Non Floral Altar Decoration Help

What are your colors? Wal-mart sells paper lanterns in lime green, baby blue, pastel pink, and white. They would sit perfectly on the vase in picture #2. But you'd want something within the vase, maybe just a single submerged flower wouldn't be too floral? Or marbles or something of that sort.

My unity candle/stand was decoration enough for the altar at my church. It was a beautiful marble altar, and that is all we were allowed to put on it, but it looked fine. We put 2 large flower arrangements in vases on the floor at both sides of the altar.

Yes, replace them with paper lanters. Here is a photo of a store window display that I saw in NJ that used the paper lanterns.

You could always do string lights on the alter as well. String mini lanterns or just neat bulbs of light, depending on your color.

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We are having lanters on shepards hooks down our aisle. Here is an example

Thanks ladies.. I'm looking for something to put on the altar The pews and aisles are set.. I'm just not sure how to make the altar flow.

To be honest the latterns are not my style... could you ,,, this is a stretch make the flower balls out of tissue paper?

No, I'm in graduate school now and need the quick and easy. I don't have the time unforunately to dedicate to make the flower balls