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Creative Reception
Decoration Ideas!

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A single votive candle burning behind the glass panes of these lanterns gives off a soft, dreamy light, creating a setting of ambiance when used as centerpiences at a wedding reception. Use one per table, or combine in groups.
Frosted Votive Lanterns

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For a truly unique centerpiece idea, create enchanted worlds of light as the softness of pastels and the glimmer of metal come together in candle sleeves and a runner of sheer metallic fabric. The little bags dress up votives, while the sleek glass cylinders filled with water hold floating candles. The runner makes a stunning backdrop for any celebratory centerpiece. Fill them with water and floating candles, then veil them with the gossamer colors of our Iridescent Sleeves. By Illuminations.com

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An Outdoor Wedding?
Here's a fabulously unique decorating idea! Float these wax boat lanterns in a pool, pond or fountain. Can also be used to line walkways or placed on tables as centerpieces. Just $4.97
By Illuminations.com

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Floating pastel colored candles in a pretty frosted bowl, complemented by nearby pillar candles contribute to a romantic reception mood. Products by Illuminations.com

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Elegance in Glass... Planning a rehearsal dinner or special gathering? This collection is the perfect decorating solution for any celebration. It combines Hurricane Lamps with Pillar Candles, Bubble-Stem Candlesticks with Taper Candles, Glass Stem Sphere Holders and Martini Sphere Holders with Sphere Candles, a Small Martini Bowl one Floating Candle, and Large Martini Bowls, each containing three 2" Floating Candles. Al candles are ivory in color. Collection by Illuminations.com

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Scatter a parade of opaque glass votive holders about a reception room or a protected porch or patio at an outdoor wedding, and create a world of dazzling candlelight.
"Milk Glass" Votive Cups

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Classic, elegant centerpieces are easily created by grouping together pillar candles in varying heights. When chosing candles, quality counts. Better quality candles, like these from Illuminations, will burn longer and brighter. From $6.95
Plillar Candles

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Add elegance and height to your head table decor with tall candle sticks for pillar candles, like these from Illuminations. Made by glass blowers who've mastered a difficult technique to create the prominent swirls of glass, these are exquisite pedestals for either pillar or taper candles.
Optic Candlesticks

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Sometimes the simplest creations are the most dramatic. This collection of Pillars candles has a breathtaking effect! This collection includes the following sizes: 3"x12", 4"x16", 3"x3", 3"x6", 3"x9" - all clustered upon an elegant large square Bronzed Plate.
Collection by Illuminations

The special gel inside these reusable glasses looks just like bubbly champagne... and when it's burned down, you'll find your fortune in a miniature capsule.
By Illuminations.com

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RICE ROSES

These rice roses are very simple to make, yet are extremely elegant. Customize these roses by using silk squares in your wedding colors.

If your ceremony site does not allow rice to be used, you can fill these roses with cotton batting or potpourri and use them as favors. You can arrange them singlely at each place setting or group one or two dozen together, place in a vase and have them double as a centerpiece as well!

This craft is courtesy of CraftMall-Web and is used by permission. They retain all rights; copyrights to all contents, directions, and images are the property of CraftMall-Web.

SUPPLIES AND TOOLS NEEDED:

5" or 6" Square of silky white fabric
(crinoline fabric works great)
Wooden flower pick with wire
Silk leaf or silk leaf cluster
Green florist tape
Bird seed or non-swelling rice

INSTRUCTIONS:

Fold fabric in half and in half again so that you have a 2 1/2" or 3" square. Only one corner (that was the center of the fabric) has no cut edges and is a "finished corner". Position square so that the finished corner is upward and form a cone by rolling two outside edges to center, overlapping. Leave a small opening at the top.
Insert the flower pick up through the bottom of the cone and gather up the bottom with your fingers around the flower pick so that you now have a rose. Tightly wrap the wire around the bottom of the rose to hold fabric. Wrap florist tape snugly around the bottom of the fabric covering the wire and down the pick to hold it all in place. Add a leaf or leaf cluster wherever you like as you wrap.
Each rose will be unique depending on the size of the fabric square, how tightly you pull it, the angle you pull the fabric to form the cone, the size of the top opening, how you bunch it up to gather it, where you put the leaf, etc. This is the beauty of nature.
Using a small spoon or funnel, fill each rose with bird seed or non-swelling rice. Arrange in a vase for each guest to take one before the bride and groom leave. After tossing the bird seed or rice, each guest will have a nice memento of the wedding.

The information on this instruction sheet is presented in good faith, but no warranty is given, nor results guaranteed, nor is freedom from any patent is to inferred. Since we have no control over physical conditions surrounding the application of information herein contained, CraftMall-Web disclaims any liability for untoward results.