Candle Light

If you have a dinner or event upcoming we have an easy and lovely idea for your centerpiece.  Recently we had the privilege to come up with floral arrangements for an outdoor wedding reception.  Candles were the main event placed in a bed of garden greens, a small potted orchid, and a few nicely opened clipped white roses and other white flowers.  As it turned out it was a good design all around.  The power went out at the venue and except for the candle light on the tables, the dinner, and the whole evening would have been carried out in darkness.

It wasn’t the disaster as it might have been.  In fact, with the candle light and moon light, many guests, and the bride herself, commented that they felt it made for an intimate, elegant, and lovely evening.

You can make a centerpiece like this too.  It is a simple DIY project.  Clip some greens from your garden. Buy cylinder vases wide enough for holding some pillar candles of varying heights, plus some votive candles.  Arrange some hardy  greens, a combination of leaves and vines and possibly some potted succulents in a circle of sorts if your table is round, or down the center of your table if it is a rectangle.

Place the orchid, if you choose to use it, in the center of the three cylinders on a round table and tuck them in along with as many candle pillars as looks right for the size and shape of your table. Just before your event begins, tuck in some flowers of your choice.  Those with sturdy stems work best as they are not held in water in this arrangement and fragile flowers will wilt quickly.  Roses, stock, gardenias, gerber daisies, lavender, just to name a few, could work well.

Give this a try.  Even if your power goes out, you will still be all set to have a romantic and elegant evening 🙂