orchid table centrepieces

[~Gee_Whizzy~]

heres the link to the centrepiece i had. not the greatest shot, but gives you an idea of what i had

weddingcentrepiece.jpg picture by Negrita_Moosie - Photobucket

[feeb]

They are beautiful!!! What a gorgeous centre piece.

[tellytubby]

Oh wow ladies, thanks for all of your replys!

Negrita, your tables look fantastic!!! So so beautiful, I really loved the colours you chose, just perfect!

Nic and Beema - Thanks for the tip. I definately won't be mentioning the word 'wedding', LOL! But I am thinking fresh.. I guess it all depends. As its such a small wedding, I'm the one who is organising everything, so in the end I think it would be easier if they were fakies.. hmm. That way I can just give the restaruant we're having dinner at that night, all the necessary gear, and they can just set it up for me.

hmm, so much to decide on!

[Elocin]

I used fresh ones for our centrepieces.

We collected them from our florist on the Friday at about lunchtime, immersed them in water over night (think 15 buckets lining the loungeroom walls!!).

We had a bit of an assembly line going the next morning (we had a budget wedding and did everything ourselves) and had them all put together by about 10am Saturday morning.

I got the vases from Spotlight, the rocks from Bunnings - you can heaps of different colours - and I think Mum got the candles from Spotlight as well...

Here's the picture

Another photo

[tellytubby]

Elocin so you immersed them completely in water, the day before the wedding?? Wow they lasted that long and looked so perfect!

Did you find it a bit of a hastle trying to get the flowers together, get your hair make up etc, on the same day? I don't want to be running around like a chook with its head cut off, haha!

I never even THOUGHT of spotlight either! Derr! Such a ditz some days i swear! I went to all the dollar shops today in search, without much luck! Will try spotlight tomorrow! Thank you!!

I really like the white orchids too... beautiful! I have a feeling our tablecentre pieces are going to be almost identical!! hehe

[Elocin]

Elocin so you immersed them completely in water, the day before the wedding?? Wow they lasted that long and looked so perfect!

Yep, completely immersed them in water. We had a heap of the 10L buckets, and I simply cut the flowers down so they would fit in the bucket and lined the buckets up around the loungeroom. The next morning we took them all out of the buckets, laid them back in the boxes they came in and sorted them out when we got to the venue.

Did you find it a bit of a hastle trying to get the flowers together, get your hair make up etc, on the same day? I don't want to be running around like a chook with its head cut off, haha!

I did my own hair and make up!! We had to cancel the makeup lady the night before the wedding because it was raining that heavy the road was flooded over and she couldn't get through!!

But, to be honest, I literally had 10 people helping me and we had the whole thing set up in about 2 hours. In saying that, we had our reception in a pub beer garden, with picnic tables - no table settings other than the centre pieces and table clothes, so I didn't have the time restraints to worry about.

I never even THOUGHT of spotlight either! Derr! Such a ditz some days i swear! I went to all the dollar shops today in search, without much luck! Will try spotlight tomorrow! Thank you!!

I really like the white orchids too... beautiful! I have a feeling our tablecentre pieces are going to be almost identical!! hehe

I looked EVERYWHERE for vases and a girlfriend of mine suggested Spotlight. Mum got the vases on sale, from memory, they were about $10 or $15 each...