wedding preperations at home

Weddings are expensive, there is no need to argue with that statement. however there are many ways you can cut the costs of a wedding starting with making your own decorations, invitation, centerpieces, ect. in a previous blog i showed you how i did the chalkboard mason jars which we are using for the wedding rehearsal center pieces. here is my idea for what is going to be going inside the mason jars.
All you will need are some plastic flowers, water, and glass pebbles. The colors for the wedding are red, black, and the chosen flower is the orchid. So for the center pieces we went out and bought small red flowers and white orchids from Hobby Lobby, along with an assortment of white, clear, and white mate pebbles. To start off, place the pebbles in the bottom of the jar. The pebbles will be used to keep the flowers in place. You only need to fill the jar to barley a fourth of the way full with pebbles. Next you will stick in the small flowers into the jar and cut accordingly so that the flowers don't reach any higher than the top of the jar. Next you will add in a single orchid into the center of the red flowers. Finally you fill with water and there you go! Another idea that you can use this for, if you don't like the white orchid on top is to leave room in the jar for a candle to float on top of the water. I think this is my favorite way to do this center piece because a candle floating on water over flowers is very beautiful to have for decoration. However the candle version is probably best for night time or outside occasions, rather than a middle of the day occasion. This center piece i would describe as being pretty casual with the mason jars, but still simple and pleasing to the eye.

Here is an example, not of my own taking.