Centerpiece help for an early October wedding?

My wedding color is red and I was thinking of working cranberries into my centerpieces. The reception is in the evening and I would like to use white lights and candles as well. I'm just afraid it will look too much like Christmas. Do you think it will?





I'm having a difficult time coming up with inexpensive (no flowers) for centerpieces. Any thoughts?





Thanks in advance.

Centerpiece help for an early October wedding?
Float cranberries and floating candles in a pretty glass bowl. Put the bowl on a mirror and surround with small votive candles


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Ocean Spray has several decor ideas:


http://www.oceanspray.com/recipes/crafts...





The Knotties have put together TONS of fantastic, non floral ideas in these bios:


http://www.theknot.com/co_profileview.ht...


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Other Non Floral Ideas:


You maybe have seen the simple breadbaskets on your table at a restaurant, but your centerpieces may be an overflowing collection of Italian rolls, marble rye, pumpernickel, grissini, and other mouthwatering breads. Have your caterer provide a selection of spreads such as garlic butter, spiced butters, whipped vegetable cream cheese, virgin olive oil, or tapenade. Your guests will love digging into your centerpieces





Topiaries are a wonderful and lovely idea for a garden wedding, or just a simple outdoor wedding. Placed in the center of the table with a few fall, spring, or summer leaves would make an elegant and rememberable centerpiece.





Nothing will get your guests mingling more than a display of family wedding pictures and lovely shots of the two of you. Family members there will remember those weddings and love to describe it to other guests. This is a really cool way to do the photos:


http://www.marthastewart.com/portal/site...





If you have wrapped your favors, the wrapped gifts can be stacked attractively to make an eye-catching centerpiece.





For a fall wedding, you can get miniature pumpkins to place on the tables with fall confetti tossed around them.


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Candles are a great way to add a touch of class and mystery to your tables. Cluster pillars of different heights with loose flowers in a shape that echoes the shape of your table. Want to add a little more drama? Use stencils, candle painting medium and your favorite paint color to add your monogram, or words like "hope"' and "faith" to the each table.





This is another nice way to do candles, and you could use red marbles or even cranberries at the bottom of the holder:


http://www.lillianvernon.com/catalog/pro...





These are pretty too:


http://www.100candles.com/Items/Item_732...


http://www.superweddings.com/decor/hc2_c...





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Reply:Get a glass bowl or candle holder that can hold the candle... they are really cheap and then you can fill the bottom with red glass balls... you can even mix them up with other colors. The light against the glass would make it look nice.
Reply:How about using the cranberries, some colored leaves and things like that. That would be lovely. Or maybe get those small pumpkins and use them. That would look nice.
Reply:no, that would be gorgeous, what a wonderful idea!
Reply:Cranberries also are a beautiful fall colour - we do have them at Thanksgiving.


Also might consider those mini gourds that are available, of all shapes, styles and colours. Some of them are way cool.
Reply:Cranberries sound nice, but just have candles and maybe chinese lanterns, no white lights...that would make it Christmasy.





As far as flowers, dahlias are cheap and have a nice shade of red.
Reply:You could do mirrors, with several sizes of pillar candles, surrounded by hypercium berries instead of cranberries. You can get candles cheap (many times you can get them at the dollar store).
Reply:Christmas colours are red green and white. Also silver and yellow sometimes too. Your wedding is just fine, white and red is very nice and no it will not look like christmas.





Centrepiece: You say flowers are expensive. Well, what about some wild flowers/plants (seasonal) and making the centrepieces yourself?





Or you could buy some artificial flowers/plants and arrange them in an inexpensive way. Some are really unusual,sprayed all kinds of colours and they would look nice I think.
Reply:I've been looking at using wilow branches and hanging the tea lights from them. Perhaps arrange the branches in a hurricane vase and have the cranberries in the water??





Hope that helps, congrats!
Reply:My cousin used like the first person said a set of three different height pillar vases, tied a red rose to a bag of red glass stones to keep the rose at the bottom, then placed more glass stones to fill the bottom. Fill with water and she placed white floating candles at top, it was simple and beautiful. I was able to take a set home and redo them for different holidays or events.
Reply:Hide your lights under the table cloths. The light still shines through, it makes your table cloth sparkle and really adds some pizzazz to your reception and won't look Christmas like. Centerpieces, take advantage of the season use leaves, you could even use pinecombs or small pumpkins or even a small scarecrow. Just get clear glass bowls (around 1-3 dollars at a craft store) and put the leaves in the bowl, and place 2-3 pinecombs or 1 small pumpkin in the middle or 1 scarecrow. You could do the bowl the same, but in the middle, but a scarecrow, then 2 small pumpkins on each side. You can also place the bowl on top of a small mirror and surround it with candles. Use the leaves for your other tables too (guest book table etc...) just scatter them around.
Reply:What about pillar vases (get them cheap at a glass outlet) with the cranberries submerged in water? Put three together in the middle of the table (each should be different height) then surround with pine cones and white votive candles. Shouldn't cost you more than like $20 per table if you buy these things in bulk.
Reply:I saw the coolest picture of a fall centerpiece on the knot.com. The couple cleaned out medium sized pumpkins and placed candles inside. It would be pretty to put cranberries around the bottom of the pumpkins. Good luck!!!!

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