Many months ago I paid around $200 for a bunch of preowned wedding decor- which included 36 cylinder vases on which I ended up painting a rose gold glitter bottom (see below). My idea was to buy pillar candles and have a flowerless centerpiece... however there’s a few setbacks to my terribly planned DIY method:
1) I only have enough vases for 12 tables and if everyone I invited shows up I will need 14 tables- so I would have to either buy more and go through the painting process again (ugh) or just hope 2 tables of people won’t come and worry about it the whole time.2) The pillar candles would be around $150 to buy and I feel that just the vases/candles is too plain so I’m struggling to find more things to buy (I bought one wood round to see what it would look like and it ended up cracking in half so that’s not going to work) to spruce it up but I’m afraid I’ll just end up spending too much.3) I have to bring all this stuff to the venue either the night before (if I’m lucky) or the day of my wedding and hope it is set up correctly by catering staff.
Since I do need a bouquet, I contacted a florist and I got a quote of $40/table for the floral centerpieces in the second picture below so it would be $560 for all 14 centerpieces. Also- they’d deliver so I don’t have to worry about that aspect.
Do I keep worrying about the DIY vase centerpieces and keep adding more cost/effort to it, or do I scrap the idea entirely and shell out $560 for peace of mind? It is less about the money (though I do hate spending money on flowers that will die) and more about the wasted effort and not using the vases at all. Also I would not resell them because honestly my paint job is not great...
