Evening reception centerpieces?

i'm getting married at the end of september we're having a very small wedding and reception in my in laws backyard. the thing is i havent exactly decided on a theme yet. i wanted to do something with flowers and candles. my mother in law wants to use flower centerpieces. i think because the reception is going to be at night having a lot of flowers would be a waste because you wont really be able to see the beauty of the flowers. Besides they can become expensive. I think we should use candle centerpieces. I just need some ideas of something that would work with the two together. everything i see online is done indoors or during the day or is just way too much going on. I'm a very simple person....someone please help

Evening reception centerpieces?
First of all congrats! I am getting married Sept 27. Our reception hall has a very dim lighting so I did not want to use flowers either. They are expensive, but I wanted to small touch of flowers around. I went to Michaels and bought fishbowls. I am going to put flora gel in them. Inside the gel I have waterproof lights that are the color of my wedding colors. Then on top of the gel, I am just going to be the flower of a Gerber daisy on top, not the stem. Then on other tables I got glass rocks and we are going to put Betta fish in them and use the water proof lights. Then for the head table, I bought tall cylinder vases I am going to fill them with colored water and put a Gerber daisy in them. Then on top I am going to put a paper lantern that runs on batteries. I got those at the dollar store.


The fishbowls were a 1.68 a piece


The gel is 2.99 a bag and makes 1 1/2 quarts at hobby lobby


It is really inexpensive and unique


Just some ideas, hope I can help some!
Reply:Day or night, having massive flowers everywhere will create a magical mood. It's once in a lifetime right? It's worth spending a few hundred more....just to make the mood right.





Candles is the best idea for a night event. Just have a bowl of floating tea-lights, and surround the sides with flowers. or else, just have a tall candle in the centre, and surround it with flowers like christmas decor....
Reply:I say go with mostly candles but a have a couple of flowers. You dont need huge floral centerpieces but have a vase with just a couple of flowers and some candles to highlight.
Reply:Floating flower shapped candels would be very pretty. or just floating candels it would look very simple yet nice and classy.
Reply:Hi and congratulations!





You could go either way with this. I do love flowers myself, something simple like a few roses in a bud vase with some greens....and then place around that lots of small votive candles to light things up.





Another idea would be to incorporate something really elegant looking like this:


http://www.bridalpeople.com/LargePix.asp...





The centerpiece pictured above would give you both the flowers AND the candlelight!





Another idea woud be to use lanterns like these:


http://cgi.ebay.com/LOT-10-WEDDING-LARGE...





These would look really nice and would add lots of light if you used a good size candle (like the one pictured.) The only problem with this is (if you get them off of Ebay), it is a lot to ship these.





If you have an IKEA store near you, they also sell lanterns. You may even check places like Pier One, Kohls, and even stores such as Lowe's and Home Depot in their "outdoor" section.