Home Made Wedding Decorations: No-Pour Wedding Candles

Among the Most Beautiful---Yet Inexpensive Wedding Decorations---are Candles

Wedding candles are not just for evening wedding ceremonies and receptions and create a magical glow to any wedding as centerpieces. Even unlit, wedding candles create special warmth and ambience and easily fill the center area of an arrangement off bridal flowers that match a wedding theme.

Making your own wedding decorations does not need to be expensive to be elegant. In fact, most of the wedding candles presented in this article use materials that can be purchased at second-hand stores and garage sales.

And, if you're thinking of having to pour your own wax and making a mess, think again. These wedding candles are ‘no-pour' which makes them simple and fun to create as wedding decorations.

Wedding Candles as Wedding Decorations Fit Your Budget and Complement Wedding Theme Colors

Because candles as themselves always add charm, it isn't difficult to gather materials to create and decorate them as table centerpieces to add to your wedding theme and wedding decorations.

You can implement few or several items to wedding candles to match your wedding theme and feel. If you already have the colors for your wedding decorations in mind, you and your wedding party and other helpers can begin gathering embellishments for your wedding candles now.

First, after deciding on your colors for your centerpieces, you will want to choose among some of the most impressive and popular elements used for wedding decorations. In this case, purchased candles and fillers (many purchased at dollar stores and thrift shops) for wedding candles you can create may include:

Votive and/or tea light candles to match or complement your wedding theme.

Marbles: clear, shaped, colored or iridescent that complement your wedding theme and wedding candles.

Ribbon: Colors and widths of fabric or synthetic ribbon that match your other wedding decorations.

Flower petals (silk or fresh) or potpourri that add color to your wedding theme.

Floral foam if creating a wedding candle centerpiece base of dried or fresh flowers.

Spray paint: metallic spray paint that match your wedding theme colors and can be used to paint old potpourri or other filler.

Filler: Spanish moss and/or Baby's Breath dried flowers.

Iridescent Mylar film.

Floral wire and/or floral tape.

"Pearl" head seamstress pins of colors that coincide with your wedding theme.

Simple Container Ideas for Your Wedding Candles Add Elegance to your Wedding Decorations

Container ideas for your wedding candles include:

Glass bowls.

Champagne, martini, or other tall, wide-top glasses.

Canning jars

Drinking glasses or candle votive holders.

The idea for these wedding decorations is to mount votive candles or float tea lights on or in filled and/or decorated above glass containers.

1. Elegant Tea Light Wedding Candles: Fill a clear glass bowl with water. Add fresh or silk flower petals to the water along with the tea lights. These are very elegant wedding decorations, especially if the petals are also randomly scattered around the base and table.

2. Victorian Canning Jar Wedding Candles: Fill canning jars with elements of your choice. Using a hot glue gun, mount the candle holder containing the votive candle just inside or on the mouth of the canning jar. Seal around any loose areas with more hot glue. Wrap ribbon around the mouth of the canning jar and candle. You can also add fresh or dried flowers to the ribbon's bow.

3. Country Lamp Wedding Candles: Fill canning jars or other small vases with potpourri or other elements to where a votive candle will sit inside the container about ½-way below the top of the container. Cut wide ribbon or cotton eyelet trim to a length that when gathered at the top using running stitches, will create the effect of a lamp shade. Attach the "shade" to the mouth of the container using a hot glue gun. "Seal" the connecting points with a good, double-sided adhesive tape. Decorate the fabric further as desired to match your wedding theme.

4. Unity Wedding Candles: Use strong double-sided tape to tack a cut-out wedding invitation to a votive candle, leaving about 2-3" around the sides. Using trim and "pearl" seamstress pins, pin the invitation around and covering the edges. Use ribbon and/or flowers to decorate the base.

5. "Ice" Wedding Decorations/Centerpieces. This wedding decoration is an ingenious way to create "ice" wedding "candles" but uses small, battery-powered, "flickering" (or not) clear mini lights. Lightly crunch iridescent Mylar film to loosely fill a glass container. And set the lights evenly through the "crumpled" Mylar creases. The containers can be topped with decorated votive candles and guests will wonder why the "ice" isn't melting.

Fun Idea: Give each table a flower or other element to pass around while music is playing. When the music stops, whoever is holding the element gets to take the centerpiece home.

Additional Resources for these Candle Wedding Decorations:

How to Tie Different Kinds of Bows: http://www.save-on-crafts.com/howtomakebows.html

Offray Ribbon How-To's: http://www.offray.com/howto.html

Mini Lights and Other Wedding Decorations/Supplies: http://www.save-on-crafts.com/chrisligandl.html