Wedding Reception Centerpiece Ideas

By Jenna L Marsden

There are many ideas that come to mind when thinking about wedding reception centerpieces. You have to think about ideas that match your colors, ideas that go with your theme, how large you want the centerpieces to be, and if you want the centerpieces to be simple or to be over the top. Do you want your guests to have the chance to take the centerpieces home or are they purely just decoration for their enjoyment? There are so many options and decisions to be made about your wedding reception centerpieces.

Flowers, photos, and candles are just a few wedding reception centerpiece ideas. Flowers can range from a single rose in a vase if you want to keep things simple to twigs and branches or plants if you are leaning more towards a natural, environmental wedding. Photos can be used as the whole centerpiece or can just enhance any other type of centerpiece. Getting a cube frame that can hold pictures all around it can let every guest, at any angle of the table get to see pictures of the newlyweds. Or to just add enhancement with photos to the centerpiece, you can use pictures as ornaments hanging from the branches of your natural, environmental centerpieces. Candles are always a popular centerpiece choice and you can keep it simple with floating candles in water or be dramatic and have an over the top chandelier type candle holder with many different candles. This type of centerpiece would create such a striking effect.

If you want to have wedding reception centerpieces that are not so common or just want something that will stand out for a long time to come, there are also many other imaginative and distinguishing wedding reception centerpiece ideas. Upside down wine glasses may be somewhat common, but make for a distinctive centerpiece look. You can decorate them however you want, but the typical way to display them would be to have a whole flower head in the wine glass and then add a candle on top to the bottom of the wine glass. This will create not only an illusion, but will leave guests wondering how you came up with such a clever idea!

If money is not an issue for you, you could have ice sculptures as your wedding centerpieces! These will leave everyone and anyone in awe. I mean when was the last time you attended a wedding reception where ice sculptures were the centerpieces? Exactly - be the first and be bold!

A very practical route to take with your wedding reception centerpieces would be many little gift boxes presented on a decorative platter. You can decorate the gift boxes any way you want to have them match your theme, yet still stand out and be gorgeous. Then, just think, you have killed two birds with one stone - you have beautiful and creative centerpieces AND all of your guests now have party favors at the end of the night!

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