A Beautiful Spring Wedding Centerpiece for Your Tables
Spring is coming soon and the deadline for spring weddings are drawing near. It’s time to seriously be thinking about your wedding decorations particularly your reception centerpieces. Here are some great new ideas for spring wedding centerpieces and flowers in keeping with the bright and lovely coming of the season.
As you choose your theme and colors, the pretty pastels and seasonal flowers come to mind.
Flower such as tulips, peonies, daffodils, lilies and daisies are perfect for a bright, light spring centerpiece; and, of course, using seasonal flowers will save you a pretty penny as well.
There are so many kinds of flower containers you can use, other than vases, and below are 9 new ideas for you to use or to inspire your own creative ideas.
Umbrellas
You can use umbrellas in various ways depending upon your theme but here are some general things you can do.
Get some child size umbrellas and turn them over and fill them with real or silk flowers.
Then, wrap flowers around the handle and stretch out strings of clear teardrop beads from the top of the handle to the edges to look like drops of rain.
Another idea is to get some large lace, or themed related fabric — umbrellas with long handles and set it up on the table to open above the guests heads — make it high enough so people aren’t banging their heads — and you can do so many things with the handle and the area around the base of the umbrella.
You can use tiny umbrellas surrounded by flowers and other interesting, theme-related, things can bring a really interesting element to the center of your table.
Using Watering Cans as Wedding Centerpieces
Watering Cans
You can get some interesting looking watering cans with a pretty mixed bouquet of flowers overflowing over the top and place them in the center of the table surround with silk flower petals.
They can also be used as a great accent piece for spring/summer weddings; for example, like on the buffet table at the right.
And don’t think that watering cans should only be used with a rustic type of wedding.
The range of watering cans available online now means you can use them in everything from the most informal wedding to a ritzy, formal wedding.
Terra Cotta Pots
You can make a theme-specific painted terra cotta pots and fill them with plants, flowers, clear or colored glass beads, or any number of things.
You can also use them as centerpiece snack bars, just get a small lazy Susan and 5-6 smaller pots on it then put a selection of candies, dried fruit, nuts, and other tasty snacks.
Terra cotta pots can even double as a wedding favors.
You can either have the favors — seed packets, framed photos, etc., even several selections — in the pots and tell your guests to take one.
Alternatively, you can use the pots themselves as favors by having enough for each guest at the table and fill them with great gifts; then each guest can just pick up a pot to take with them.
Using Bird Nests as Wedding Centerpieces (MarthaStewart.com)
Bird Nests
Nests can be filled with all kinds of things:
- Colorful faux eggs
- Stemless, or very short-stemmed, flowers
- Christmas balls
- White or colored lights
- Glass beads
- Even a nice vase filled with flowers or other things
- Use your imagination
You can also use votive candles around the nests for a nice romantic atmosphere just be sure they are not to close to the nest for fire safety.
Small Bird Houses
Small bird houses can be painted or wallpapered and decorated in your wedding colors and set on a bed of florist moss with scattered flowers or petals around is a really pretty spring look.
You can also give your guests some adorable miniature birdhouses for their own “Love Nests”, these are particularly nice if you are planning around a outdoor or garden theme wedding.
An Edible Fruit Basket Spring Centerpiece
Baskets
Fill an attractive basket with colorful garden vegetables and/or fresh fruit.
You can even use this as your appetizer course or dessert course to save money on your food costs.
Make sure they are fresh and not very perishable if you will be doing the centerpiece a few days ahead of time.
Mason Jars
For a informal wedding centerpiece that is really fun and looks great, fill a mason jar with the flowers of your choice.
Tie a satin or lace bow in your theme colors around the top of the jar and place a small pillar candle on each side to add romantic soft glow to the table.
You can also use these centerpieces as favors in a similar fashion to some of the other ideas above.
Pastel Bowls
You can get some inexpensive pastel bowls and use them to create some very interesting wedding centerpieces.
You can get them at the mall, online or find vintage pastel bowls at swap meets and yard sales.
When you have the bowls just fill them with a nice selection of wrapped candy.
Then places some round mirrors on the tables and put the bowls on them;they will be slippery so, depending upon the bowl, tape or glue some inexpensive rubber pads to the bottom of them to help them from sliding all around.
You would then top it off by scattering more candies around it, some glass beads, some metallic confetti, or other theme-related things on the mirrors.
Be sure to make the centerpieces look bountiful!
Herbs and Mint Plants
Get some small pots of herbs and mint and arrange the pots on some florist moss and use it as a centerpiece.
The look is amazing although it doesn’t fit in all situations and, as a bonus, you get the wonderful scent of the herbs!
Be sure to invite each guest to take a pot from the centerpiece as a wedding favor when they leave.
Spring Wedding Table Decor
The Wedding Table with A Pastel Tablecloth
You’ll, of course, want to tie your table decor into what you are doing for the spring wedding centerpieces.
This can be done in a number of ways such as:
- Table runners in pastel shades of your theme colors.
- Pastel cloths with petals scattered across the cloth.
- Matched napkins with a single long stem flower nestled in it.
- Matching chair covers in the theme and centerpiece colors make a very coordinated table for the guests to enjoy.
- You may even choose to use gingham or lace runners if they would fit your style and theme.
You can follow the lead of the spring newly blooming flowers, all the lovely pastel colors and of course, your theme and your imagination to make your spring-time wedding centerpieces something to remember for a long time.
I would love to hear your ideas for lovely spring wedding centerpieces. Please comment below!!
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