Centerpiece giveaway

What is a centerpiece give away? Like a game to give your centerpieces to the guests?

Talk to your venue. They might let you keep it there over night and pick up in the morning. If not designate someone to collect all the stuff so you can sell it. And make sure you make an announcement that people CANNOT take the centerpieces home. We are renting ours and my family loves taking them so I have to let people know its not a take home thing.

Emmy yes, I have seen people put a penny under one seat or say whoever's birthday is the closest gets to keep it.

Melissa we need to get everything out that night and we wont even have a car so I just don't want to deal with it. I got the vases for $60 off craigs list so its not a big deal.

I coordinated with the venue to have all of my flowers, including centerpieces, donated to a local nursing home the next morning. I also gifted my bouquet to DH 90 year old grandmother, who was really touched. The bouquet was heavy, so I was totally ready to get rid of it though...Lol.

Mrs. K I love that idea...I will have to ask the venue how that would work.

I'm bringing mine home with me because, the bowls I will use for entertaining in the future, the candles are remote controlled battery operated ones. My mom bought a set and we bought a set so we're going to use those after. The pearls are beads that my mother uses to make jewelry.

Our florist/event designers stay on site for the entire night, and while the dancing wraps up they make bouquets out of the centerpiece flowers for all the guests to take home, that way nothing goes to waste. They don't give away the entire centerpiece because (a) they are HUGE, like 6 feet tall; and (b) the vases and such are their own to reuse for other events.

Perhaps you could get a few bridesmaids at the end of the night to pluck stems for guests, and hand them out at the end of the night as a thank you?

My mother is bring ours home and then I am going to take floral arrangements to a nursing home I use to volunteer at the next day.

We're giving ours to a local nursing home, but if not, I would have let it just be first come first serve.

All our centerpieces are vintage glass--most of it was thrifted for a couple of dollars a piece. We are using a system of stickers--anything with a green sticker on the bottom will be free to take. We don't have the room and I don't think it'll be worth the hassle of selling. This is because we will have some of our personal items mixed in (vintage crystal decanters and bowls, etc) that we do not want to be taken. Our wedding is on the smaller side of medium, and we know everyone who is coming, so we don't feel nervous about this system of giving things away. I think it might be more difficult if you think that people will possibly be catty about who gets what. The only thing about a "give away"--what if the person who wins doesn't want it? I think an option could be to let people who want to put "raffle tickets" (as simple as their names on a piece of paper) in a box, and then just draw names for the number of centerpieces you have. That way it's fair and only the people who care about taking them home get to.

If you got it for that cheap I would say give them away. I know in my family we usually just say the oldest person at the table gets it because usually my aunts are the ones that want it. You could do whoevers wedding anniversary is closest to yours. If the person that wins doesn't want it then the next closest/ oldest. Whatever works, keep it simple.

But I like the nursing home idea. I think I might try looking into that too!

We are letting the guests take the centerpieces, except for two tables and the main table. All the other centerpieces will be up for grabs.

That sounds like a game show also presumptuous that all of your guests want to play for ypur centerpieces. Donate them or if someone wants them just let them have it.

My sister did this at her wedding. One person at each table put a dollar in...passed the dollar around the table during the song. When the song ended, whoever had the dollar got to keep it and the person that put the dollar in got to keep the centerpiece.

Yeah I don't really want to do a game. Im probably just going to tell people if they want them they can take them. I would like to donate them, maybe I can ask someone in my family to handle that but it seems like it will be a pain

I'm going to go ahead and second Emmy on this one. Don't assume your guests want your centerpieces. If someone asks, let them know if they can take it or not. I highly doubt you are going to have people fighting over who gets to take home your centerpieces.

Yeah I mean obvioulsy probably less then half would want them its not like they have to take them.

I think I will just go with word of mouth take them if you want them. I feel like games etc are more for showers.

I guess this depends on your guests. The ladies in my family always want to take the centerpieces home (including me) because we loove flowers. My grandma saw pics of my sample centerpieces & already told me she wants to take one home. So I might just say the oldest person at the table gets to take it or something.

ETA: The last bridal shower I went to gave the centerpieces away by asking each person at the table to choose a # from 1-15. I wouldn't do that at my wedding but i thought it was fine for a shower. I won the centerpiece. It was a tea party theme. So pretty I was happy to win it

I gave my centerpieces away at the end of the night on my first marriage. There were no games attached to it.

I had the DJ make an announcement at the end of the night. Thank you all for coming, anyone that would like a flower arrangement to take home please feel free to do so.