Centerpiece Ideas for an Outdoor Garden Wedding

Creating beautiful centerpieces for your outdoor wedding is a fun way to make your wedding reception unique and fun. These affordable garden inspired centerpieces are perfect for every wedding. Whether you are hosting a formal wedding or casual wedding, you can easily use these centerpiece ideas to create great conversation starters that will have people talking about your garden wedding for years to come. You might have a few brides copying you! A lot of these centerpiece ideas for outdoor weddings incorporate potted plants, which means you can take your plants home with you and have them for years to come. If you aren’t great at caring for plants, you could give them as gifts to your bridesmaids or any wedding guest who love gardening.

Nothing says outdoors garden wedding more than a metal tin watering can. They are perfect for inserting a plastic vase into and then creating your own arrangement. You can work with a florist on this project or save a little money and do them yourself. Create an affordable flower frog inside of your plastic cup by using heavy-duty plastic scotch tape and making a grid pattern on top of the cup. This will support your flowers and hold them in place.

For another do it yourself floral garden center piece perfect for any outdoor wedding use some ferns and vintage crates to create a visually appealing centerpiece for larger tables. You can place one crate in the middle of a large dining table. Use some burlap to line the crate casually. Rest you fern or ferns inside of the crate. The burlap will hide the plastic pots they came in. Mix and match at least three varieties and sizes of ferns to create visual interest. Surround the crate with tiny white candles in clear glass votives. The look is timeless, affordable, and you can even take you ferns home with you.

For a more formal centerpiece at your outdoors garden wedding lay a piece of square or circular beveled glass in the middle of your dining tables. Place a beautifully potted plant in the middle of the glass. A topiary surrounded by smaller flowering plans in a terra cotta pot would be lovely. You can age your terra cotta pot by rubbing gel wood stain on it or coating it with yogurt and leaving it outside for the months before your wedding. The look will be aged and romantic.

Lanterns make a great addition to any outdoor wedding centerpiece. The soft glow they cast will light up the garden and compliment your wedding guests. You can buy great lanterns at stores like Cost World Market and Pier One Imports. I have seen some more formal lantern inspired candleholders at stores like Bed Bath and Beyond. Use that piece of beveled glass and place a large lantern in the middle. Surround with varying heights and sized smaller lanterns. This will provide quite a bit of light if your outdoor wedding is in the garden at night.

Bell jars are a wonderful garden accessory that lend themselves well to weddings. They are timeless, romantic, and have been around for centuries. Any flower topped off with a bell jar immediately becomes more important and special. Inexpensive violets in small colorful pots look so timeless and pretty under a bell jar. If you are lucky enough to find these at a flea market snatch them up no matter what the cost. For new ones you can almost always find these online at www.potterybarn.com. If you can’t find the real deal or want to achieve a similar look on a budget try inverting glass jars and vases to see how they look. They will create the same look for a much smaller cost. Those tiny little potted roses you always see at plant stores and the grocery store would also look very lovely under these bell jars.

I hope these ideas get you started thinking about unique centerpieces for your outdoor garden wedding.