diy part 2

Today we did a number of things wedding related, even though it was Austin's birthday. He even was a dear and sort of told me it was fun (he said I wasn't dragging him around.) We went to the party rental place and placed our orders for chairs/tables/linens, etc. And then we went to 3, yes 3, Dollar Trees for stuff for serving ware & centerpieces.

Here is what I got:


These little 3" high vases and tea candles.



I'm going to wrap around lavender to mimic the thing I found on Pinterest:


The lavender bunches are only $10.50 for five, and I LOVE the smell of lavender, I'm just worried that since they are dried they won't be as vibrantly purple as I want them to be.

So I'm going to be on the look out for lilac bushes in the area. I think it is sort of early for lilacs, but I love them and they would act similarly. Alternatively, I might look at Michaels and go the fake flower route. Either way, I'm not "wedded" to anything.

I've been making that same bad pun for weeks.

The other centerpiece I'm going to use is with taller vases (that I also got at the dollar store) with some green rock/marbles/whatever they're called, and then some green candles. Keeping it exceedingly simple, but I think it looks nice enough.


When we were renting our supplies, we got these long white plates to put little munchies on. But it's white on white on white, and so the green beads will add some necessary color.


That's about it. We ended up getting some plastic cutlery, plastic cups, and napkins too. All in all we spent about $40 and that's for all the centerpiece stuff (except flowers) and all serveware, so I'm feeling pretty awesome about that!