Wedding Centerpieces

On your wedding day, you want everything to look perfect. As you spend days and weeks looking for the perfect wedding gown and deciding on the other accessories, your reception venue also needs to look perfect and in sync with the wedding theme.

Decorating your reception venue is also requires a lot of planning, and a big part of it involves designing the centre pieces that adorn the guest tables. The centre pieces are important items of decoration since they will be the highlight of the guest's view during the reception party.

You can design your wedding centrepiece according to your personal style; there is no hard and fast rule when it comes to designing the centrepiece. You can incorporate your creativity into it to come up with an exquisite centrepiece for your wedding reception.

Here are some ideas for designing a wedding centrepiece:

Flower Centrepieces

Flowers are an integral part of any wedding and lend an elegant feel to the entire area. Flowers have been used in wedding ceremonies since ancient times; from warding off evil spirits to expressing love, the significance of flowers in a wedding is immense.

Traditional weddings used flowers as the main centrepieces;styled into beautiful arrangements, flowers create elegant ambiance at the table. The colour and style of flowers you choose will depend on the wedding space, the wedding theme and the other decorations at the reception.

Seasonal Centrepieces

 You can choose centrepieces that reflect the current season. For example, if you are having a Christmas wedding, let your reception decoration bring out the essence of the season with Christmas ornaments like colourful balls or Hurricane vases. Placing pine cones or candles fit perfectly with the theme, and having gingerbread houses bring in the element of fun. The fall is the season of pumpkins, and these make great centre pieces too; you can carve out a large on or arrange many smaller ones at the table.

If you are planning for a summer wedding, say by the beach, there are many fun ways to decorate the wedding tables. From sea shells to tiny beach umbrellas, you can let your creativity define your wedding centrepiece.

Unique Centrepiece Ideas

A current trend in wedding centrepieces is placing a small wedding cake on every guest table rather than have just a single multi-tier cake laid out separately. Placing such cakes atop a silver pedestal at the centre of every table is a unique alternative to the traditionally decorated centrepieces. As the bride and groom cut their cake, the guests can join in by cutting their own!

Replicas of monuments or places that hold a special significance in the couple's life make for a emotional and unique centrepiece. How about decorating the table with food delicacies instead of the usual decorations? Your guests can enjoy some cookies and chocolate while they sit around.

Thus, there are many ways to decorate the wedding centrepiece; find what appeals to you and let your creativity lead the way.