Cheap Wedding Centerpiece Ideas – So Easy They Don’t Need Instructions!

These do it yourself cheap wedding centerpiece ideas are so simple they don’t need instructions! You'll wish you would have thought of these sooner. Tons of photos too, just scroll down!

• Buy mix-matched glasses and vases from 99cents store or other thrift stores for a colorful, feminine look. Even drinking glasses or a water pitcher could be used as vases in an arrangement and hold single stems of flowers. An assortment of non-matching vases or glasses looks wonderful with bunches of colorful wildflowers. This is perfect for a spring or summer wedding, and the results are sophisticated looking yet it is still a cheap wedding centerpiece.
  
  

  

• Use decorative colored glass inside your centerpiece vases with flowers, or alone with floating candles. Colored glass is a way to round out a cheap wedding centerpiece and give it extra oomph.
  

• A few flowers in colorful vases is very eye catching, cheap and easy to do yourself. This creates a lovely and crisp clean style, almost minimalist.

  

• Simply sprinkle rose petals on the table with candles for a romantic look. This is perhaps the most cheap wedding centerpiece idea yet!

• Use clear glass vases with lucky bamboo for an Asian theme.

  

• Use shallow glass bowls filled with floating flowers and/or floating candles. You can also put a few drops of food coloring in the water of the bowl—very pretty.

• Pumpkin, dried leaves, bunches of wheat, gourds & sunflowers are great for a fall harvest theme. No arranging is really necessary, simply scatter these items in the center of the table and you’ll create a rustic looking cheap wedding centerpiece instantly!

  

  
  
• Use silver spray paint and spray pine cones metallic silver and scatter on tables with white tulle or organza and white stringed lights for a winter theme. Interesting looking branches or driftwood also works nicely as a centerpiece and best of all they are free!

• Mason jars are very cheap and with a little dressing up can be lovely vases! Go to our Cheap Wedding Centerpiece Idea: Tissue Paper Mason Jars project page for full instructions and more photos!
  
  

  

  
  
• Think outside the flowers and use something completely unusual as a wedding centerpiece, like peacock feathers, stuffed animals, carved wooden tiki figures, seashells, stacks of leather bound books or a cheese fondue pot. Using an assortment of candles is a beautiful and functional centerpiece.

  

  
  
• Food is a lovely centerpiece and does double duty as an appetizer! Assorted fruits arranged and cut in half to show their beautiful insides (kiwi, pomegranate, star fruit and citrus are great options) is a super cheap wedding centerpiece idea!
  
  

  

It’s your wedding, do it the way you want!

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