what if you don't want to give away your centerpieces

what if you don't want to give away your centerpieces

I am supplying the vases for the florist to use for the centerpieces but I want to reuse them down the road. How do I indicate that people cannot take them?

Re: what if you don't want to give away your centerpieces

That's going to be tough. Most people expect that the centerpiece can be taken home. I guess you can tell the waiters prior to the reception ending to take out the flowers and present them to someone at the table, only thing is you would have to come up with a way to say who gets them.

Re: what if you don't want to give away your centerpieces

Re: what if you don't want to give away your centerpieces

At my cousins wedding... the Waiters actually took the centerpieces away... but they took all the flowers out and made bouquest for every guest... Then the vases were sent back to the florist but everyone got a nice lil bouqet, it was like 2 cala's with some greens... I thought it was really thoughful!

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Re: what if you don't want to give away your centerpieces

Re: what if you don't want to give away your centerpieces

I went to a wedding where someone came in and took the CPs & created little bo-ks for all the women to take home. So noone took the vases & had a cute little bo-k of lillies as another favor! Maybe ask your florist if he'd do that?

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We didn't do any sort of CP giveaway, and only one person took one. She was an IDIOT, though (Who leaves early and takes a CP???)... If you don't do a giveaway thing, most people won't take them... If you see someone leaving with one, just say 'I'm so sorry, but the vases are rented and I have to give them back to the florist.' Tell your maitre'd this and s/he will stop anyone trying to escape with a CP!

Re: what if you don't want to give away your centerpieces

We didn't say anything and no one tried to take the vases, people took the flowers from the top, but not the vases. I think most people expect that the vases are from the florist and not to be taken home.

Re: what if you don't want to give away your centerpieces

We didn't do a giveaway but, it looked like a lot of people took the centerpieces from their tables at the end of the night. If you want to keep the vases, I'd say something or have them taken away and the flowers put into bouquets as the others above had said.

Re: what if you don't want to give away your centerpieces

Re: what if you don't want to give away your centerpieces