Do It Yourself Wedding Centrepiece Ideas

At your wedding reception, your wedding centrepieces will determine the mood of your party. Wedding centrepiece ideas range from fun and casual to elegant and chic and are considered the most important element of decoration at a reception dinner.

Make Your Own Wedding Table Decorations

Make your Own Wedding Flower Centrepiece

Delicate shades of roses and hydrangea are enhanced with the apple-green viburnum in this luxurious wedding centrepiece.  Create this arrangement months in advance, mist the flowers with a light scent a couple of days before the wedding, and you are done!  Creating a beautiful faux-fresh centrepiece is easier than you may think.  

Ingredients:
For best results, choose the most realistic-looking silk flowers you can find.  Remember, this keepsake will last for years.

4 open pink garden roses
3 closed pink garden roses
4 butter-yellow tea roses
3 stems apple-green viburnum
2 white hydrangea
2 stems raspberry spray roses
1 vase
1 block design foam

Tools:
 heavy-duty wire cutters
 hot glue gun and glue

Directions:
Take the inner measurements of the vase. With a large knife cut the design foam to fit inside the container.  Once the foam is cut, drip some hot glue into the container and insert the foam.  Measure and cut the two stems of hydrangea.  The flowers should fit just above the rim of the vase.  Insert the hydrangea so it hangs over the sides of the base.  Measure and cut the open garden roses.  Randomly place the roses into the arrangement.  Follow with the closed garden roses and the tea roses.

As your arrangement takes shape readjust the flowers to create a uniform sphere.  Fill in the empty areas with the spray roses and add the viburnum as a final touch.

Your arrangement will look more natural if the flowers are placed at various heights.  Allow the viburnum to hover and cascade over the other flowers.

As a finishing touch, scent the roses with a drop of the Rose Fragrance.

Make your own wedding favour

Wedding favours may seem simple, but sometimes it is hard to know where to start. For me, it is always colour. Begin with the colours in your bouquet, the bridesmaid's dresses or the reception decorations. Once you have your main colour, use an opposite or a related colour as an accent. For example, I used blue-green as my main colour and an orange-red as my accent colour. This favour would have also looked beautiful with a related colour, such as apple green or mint. Below is a list of colours and their opposites.

Yellow - purple
green - red
blue - orange

Here are directions for a basic favour. Use pre-cut favour circles and fill them with candy or potpourri.

Directions:
1. Place all the components of your favours on a table in front of you. It is easier and faster to assemble if everything is within easy reach. Arrange everything in assembly line fashion.
2. Create one perfect favour. Now take it apart, and place all the ingredients where you can see them. This is your sample favour.
3. Pre-cut the ribbon using the sample favour ribbon as your guide.
4. Drop your filler onto the circles in approximately the same amounts as the sample favour.
5. Tie the favours with the ribbon.

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