How did you make really nice, yet extremely inexpensive centerpieces? Did you rent?

We themed ours "enchanted forest" for a reason haha- I'm using a lot of nature to decorate like pine cones and tree stumps and such. I know this is zero help to you but I would say search extensively online before giving up on an idea... I found the lanterns I'm using for roughly $3 bucks a piece after a few days of searching vs the $8 or so a piece for the same lanterns I saw elsewhere.

Consider buying vs. renting because you can sell them after. I bought lanterns at Hobby Lobby and plan on selling them. Since lanterns are big right now, they should sell easily and end up being like $3 per lantern (hopefully)

I'm renting candelabras from mine.

Ladies - please let me know about your laterns when you are done! i am actually looking for some for our wedding centerpieces .

and in terms of the cheap center pieces dilemma - there are renting sites where you can rent centerpieces. I know my friend is actually selling all of her parts together... so those things are out there. i would just search, search, search!

I love that idea though - i wouldn't say give up on it - maybe vases just aren't the way to go! i know that the dollartree by me sells vases online for about $3 bucks. you can also try thejarstore.com. They sell more than just jars . good luck!!!! you will end up with an absolutely lovely centerpiece! i have no doubt!

I'm actually doing the tall vases for our centerpieces. We are doing the tall vases with 3 calla lilies and white gel crystals at the bottom. I am renting them from the florist. Everywhere I looked for the glass vases were at least 30 or more depending how tall I wanted the vase, so I decided to go to a florist and hire them to do all the work. They are charging us $50 a centerpiece, yes its expensive, but i'm in jersey and don't have to do all the run around and work preparing the centerpieces and the day of. Maybe you should call some florists around you and get some quotes just so you can compare the price difference and have more of an idea.

I was thinking about doing the submerged flowers in a vase thing to and came across this site:

http://www.quickcandles.com/Set-of-36-Cylinder-Vases-and-3-Floating-Candles-p/cyl_fl_set_36.htm

You could do something like this:

My DJs company also rents center pieces. That might be an option?

I should also add that I saw very similar vases at ikea that I think were about $12-15 per set of three (I forget exactly, but I remember it being around $150 for 12). So depending on how many I need and how much shipping is, I may go the ikea route and just get the floating candles separately. I like that you can do whatever color flowers you want. They also had whole bunch of things to fill it, rocks, and sparkly things, balls that looks like they were made of twine, almost.

So... where is everyone re-selling their centerpiece components?

Does your venue by any chance provide anything? Our venue does provide centerpieces (while not very elaborate). They actually provide the gel beads, crystals in our wedding colors and the vases that we had planned on using. We are incorporating our original centerpiece idea with what the venue provides to pretty much diminsh our cost on centerpieces.

I got my vases from quick candles too @katie s they were a good price too

No, the venue we ended up choosing doesn't provide any of that. We're really disappointed about that, as they're a floral conservatory, and the other like it that we looked at provides all of their own flowers, BUT it's not the end of the world. We weren't planning on floral centerpieces, anyway.

Seriously, though, where do people resell their centerpiece stuff? We are thinking of looking into that, especially as what we're looking at seems to be a current trend.

I used vintage looking birdcages that i got from ross for like $5 i also used lanterns from IKEA $7 (very romantic looking) i used good silk flowers i bought them all at hobby lobby they have them 50% once a week i also used tall vases from dollar tree and floating candles. i also used mason jars which i bought at walmart. we also bought some real flowers from a whole same market near by so i used both silk flowers and real flowers. each table was different and it came out beautiful

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Try the dollar tree store. I got everything to make all 24 of my centerpieces for less than $70. You could always check their website and see if there is any vases you like.

Why don't you use smaller vases, put them on little mirrors and just have a candle in them? I'm sooooo digging that look.

My profile pic are mine and they are very simple yet perfect for my vintage theme.

You can resell on ebay. I bought cool looking wine glasses form the dollar tree for $1.00 each, artificial roses from ebay much cheaper on ebay than in the craft stores. I am going to place the rose then put the wine glasses upside down on top of the rose then place a flameless candle on top which would actually be the bottom of the wine glass.

I'm doing my own branch centerpieces, using real branches. With clay pots, paint flowers and jewels, I'm spending around $75 for 10 tables. That and then larger centerpiece for sign in/escort table and 2 small ones for head table and cake table. So 13 tables in all.

A lot of brides in my area resell on craigslist or Facebook swap sites