CPC's 25th Anniversary

Last night my church celebrated it's 25th anniversary at the Hilton. It was a fun night with former pastors back for a visit, delicious food, and a glorious cake by Little Sister Cakes. I was asked to do the decorations for the tables, stage, and cake table. They wanted something simple and elegant. What better colors for a silver anniversary than silver, white, and green. I also used a lot of natural elements.

One of the table decorations was a wooden candlestick spray-painted silver with a globe of baby's breath.

A second table decoration was simply a vase of branches spray-painted silver with rice to anchor. Silver painted leaves were also in the vase.

A third table decoration was a simple cylinder of pine cones with battery operated white lights. (Not the greatest picture and I evidently only took one.)

There were three reserved tables that had simple arrangements of blush roses, baby's breath, and greenery.

For the stage I used two large tulip shaped glass vases that had curly willow spray-painted silver with cream roses, bells of ireland, and baby's breath.

For the cake table I used grape vine that I found in the woods behind my home that was sporadically spray-painted with silver. I strategically placed silver leaves and pine cones to appear to grow out of the vine.

Experimentation

I have a wedding in October and the bride wanted some ideas on vase fillers. That lead to an "evening of experimentation". Cue the Frankenstein laugh.

Water with floating candles and the "buttoned ribbon".
I glued a sequin over a folded ribbon to look as if it were
buttoned on. 

Pecans as a filler.

Branches in purple water. My favorite.

White rice, and in the back vase white and purple rice.

The rice ended up a little bluer than I wanted so...

back to the dying.