Centerpieces.. what ya'll think?

mummy2girls wrote: **Keep in mind my colors are ivory, black and powder Blue**

I would get some glass bowls/Vases. Fill them with powder blue crystal pebbles, and black crystal pebbles. Fill the bowls with water, and have an ivory floating candle on top. and thrown onto the table around bowls is rose petals or some other white/ivory flower.

Whatcha think?

Also... What did you guys give away as favors for each guest? Im kinda stuck on that one!

bawoodsmall replied:
Sounds fine but someone else may have a better idea. I am not crafty at all and it is exactly what we did. We didnt do favors because we couldnt afford it to be quite honest and I dont think you have to give people favors imo. I work at a private golf club and we do a ton of weddings and the only thing I can really think of I loved were people were given seeds to start a garden(like a new life is starting) and each person was given a truffle nicely wrapped which I am a chocolate hog and thought I would be stealing everyones. Hope you are having fun with all the planning.

Calimama replied: With the pebbles it reminds me of a fish tank. Maybe I just can't picture it right though.. I've never heard of doing favors at a wedding.. so I'm no help there. Good luck! I'm sure you'll pick something awesome.

AlexsPajamaMama replied: I like the seed packet idea....we did conversation hearts with wedding sayings on them for our favors.
Your center pieces sounds very nice!! I used the colored pebbles with mine too!

stella6979 replied: I'm not creative at all so I am no help, but I think what you described sounds very pretty.
As for the favors, my Brother and SIL did up CD's for everyone. They had a bunch of their favorite lovey dovey songs and a few upbeat songs and everyone loved them. I still listen to mine. Very inexpensive to do also!!

sparkys2boys replied: Sounds really cute!! Alot of people don't give out favours anymore at weddings, so don't feel that you have to, esp. if you are trying to keep costs down.

mummy2girls replied:
more like rocks... decorative ones.. not the tiny ones in a fish tank:)

mysweetpeasWil&Wes replied: I like the floating votive, but maybe skip the rose petals. They will wilt after a couple hours and you'll have so much else on the table, with glasses, cutlery, napkins, that they will just get lost under it all, kwim?

When are you getting married again? As in what is the season?

We got married in October, so I stuck with a lot of fall rustic type colors. I found maple candy shaped in small leaves and put them in small little boxes as favors. On the box, I embossed our initials and I think I put a little saying or poem inside the cover of the box. People loved them and I made them myself.

I would say keep it simple Shelly. People don't expect a whole lot. We were just at a summer wedding and her colors were aqua blue and brown. They had those small bird nests that you can find at a craft store in front of every place setting and inside were blue (her colors) candy covered almonds (that looked like eggs). It was really simple. I almost just like plain white votives around a table than a big centerpiece that some people move anyway.

CantWait replied: To be honest, I don't really like the idea. I like the idea of just votives around the table also. Keeps it simple and elegant. If you want colour you can also have them in the colours of your wedding.

As for favours I haven't seen them around in quite a long time either. I think people are realizing that it's something guests don't really appreciate. I never really have either. It's like you get something cheesy, and you don't know what to do with it, or if you get chocolate I actually feel quilty cause I don't want to open it.

Hillbilly Housewife replied: I haven't been to a wedding where there wasn't favors... and these past couple years I've been to about 15 weddings. (both from friends/family and from jobs)

Favors for mine.. I wrapped 2 hershey kisses back to back in red / pink cellophane, shoved a stick in there and wrapped green tape...added some leaves, those plastic rings and a little tag... i had them in "bouquets" on the tables.

The favors there were small bottles of wine (homemade, single serve bottles), small boxes of 2 chocolates, one of those cancer rubber bracelets (the groom's dad had died 2 months before the wedding)..but the NEATEST one I saw... is that there was a "candy bar", with little gift bags... and you could fill your own gift bag of candy of your choice. All kinds of candies... smarties, mini chocolate bars, jelly beans, etc etc... Really neat!!

I think those centerpieces would look kind of neat! I love floating candles.

luvmykids replied: Here, sometimes there are favors, sometimes they don't, totally your call. I think the centerpieces sound pretty but I also like the idea of the clear glass stones, or the blue glass ones, not so much like pebbles but glass balls, kwim?

A&A'smommy replied: I like the idea but make sure you use the teacup candles and not the rose candles

mummy2girls replied:
thats what i meant

Kaitlin'smom replied: I love the idea but if you can keep the glass containes shorter and flater, so they dont get into peoples way with seeing others at the table, basically find what you like, make one up and put it in the middle of the table then sit down, and if you can see over it then your good to go.

as for favors, I have seen lots of different things, basically keep it simple. The things that seem to go over the best is chocolate or candies.

the other thing thats fun to do if you can add a disposable camera to each table and ask yoru guest to take a picture or two and leave them (where ever you pick, and make sure someone, like a bridesmaid or groomsman is in charge of collecting them). its fun to see what your guest do.

luvmykids replied:
We did that, the guests got some really great candid shots that the photographer didn't

coasterqueen replied: I like the idea of the centerpieces. I guess I'm kind of mixed on the idea only because I can't seem to picture what it would look like. But I always say go with what YOU want. It's YOUR day, no one else's. There was a lot of "etiquette" things we did not do at our wedding because we did not want to do them and if no one didn't like it that was there problem because it was our day.

As far as favors, we were trying to go cheap and really couldn't afford them so we didn't do any. I've seen all kinds from really fancy to small -- and they were all appreciated, but you know what? I wouldn't have been upset if I didn't get one and 9 times out of 10 it was something that just cluttered up space and dust in my home. I did like the ones I could use like the coffee packet and little engraved coffee scoop, candy, things like that.

moped replied: Sounds nice.
Mine were just 2 red roses but looked nice
For favors we had a freind make the wine glass charms in black and white.....they were sort of original at the time

Calimama replied:
That's a really great idea.

bawoodsmall replied:
Exactly. Less is more imo. Those were the prettiest wedidngs we had. Can you do a vase of fresh flowers for every table? We had a bride who had a garden and did this herself. It was awesome!!!