Centerpiece ideas

Here are some easy centerpiece ideas for your home dinner party. They include inexpensive flower, edible, candle and themed centerpieces.

Not only are they inexpensive, they are really easy to put together. Because they are so easy to put together, and look so good, they don't add any stress to your dinner party planning.

Ideas for inexpensive centerpieces

Most of the choices below have the added advantage of being inexpensive, and very easy to create. You don�t have to be a arts and crafter to put them together. I admire people who can create finished products that are lovely, but I don�t have arts and crafts skills. So I avoid table decorations that require arts and crafts skills and look instead for an arrangement that's easy for everyone to put together.

Flower centerpieces aren�t the only choice

Floral centerpieces are probably the most common table centerpiece ideas. They�re what we expect to see most of the time.

And you can make gorgeous flower centerpieces with minimal expense or effort. Just float a single flower in a glass bowl � a lily with the stem cut off, or a splendidly lush peony

lush peony to float in a glass bowl

But you don�t always have to use floral centerpieces. There are lots of other choices.

Candle centerpiece ideas

A grouping of pillar candles is simple and lovely. Choose the same color, but two or three different sizes.

Put the candles on a mirror tile and you double and triple the effect of your candle centerpiece.

Edible centerpieces

Here�s another suggestion.

A simple bowl of lemons is a refreshing spring centerpiece.

A small pot of herbs gives the same spring message. Just don�t choose herbs with a strong fragrance that might fight the food fragrances.

Put a delicious looking bowl of fruit on the table, and you can double its usefulness by inviting people to help themselves at dessert.

fruit bowl with candelabra

Themed centerpieces

Seasonal centerpieces are always appropriate. And it�s really easy to make these centerpieces without flowers if you wish.

A trailing of ivy suggests spring.

A bowl of sand with a frilly drink umbrella or two perched in it says summer, or tropics.

A Thanksgiving centerpiece is easy to create by sprinkling some small decorative gourds on the table.

Don't forget...

So go ahead and widen your horizons to include more than just flowers on your dinner party table. And here�s a reminder � most of the suggestions on this page are also inexpensive.

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