Best Wedding Centerpieces

Tropical wedding centerpieces are a very popular choice if you want to add fantastic vibrant colors to your wedding reception decor. You can think of themes that would go with your tropical wedding centerpiece like the very popular beach or hot island theme.

The most popular addition to your tables that depict these fantastic two themes would be tropical flower wedding centerpieces. There are many exquisite indigenous flowers you can arrange beautifully, really colorful blossoms with fantastic shapes for display. The most fashionable ones would be African Tulips, Amazon Lilies, Begonia Non Stop Reds, the astonishing Blanket Flower, Bloody Lilies, Blue Passion Flowers, Cattleyas, Day Lilies Frans Hals, Dahlias, Encyclias, Etlingars, Flames of the Forest, Grass of the Dews and Hibiscus. Here are my absolute all time favorites: Anthuriums, Orchids and Esterlicias, which look stunning when scattered around wedding cakes adding rich and deep tonal ranges to the main tables.

The beauty of all these flowers relies in the fact that the tropical centerpieces will be easy to arrange as almost each one of them can stand on each own as a centerpiece itself. Also, you can combine the more “typical” wedding flowers like roses and hyacinths together to create more traditional wedding centerpieces.

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Tall Tropical Flowers Wedding Centerpieces

If your wedding reception tables are small or narrow, these centerpieces are the perfect choice to go for. Arrange beautiful esterlicias with lengthy stems in a tall narrow clear vase. Add colorful twigs or bamboo shoots to make the flowers stand out. You’ll be surprised that only 1 or 2 esterlicias will be more than enough, as they are big and bold. They come in different colors (yellow is the most popular one), use these colors to match the rest of the décor.

Around the base, arrange banana trees’ leaves around the clear vase together with another flower like anthurium. Your tropical wedding centerpiece will look elegant, simple and very lively.

Flat Tropical Centerpiece

If your tables are appropriate for displaying flat centerpieces, curl dracaena leaves around the base and place your tropical flowers on top. You can staple the leaves to make sure they don’t curl back into their original position. Add other green leaves for a fuller effect. Place anthuriums or the flower of your choice carefully on top of the curled leaves, making sure they point in all directions. At this point you can arrange your tropical centerpiece with other spring like flowers like gladiolus or small orchids. For a finishing touch add colorful berries and place two candles to lift up the flat centerpiece.

Beach Wedding Centerpieces

For the “beach effect”, you could use an urn shape vase and arrange different types of rich deep vibrant flowers on top with fern leaves to adorn on the sides. In the middle, tie together a few bamboo shoots and place at the very top of the shoots palm trees’ leaves pointing in all directions. This tropical wedding centerpiece is easy to arrange and has great impact on your guests because of the rich foliage and creativity. One of my favorite ideas if you are planning a budget wedding.

The Elegance of the Pincushion

Pincushion flowers come in many different colors and are perfect to add that tropical touch to your centerpieces. You can find them in blue, lavender, white, pink and coral colors. Choose your favorite one (or the one that matches your décor colors) and arrange over sprayed-painted twigs that lay on top of a flat and short vase. Fill the vase with grey pebbles and sand as to emphasize the colors of the twigs and pincushions.

Anthuriums Are Just Magical

By now you can tell it is my all time favorite tropical flower. It is so versatile, it looks great and you only need one or two to create a fantastic effect. Colors range from white, lime green, lots of shades of pink, deep red and vibrant red.

Place three attractive blossoms on a clear vase with a pedestal shape and arrange together with tropical green leaves. I would not mix this type of tropical centerpiece with other flowers. If you do, make sure they are small enough to add a “touch of color” but be careful as the anthurium will overpower any other blossom you combine it with! Try very small pink roses with deep red anthuriums for an elegant effect.

For the best tropical wedding reception centerpieces all you need is a combination of the right flower and your imagination. The beauty of these fantastic blossoms is that you don’t need many to create a piece that stands out, and they look glorious even in the winter time! With the help of a few bamboo shoots, palm tree and banana tree leaves, sand, pebbles and nicely arranged candles, your tropical wedding centerpieces will sure be a hit with all of your guests!