Unique Wedding Centerpiece Ideas

When planning a wedding, many couples struggle with financial costs associated with small, intimate details. One such issue for many brides is the creation of centerpieces. As a unique wedding reception idea, making your own centerpieces will provide for a unique and cost efficient option to professionally made centerpieces and, with the right components, can be used in your guest's homes following the ceremony.

One such centerpiece can be created from the purchase of hurricane lamps. At a local discount retailer, such as www.walmart.com, hurricane lamps, of varying sizes can be purchased for less than $5.00 a piece. To this hurricane lamp, add whole coffee beans and insert a decorative candle which compliments your wedding colors. The heat from the candle, while in the hurricane lamp, will promote wonderful scents from the coffee beans while providing intimate candlelight to your guest's tables. Following the wedding reception, your guests can take the hurricane lamp, coffee beans and accompanying candle for use in their own homes.

As an alternative to hurricane lamps, wedding reception centerpieces can also be created using round fish bowls. With the same concept as the coffee beans and hurricane lamps, the fish bowls can be accented with a smaller candle and, instead of coffee beans, complimented with red hot candies. The heat from the candles, especially in a vanilla scent, will mix with the fiery cinnamon of the red hot candies, providing for an interesting scented centerpiece. Placing this centerpiece onto decorative tile can provide for a beautiful accent to your guest's home following the wedding ceremony.

Moving one step further, in wedding reception ceremonies, some brides have considered using the fish bowl for what they were originally intended; fish! Using marbles or decorative beads, in your wedding colors, as accents in the bottom of the fish bowl, the addition of goldfish will provide an interesting conversation piece to your wedding reception dinner tables. While lighting may be a factor, consider using battery powered, single strand Christmas lights, mixed in a light accent of greenery, around the outside of the fish bowl. Again, this will provide for an interesting centerpiece for your guests.

Traditionally, wedding reception centerpieces are adorned with flowers and, in many cases, are quite expensive when professionally created. Following the wedding reception, many centerpieces will remain untouched and fall to the wayside. As an efficient alternative, creating homemade wedding reception centerpieces will provide both you and your guests with a wonderful accent to both party and to the home.