Wedding Planning and the Holiday Season: Tip Number Two

The holiday season – that decorative centerpiece of the year between Thanksgiving and New Years – is unique to every other time of the year in that there is no other time of the year when there is as much entertaining taking place. This presents a huge opportunity for the savvy bride. This is because the holiday season gives the bride-to-be an opportunity to play with her plans for her wedding reception tables.

Hosting a party this Christmas season? Use the opportunity to create as many different centerpieces as you like and see how you like them. Once you’ve had an opportunity to evaluate them, depending on your design, it is usually not difficult to add a couple of Christmas related touches and in doing so create some fun and interesting centerpieces for your Holiday party.

Your options for your centerpiece designs are nearly as endless as your imagination. Whether you want to place a gel candle on a Styrofoam block for height and disguise the block with greenery. Or you might want to use the water and fire theme floating candles in crystal bowls of water. Or a floral arrangement in square or triangular vases lined with sliced citrus. Or a topiary, or decorative bottles – really, anything that is visually interesting, allows for sight lines across the table, and complements your wedding theme.

Of course, don’t forget to consider the setting for your centerpiece. By this we mean the placement of your display. How is the rest of the table dressed? Does the shape and size of the table draw your eye to your centerpiece? Is the overall effect satisfying?

Of course, that is the benefit of using your holiday entertaining to figure out your wedding reception table centerpiece designs – you have an opportunity to try all these things out in a live setting without having to wait until your wedding when it is too late to do anything about it to see if your centerpiece design works.