Event Planning: Floral Centerpieces

Although centerpieces don't have to be flowers to look beautiful, I do love a good floral centerpiece :) For my wedding I used Sharon Elizabeth's and they were stunning. But for smaller parties and arrangements I have created some floral centerpieces myself using wholesale flowers and DIY vases.

For my own wedding shower I wanted very simple so bought clear vases, embellished them with purple ribbon and the centerpieces were very pretty and brightened up the tables. I also created centerpieces for a 65th anniversary dinner. This was a spring event and I thought yellow roses and baby's breath would be very pretty and appropriate. I ordered wholesale flowers online (have had great luck... the flowers have been gorgeous!) and embellished square vases with some yellow polka dotted ribbon and these got so many compliments. Lesson learned: you don't have to spend big $$$ at a florist to achieve some very beautiful centerpieces.