35 Budget Friendly DIY Wedding Centerpieces

Add a personal touch to your special day with these creative, low-cost DIY wedding centerpieces. Your day is all about you and the unique relationship you have with your spouse-to-be. Showcase your bond’s personality with charming, impressive centerpieces lovingly handcrafted by you or your family. The ideas we’ve curated below can be assembled or created with only a small investment and a little time and effort.

Colorful Rice Centerpieces

Rice is commonly showered onto the couple after the ceremony, but you can also use this inexpensive food as a creative decoration. Similar to laying colored sand, you can fill vases and goblets with rice dyed bright colors, such as red, blue, green, or silver. Place dried rice in votive holders to add different hues to your candle decorations. Colored rice evokes a sense of homey warmth and celebration.

Candle and Dyed Rice Patriotic Theme

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Rainbow Rice for Wedding Centerpieces

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Bucket Centerpiece Ideas

For rustic charm, use metal buckets of various sizes and textures as vases for your floral arrangements. You can also wrap the buckets with burlap or paper, spray paint them, or stencil messages on them. You can even create an icy champagne block using a bucket as the mold!

Floral Arrangement in Gardening Pail

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White Floral Buckets with Stenciled Letters

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Floral Arrangement in Polished Metal Bucket

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Flowers Frozen in Hollowed Ice Bucket Mold to Chill Champagne

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Birdcage Centerpiece Ideas

Now that you’ve captured your love’s heart don’t let it flutter away. Represent keeping your love’s affections safe with birdcage centerpieces. Birdcages can be of various sizes, simple or ornate. Fill them with flowers or leave them on the gift table as a creative card holder. Embellish your birdcages with butterflies, birds, ribbons, or tags.

Painted Birdcage Stuffed with Flowers

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Golden Birdcage with Floral Arrangement and Butterfly Embellishment

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White Birdcage and Colorful Flowers

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Floral Decorated Birdcage with White Candle

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Modern Elegant Birdcages with Candles and Green Flora

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Birdcage Centerpiece with Butterflies and Bird

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Vase and Candle Centerpiece Ideas

Add class to your wedding table with candle and floating candle vases. Use tall vases or goblets for more elegance. Along with your candles, you can fill them with orchids, pebbles, beads, or rose petals.

Orchids and Floating Candle in Tall Vase Arrangement

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Rose Petals and White Candle in Vase

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Glass Beads, Flowers, and Floating Candle in Clear Vase

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White Candle in Hand-decorated Vase

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White Candles in Series of Varied Square Vases

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Wooden Spool Centerpieces

For a craftily creative wedding table with a rustic touch, use wooden spools of yarn or thread. They will perfectly represent the life that you and your spouse are crafting together.

Yarn Spools with Accompanying Décor

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Large Craft Spools and Floral Arrangement

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Colorful Thread and Yarn Decorations

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Spool Seat Assignments on Oversized Yarn Spool

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Vintage Tea Tin Centerpieces

A brilliant idea for adding vintage charm to your tables is using decorative tea tins for your floral arrangements. Decorations themselves, they will add beauty to your tables as they showcase your chosen floral varieties. Tea tins come in a variety of colors and patterns to suit your personality. You can also wrap them in tissue or patterned paper to better fit your needs.

Elegant Tea Tin Flower Pots

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Colorful Vintage Tea Tin Assortment

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Creative Upside-down Wine Glass Centerpieces

Here’s a classy idea; turn wine glasses upside down. Enclose flowers in the cups and place candles on the base. This type of centerpiece is chic and unique. You can even gift the glasses afterward or keep them for your next event.

Upside-down Wine Glasses on a Mirror with Candles and White Flowers

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White Candles atop Blue Wine Glasses

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Paper Craft Flowers Enclosed by Wine Glasses with Candles on Top

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Assorted Wine Glasses, Rose Blooms, and Candles

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Shimmery Wine Bottle Centerpieces

While you have the glasses, add the bottles too! Glitz up used wine bottles in shimmering gold, silver, red, blue, or green. Display them on their own or add sprouting flowers.

Glittery Wine Bottle Centerpieces

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Gold Painted Wine Bottle Vase

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Unique Fishbowl Centerpieces

Fishbowls make perfect display dishes. Add life to your table with a real fish or two in the bowls or fill them a colorful assortment of beads, floating candles, or flowers.

Decorative Fishbowl Filled with Colored Glass Stones and Flower Bloom

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Clear Glass Stones and Lilies in Fishbowl Display

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Log Centerpiece Ideas

Go natural with table centerpieces made from logs. If you love the woods or homesteading, this is a fitting idea. You can surround the logs with greens and flowers, paint the ends for a colorful display, or etch designs into the sides.

Small Burning Logs with Painted Designs on Ends and Branch Stubs

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Floral Arrangements on Log

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Gumball Centerpieces

Make your wedding fun with some candy flair. Coordinate them by color or mix them for to add random pops of bright shades. It’s a whimsical idea that shows the vibrant and joy-filled life you intend to have with your spouse.

Gumball Jars with Festive Straws and Party Favors

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Gumball and Confectionary Dessert Centerpiece

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Elegant, rustic, or whimsical, these DIY wedding centerpieces each have a unique character but are all easy and economical to create. Browse back through them and pick your favorites!