Centre Pieces.... Who Gets them?

Hi Bailey - I think generally you get the centerpieces back (unless you hire them - which is obviously not the case). but It would be a lovely gift you could give your parents and OH parents - maybe grandparents ? hoe many will you have? may engrave just 4 or 5 and have the rest 'normal'?

I don't think there is necessarily an 'etiquette' as to who should have the flowers from the tables.

We had centrepieces which were two tier - fresh flower ring around the base and then flower arrangement on the top of the candelabra and they cost a lot so I didn't want them to go to waste however, there were loads of people at the wedding who, for one reason or another, we would have liked to have had them and it was too difficult to single one person out over another. We also didn't want a cat fight/free for all when the night was over as to who was going to take them so we put little cards on each table with things like:

'Thank you for joining us for our special day we would be delighted if the lady with the first birthday after the brides (date) would take home the bottom/top flower arrangement with our love'

We included different things for each table (and obviously there were two cards as we had two arrangements per table. So we had things like the the first birthday of the year, the lady who will celebrate their birthday next, the closest birthday to the groom etc etc. It meant that, since we didn't know everyone's birthday and the venue put two cards on each table at random, it was a real lottery and it was also a great talking point around the tables as they all worked out who had 'won'.

HTH as an idea

Catherine

I think you could give them to people as gifts. Not your major gifts (mothers etc) but maybe those extra people who do a bit more than others, if you get my meaning?! e.g - a friend who has been giving you stacks of support and advice whos not in the wedding party,

Thanks Ladies.

Catherine your Idea is Genius!! But since we would only be having one on each table i'm not sure we could do it that way.

We were planning on doing one for each table plus maybe an extra 5 to 10 that way most of the important people could have one. I would still be planning on giving one to my bridal party guests as well as a few other people but just not 100% sure who should have one. We wanted to get them all engraved so that anyone that wanted one could have a special reminder of our big day. We seen some lovely vases in Ikea and I want to use silk flowers so the major cost will be the engraving but i'm hoping for a discount for having a bulk order done!! x

Hi

we are doing a similar thing we are giving people that mean the most to us on each of the tables the centre piece.

we are going to put a star on the back of the persons place name and in oh speech he will say whoever has a star on there name place gets to take home the centre peice xx

Angelfish thats a lovely Idea, we might do something similar (sorry for stealing your idea!!) But its something we'll have to think about in depth as we have so many people that mean a lot to us. x

Go for it i dont mind lol were having the same trouble but im maybe thinking grandads as i dont have nans anymore and oh grandad and nan then maybe aunts and maybe some of our friends that have travelled some way to make the effort to come along as well we have not made any def choises yet but were going for the star idea just got to make a short list ha ha x

Well I have no grans or Grandads, well except my OH's Gran who I love to bits anyway, so she'll defo get one, My mum, his mum, our aunts, maybe a few friends, and sisters etc, but it's so hard to decide without upsetting others. x

Tell me about it ha ha family and friends politics as soon as we anounced our engagment we gto told you need to do this that and the other and you cant ask her without asking her oh well you got to love them hey i think i may give one to my god mother thats the one i def want to do xx