You Can Create Beautiful Wedding Centerpieces on a Budget

Since elegant simplicity is often the aim of sophisticated wedding centerpieces, you can easily make your own, often with very inexpensive materials which will look as lovely as any expensive centerpiece you could buy.

For instance, almost anything looks lovely in large glass bowls. You can fill these bowls with rose petals in your wedding colors (real or artificial,) surround them with wreathes of silk roses, and they will look wonderful.

Another idea is to wrap pairs of taper candles in plastic wrap, tie them with ribbon in your wedding colors, and set them in tall glass bowls at intervals on tables. Dust the tablecloth with confetti the same color as the ribbons on the candles, and let the candles double as favors for your guest to take home. You can also use smaller bowls and fill them with shorter, pillar candles wrapped and tied in the same way.

Silk roses or other silk flowers are wonderfully versatile in centerpieces. Here is how to make a beautiful centerpiece with just three silk roses

Gather:
A short glass vase (about the size of a juice glass)
3 silk roses in your choice of colors
6 votive candles in glass cups in white or a matching color
Rose petals (real or silk)
Silk ribbon in matching or complementary color
Moss
Florist foam
Hot glue gun

Cut the roses to measure about 4" , or the proper size for your vase. You may need to use wire cutters for this. Remove the leaves.

Use the glue gun to glue florist foam around the inside of the vase. Tie the ribbon around the rim of the vase and make a tight bow.Glue the center of the bow to the top of the vase to hold it in place.
Push the moss onto the foam in the vase. Glue in place.

Glue about six rose leaves to the moss.Push the three roses into the center of the moss and through the foam. Surround the vase with the six votive candles, sprinkle the table with the rose petals, and light the candles.