Centerpiece Ideas for Your Wedding Reception Table

The centerpiece for your wedding reception tables is a key ingredient in your overall wedding reception decor. After your focal point around which you will build the look that you are trying to achieve, the centerpieces on each individual table are perhaps the most significant decoration in a wedding reception because it is what your guests will see most often. Fortunately, with a little thought you can develop centerpieces for your wedding reception tables from the following ideas that will match your theme without necessarily costing an arm and a leg!

• Gel Candles: Table centerpieces do not have to be tall. No one wants to talk to someone across the table from them while trying to peer through an over sized centerpiece. For this reason a seasonally designed gel candle paired with a swath of fabric or a handful of sand to match the wedding colors and theme can create a simple, yet tasteful centerpiece while being quite inexpensive.
  
• Upside-Down Wine Glasses: Place three complimentary, yet different sized wine style glasses (feel free to use any variety including martini glasses, Champagne glasses, and / or wine flutes) upside down over flower blossoms which will be displayed under the bowl of the glass. Next place three appropriately sized candles on the upside down foot of each glass and light for an elegant display.
  
• Bridesmaids Bouquets: One common complaint during wedding receptions is that the bridesmaids bouquets get in the way. They no longer need them and certainly don't want to have to carry them around, but what do you do with them? An increasingly popular option is to use the bouquets as centerpieces in your reception. This might mean paying the florist to make more bridesmaids bouquets than you have bridesmaids, depending on the size of the wedding and the number of your attendants, but this will be somewhat offset by the fact that you are getting dual usage out of the money you spend on your bridesmaids bouquets.
  
• Potted Plants: Done well, this can be elegant. Again, for the most part you want to find small potted plants from your local nursery and re pot them into decorative ceramic pots. The exception to the height rule is this: If you can find elegant topiarys with a single stem or stalk holding the sculpted plant above sight lines at your table. This enables you to add a dramatic touch to your reception without interfering with your guest’s ability to talk to each other.
  
  After your reception, send your potted plant centerpieces home with your guests to save trying to figure out what to do with your centerpieces afterwards. There are always people who would love to take a potted plant home to add to their collection, making for a simple solution to your dilemma.
  
  On the other hand, you could choose small plants that you would like to have in your yard. In this case, make plans for family or some of your attendants to plant your live plant centerpieces on your property so you will have a living reminder of your big day and the vibrant life of true love.

Check back tommorrow for more Centerpiece ideas for your wedding reception table (of course, if you want you could always adapt them for your holiday centerpieces as well!)