A wedding must have (if the Wedding Industry Hype is to be believed), centerpieces. These could have either
a) handily fallen into the floral category in which case all you need to angst about is what kind of flowers to get and in what colors, are they in season, will they wilt if someone looks at them cross eyed?
or
b)be causing you huge amounts of stress because you don't know whether to use candles, shells, luminaries, fruit, crystals, sand, fish and the list goes on.
Either way, doing them yourself is going to save you more money than having someone do them for you.
First, if you have an idea of what you want, type it into google followed by the word centerpiece, toggle over to images and voila! pages and pages of ideas! For free :)
So you've picked a centerpiece and now you need the components, I'd highly recommend checking ebay first (just as a by the way - for those of us that neither reside at nor visit incessantly, Ebay has buy it now options! No auction, no hassle, no waiting for 6 days for auction end, its like going to the store and paying less, oh joy!) Another underused tool is www.froogle.com, also run by the highly popular google.com. Froogle will find you lovely obscure websites that have just what you need at the price you didn't think you'd find it for! You may also want to check craigslist because there are obviously brides out there who really won't need thirty eiffel tower vases, 4 bags of river rocks, ostrich feathers and light up ice cubes laying about their homes after their wedding receptions.
Once your day has come and gone, resell the things you don't need. Or donate them and get the tax write off.
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