Member- TeamMcGowan
- 7 years ago
- Wedding: October 2011
Up until now we had planned on using the venue provided centerpieces, cuz, well, ya cant be FREE..but after painting a picture of our entire wedding and reception set up, I was like OMGosh, they really dont go with anything! The venue itself is a very rustic setting, its up in the mountains, with alot of ceiling beams, timbers, hard wood floors, and stone fireplaces. Our rustic theme/decor has encorporated alot of rafia, grapevine garland, and paper lanterns. Their centerpieces are floating candles on a beveled mirror, and the more I visualize them sitting on our tables, the more Im like YUK, they have got to go!
Fiance and I (god love him for tolerating my flip in the script so close to the wedding, AND at 11p last night) settled on making our own centerpieces with the very popular mason jars (tres’ rustic!). Our, (ok, my) vision is to take 3 jars per table, all different sizes, add some pebbles, add a votive, tie a raffia ribbon around the neck, and badda bing, badda boom, DONE!
The best part is that we scored 54 mason jars, all various sizes, on Craigslist this morning for $30! I got the rafia at Hobby Lobby for $4.50, the candles were all of $15 and we already have a ton of pebbles (left over landscaping material) at home.
Here are two inspiration pics.. the rafia will be tied like the first pic, but we are filling ours 1/3 of the way with pebbles and adding the votives. BeAuTiFul and Rustic as all get out! Par le’ vous GOOD DEAL and last minute centerpiece crisis diverted!
