Center pieces did you make your own?

Is anyone out there making, or have made their own center pieces???
If you did, are you glad you did?
If you are planning on it doing it whats your budget per table?
AND is it worth it???


We are thinking of doin our own, and have started to get some things for them, we are a very crafty couple so think it wont be bad, but we were wondering about other peoples experiences.....

TIA

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Posted by Kimbalina

Is anyone out there making, or have made their own center pieces???
If you did, are you glad you did?
If you are planning on it doing it whats your budget per table?
AND is it worth it???


We are thinking of doin our own, and have started to get some things for them, we are a very crafty couple so think it wont be bad, but we were wondering about other peoples experiences.....

TIA

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I am totally doing my own! I refuse to spend 50-100 on flowers that are going to die. I have actually begun to get stuff for the centerpieces. As of now, my centerpieces will be less than 20.00 each

We're doing our own.....sort of

We're buying all of our own stuff and having our DOC put them together for us ........ they are simple centerpieces though......tall vases with french tulips. I can't remember the price but I THINK all together each one will cost around $25-30 for each table. We thought that was a pretty good price We're doing all of our own bouquets as well.............

WOW! Ok that is awsome. I am hoping that we can do ours for around the same price. We are doing:
Square tall vases with birch branches, some colored pink and black stones inside with candels around.
I had seen something like it at a bridal showcase and I think we can pull it off...

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Posted by Kimbalina

WOW! Ok that is awsome. I am hoping that we can do ours for around the same price. We are doing:
Square tall vases with birch branches, some colored pink and black stones inside with candels around.
I had seen something like it at a bridal showcase and I think we can pull it off...

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From the description, I think you can pull that off for a GREAT price! It sounds so beautiful! LOVE birch branches......we were going to use them too, but then changed our flowers and didnt' think they matched with the tulips that well........

We're sort of making our own.... We're providing almost all of the materials needed for them and giving it to the florist to put together with a little bit of added flowers. We're having a fall wedding and wanted something different but still fall-like.



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We did a little trial run tonight and we LOVED it... it is exactly what we were hoping for! Looks like with the nifty micheals coupons we will spend less then $20- a center piece!
Thank you ladies for your advice!

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Posted by KMTree

We're sort of making our own.... We're providing almost all of the materials needed for them and giving it to the florist to put together with a little bit of added flowers. We're having a fall wedding and wanted something different but still fall-like.

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That is a neat idea!! it looks so origional!

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Posted by Kimbalina

We did a little trial run tonight and we LOVED it... it is exactly what we were hoping for! Looks like with the nifty micheals coupons we will spend less then $20- a center piece!
Thank you ladies for your advice!

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thats how we did ours too. little by little we went to AC Moore with their 40% and 50% off coupons and bought all the materials. It took some time, but it was well worth the savings.

P.S. -- i would LOVE to see pics of your trial run!!!

No pics yet, because we kinda used what had around, but there will be pics in the future!

Thank you for the advice...money saved here and there really helps!

I am doing my own like other i refuse to pay $$$$ for cps...first i was going to do beta fish but now i am only using the fish at my guest sign in table I am thinking of using green limes and some sort of flowers on top....going to AC Moore tomorrow to get ideas from the expert then going to florist to get ideas on how much i need to make it look full....i am going short not tall....my craft room looks like and extension of AC Moore and Michaels artificial flower section

Ohhh ok, I saw the Beta set up and thought it was cute. Although I dont want a fish when it is over!! I will already have a husband!!

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Posted by Kimbalina

Ohhh ok, I saw the Beta set up and thought it was cute. Although I dont want a fish when it is over!! I will already have a husband!!

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We're doing our own--24 roses from freshroses.com, in simple cylinder vases, surrounded by votives. The hall provides four clear glass votives per table, and I bought a lot of pale yellow frosted votive holders, so there will be a lot of candles! Also there's the table number, which I'm not sure exactly what to do with yet. That's it, I don't want too much 'stuff' on the tables. We might put down rose petals as I think we'll have plenty of extra from doing the roses.

In the end this will cost us:
$15 for the roses
$4 for vase
$5-$6 for the votives and candles
(plus all the shipping charges, which together is probably $2 a table.)

The only thing I haven't decided is if I'm going to tie ribbon around the vases yet. Haven't bought the vases--need to!--so once they arrive I'll make a decision. Otherwise, we're doing really well budget-wise. Of course, my FH doesn't understand why we have to put anything on the table, but that's another story!