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I'm not much of a flowers person either, and the only flowers in my wedding are the bouquets and boutonnieres. I am having real flowers, but I'm lucky enough to have some connections to a florist so the flowers are fairly cheap. Also, when I was in a wedding where the bride used real flowers, the smell of some of the flowers could be so relaxing during the craziness of the day. Since everything leading up to my wedding has been so stressful, I just wanted the flowers to be something that would certainly be soothing should I stress out. :)

For our centerpieces, my fiance and I are renting mirrors from our reception hall and placing these floral bowls, filled with AquaGems and a submersible LED light underneath the AquaGems, on top of the mirrors. We had seen this done at another wedding, and it added a really neat glow to the room...and truthfully, the AquaGems are really fun to play with...

My soon to be mother-in-law was the only one upset that we aren't doing floral centerpieces, but I think it's because my bridesmaids and I have to be responsible for assembling the centerpieces and dropping them off at the reception hall, rather than a florist doing all the work. No one else has actually cared about that, though. Since my fiance and I are paying for everything ourselves, doing our centerpieces for 35 tables is way cheaper than floral centerpieces, especially since we were able to find all the pieces we needed in bulk or at Dollar Tree. After renting the mirrors, buying the materials (including shipping and tax costs), we averaged paying about $5 per centerpiece.

Ok, here's a tutorial of sorts. These were super easy to make, and I am not very crafty.

Materials:

7" vases - Dollar Tree

9" vases - Dollar Tree

10.5" vases - Amazon

Glass stones - Amazon

Submersible LED lights - Amazon

Calla lilies - Amazon
I ordered orange and navy. My wedding color blue is royal blue, not navy, but as you can see in the photos they are pretty light for navy, and are passable for royal blue.

The flowers come in a variety of colors, so if you're into calla lilies you can make these work. They have wires in the stems, so I just bent the stems up and played around with height and color combos until I had a set up I liked. Then I used those flowers as a template to cut the other flower stems to length with wire cutters.

The calla lilies float if they are not weighed down, so I hot glued the end of each stem to one of the glass stones and buried it under the rest of the stones. Worked perfectly, and you can't see it in the final set up.

The Dollar Tree vases are FANTASTIC, and I suggest looking there first no matter what type of vase you're looking for since they have a variety. They didn't have the taller vases I needed so I had to spend a bit more to get them from Amazon, but kept total costs to about $250 for 10-12 centerpieces. I don't think there's an appreciable difference between the Amazon vases and Dollar Tree vases, they go very well together.

My original plan was to use floating candles instead of LED lights, but I really liked how the shadows are cast with the uplighting from the submerged LEDs. It also makes a little bit of a blue glow through the stones. I am making another one-vase decoration (same thing, just the medium-sized vase instead of 3) with a floating candle next to a written memorial for my dad and my fiancé's and my grandparents who have passed. The point is floating candles definitely work for these if that's your thing.

Anyway, I'm happy to provide more info by request, though I think this pretty much covers it!