Totally NFR but I need some help, please.

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cynupstateny

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I'm on the banquet committee for our service org. annual dinner. There are three of us. Two of us have an unemployed spouse and one is retired on a fixed income. We have to provide the centerpieces for the tables (treasury is low) Anyone have any idea on what we could do that is inexpensive but attractive? There will be several tables.

 
I've filled glass bowls with water and petals of flowers in season and purchased large bag of

floating candles online for about 8 bucks. They were very pretty. I have also done this with cranberries. I borrowed glass bowls from a few friends and I had a few. Easy and inexpensive but very nice.

 
If you want to arrange a cut arrangement, leaves.....

are great if you can get colourful ones like croton....or white paper bags, sand a votifs with a small flower or leaf arrangement on either side.....or if cut flowers are not a problem and the expense of vases is ask around for any brick-brac recepticle (give a max size) and go from there.....tin cans with holes punched in and votives....have to say candles do finish off centerpieces.

 
I don't know how formal your dinner is but how about terra cotta pots filled

with pansies or violets or herbs? Maybe have a drawing for them after the dinner or something? Like I said, I don't know how formal it is, but that is something I would liket to look at during dinner. If the dinner is being held somewhere permanent, the centerpieces could get planted outside after the dinner. I am doing one for the teacher's luncheon and then having a drawing for it afterwards. Pretty inexpensive.

 
What is the theme? You said this was for a service organization...

could you put a photo tree in the middle of the table with pictures of people you're trying to help? Or if it's kids, maybe they could do some artwork?

Tall vases filled with rocks & colorful fish can be fun. Sometimes you can even rent the vases from a florist over night.

Paint pebbles (fish tank variety) and use them as a base for large candles. Ikea has cheap candles.

 
That's what I was thinking. I buy pansies according to the colours of my kitchen dishes, plant them

and pick them to put in small glass vases of matching colour. The vases are about $6 at Pier One. It's very pretty and the pansies are outside to bloom for the early summer.

If you can find pretty glass vases, and the jumbo pansies, it doesn't take much. IF the tables are big, you could set them on an arrangement of leaves.

 
I did terra cotta pots two years ago when, as this year, I missed a meeting and they

put me on the committee.

Tradition holds that there be a centerpiece on each table. The bottom of one person's plate on each table has a piece of tape or something like that on it and that person keeps the centerpiece.

 
I looked this up and it says it's the French version of focacchia.

Sorry but I don't understand how this could be a centerpiece.

 
The fougasse is placed on a plate. Fill the holes with stems of fresh herbs.....

parsley, rosemary, whatever you can find. Wish I had taken pictures of the ones I've made.

 
Our default centerpiece at home is a big bowl of oranges and lemons.

Pier 1 always has marked-down big bowls...and fruit isn't too expensive. Good luck! smileys/smile.gif

 
Couldn't have done it without your spelling correction, LOL. The May Travel BA about Provence

had a recipe too, but it didn't show up on the search. Maybe someone saves those like I do, but knows where they saved them, LOL. It was mid-90's.

 
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