Table Squares and Centerpieces: Part Two

So now that you've seen the table squares I've slaved away on for 10+ hours, now I'll show you the rest of the centerpieces.

Remember way back when, when I said I did a lot of my wedding shopping in the basement of my work?  And a little more recently, the table numbers I put together?  Well now it's time to put it all together.

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Our tables will be alternating half floral, and half candle.

In the first picture, the hurricane vase is taller and we will be having floral arrangements put into 15 of these.

In the second picture, the hurricane vase is shorter and pillar candles will be going into 15 of those.  The table numbers for these shorter vases will be shorter as well than in the picture.

For all of the table numbers, the small cylinders will be filled to the top with white salt to keep them upright.

I'm also planning on bringing some color into each place setting, but that has yet to be determined.

My boss brought in votives for me, and I was able to buy 216 candles for $30 including shipping.  She is lending the brand new votive cups to me for free.

Table Squares and Centerpieces: Part One

I'm finally ready to share with you all what I'm doing for my centerpieces.  Reason being, I'm finally done making the table squares!

So let's start from the beginning.  Our venue provides us with circular tables that seat 10.  This includes chiavari chairs, white linens, and white napkins.

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My initial, very first thought was renting green tablecloths to match our colors.  Something like this:

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Two problems:  why spend the extra money, when the white are free? And good luck matching my green!  So that was out.

Then I thought about renting green table runners to add some color to the table, like this:

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But again, there was the problem of finding the exact chartreuse green, and there's just something about renting that I don't like.  It feels like a waste of money to me.

So then I decided it would make more sense to make something that I could later sell.  And there entered the idea of making table squares.  I found green material at JoAnn's that was on sale, so I bought the bolt, not knowing how much I would need, and figuring I could use the extra material for other projects.  So for $50 I was able to make 30 table squares and I still have probably 4+ yards left over.

Here we are just about finished.  I turned the edges in 1/2" and then in again 1/2" so there were no raw edges showing in the back.  It took forever ironing them all in.  But I discovered you don't have to put ironing boards all the way up, who would have thought?!  I would set ours up at the perfect height so I could sit on the couch and iron at the same time.  That way I would do 3 or 4 a night while watching TV.
Right now they're all ironed under and held together with an iron on hem thing.  They'll stay the way they are, but I'm thinking I'll probably actually stitch all of the hems as well just to be sure.

 

In part two tomorrow, I'll show you what's going along with these table squares, so stay tuned!

And just so you all know....the 30 of these will be for sale after my wedding!