When to Splurge

Small touches with big style

Want to add some stylistic flair that gives you big bang for the buck. Consider the following ideas for creating high drama and stylish elegance, while sticking to your budget.

Treat head tables lavishly and add simple adornment to other tables. Centerpieces are one detail that can push cost up quickly. One centerpiece at $50 is quite reasonable, but multiply that by the number of tables at your reception and you can quickly create a budget crisis. Consider creating a simple centerpiece on your reception tables. Float half a dozen roses in a compote and surround with votives. Or sugar grapes and figs, stack in a white ceramic bowl and surround with skinny tapers. Then add a coordinating and opulent treatment to the head tables and/or buffets. Dense bowls of coordinating roses. Or rose arrangements with cascading sprays of grapes of rose and fig garland can coordinate with your more modest arrangements. You won't sacrifice high style, and you'll create a sumptuous and lavish impression, all without blowing the budget.

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Can't afford to splurge on twenty centerpieces? Then splurge on one - yours! Adorn the headtable with a lavish arrangement, then choose smaller, complimentary arrangements for the other tables.
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