What are some alternatives to floral centerpieces?
Nonfloral centerpieces are gaining popularity at wedding receptions. Couples are getting creative and decorating their tables with the following: • Fruit: Fill vases with apples, oranges, or lemons. Their bright colors lend themselves well to working with a wedding’s color palette, but they can also work as part of a theme. If you’re getting married in Florida and you want a Florida theme, oranges would be perfect. Apples also work for fall weddings. • Water: Fill vases with water and let votive candles float at the top for a romantic look, or let pebbles sink to the bottom for an organic look. • Sand: Fill vases with regular or colored sand and add anything from seashells (beach-y) to pinwheels (fun) as decoration. You can also skip vases altogether and create a stand-alone arrangement of seashells and candles, for example, for a beach wedding. Another fun idea is to assign each table a centerpiece cake in lieu of both a wedding cake and floral centerpiece. Guests can mingle and taste
