How can I use tealights as a centrepiece?

Question

I'm trying to come up with some ideas for my wedding, I cant use real ones so ive got battery opp. Tealights. How can I make a centerpiece out of them?

Answer 1

Put them arranged around a vase with multi colored glass in the bottom and either a floating candle or flower on top then place all of it on top of a mirror so the light reflects the colors. If you want it to be dim lighting use a sheer cloth over the mirror in the colors of your wedding and it will still reflect but not be so bright.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

At least you did a trial run and found this out now and not at the reception! My friend had a medium-large fish bowl, with a fish in it. It said 'not suitable for filling with water', but went ahead anyway. Probably because it was thin glass or there were imperfections in the glass - it smashed everywhere. (The fish was rescued). I've seen candles and tealights in glass before - like hurricane glass holders. Maybe a combination of heat and water pressure on imperfect glass caused the breakage?

Answer 4

The nice thing about using the bateery operated tea-lites is that you can have paper and silk flowers close to them! Go to a few garage sales or flea markets and buy up all the glass or crystal vases/glasses you can find so that each table has 5 of varying heights. Put a battery tealite in each and scrunch up clear-wrap of your wedding colour or clear irridescent paper in each glass. They'll all twinkle like frosted glass or ice crystals. You could also buy silk flowers with many layers such as peonies, tear out the centre and glue gun a battery-op tealite in centre of each flower and place in the vases.

Answer 5

Underwater Tea Lights

Answer 6

There's lots of different ways to do it but the best ways that I've seen is to get a fish bowl and but a small glass in it. Around the glass, put river rock and in the glass, put tealights in them. If the riverrocks are clear- it adds a great glow. Try this site though, it may give you some good ideas. Congratulations by the way.

Answer 7

Hi and congratulations:

A couple of thoughts/ideas.

I know you said in your other post that you wanted to incorporate red, gold and white. Here are my ideas:

What about getting some round glass bowls like this:
http://www.save-on-crafts.com/vases7.html
(These are sold in lots of places like Walmart, Michael's, Hobby Lobby, Dollar Tree, etc.)

Then put in some gold "glass vase gems" like these:
http://www.save-on-crafts.com/vases7.html
(Again, you can purchase these at many stores).

Then...will the tealights work underwater? Try it to find out. You could put one (or 2?) down mixed in with the vase gems around it. Fill it about 2/3 with water and float 1 (one) open red rose (with the stem cut off) on top.

That would be one idea.

My other idea would be the same thing, glass bowl, vase gems, floating red rose. Then for your tealights, simply buy some tealight holders (either clear or colored glass) and put the battery tealights in them. Scatter some red rose petals on the table and you are done!

Good luck!

Answer 8

A single centrepiece or multiple (for each table)? Perhaps you can run with this idea...
Purchase small trays/plates in a Dollar store. Buy block(s) of florist's foam and cut to fit on the trays with about a 1" space between the foam and the edge of the trays. I did this once with 6" square candle plates, and cut the blocks of foam into three equal pieces...how high you make each piece depends on how high you want your arrangement.
Determine what greens you want to use -- perhaps evergreens, ferns, salal....and what floral elements (flowers, baby's breath, berries).
To get started on assembly, soak the florist's foam pieces in lukewarm water with floral preservative added for at least an hour -- these blocks of foam will soak up a lot of water and get quite heavy...don't force them down into the water -- just let them soak it up naturally, though you can flip the blocks over once or twice.
Place the wet foam on the tray/plate. Use florist's tape (about 1/4" wide) to secure the foam to the tray/plate by taping from one side of the tray to the other over the foam -- form a cross by taping first horizontally and then vertically. At the crossing point (centre), secure a tea light (perhaps use tape, or those sticky adhesive dots).
Begin to insert the greenery. Cut stems on a slight angle with a sharp pair of scissors or florist shears and insert in the foam (the angle on which you insert stems is determined by how you want them to display -- you want to "conceal" the tape and most of the foam). "Most of the foam" because where you leave some gaps you insert flowers -- again, cutting the stems on an angle (this helps them absorb water to stay fresh longer).
Finishing touches? -- you could insert ribbons or bows. Florist picks are inexpensive, little green wood sticks with some wire attached -- you wrap the wire around the ribbon/bow and insert the wood picks into the foam...or attach small dove ornaments to the picks...
Hope this is helpful!

Answer 9

The battery operated tea lights look best in a tea light holder, there are loads to choose from and if you have a theme or a colour for your wedding then you can match them.

Place the tea light holders onto a mirror tile and scatter with petals. This works best with glass tea light holders.

Give some height to your display by having a small branch wrapped with ribbon and then hang the tea light holders on to the branches.

Answer 10

How about a low wide mouthed vase and fill it with sand (you could even get sand in yoru colors) and kind of bury the lights in the sand. Since they are battery operated you wouldnt have to worry about fire hazards and it would look like the flames are coming from the sand. Or maybe even those colored clear stones, the light would probably make them glow and sparkle on the tables, then they would throw the colors onto the tables and make a pretty display on your white cloths.