Bridal Shower Centerpieces

No bridal shower is complete without a bridal shower centerpiece. Anything can be used for a bridal shower centerpiece; it is up to you to decide and create an attractive table centerpiece that your guests will remember fondly for a long time.

How to Make Bridal Shower Centerpieces

The usual choices for bridal shower centerpieces are fresh flowers, which add color and aroma or perhaps inexpensive silk flowers that come in various colors. With candles available in various colors and shapes, you could perhaps have a few pillar candles of different heights placed on a charger plate that is surrounded with colored marbles. An alternative is using wedding votive candles or floating candles in a decorative bowl or something related to your bridal shower theme. Floating candle centerpieces are gaining popularity due to their inexpensive cost and easy to setup details.

You can make something unique like perhaps placing a picture of the couple as the bridal shower centerpiece. A collage is even better; with a collection of pictures of the couple collected through the years.

Decide on how many bridal shower centerpieces you need

Not only do you have to think of ideas for the bridal shower centerpiece, you also have to decide if you want to have a single, large arrangement with numerous small ones or to have all of them in the same shape. Usually there should be a minimum of one bridal shower centerpiece on a table; you can have more if the table is long and if your budget permits.

Once you have decided on the size of the bridal shower centerpiece, you have to think of what you would like to have as the centerpiece. You can draw inspiration from your theme, by creating centerpieces having relevance to the theme. So if you use a cowboy theme, you could have a saddle or a cowboy hat with a red ribbon tied around it as the bridal shower centerpiece.

Use wine for your centerpiece

And if your bridal shower is having wine, you could consider getting two wine bottles as the centerpiece idea, and place it at the center of the table. These bottles have to be covered with a wedding dress cover and a tuxedo cover which is available in specialty shops. There is not formal bridal shower etiquette that needs to be followed, as the shower is, by nature, much less formal than the wedding itself.

This makes a great bridal centerpiece where you just have to place them on a pedestal, to be circled with wine goblets. Place some water in all of the goblets and alternatively place a flower and floating candle in each goblet. Now look at what you have created.

Create something that tickles the curiosity of guests

If you have no bridal shower theme, then you could use the color scheme to get ideas for bridal shower centerpieces, or use ideas from the wedding and match the wedding centerpiece to the decor for the shower. You could have some hearts or roses if you are following a red bridal shower theme idea.

The secret of the game is to make decorations in the bridal shower blend well with each other. In the process, the bridal shower centerpiece should also draw so much attention to it that guests will have to inspect the centerpiece closely. This bridal shower centerpiece is surely something your guests will like and remember for a long time.

Jen Carter, owner of My Wedding Blog, offers free information on wedding planning.