Wedding Centerpiece Ideas With Vases

Table centerpieces are one of the first things to draw the eyes of guests as  they enter a wedding reception, and one of its most important decoration  features. Vases are a good starting point for your centerpiece. Although many  couples choose to stay traditional and fill the vases with flowers, others  prefer to surprise their guests by using unusual items for filler. Whichever  items you choose to place in your vases, take care to not create centerpieces  that will block the guests’ views of one another or of the reception  activities.

Flowers

• Even though flowers are the traditional tried and true choice for filling  centerpiece vases, with a little creativity, the arrangements don’t have to be  mundane. For instance, you can have the vases engraved with the married couple’s  last initial, or you can use real or liquid marbles instead of water to hold  your flowers. Liquid marbles come in many different colors, provide water for  your arrangement, and can be placed in the vases in eye-catching designs, if so  desired (see Resources).

Tall Vases

• A distinctive and elegant vase for a wedding is a tall, thin one known as an  Eiffel Tower vase. Because this vase is very thin and its arrangements will be  above the guests’ heads, it will not block anyone’s view or obstruct the flow of  conversation. Eiffel Tower vases can be filled with flowers — calla lilies are  a good choice — or, for an elegant and different look, filled with dyed ostrich  feathers, arranged to look like a fluffy palm tree.

Create a Scene

• If your wedding is at the ocean, fill a clear round vase with shells, or you  can fill the vase halfway with sand and then place miniature beach items such as  a beach chair and umbrella on the sand in each vase (see Resources). For a  wedding that is being held in the desert, place colored sand in a clear, low  rectangular or round vase to create a painted desert scene and then add a small  cactus or two. For a country-theme wedding, find cowboy boot-shaped vases (see  Resources) and fill them with something simple like daisies to grace your  tables.

Fish

• Live fish in a clear vase is a tricky centerpiece to pull off but dramatic.  It’s dramatic because the live fish add a beautiful, moving touch to a table;  it’s tricky because once the wedding is done, you have to hope your guests will  take the living creatures home with them. Some couples choose to use goldfish in  a clear, round bowl, with maybe a few flowers or petals scattered on top of the  water or other decorations in the vase. Other couples choose the colorful beta  fish, which can sometimes be bought already packaged in a vase with a plant.  Sometime during the reception, make an announcement that the fish centerpiece  can go home with one of the guests at each table. Choose a factor such as the  oldest guest or the one whose birthday is closest to the wedding day to  determine who will take the centerpiece home.

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