Country and Western Centerpiece Creations

Part of decorating for your western wedding theme will be deciding on how you'll want your tables to be decorated. Are you leaning toward a country look or one that highlights the old west? Perhaps you're having a cowboy chic wedding that requires more sophisticated table decor. How about a south-western ambience with a bit of Mexican flair?

The following suggestions should spark some good ideas in putting together country and western centerpieces that range from simple and elegant to fun and humorous.

• Putting flowers and petals in an old-fashioned pitcher and bowl were often used on vanity tables. These would make a very quaint country and western centerpiece for your food tables, as well as guest tables. Place the centerpiece on gathered tulle or lace and scatter additional petals around the outside.
  
  
• Use antique looking hurricane lamps as centerpieces.
  
  
• Wrap and glue rope around a deep glass votive candleholder. Use green or rust colored votive candles for a western look.
  
  
• How about using gold prospecting pans as centerpieces? Paint rocks with a gold spray paint and place them in the as "gold nuggets", mixed in with regular river rocks. Add in some gold foil-covered chocolate coins. Place a narrow glass vase with some daisies in the center of the pan.
  
  
• Use upside down cowboy hats and line them with napkins or bandanas. Place warm rolls or fresh fruit in the hats. This serves as a nice looking, yet functional centerpiece.
  
  
• Use potted cactuses as centerpieces instead of flowers. Place some small pieces of driftwood next to each cactus if desired.
  
  
• Float 4 to 5 roses, daisies or apple blossoms along with floating candles in a wooden or pottery type bowl. Scatter additional flower petals around the table.
  
  
• Place bandana's under centerpieces for contrast.
  
  
• Scatter cowboy confetti on table. (Shapes with cowboy boots, hats, etc.)
  
  
• Fill metal campfire coffeepots or coffee mugs with daisies, zinnias or sunflowers. (Click here for a list of western wedding flowers.)
  
  
• A great and simple idea is candles or wildflowers in mason jars. Tie a raffia ribbon around the edge to decorate.
  
  
• Spray paint horseshoes and place in the center of the table. Place a large candle in the center of the horseshoe. Add some dried flower springs tucked in betweent the horseshoe and candle.
  
  
• For a more elaborate centerpiece, take a 6" square piece of thin plywood and coat with watered down glue. Drag it through a bucket of sand so the board is covered in sand. Spray a coat of acrylic sealer over top to help hold the sand in place. Lay it down flat, sand side up, to be used as the base. Glue in place a plastic oxen skull, a real or fake cactus and a piece of driftwood to the sand covered board for your own desert scene.
  
  
• A beautiful arrangement for your food tables is to have an assortment of fruit and flowers loosely arranged as decorations.
  
  
• Use pottery jugs as flower holders. With a permanent black marker write: "XXX Moonshine Whiskey" on the jug.
  
  

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