Colouring water in vases - how?

Sounds fab, I googled it and it said food colouring but I'd be keen to know more. What colour was the water you saw?

I remember doing this as a child with food colouring, it changed the colour of the flowers too but I guess this doesn't matter if you are using artificial flowers..maybe have a play! Food colouring is always fun

Every table had a different colour water! It was quite incredible, Our table was teal, but other tables were yellow and pink etc...! I'll get a photo from the company doing the bash and show you...

Yep, food colouring would work great and be super cheap!

Apologies that the photos are rubbish but hopefully you get the idea of what inspired me!....

This ai a dye used to colour the water available from most florists suppliers. We used purple here to tie in with the colour scheme:

I managed to get hold of some purple water dye from a floristry supply store. We trialed it in the vases at the weekend and it looks amazing!

You only need the smallest amount though, and there’ll be tons left afterwards so I’ll be selling it on the Classifieds section after the wedding (along with a whole ton of other stuff including the tall vases!) If anyone is interested :-)

I used floralytes instead of dye. They are small, submergable lights that sit in the base of the vase & light the whole thing up. They come in many colours & depending on the ones you choose, they are reusable.

Another option is using crystal accents. Its a powder you mix with water & forms jelly, like crystals. Depending on how much water you add, it can look like ice cubes in the water. It too comes in many colours. There are other sorts that form small, marble sizes balls.

So glad of this thread, I want to do this too! Definitely gonna look into the florists dye now yay!!

Food dye definitely works and I would imagine is cheaper than florist dye?

Hi, another easy and very cheap way of colouring water is by using felt pens!

Grab yourself a load of cheap ones in whatever colours you need and remove the inside bit, peel off the plastic , that is the messy bit as it will get all over your hands so I'd wear gloves! and put the stick into the water swirl around for a bit and leave it untill you get the depth of colour that you want ?

This works really well, hope this helps ?

Hi,

Don't know how I missed this first time round but we will use this -

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Purple-Water-Dye-Perfect-Weddings/dp/B004WKP0ZY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1363777413&sr=8-1

Hope it helps

x

That's what I bought :-)