Those who had / are going to have DIY jam jar centre pieces......

I'm having these - 4 per table with pillar candles. We (me, mum, CBM, aunty and friends) are making them up the day before and putting them on the tables on the morning of the wedding. I get married at 1:30pm so I'll be looking to decorate the tables at 9am - I'm staying overnight at my venue which makes things a lot easier. Im at work at the moment but Will try to flash you some pics of our practice runs later.

We had sand and tea lights in ours. We had access to the venue the day before to set everything up.

Im doing this too epic, I have a florist doing the bouquets and button holes and was going to just go to the market the day before and put single stems in the jars but my lovely florist said shes go to the market for me as she would be going anyway and get me the flowers as she will get them cheaper. Im going to put them in the jars the night before and just transport them there in those big storage boxes.

Ive wrapped lace round some of the jars too and put in electronic tea lights for the night time ?

We had lace around little fruit juice type glasses, as DIY tealight holders.

We used a variety of jugs, jars & bottles but mostly old style milk bottles. My Mum & I put all the flowers in bottles the night before & we grouped them roughly in threes so they didn't get lost on the tables. They lasted really well. In fact one lone rose is still living (I have changed water a few times) & we got married on 8th Sept. I did pop a bit of flower food (been saving sachets off supermarket flowers)in water but think they would have been okay anyway.

A friend at work is neighbours with a florist who got us lovely selection of flowers, including lovely big roses, from wholesale market so got them for good price.

I bought a job lot of recycled jars and sprayed them all with Plasti-Kote glass frosting spray!

We collect tin can's, like Baked Beans, Soup etc, washed dried them. Then covered them with fabric to match the Bunting. We had them in groups of 3, and as we had long trestle tables we allowed 4 groups of 3 per table of12, (if all that makes sense) Then our Florist filled them with mini hand tied bouquets on the morning.

At the Venue

Just finished covering!

Poppyseed I love your tin can idea !! So effective

I'm having them with flowers in through the day (my florist is doing this for me), and at night with water and tea light candles. Here's a flash of a few I've done (now have about 40 made)...