Tips and Ideas
The Wedding Center ~ Peggy's Personalized Products

• Do NOT Use Live Goldfish in Your Table Settings
• The use of goldfish bowls with live goldfish in them for table centerpieces is an idea that sounds like a good one until you think about the welfare of the goldfish.  The goldfish bowls are not good homes for these delicate creatures.  There's no circulation, filtration and not enough room for the fish and often the fish will die before the ceremony ends.  There's nothing sadder than a dead fish in the middle of the table.  Another concern would be what to do with them after the ceremony. 

• Floating candles make lovely glimmering table centerpieces, especially for evening receptions.  Sprinkle the water with bits of ribbon, glittery confetti, rose petals or just about anything that fits your theme.

• Create a theme for your reception tables and, instead of just numbering the tables, name them!  I was at a wedding recently that featured concerts and musicals the couple had attended together while dating.  Each table was decorated with a framed program, ticket stubs and other keepsakes from the event. 

• Incorporate fresh rosemary sprigs into the table decorations.

• Use Unity Candles in the Centerpieces
• If you are having a unity candle ceremony you can extend the idea by ordering extra candles to incorporate into the centerpieces.  Use both the Unity Candle and the matching Bud Vase filled with some of the same flowers used in the wedding bouquet.  Many of the same designs available on the unity candles are also available on wedding favors.  To make it more special, the candles and favors are personalized.  Individual Candle Favors can be part of each place setting and the favor can then be taken home by your guest. 

• Remember a loved one who has passed away on your wedding day.
• Many of us have already lost a parent, brother or sister.  On your wedding day it's very appropriate to include your lost loved ones with a memorial set on a table or pedestal during the ceremony or in the reception area.  It doesn't necessarily have to be a family member.  You can honor the memory of anyone who was very close to you - a best friend or a mentor - anyone who affected your life and who should be among the guests on your special day.  We have a few items that work especially well to memorialize your lost loved one.  Our Memorial Candle allows up to 3 names to be printed on it and so does our Memorial Bud Vase.  Either one of these items can be grouped along with framed pictures of the people they memorialize.  Speaking of framed pictures, we have a Design-It-Yourself Photo Frame that would work wonderfully to personalize as a memorial frame. 

• If the wedding and reception is in the evening and the area where the wedding and reception has a pool, pond or fountain - protect your guests from mosquitoes while adding warm ambience to the area with floating citronella water lily candles.  We have them HERE.