Daytime Wedding Reception Centerpiece ideas?

Do you have any creative centerpiece ideas for a wedding reception to be held in the afternoon (inside) which doesn't include floral arrangements, because they're too expensive. Candles are wonderful but I'm not sure they'd be right for a daytime wedding.

Daytime Wedding Reception Centerpiece ideas?
Hi and congratulations:





Personally, I love flowers and they are not that expensive if you buy them wholesale. Here are two sites:


http://www.growersbox.com/


http://www.rosesource.com/





I'm not sure where you are located, but the above wholesalers only ship to the U.S.....sorry. But if you are in the U.S., I highly recommend checking them out. I used rosesource for my son's wedding and can vouch for their service.





Without flowers you can still do a variety of things, such as:





~ What about stacking favor boxes on a cake pedestal? Here is a link with a picture:


http://www.marthastewart.com/portal/site...





~ Here is another link with a favor and centerpiece combination:


http://www.wanderfuls.com/





~ Sugared fruit always makes a beautiful centerpiece and is easy to do.





~ Another idea: Have your parents, family and friends make copies of their wedding photos and put them in nice frames to use as centerpieces. Your guests can enjoy the look of weddings past - especially with parents and grandparents' wedding photos.





~ You can still do candles even though it's daytime. I think candles are nice anytime. Perhaps something with a floating candle? This site has lots of ideas:


http://www.surroundings.com/





Good luck!
Reply:This really depends on your personal tastes, the colors and theme of your wedding, and what time of year your wedding is taking place.





Since we are avoiding flowers, have you considered fruit? Arrangements of citrus fruit (oranges, Lemons, limes) in glass pillars with greenery (fake or real) can be striking displays for spring and summer. Red and Golden apples, or pumpkins are beautiful centerpiece additions for a fall wedding. Small real Pine trees can be perfect for Christmas/Winter weddings.





Other possibilities: Cakes! Individual cakes for each table can be used as centerpieces, and then eaten by the guests seated at the table. (Provide them with cutting instruments). This often will result in the bride and groom spending less on the huge wedding cake, and for "cake cutting" pictures, the bride and groom cut a smaller decorative cake at the Headtable.





Your Centerpiece can also be made from your favors, depending on what your favors are. My favors are going to be bags of gold foil wrapped chocolate coins, and I could easily make my centerpieces out of treasure chests, or glass bowls, filled with bags of gold coins. (Our quotes are about treasuring each other, and our card box is a white treasure chest)





If you like the idea of fishbowls with water, you can float 3 flower heads on the water, with a floating candle. You can also suspend one single flower (rose, lilly, tulip) in a tall thin glass vase..submurging the flower completely gives an impression of magnified size, through the water.





Whatever you do, please don't use live fish or any other living creature. No one wants to get stuck with an unwanted pet, They just want to be a guest at your wedding. :)





Have fun with it, dear. Don't get stressed..try to think out of the box. I've heard of people who had billiards as the theme of their wedding...and on each table they had mini pool tables. Unusual? Yes. Fun? Absolutely!





~Kat
Reply:how about small bowls ( like a fishbowl), filled with colorful beads and a votive candle. I'm having the same problem with decorations.
Reply:Find a Dollar store by your house.Get flower pots(the small ones) that goes with your wedding colors.Then get some tissue paper that goes.Next go to Walmart and get a 1.99 set of 6 plants that have your color.Take the flower pot,put a piece of tissue paper in and set the plant inside of it.Now crumple some tissue paper up and set the pot on ot.Color is there.Just put one in center for round tables,or 2-one on each end for long tables.Now enjoy it,try it out and have ready 2 days before the wedding...
Reply:candles are good anytime. boy this is a tough one. no flowers at all? not even plastic ones? i don't think i've ever been to a wedding/reception without flowers.





if you get creative, make a modern art centerpiece that is wedding related.
Reply:A unique idea would be to adorn your tables with herbs rather than flowers, they would be fragrant and inexpensive.





I don't think candles are inappropriate for a daytime wedding, If you can't afford a full bouquet of flowers on each table, then place just a few heads (like roses or orchids) around a few votive candles. Simple, yet elegant!
Reply:We are having a daytime reception and the center pieces are glass bowls with floating gerber daisies, very inexpensive if you can find cheap glass bowls, and gerber daisies come in so many different colors and you only need 3 per centerpiece. we have tealights around ours just for nice mood lighting.
Reply:Can you give more details? Colors, is there a theme, what type of location? As a party designer I am chock full of ideas but without knowing a little more its hard to give one that will truly fit you. I understand your candle delimma since we are looking at an afternoon reception as well.





A very chic idea that has been catching on lately is to plant wheat grass in containers, or wheat for fall, etc. Use them as a living centerpiece and surround with river stones. For a spring wedding you can use silk flowers (cheaper than real) or you can use candy to make "flowers" and have them growing out of the grass.





Another option is to go to the nursery and pick up bedding plants in your colors like mums, pansies, whatever they have on hand. You can get an entire flat for like $12 which would do several tables and all you would need to do is transplant them into prettier containers or for a rustic look you can just cover the existing containers with burlap, nice fabric, or ribbon. After the wedding use them for your home or donate them to a park. (Note: if you donate them it's a tax deduction so you pay less at the end of the year)





You could also get lanterns. Remove the candles and instead you can put a single flower or even a butterfly (provided they have enough room to flutter a bit and you provide air supply and a few leaves or something to munch on, then release into wild afterwards)
Reply:Do a basket with flowers in it. Get the flowers that match your colors it will look cute. You can get baskets at the dollar tree. Very cheap.
Reply:A cute and cheap thing a friend of mine did for her centerpieces was to take a glass dish and fill it with different candies (in their wedding colors) then spread some fake rose petals around the dish. That candy was a huge hit! People were chowing on it while waiting for dinner and at the end of the night, guests were scrambling to take the rest home.
Reply:no candles wrong time of the day why not use petals and garland. ]


or if you have a theme, try to find some nic naks to go with it.


Did you try silk flowers?