Jam jars with fairy lights in

£1 shops do the battery powered lights. I think they are strings of 50, which would be plenty. We got some at Christmas and they were really good. You can also pick up some lovely jars in there too. Hessian you can find really cheaply on ebay ?

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=pinterest+fairy+lights+table+ideas&biw=1366&bih=673&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=coypVOqEOPLf7QaK4YCoDg&ved=0CDQQ7Ak

pintrest is fab!

That's great. Thank you both. I thought now may be a good time to look just after Christmas ( although maybe just before would have been better)

loving the ones on Pinterest.... Hope I can get mine to look that good xx

I think IKEA do those too. Sounds like a lovely idea

I found it was going to be quite expensive to buy all the jars I wanted (they were about £2 each but when you want 100 of them.....) so I brought loads of cheap jam from Asda smart price jam lemon curd marmalade for about 20p each so was getting 9/10 jars for £2.
I just force fed them out to close family and friends and asked for jars to be returned.

This is amazing you are a hero haha

xx

Yeah, start eating all the table condiments and spag bol haha

Cheap jam jars are a good shape and I love the shape of Lloyd Grossman's jars

Pinterest also has the idea to use the inside 'goop' from glow sticks, but might not be as good for actual 'lighting'. I think if you look there are ideas that help you to hide the battery packs in the lids, too, which is very clever

Well there's something that you don't hear every day !

With the batteries, could you hide them in a layer of sand or coloured plastic crystals

On the jars front it depends how you want to go but in my opinion I think it would be great to have a variety of jars slightly different shapes and sizes!

Though it would depend what look you're going for! In which case just save all the jars you use and ask close family/friends even neighbours to do the same!

And putting fairy lights in them is such a great idea!!

Good luck! x

I'm doing something similar with 100 jam jars (again with the force feeding!), but filling some of mine up 1/3 with water and putting in floating candles, which burn for 3-4 hours. I'm asking a couple of bridesmaids to be on 'candlewatch' and notify the venue staff about when they need to be replaced.

I'm hoping to move some of them outside after the wedding breakfast as we've got a large patio area with tables / chairs; the venue offers lantern hire but this should save me a bit of cash! Plus guests can take them home afterwards as wedding favours. I've got large ones (like mayo jars) in the middle for the bridesmaids' flowers; they'll act as centrepieces and means they won't get trashed through the evening too!