DIY Wedding Centerpieces

For a spring wedding get simple rectangular or square glass bowls (or any similar container with a colour that pairs well with fresh green), fill them with soil from a garden-store and sow wheat grass or something similar. Once it has grown, you have a wonderful base for any kind of spring decoration: single flowers in bright colors, eggs, little toy animals... The possibilities are endless!

If you don´t feel like messing around with real grass (although it will provide definitely the most genuine spring feeling), head over to the next garden store and see if you can buy some fake grass there.

Another pretty and very easy to make spring decoration: get small vases (glass ones or little cylinders made out of polished wood - you´ll find them in dollar stores) and fill them with decor pebbles in bright green. Place a single flower ( a gerbera for example) in bright pink in the center. Set severall of these vases in a row - the contrast between the wood of the vases, the apple green pebbles and the pink flower will make for a stunning effect!

For a beach wedding get clear glass bowls, fill with sand or pebbles, add sea shells from a dollar store (or your last beach holiday) and add a big pillar candle as a center. Compliment with smaller candles in clear glass candle holders (you can get very inexpensive ones at Amazon or at dollar stores).

For an oriental type of decoration spray-paint plain branches in white or bright red. Fold some origami birds and add. Compliment with matching paper lanterns and use the wedding favors (chop sticks, fans, Chinese style little money pouches) as part of the decoration.

For a fall wedding use what nature has to offer: pumpkins in different sizes (you can get baby sized ones at the farmers market or in garden centers), sunflowers, leaves in bright colors (use artificial ones if you don´t feel like hiking through the woods the day before your wedding).