• Centerpieces add a special touch to your wedding day.Wedding Roses image by Kevin Cooke from Fotolia.com
  
  Crafting your own bridal centerpieces is a great way to save some money in your wedding budget. It can get very expensive very quickly if you go to a florist for your centerpieces, as you will likely need at least eight centerpieces for your wedding. Crafting is also a great way to add a whimsical creative touch to your special day.
  
  

Fruit Centerpieces

• Fresh fruit adds a seasonal flair for your centerpiece. It also adds to the reception by providing delicious smells for the guests to enjoy. Apply a soft yellow glitter to a dozen lemons during the summer months with a dozen fresh bay leaves arranged around the lemons. Display in a cake pedestal. Stud clementines with cloves and display in a hurricane glass during the winter months. Arrange fresh apples in a wooden bushel basket during the fall months. Float slices of lime in an apothecary jar in the spring months.
  
  

Candle Centerpieces

• Use eclectic vintage candelabras with taper candles in your wedding color to give your reception a funky, vintage feel. Or, purchase clear glass candle holders in a wide assortment of shapes and sizes and use various sized candles in your wedding color to make a table-scape for each table.
  
  

Floral Centerpieces

• Purchase large cylinder clear glass vases and float layers of gerbera daisies for bright colorful centerpieces. Alternatively, obtain wooden bowls and float six rose blooms in your wedding color for your centerpiece. Or, make a bouquet of tiny nosegays arranged in a glass vase by rolling six paper cones in your wedding color and filling each cone with small filler flowers. Use small differently shaped and sized bud vases and fill with farmer's market flowers to give your tables a whimsical feel.
  
  

Favors as the Centerpiece

• Use a cake stand to tier wedding favor boxes or even wedding favor treats such as homemade french macarons in your wedding color. Alternatively, give each place setting a cellophane bag with a ribbon in your wedding color and use different shaped and sized apothecary jars filled with old fashioned candy. Provide small scoops for your guests to use to pick out their treats for their goody bags.
  
  

Beach Themed Centerpieces

• Fill a large round vase with sand in your wedding color and seashells. Or, obtain a beta fish from the pet store and use a large round bowl filled with sand and seashells with the beta swimming for your guests to watch. Making topiaries is another possibility. Get Styrofoam balls from the craft store, thin 6-inch wooden dowels, seashells, small buckets, floral foam, ribbon in your wedding color and sand. Hot glue the seashells to the Styrofoam balls. Push the dowel carefully into the Styrofoam ball. Insert the floral foam into the small buckets and then insert the dowel into the foam. Fill the bucket with sand and tie the ribbon around the bucket.