center pieces - for DS's wedding

PrairieMom wrote: I have been assigned the task of creating centerpieces for the tables at my sister's wedding next month, and I have a budget of $100 for a total of 5. I detest high center pieces that you can't see over/around so I wanted to do something low.
This is what I came up with. We will also be sprinkling Hershey's kisses and confetti on the tables.
So be brutal. What do you guys think? is this stupid?
I was also toying with the idea of getting those rhinestone initials and monogramming them, but I don't know if that would be to much.

They are picture frames, the size bigger than 8x10. What is that 11x15 or something? so it is the picture with glass on top



This is what it will look like with the candles.

Mommy2Isabella replied: I think it is cute! Will it be elevated at all, or just flat on the table?

PrairieMom replied:
I don't know. Right now it will be flat on the table, but I was toying with the idea of getting some large wine colored beads and making some low feet on them, so they would stand maybe 1/4 - 1/2 inch off the table. Do you think that would be better?

Kaitlin'smom replied: TBH I dont like it, it seems a little busy and if your adding kisses and confedi the picture and words will be lost, or are you not adding those on the frame?

moped replied: Very nice Tara - you are very creative!

PrairieMom replied:
I think we will put the kisses and stuff on the table. what you are looking at is the finished frame its self. Unless I put feet on and the monogramming. The out side edge is satin ribbon.

Kaitlin'smom replied: I think if you add the feet for a little hight and not put the confedi and kisses on the frame it would be great,but around it. I was invisioning it with all that on there and then it would be to much.

grapfruit replied: I'll have to think for a few min....I'm iffy. I guess I'm not envisioning it correctly. But I think you need a little height for a centerpiece. I mean depending how big the tables are you won't be able to see it unless you pick it up KWIM?

What if you put it in small stands and do two back to back or three in a triangle so you can read it while sitting? And then maybe some flowers right in the middle that just crest the top...I'll try and do a mock up so you KWIM.

Mommy2Isabella replied: I think elevating the frame would be great!! ... with it flat and then the confetti and kisses all our it would be lost IMHO!!

lovemy2 replied: My opinion - I think they are very nice and very creative - I would elevate them - skip the rhinestones and the kisses and just use the confetti - Nice Job Tara!!!

Calimama replied: I don't like it too much. It kinda looks like you just put a candle ontop of a picture frame. Sorry.

ETA: I do like the idea of somehow making it stand so it can be read.

Hillbilly Housewife replied: Tara... make it stand. Grab a slim vase and put one or two red roses in it, with some silver ribbons, and sprinkle the kisses around it. Put the candles areound the vase...and the frame to the side. I think that having it flat will make it too difficult to read... you'd have to get up and lean over the table to get a good look, kwim?

It is gorgeous though. It just needs to be upright...

TANNER'S MOM replied: I am iffy. I can see doing the pictures on one table..the recieving table..gift table. But not on every table. I am not trying to be mean.

A simple center piece..the goldfish bowl with a floating candle. I think the candle light sets the mood.

jcc64 replied: I think the frames are beautiful, but not necessarily as centerpieces. I agree that if you found some way to prop them up back to back- that might be a better solution.
I like Mel's idea about the floating candles in a fishbowl- it's more atmospheric, kwim?

PrairieMom replied:
That was my original idea, but my sister's florist said that it was to 80's and talked her out of it. It would have been so much easier. This was my spin off of that idea, with adding a personal touch.

The tables are smallish, and round, sitting 8 on 3 and 9 on the other 2, so they can't be to terribly big. My only problem with standing them up and doing a taller arrangement is that you won't be able to see over them to the person across from you.

Maybe I need to scrap the whole idea and start over. I haven't invested that much yet. anyone know what I can do with 25 votive candles?

Kaitlin'smom replied: place them on mirrors with the kisses and confedi sprinkled around

PrairieMom replied: Oh, and don't feel bad for being honest, I would rather hear it from you guys that have people talking about it behind my sisters back at the wedding. KWIM?

BTW, she says she likes them, esp if I elevate them with feet. I think she is just being nice about it tho, since she really doesn't want to spend a ton of $ and could really sare less what I throw in the middle of her tables.

TANNER'S MOM replied: I like the mirror idea with candles. You can always use the candles at the wedding.

holley79 replied: Maybe use two glass beads to give it kind of a little slope so it can be seen and turned around on the table a bit to be looked at. Do you have to put the candles on the picture?

PrairieMom replied:
I do to. Cheap, simple, easy. But I don't know if my Sister will go for it, since her florist blew my mirror/ candle idea out of the water.

PrairieMom replied:
no, do you think I would be better with out the candles?

holley79 replied:
I was thinking if you give it a slope then people wouldn't have to stand to read/ look at it. W/ it sloped of course it couldn't have the candles on it. kwim?

Kaitlin'smom replied:
show her what it will look like, it really is simple but beautiful, espically if you light them, the color reflection of the candle, kisses and confedi woudl be stunning. Its not her florests wedding so who cares on her opinion

momofone replied: Maybe put one voltive candle floating in a wine glass and make a circle around the frame with the wine glasses with the candles in them?

CantWait replied: I like it. I think once elevated evenly it'll be great great. If it stands up, then you really have to use more then one, like maybe two or three pictures all together on the table so that people across from the pictures back don't see the back of the frame the whole night. Then you get into it being just a bunch of pictures on the table rather then creating something like you've done. I think it's a great idea though, very creative and different.

sparkys2boys replied: Ok, here is my two cents worth..lol. Are the guests going to only be on one side of the table?? If not standing the picture up wont really work, people at the back of it will only see the back of the frame.. not very flattering. I like the idea of a flat peice of mirror on the table with pillar candles on it.. or even votives in a glass holder then what about sprinkling rose petals (or whatever flower she is using) around the glass and the candles?? Or, how about a hurricane lamp vase filled with those colored( kinda clear looking) rocks and then adding one HUGE pillar candle to the middle of it?? It would look so nice when lit and the glass rocks in the hurricane lamp would shimmer with the light.. I dunno.. just some ideas for ya!! Good luck with it all!!

luvmykids replied: If the frame is big enough you could keep it flat but put it on a lazy susan so people can turn it to look at it, kwim? Plus that may elevate it just a little more .than the glass feet would. You could still spread the wine colored glass/rocks (sorry, I forgot what it was you mentioned) around the lazy susan to help disguise it and use candles on two sides or something.

lovemy2 replied: Here was my idea for my wedding but my MOM blew it out of the water - I wanted to donate all the money we would have spent on favors to a charity and put a small frame with a note from Dave and I that we did just that - but like I said being the italian Mom I have we HAD to have favors at the wedding