How to Make Wedding Centerpieces for $10 or Less

Ann Siper
Flower centerpieces at your wedding can eat up a huge portion of your wedding budget. You can make these simple wedding centerpieces for $10 or less.

Each of these floral centerpieces are made from affordable materials and simple flowers you can find in your garden or at the grocery store. I made videos of each one, so you can watch me make the budget wedding centerpieces.

Each of thee flower centerpiece ideas would also work well for the dinner table at yoru rehearsal dinner, a garden wedding tables, to decorate window panes at your church wedding, or in almost any wedding situation. Change out flowers types to accommodate a beach wedding, Vegas wedding, mountain wedding, or back yard wedding to make custom floral centerpieces on a budget.

This first floral centerpiece is a great garden wedding centerpiece. If you love all things vintage or shabby chic, then you will love this sweet and charming wedding centerpiece. It cost me about $5 since I already own quite a few vintage vessels.

Click here to watch me make a shabby chic or vintage inspired flower centerpiece.

This next budget flower centerpiece is made from simple vintage drinking glasses. I love this idea, because we all have glasses. You can even use the crystal or clear glasses you register for as wedding gifts.

This video will show you how to transform plain everyday drinking glasses into a fun wedding centerpiece with flowers and candles for about $7. The tea candles were about 25 cents apiece and the flowers were super affordable at my local Trader Joe's.

Floating flower centerpieces are a great way to get wedding centerpieces on a budget. This simple how to video will show you how to make a budget wedding centerpiece for well less than $5.

If you own a clear bowl or can borrow some from friends, then you will save even more money. If not, check your local dollar store for inexpensive candles and clear glass bowls in a variety of shapes and sizes.

To create height an interest with these centerpieces on your wedding reception table try making this floating flower centerpiece in three different tall glass cylinder shaped vases!

Finally, here is a short video showing you how to press flowers. You can press flowers that match your wedding flowers and let them dry. Now, place them all over your wedding reception dinner tables. Top off with a piece of clear glass that fits on top of your wedding reception table!

You could make this on a small scale in the middle of the wedding reception table, top off with a small round piece of glass, then set candles on top! Too cute!

Published by Ann Siper

Ann Siper is a web writer who has written for online sites such as Demand Studios, ehow.com, Goodhousekeeping.com and Overstock.com. She writes on a variety of topics, including holidays, health and fitness,...  View profile

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  • penguins292/24/2008

    excellent tips!!

  • rosa destaw7/30/2007

    it is a great discription of the different flower in the world.In addition to this please try the samples of the flower.

  • Luke McCall6/23/2007

    Yet, another article that should not be overlooked. I think I'm going to write a branching article to show my readers your stuff. But, I wonder if all my readers are the same readers you have.

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