Help With Wedding Colours, Bridesmaids Dresses And Centrepieces

by Kirstie
(Northamptonshire)

As we are on a very tight budget, I am looking for burgundy bridesmaids’ dresses and any ideas for table centrepieces. Any help would be very much appreciated. If I can't find burgundy dresses do you think silver would go with burgundy & ivory.

Answer:

Silver would look lovely with burgundy and ivory. Most dresses come in a wide variety of colours so I would start by doing some Google searches for “burgundy bridesmaid dresses”. Once you find a few that you like, you can ring your local bridal stores to see if they have the dress available to see in person. Even if they don’t have it in burgundy, they usually have swatches so you can see if the shade is what you’re looking for. Once you get a look at it in person, you can then shop around to find the best price either online or at your local shops.

There are quite a few options for inexpensive centrepieces. You could use different sizes of ivory candles and then sprinkle burgundy coloured silk rose petals around them. Another candle option is to use burgundy coloured floating candles.

If you decide to include silver, you can sprinkle the tables with metallic confetti or silver beads to go around the candles.

A unique and elegant centrepiece is to spray paint some branches silver, secure them in a pot or vase and then drape crystals over them. You could use burgundy or ivory tulle to wrap around the pots. They look really pretty and sparkly with some tea light candles around them.