Unique Centerpieces: Paper Lantern Topiary
This is an idea that I came up with for
my own wedding, and although it was almost five
(blissful) years ago, I still think it is pretty
original.
We were married on the beach and our
reception was in a lovely low country style event space on a high
bluff overlooking the Cape Fear River. I made my own centerpieces
by planting blue fescue grass in galvanized pales. I made the paper
lantern topiary using a regular dowel rod (bamboo would look great
too), attached the wire lantern frame to it with raffia and poked
it down into the fescue grass, then put the white paper lantern
over the top and stretched it onto the wire frame. I lit each
lantern with 2 large white 12 hour glow sticks, eliminating the fear of fire hazard.
I propped a large white starfish up in the grass on
each.
The reception room really looked lovely.
The effect was quite dramatic with all of them together, because
they gave each table a lot of height (the room had very high
ceilings). The white glow sticks gave each lantern a soft glow, but
did not give off much
light, which is exactly the effect I was going
for.
Hard to tell in this photo, but our
favors were glowing too. I ordered fortune cookies with custom
printed fortunes, put them in blue vellum mini take-out boxes with
iridescent shred and a mini blue glow stick. The effect of glowing
elements all around the room was magical!
This entry was written by
amy,
posted on
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
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