DIY Centerpieces

In an effort to not spend so much money on flowers, I made my centerpieces non-floral. I got 20 hurricane glasses ($8.99 each) and 20 ivory pillar candles ($1.99 each) from Christmas Tree Shop.  I got blue glass marbles as fillers from Michaels on sale ($1.50 each). 

I looked everywhere for cobalt blue votive holders, and couldn't find them anywhere. So I ordered cobalt blue shot glasses with our names and the date of the wedding and melted the wax to make candles in the shot glasses. 

We shaved the candles with a cheese grater. After 6 hours only only getting about 20 finished, we wrapped it up to finish the next day. The process became much more efficient the next day when my dad got involved. We started melting the now quartered candles directly in a pot on the stove and kept it in a crock pot till we needed it. With this new system, we did about 100 of them in about 2 hours. 

To keep with the cobalt blue theme, I'm saving blue Luna di Luna wine bottles to use as table numbers. This is just a mock up me and my FI made up:

I also had everyone I know collecting wine corks and made place holders for the escort cards. I just hot glued the 2 corks together and wrapped each with a piece of ribbon. I was going to cut a slit in the top of them to slide the card in, but the cork was too hard to cut, so we wrapped some thin wire around a pencil and stuck those to the back as well. 

I got this decorative crate at Homegoods for $40. A can of spray paint later, it became my card box!

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My glitter frames! My favorite project so far! I got some paper frames and stands at Christmas Tree Shop, "shallac"some glitter on them! 

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