Your first wedding anniversary is a special occasion to reflect on the year you and your spouse have spent together as a married couple. Many reflect on this first year by going out to a nice restaurant for an anniversary dinner. However, celebrating at home allows you to personalize the experience. Making your own centerpieces is a way to add your personal touch to the dinner table. Not only is it more affordable than dining out, but creating the arrangements together provides an opportunity for bonding on this commemorative day. Here are some simple DIY floral centerpiece ideas you and your spouse can make with items found around the house or yard.
1. Candle Centerpiece
The first idea uses different-sized clear containers stacked up. You’ll need vases or cylinders of varying heights from stores. Also get floral foam, wire or tape, and flowers like roses and baby’s breath. Cut foam for each container’s bottom. Use wire or tape down the middle to hold flowers up. Arrange flowers between containers so they don’t sit directly above each other. Stack containers in a pyramid shape on the table.
2. Bowl Bouquet
Take a glass bowl, perhaps one you already own, and fill it with different colored roses, carnations, snapdragons, or other flowers. You can use floral tape or wire to bunch the stems together so they stand up nicely in the bowl. Place the bowl centerpiece in the middle of the table. Bowls make lovely vases and this bouquet style looks very nice for your anniversary dinner.Â
3. Terrarium Centerpiece
If you have a glass terrarium or jar at home, you can transform it into a beautiful centerpiece. Fill the bottom with moss or floral foam. Then arrange succulents, air plants, baby’s breath, and other dried flowers you can get flower bouquets in Goose Creek SC artfully within. Add pebbles, shells, or sand for decoration. Place a tea light underneath for an illuminated look. Terrariums make unique centerpieces that you can enjoy for years to come. You will only need a glass terrarium or jar, moss/floral foam, plants, pebbles/shells, and a tea light.
4. Floating Candle Centerpiece
Another lovely lighting idea is floating tea light candles. Get a glass jar or vase that is wider at the top than bottom. Fill with water until it is near the rim. Gently place tea light candles floating on top of the water. The flickering flames will be reflected nicely in the glass. Scatter flower petals on the surface of the water as well. This romantic centerpiece sets a warm, soft glow on the table.Â
5. Flower Crown Centerpiece
Make this centerpiece extra special by crafting flower crowns. Cut out paper circles in varied sizes and secure them together with floral tape or hot glue. Get a Johns Island SC Flower delivery and fill in the spaces on the crowns with flowers, baby’s breath, greenery, and pearls or beads. Place the finished crowns elegantly standing in a glass vase or bowl. Flower crowns look stunning and magical. You can involve your spouse in the process to make it extra memorable.Â
6. Branch Centerpiece
Head outside and find a few long, nice-looking tree branches without leaves. Remove any bark and trim as needed. Add floral tape to the stems or bottom of flowers and arrange flowers and greenery selectively along the branches. Stand them up together in a tall glass vase or container. Natural branches mixed with flowers look beautiful and woodsily rustic.
7. Nesting Candle Centerpiece
Gather glass votive holders in graduated sizes and nest them together in the center of the table. Beginning with the largest on the bottom, gradually get smaller as they rise up. Place a tea light candle in each holder and light it before your dinner. These little votives nicely stacked create an illuminated centerpiece that will add glowing warmth to your anniversary ambiance.Â
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