Nonfloral Wedding Centerpieces and Decorations

When you think of wedding centerpieces and decorations, the first thing you think of is flowers. But flowers are what everyone thinks of. There are many ways to decorate without using flowers, and these ways can make your decorations even more memorable and unique.

Glass and ceramic containers can be filled with candles, reflective crystals, or colored stones. Filling a shallow ceramic container with stones barely covered in water can make a lovely centerpiece.

You can make a lovely centerpiece with a white votive candle in a glass holder on top of a tall candlestick. Make sure they fit securely together, or use glass glue to join them securely. Tie a ribbon around the top of the candlestick and make a bow.

Fill a large champagne glass with clear crystals. Place one in the middle of each table.

Take a large glass vase and coil an inexpensive string of pearls into it. Place the vase in a shallow container and surround it with glass beads in your wedding colors. Pour water into the vase, add a floating candle, and light.

For a winter wedding, fill large bowls with gold and silver ornaments, add doves or other wedding symbols, and tiny white lights if you desire. Or place a candle in the middle of a bowl, and surround it with gold and silver ornaments.

Incorporate a sand ceremony into your wedding. In a sand ceremony, you have two containers of colored sand in complementary colors. The bride and groom pour the sand into a central container, symbolizing the blending of their lives together. It makes a lovely, layered design which can then be used for a centerpiece at the head table.

So you can see that by thinking beyond flowers, you can make simple, lovely, memorable centerpieces and decorations. Materials such as glass, ceramic, stones, crystals, candles, and water can be combined in many beautiful ways, whether you choose to use them in addition to flowers or by themselves.