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I love that idea! We were considering something similar. Flower wholesalers usually sell whole plants like orchids for fairly reasonable prices (and I bet you can get a volume discount as well)! Your guests can take them home as favors as well, or you can have new plants for your new home together :)
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I'm doing a potted plant as the base for our centerpieces! We're using Bridal Veil (an ivy-type plant with small white flowers) in tins and adding fresh daisies the day-of. We're also sticking taper candles into the dirt and placing various votives around the table.
I'd chose a plant that's really hardy and easy to grow....you don't want to have to deal with dead plants or wilting flowers! Good luck and I hope it works for you, too!
We're doing the same thing! Trader Joe's has some inexpensive potted orchids that look great.
Yay! This is great idea, espeically for an outdoor wedding. I would suggest going to a garden store or market and getting more plants than you need and growing them in the buckets/pails/pots that you want them in for the reception. Then when you set out the centerpieces just groom and clip off the dead flowers!
Here are some galvanized buckets for sale
and some ideas:
daisies (you'll have to scroll down the page a little to find the pots)
Making Living Centerpieces (an inspiration article from Martha Stewart Weddings)
Do It Yourself Potted Flower Centerpiece
Our very own Wedding bee board post: potted orchid centerpieces
(scroll down a bit and you can see a post of an example of the )
There is a TON more out there on potted plant centerpieces...you should have no shortage of inspiration if you keep looking online!
Also, visit a garden center or market to get an idea of the types of flowers you like--especially if you want a particular look or color. They can help you decide what will grow best and be blooming on your wedding day (if you decide to DIY)
happy planting!
I think that is a great idea. You could even paint the pots or use ribbon around the lip to coordinate with your wedding colors. Also, the plants would be great favors for special guests at the end of the night.
I love the potted plant idea. We did geraniums for my sister's wedding a couple of years ago and they were beautiful! Once piece of advice- have the nursery grow them for you. We went in to our local nursery and ordered them in January and when we picked them up in June they were perfect. (Much better than the ones that we tried to grow ourselves 
).
definitely a yay! potted plants make great centerpieces and they last way loger than floral arrangements.
A for sure yay! 
Check out Costco, I know I've for sure seen potted orchids there for like 10 or 15 bucks, and that would be WAY cheaper than a traditional centerpiece.
I think potted plants can look great, especially if they are in a nice pot or dish.
Its a great idea!!! Im using some potted plants to decorate, since ours is going to be outside. Then we are going to put them in our flower beds!
Or you could let some of the family members have them and keep one for your self. Kind of like a love fern (thats from 'how to lose a guy in 10 days'!!).
Absolutely...and you don't even have to do plants. You can do tall vases filled with just about anything that relates to your wedding.
You can see ours here:
http://www.weddingbee.com/2007/07/18/centerpieces-7/
And the final product here:
I think potted plants as a wedding favor is a great idea. It has two functions: centerpieces during the wedding and a guest's favor after that. However, the charming of fresh cut flowers is unique. I have purchased fresh cut flowers on line before and the price is fabulous compared with local vendors. I recommend you to take a look at fiftyflowers.com
I was at a wedding this past June where the colors were different shades of green. They had white table linens, glass plates, and the centerpieces were all small potted hostas. I thought they looked great! Bonus is that hostas are very hardy when planted in the appropriate spot, so they'd make a great give-away at the end of the night, or to landscape your new home!
This idea is fabulous in so many ways, but I am suprised no one has mentioned how environmentally friendly it is! Seriously, cut flowers take a lot to grow and often require a large number of chemicals to get them looking perfect. Plus you will be reducing, reusing, and recycling :-)
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I vote YAY for this one! Find cute pots & they will look amazing! And you can give them away at the end of the night. They won't go to waste!
Go for it!
It's a fabulous idea. I PM'd you about it. Check your inbox! :)
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It is a beautiful idea that can be wonderfully done. One thing to keep in mind is AFTER the wedding. If you are planting your own yard, great. If you are giving them away, make sure you have enough LOCAL or diving guests that this works. We wanted to do this but 80% of our guests will be traveling and we cant ask them to fly our centerpieces home. Just something to think about.
Love the idea! And I second the idea of having the greenhouse grow them, rather than growing them yourself. You could also just buy plant packs a few days before, transfer them all into terra cotta pots and call it a day. I imagine you could do it for under $5-10 per table (depending pn plant used, cost of pots and size of centerpieces)
I think its a grat idea.
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I really love this idea! I wish it is something I had considered for my centerpieces. Plus, it is super ecofriendly!
i came across this idea early in my planning, but was then told a horror story. a bride had chosen potted plants for her centerpieces and half way through the reception, ants were crawling all over the table.
sorry to be debbie downer, just trying to watch out for my fellow bride.
We're doing potted plants too (only on some tables though). We're planting either Ivy or Ferns since they both tie into our venue, our invitations, and us in general. :)
these are such great ideas. i am thinking of doing potted plants as a centerpiece. growersbox.com has some great deals too.
best wishes and happy planning.
Like everyone said above, I love the idea! Much more cost effective and unique! I also like the wheat grass centerpieces. This is a link to a DIY site on wheat grass centerpieces: http://diy.wed-central.com/?p=6
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I agree with the most of the gal here. It's a great idea! Depending the vision for your wedding , I've seen fresh herbs used. It was very modern and tasteful. Each table was a different herb , lavender , rosemary , mint , etc. It had multi use as the table names and favors. I still have my lavender plant and the wedding was almost 4 years ago!!
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For a girlfriend's wedding we did for centerpieces ivy topiaries (was a spring wedding) and she purchased them from a wholesale greenhouse and spray painted the pots holding them an antique ivory. The plates had gold chargers behind them on the table setting, and she found some lovely votive candle holders in ivory with a gold rim on them and sprinkles some rose petals around the table in her colors (pink and ivory) and nested the ivy topiaries in a "cloud" of tulle fabric on a small riser to make it look like it was almost floating and to give it even more height.
She had a small tag placed on an ivory ribbon on the topiary on each table with the name (either a bridesmaid, mob, mog, or relative she wished to gift the centerpiece to) written on the tag! It was a lovely touch and very green/ecofriendly. I loved it!
I'll try to find something similar online to give you an idea:
http://www.the-creativeplace.com/images/tcp_ivy_topiary3.jpg
Each topiary was in a different shape like this and real ivy. The only main expense other than the topiaries (which she got for about 15 bucks each) was the pots. Maybe 10 bucks each? Each centerpiece and table decor was less than $50 per table!
We (the bridesmaids) helped her paint the pots and after they dried, we planted the topiaries in each pot. The MOB and her sister quickly and easily set up the centerpieces before the wedding while the florist did the big pieces near the food and ice sculpture. She saved BIG BUCKS just doing the tables herself!
I realize this is a VERY old post but I'm going to reply anyway - this June (2012) I am getting married and we're planning to buy many flats of 4-inch pots of annuals at the farmer market. Each table will have an assortment of these in the center, at varying heights, and they'll ne wrapped in something clean and decorative and tied with ribbon, and everyone will be invited to take them home after the reception as gifts. I think they'll make nice floral colour in the hall. A flat of 12 4-inch pots can go for between $20 and $20 depending what you get. I am thinking:
geraniums
lobelias
nastirtiums
dahlias
impatiens
coleus
marigolds
pansies
snapdragons
My daughter prefers to spend more of her budget on food than decorations but now is fairly particular about the decor as well. Using colors of champagne and coral, I'm wondering whether we might use big full potted begonias (little blooms are the right coral color) for reception centerpieces but want it more elegant than terra cotta pots. Ideas, anyone?
Why not decorate the terra cotta pots?
You could spray paint them silver/gold, and add embellishments.
I don't have a picture of mine yet, but I'm planning to spray paint them and add a lace "belt" with a broach embellishment.
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Hi everyone!
I'm getting married next June and am trying to find ways to save money somehow. I absolutely love flowers, however I know that making a centerpiece per table with a glass vause and pretty flowers can become quite costly.
I think to have a potted plan as a centerpiece (diff flowers/table) with some candles around it could look quite pretty.
What do you think? Also..does anyone have any pictures I can see to get some ideas?
Thanks Bees:)