Fun and simple guest table centerpieces

If flowers are important to you, the blushing bride, then you should focus on your guest table centerpieces. These arrangements will literally be front and center to your guests and will be what they remember most. They may also be the most photographed flowers of your wedding. But if a huge topiary or a cascading, double-tiered arrangement is not your style, here are a few fun flower arrangement ideas I found on Flickr.

Flickr photo by tokeswithasmile@sbcglobal.net

Like a fish bowl! Fish bowls are fun and casual containers for flowers, and you can fill it with whatever you want — here, there are roses, orchids, daisies, a floating candle and water, but you can can also add shiny marbles, rocks, more dandles, colored water — whatever your bride-to-be heart desires. The mirror its sitting on is optional, but you can go square or circle — I’d go square, but that’s just me.
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Decorating rectangular guest tables

I’ve never had the pleasure of decorating straight guest tables — only round ones. And it wouldn’t be the same as decorating a head table — you can’t drape a guest table, and you can’t use large, display-like arrangements along one side of a straight guest table because both sides of the table need room for seating.

Flickr photo by Chuck The DJ

Decorations for straight guest tables usually include rose petals, candles and vases of flowers placed at intervals along the table. This wedding happened right around Halloween, hence the pumpkin giveaways. There are a few more things you can do to punch up a long table though…

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