from the woods sprayed silver n gold silver pails oasis and 3 different colours of fake flowers to match my colours battery lights and silver chains with hearts on them to hang from branches going to finish of with herbs hanging down the pails nearer the time x
- CommentAuthorMrsHarrison
  
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We had sweet trees for our centrepieces just under 3 weeks ago. I was worried it would look cheap & tacky too but it really really didn't! Honestly it looked fab, we didn't have the really big ones because I didn't want them to be 'in your face' if you know what I mean.. Ours were quite small but still very effective and they double up as favours too! :)

There's a photo of the tables in my "The Big Day!" photo album on my page xx
- CommentAuthorMrs T. 2 Be
W3dding M.@ll. AmerZon & bay of E is where i got our bits from to make our centre pieces.

£36.00 for 10 fish bowls (WM)
£4.00 for 2600 purple gems (A)
£19.80 for 10 mirrors (WM)
£8.50 for 3.8kg of Purple Sand (WM)
£8.50 for 3.8Kg of White sand (WM)
£15 for 12 silk purple gerberas (A)
£12 for 24 glittery butterflies (E)

Theres a picture in my creations/diy photo album.

Works out at just over £10 per centre piece.

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- CommentAuthorFinally Susan B
  
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Sweet trees are very easy to make and look lovely. A pot/mini bucket, stick covered in ribbon, foam ball and sweets/lollies stuck in.

I also saw a pic of a simple pillar candle in the centre of a mirror plate (our venue provide those free, maybe yours will?) tea light candles around the edge and scatter crystals on the plate. Looked very effective

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