Paper lantern Centerpiece

Getting ready for my daughters wedding in August. Her colors are Navy/Dark Blue and Silver.    Besides the tables inside for the reception we have 6 tables on the outside patio to decorate.  We decided to keep it simple and fun but different from the inside.     The wedding is in the evening.  Here is what we come with. 

They are battery operated and will light up.   Best part is they were very inexpensive to make.

The photos above are all of the same centerpiece.

 

 

 

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Lollipops Front and Center

What could be sweeter than a lollipop centerpiece.  Another idea come full circle from Pinterest and the good old dollar store.    Nice center piece for a birthday, graduation or any party with a color theme.

This one is made with Blow Pops

This one is made with Tootsie Pops

Supplies needed:
8 inch foam ring
Tissue paper to cover foam ring
4 bags lollipops approximately (40-50 full size pops)
Small candy papers
Small mini cupcake liners
Tissue paper squares
Curly ribbon
Scotch tape
8 inch paper lantern with light
Batteries for lantern

Directions:

I leave the plastic wrapper on the foam ring, but I do poke a hole in the topside so the lantern has a place to sit.  Leaving the cover on helps to keep all that foam dust from floating around your work area. Sit ring on tissue paper hole side up.  Wrap tissue paper to inside of ring.   Take a lollipop and push through smallest paper liner or tissue square, then do it again through next size.  You can add as many paper liners as you like but they should graduate in size.   Tie a piece of curly ribbon on to lollipop stick.  Push into ring near bottom.   Repeat until you have a complete line of pops around bottom of ring.   Now start the middle row.  For the last or top row, I put together the lantern and set it inside the  hole.  This will help you to judge where to put the last row of pops. I do not glue or tape the lantern as you will need to put the batteries in and turn on the lantern.   

Your options are limitless:

You can use any of the options below for petals

• Cupcake liners
• Candy liners
• Tissue Paper
• Felt cutouts
• Paper cutouts
• Silk flowers
• Coffee filters
• Wrapping paper

Some other ideas

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It Sure Is Sweet When Two People Fall In Love

It Sure Is Sweet When Two People Fall In Love..............was the theme of my daughter's bridal shower.   What a great time we had planning, preparing and attending the shower.   Many weeks of searching, shopping and crafting went into the preparation for the big day of the shower.  I hope the following photos spark an idea or two for you and yours.

Found bulleting board letters at the dollar store.  Strung their names for the bride to be's table.

Many trips to the dollar store ended up in a fancy table décor.   Plastic tablecloths in red and white.   Black and white designed shelf padding made wonderful placemats.   Leftover valentine napkins and decorations for the table setting.

More dollar store items used to decorate.   Red rose petals.  Flowers for the centerpieces and to throw around the tables.

Close up view

Mix and match colors, red, white, pink and black.

Found all the pieces to make the center pieces at the dollar store:  small gift box, foam, moss, silk flowers, red garland wire heart shape, greenery.  

Chocolate dipped braids sprinkled with red/white/pink nonpareils and a heart stuck to the end of each.

Cupcake stand made from dollar store trays and plastic glasses wrapped with silver Christmas bead garland.

The cupcake stand full of cupcakes: Lemon, Chocolate Oreo, and Pistachio.

Found this cute vase at the dollar store, we used it as an ice tea glass and party favor.

Fancied up red straw for the ice tea glass.

Found heart shaped red cherry jelly beans at Big lots along with heart shaped mints.

More dollar store ingenuity:  Pilsner glass filled with cinnamon hard candies, topped with a half foam ball, curly cue ribbon, starlight mints, heart straws and heart shaped lollipop.  These made wonderful prizes for the games we played.

Bride and groom wine bottle decorations.   These made wonderful prizes too.

Wedding wine glasses.  Yes believe it or not found these at the dollar store too.   However, we couldn't the amount we wanted so we used them at the head table.  Very adorable.  

Half and half: Used my princess house shrimp cocktail glasses filled with red hot candies (from the dollar store) as candle holders.

Found huge engagement rings at the Dollar General amongst the Valentine decorations.

Great ideas from Pinterest:  Tomato and Mozzarella appetizers along side of cucumber and feta or hummus bites.



Candy airplanes as a nod to the groom who is in the air force.



As another nod to the air force groom, paper airplane thank you notes, that were tucked inside of some of the ice tea glasses. 

Another view

Unfolded paper airplane used the computer to add our own thank you.



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