Be creative! You can mix feathers in with the flowers. Do you want it to be tall or flat? The floating candles and/or floating a big flower (hydrangea or sunflower) looks great and allows people to see each other if its a seated dinner…BUT it doesn't give you that BAM factor when you walk into the room.

I did really tall vases with multicolor glads that I ordered from Sam's Club. I arranged them myself. Though on the buffet tables I used the really large palm leaves. A friend cut open a pineapple and hollowed out the inside and filled it with flower petals. But yellow was one of her colors. Another friend is doing the same idea as a jackolantern but using different gords. She's carving Love, Faith, Hope, and other wedding words into it and putting candle inside the veggies.

One thing I saw recently that I thought was GORGEOUS was using sticks in a tall vase. Wrapped with Christmas lights. The sticks come out of the vase and arch like a tree as if it was growing. It was really pretty and August you could be going with fall colors or summer colors. If you are using fall colors, brown twigs go nicely.

Also if your colors are Apple-ish (red or green) and you have a talent for peeling an apple in one piece, using those peels on the table (instead of rocks) give an added burst of color and great smell.

My cousin is thinking about wrapping cinnamon sticks in a tight lil bundle and putting them on a candle stand like this
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Her colors are 2 shades of brown though–a dark brown and a lighter latte color. You could easily have a 3 candle stand and put candles on 2 of them.

Of course you can always do a simple wreath type of thing like people do at christmas but use your flowers instead. A big fat candle with flowers like this
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I mean it really depends on a bunch of factors. If your room is really tall you might want to do something with a lot of height to it. I've always liked the voltive trees for centerpieces but that can get quite pricey if you have 20 tables. How large are the tables? Rectangle tables you want to have a narrow centerpiece so its not taking up the whole place. My tables were really large so I ended up adding 5 votive candles and river rocks to the table around my centerpiece.

I like the big brandy sniffers–those huge glasses–the sell at Walmart and Michael's. Fill that up with your wedding color.

I've never been a fan of those ball-trees like this
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but I know a lot of people love them.

If you have a theme like "beach"–something like this is cute
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I saw on tv someone did gumball machines in the center of each table. It was very cute. Or Disney brides find a lot on ebay of 100 castle candle toppers or frogs wearing a crown with a sign "Happily Ever After". You can get a lot of those of like 50 or 100–which is far more than you need. Take out the 20 you want, and resell a lot of 80.

Is it a day wedding? Night wedding? Formal? Casual? Do you want height? Are your colors a neutral palette (so you'd need a more impressive centerpiece to jump) or something bright and bold (in which case may want a smaller centerpiece to not be overbearing). If you use live plants you can always plant them in your yard afterwards.

Also one good thing if you are tight with money–ask around at your church about the names of any of the recent brides. Often a bride now has 20 tall vases that she is stuck with that she'd be willing to sell for a fraction of the store price. Or river rocks and votives.

Look on yahoo and google images for wedding centerpieces and see if you are inspired by any of those. Cut out pictures of your flowers in magazines. Then you can play with it–since it will look completely different. If you are doing individual desserts (instead of traditional cake) you can arrange them as your centerpiece.

I hope these ideas give you some help. But really without knowing anything about you or your particular style of wedding–the options are far far wider than just flowers in a vase.

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