Alright… this was my original wedding idea, but grad school and the Air Force are making me change my plans. My idea are a lot of DIY, but you’ll save money and they will be completed the correct way.

I envision your centerpieces as huge sprays of dark wood branches.

http://www.save-on-crafts.com/manzanita2.html

You could spray paint them silver, darker, etc… depending on your taste.

Next step would be to put some plaster in a shallow vase and secure 3 of those branches in the vase (yes, it’s ugly). If you’d like you can spray paint the base or wrap it in fabric. The next thing you’d want to do is buy a TON of crystal beads in bulk in different sizes. Really sparkly ones, so when the lights hits them they glow. I would string those and hang them from the branches you secured in the face. You could use as many or as little as you like. I would personally “drip” them all over the branches.

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.bridalinsider.com/PhotoSwap/crystal%2520tree.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.bridalinsider.com/photosbycat.asp%3FPhotoCatID%3D3&h=340&w=270&sz=48&hl=en&start=4&um=1&tbnid=dOpuOXkNOAJa3M:&tbnh=119&tbnw=95&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dcrystal%2Btree%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DN

The picture is for inspiration… I’d use clearer crystals, with more sparkle. I think it would be a big wintery feel.. and pretty. On the table I would hide the base of the tree with pillar candles. I would buy 10-20 pillar candles in varying sizes

www.candles4less.com

and surround the crystal tree. The light would reflect of the crystals and give the room a super warm wintery feel. I would also cluster small votive candles around the table. If you wanted to incorportate white flowers, you can buy roses in bulk (200 roses for 209 dollars) from

www.fiftyflowers.com

You could either make a very low arrangement to cover the base of the branches in lieu of candles or if you did the candles place a few bud vases on the tables with rose heads in them. Now that I’m thinking about it, you could even incorporate blue beads.

To give the room an icy look I’d hire a lighting guy to wash the room in an icy blue color. This isn’t very expensive. All you need is some can lights on stands and place a light blue transparent isk over it.

If you’re worried about the cost of centerpieces you could do them very cheap using more or less beads. There are so many alternatives to this design.

If you do not like the branch look, I would visit fiftyflowers.com and pick up some white roses. I’d place a vase with 20 roses at each table with some votives surroudning it (I think from candles4less.com you can get 73 for 30 dollars). In the rose arrangement I would place crystal stems which you could make very cheap.

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.genevievemarie.com/images/simplicity2.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.genevievemarie.com/simplicityround.html&h=300&w=300&sz=25&hl=en&start=6&um=1&tbnid=Uw5zFkTP0GW1sM:&tbnh=116&tbnw=116&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dcrystal%2Bstem%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DN

All you need is beads and wire. On the site above they are 15 bucks.. for you to make them maybe a dollar. This would give the room another icy look. You could dress up the votives and vases with some blue ribbon wrapped around them.

Hope this helps.

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