Do it Yourself Wedding Reception- centre pieces

When Craig and I decided to get married we wanted it to be easy, fun and have a lot of personal touches. Neither of us wanted a lot of fuss, or a lot of speeches or really anything relating to a traditional wedding.

In the end we went to Mexico and got married, that was easy. We could pick the sunset ceremony, the garden ceremony or the indoor ceremony... We picked sunset on the beach of course, kind of seemed like the whole point in going to Mexico. It was a lot of fun and not a lot of planning for us.

We decided since we planned Mexico in less then 3 months and not all of our family and friends could come that we wanted to do a local reception. It ended up being another beach event at our family cabin in Penticton. Just as beautiful as Mexico, but not as easy! We wanted to do most of it ourselves, partly to save money and partly for the personal touches. I thought I would share some of what we did here. We had a loose theme, mostly we wanted things that complimented the location and didn't take a way from the natural beauty of the location. So based on our love of the Okanagan and all the orchards and wineries that surround the cabin we tried to bring that feeling to the beach.

 Let's start with the centre pieces. I wanted something simple, and no flowers. Since there is no existing lighting in the yard at the cabin I figured candles were necessary. I collected different sized mason jars to be the main portion of the centre pieces. Each table was to have 3 jars, 2 with sand and candles, 1 full of wine corks.

Simple but it worked. I have now continued to use some of them at home on the dinner table or on window sills.