If you're hosting a wedding reception, you've got your work cut out for you! There are so many details to attend to, and unless you've hired a caterer and wedding planner, it's easy to become overwhelmed. Table settings and wedding reception centerpiece ideas require much of your attention, a huge task to coordinate once you get down to the actual planning. To give you a hand, here are five creative wedding reception centerpiece ideas to fuel your imagination and serve as a starting point for your own unique and beautiful centerpiece.
A good starting point is determining what colors you'll be using for table linens, china and glassware. Quite often this is easy, because you know the colors preferred by the bride. You can make a mock-up with just one table. With linens and all the tableware in place, let that blank spot in the table's center speak to you. To facilitate conversation amongst all the guests at each table, consider a centerpiece which isn't too tall. It's hard to talk to the person on the opposite side of the table when you must crane your neck around a tall vase of billowing flowers. Pretty, but impractical.
To this end, we suggest the following low-profile, but creative wedding reception centerpiece ideas.
1. Floating candles in a shallow glass punch bowl provide romantic ambience, which is likely an important element. You can use clear or colored glass, according to your table setting. With a pink or white tablecloth, you might surround a clear glass bowl with dark red roses wired together in a circular shape somewhat larger than the bowl. Silk flowers work well. Individual rose petals floating in the bowl unify the arrangement.
2. Another unusual and classy wedding reception centerpiece idea: use a good-quality leather bound journal, placed in the center of the table, to allow guests to write a personal message to commemorate the wedding day. Arrange tiny individual ribbon-tied bouquets down the length of the table, as you would a table runner, providing one for each guest.
3. Just as the wedding couple traditionally save a piece of their wedding cake to be frozen for posterity, the guests will also enjoy a memento of this kind. Wedding shops are the place to find miniature wedding cakes. You can arrange them all in a circle in the table's center, again with one for each guest to take home. Depending on your color scheme, you can arrange fresh sprigs of rosemary or other appropriate greenery around the display.
4.With almost any color of linens, a 'bouquet' of small gold or silver helium balloons of varying lengths is a sparkling wedding reception centerpiece idea that provides glamour and romance, especially when teamed with candlelight.
5.Never overlook mirrored platters when tossing around ideas. Mirrors reflect light. You can use this idea in combination with those listed above.
Now isn't this fun? You can create a stunning centerpiece!
