Candle centerpieces
Lighten your evening with little magic of fire!
What can be more romantic, than having a candle dinner...
From the wedding, special dinner or reception to the garden party, restaurant or even in your daily life at home - candle centerpieces are a beautiful decoration for every place and occasion. They give a unique appearance, creating a special atmosphere.
Candles centerpieces are easy accessible and cheap products. They could be in many different types, shapes, colors and sizes. You could either purchase them or use some of your own imagination and enjoy making some yourself!
When you choose candle centerpieces for dinner, for example, first and most important rule is that the candles shouldn't disturb people's conversation - they must be either above or under the eye's level. Also consider the candle centerpiece according to the color scheme or party theme you have picked up.
Candle centerpiece with floating candles is some of the most impressive. There is something magical about combining water with fire. You can use a fish bowl, put some river or luminescent stones and float 3 or 5 candles in it. Feel free to experiment and instead of plain water you can use colored. Decorate it with some flowers and a ribbon.
You can also take a big martini glass to create a candle centerpiece, or any other suitable tall glass, instead of water you can fill it with color jell, pearls or pebbles.
Make sure that you never put candles centerpieces near to flammable materials, such as other candle centerpieces, mantels, draperies and similar. Most preferably, use the non dropping wax candle centerpieces, if you don't want to have hard time cleaning or throw away your nice tablecloth.
Take several matching candles, like pillars and group them together - that will form a simple and stylish candle centerpieces spot on your table. Pick smaller or different sized pillar and taper candles and form a ring. Decorate with flowers and stones. A scattered candles also makes a very distinguished and nice candle centerpiece, especially with some floating tea candles with different shapes - like hearts, stars, butterflies - in little jars and decorate with flowers, leafs, sea shells or fruits between them.
Make the evening even more enchanting with the magic of the aromatic candles. There is a huge variety of scents suitable for any occasion and mood - refreshing fruit aromas for your party or tender lavender, sweet vanilla and relaxing green tea - any type matching your taste.
The garden party will glow in the evening arranged with some effective candle centerpieces. Hanging over your head, sparkling on the staircase or in the grass - instead of glasses and jars you could work out a tinned candle centerpiece using just a normal pin from peas, clear it from all the stamps, poke holes, put a candle inside it and here you go with a simple and very original candle centerpiece for the garden party.
Arrange candle centerpieces with marine motives for a summer mood - bows full of sand, instead of water, ocean scented candles and sea shelfs and stars in different sizes and colors arranged inside or around the centerpiece will fill your home with pleasant atmosphere.
Other lovely candle centerpiece could be created with candles in trays, put in glass cups with colorful mirror pieces, which will reflect the colorful lights and create a unique view. Here are also delicate porcelain holders, very stylish are those made of fine metals with engraved decorations.
Show your personality in every candle centerpieces and enjoy the magic of light!
Here is a video on how to make candle centerpieces for Halloween: