Wedding Centerpieces on a Budget

Decorations are one of the most crucial parts of weddings. The centerpiece on the table for a wedding reception is also an important part of the wedding decorations. Even if you are having a wedding on a budget, you can still have attractive decorations to have the perfect wedding and reception: the key is in making your own decorations. This will help you show your own creativity as well as help in cutting costs.

Ideas for Inexpensive Wedding Centerpieces
Rather than going for a ready-made centerpiece found in the market, it is better to buy some of the basic required things and make it at home. The following are some ideas for making wedding centerpieces, when on a budget.

Centerpiece with Flowers
Traditionally centerpieces were made only of flowers. It is still considered as one of the most attractive and inexpensive ideas. Calla lily, carnations and roses are considered as the best flowers for making centerpieces. Specially, the calla lily centerpieces look simple, yet graceful. If you make use of an attractive and elaborate vase, any kind of flower looks amazing in it.

Centerpiece with Water
You can buy a glass or colorful low shallow bowl and fill it with water. Submerging tea lights or colorful decorative candles in water is one of the most inexpensive options for centerpieces. Secondly, you can even add multicolored dye, petals, beads, etc. to the water and keep it as a table piece.

Centerpiece with Candles
Candles of different colors, shapes and sizes can be used to make creative centerpieces. Wine or champagne glass candles when lit on the table look captivating. You can either have more than 2 wine or champagne glass candles at the center of the table or simply arrange them all around the table. Secondly, having a centerpiece of pillar candles of varying sizes and colors is also a good option.

Miscellaneous Ideas
Apart from the aforementioned ones, you can use the following ideas to make wedding centerpieces on a budget.

• You can spread colorful craft or silk flowers on the table or put them in a decorative vase at the center.
• Borrow an antique candelabra, clean it and place it at the center with candles on it.
• Frames with love poems, pictures of the couple together can also be placed as a wedding centerpiece.
• Christmas decorations like balls, confetti, Christmas ornaments, etc. can be creatively arranged at the center of the table.
• 2-3 tier glass stands can be filled with chocolates and fruits, and placed as a centerpiece at the wedding.
• Large and decorative fruit baskets filled with fresh seasonal fruits is also one of the easy, decorative (not so cheap) table piece ideas.
• Collect all the bridesmaid bouquets and arrange them as a large centerpiece for wedding table.
• Bottles of wine to be served at the reception can be decorated with ribbons and placed at the center of the table.
• Take a low bowl and fill it with shells as a centerpiece for the table.

These ideas will surely help you to set the table beautifully. You can go for any of these ideas, or simply make use of your own creativity; it is sure to work! Good luck!