01/11/2009
Black Wedding Reception My centrepieces
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Wedding Reception
My centrepieces

Just took some photos of my centrepieces, these are not the correct colour of the flowers though, they are going to be Blue Dendrobium Orchids, not the plain purple ones. I was going to have white ribbon at the base of the vases but it didn't look right, the dark purple sheer ribbon looks a lot better so you can see the submersible LED through it but it doesn't blind you =P

Also I'm happy because I thought I'd need at least 3 stems for them to look good, but only 2 didn't let the light come through so one stem is best, which cuts my costs for these in half =)

Now I just need to work out how I'm going to put the table names with them, I don't like that it's going to be non-symmetrical haha... I was thinking about placing the cards on top of the vases, but they look kind of elegant and the table names are arcade games (eg Tetris, Frogger, Space Invaders etc) so I'm not sure it'll look right! Any ideas?

ps sorry the pics are sideways, I know that's annoying =[

8 and a half weeks to go!
diy, centerpiece, vase, orchids, submersible lights, led
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aussinurse
 |  London, London, city of, United kingdom  |  01/11/2009  | 
love it!
i've been waiting to see someone use submersible floralytes
coz i would love to use them, plus orchids are soooo classy
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aussinurse
 |  London, London, city of, United kingdom  |  01/11/2009  | 
are you using fresh or artificial flowers?
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 |  Sydney, New south wales, Australia  |  01/11/2009  | 
Fresh ones, I thought about using artificial but around here there is very limited choice, usually the wrong colours and almost just as expensive as real! Dumb Canberra... The floralites look *really* effective, I'd definitely recommend them =)
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 |  Barrie, ON, Canada  |  01/11/2009  | 
It looks fantastic! I saw this look at Spring Rolls which is a restaurant and fell in love.  So you submersed the LED light, what brand did you use that they are submersible?
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 |  Sydney, New south wales, Australia  |  01/11/2009  | 
hi lyndseym, I bought a 10 pack of "Submersible Floralyte" lights. You can get them on ebay or other places online =)
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 |  Harrison, TN, USA  |  01/13/2009  | 
okay I am trying to do the same thing I need step by step plz
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mikaela
 |  Sydney, New south wales, Australia  |  01/14/2009  | 
Hi mrscarter21, it's really easy!

I bought 10 vases from a dollar store for $7 each, and 10 submersible floralytes. Then I wrapped translucent ribbon around the bottom of the vase (overlapping, but you could get wider ribbon and just put it around once) securing it with super glue or even double sided tape. Then you just fill the vase with water, pop the light in the bottom and put one stem of orchids in the vase. And there you go!
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