Weddingbee Blog

In my last post, I showed you all the great ways everyday items can be repurposed for use in a wedding. We decided a few months ago that we needed a cheap alternative to our centerpieces and went to the web for inspiration, where we found lovely ideas like these below:

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I wanted to create something with a similar essence that would also tie into our vineyard venue. So, I gathered all the supplies I had been accruing over the past year along with all the cut wine bottles and got to work. With a lot of patience and creativity I was able to put together this mock-up using my potpourri of items.

Shown here with flash:

And, without flash:

Clearly, we don’t plan on using this exact mock-up as our centerpiece, but it is pretty darn close to what we want.

• Ignore the ugly-looking paper covered stem that is holding the cork and number will be changed to something less unsightly.
• That number won’t be hastily handwritten with a Sharpie; instead, it will either be printed in a vintagey feeling font or hand-drawn in a prettier calligraphy style.
• We hope to center everything on top of a lace circle—I was just using what we had on hand.
• The flowers at the base will be replaced with live ones instead of the silk ones here.
• Since we won’t have enough poms for every table we plan to mix it up with live flowers in some vases and dried poms in others.

Overall, both Mr. L and I are happy with my prototype and are excited to see what they will look like in action.

What do you think? Did we do a good job of catching that vintage, vineyard, rustic vibe?