Wedding centerpieces have the potential to be the true aesthetic highlight of a celebration. Whether you pull together hundreds of seasonal wedding flowers, embrace candlelit table arrangements, or curate antique vessels to place on your tables, the result will inevitably impact the overall feel of your wedding events.
As the central design element that will be right in front of guests while seated at the reception, it’s important to consider what will be within their line of sight throughout the evening. You can mix up centerpieces based on table size and shape, keep the arrangements the same in every single vase, or bring together an eclectic mix of items that create a unique, yet cohesive spread that fits the vibe of your wedding day.
No matter your design aesthetic, we curated inspiration from real Vogue wedding centerpieces along with reception tablescape tips to help you curate the look and feel of your own nuptials.
1. Table Lamps and Wild Florals
At a winery wedding in Santa Ynez, the brides chose to lean into the organic nature of their surroundings. They selected floral arrangements with wild, dynamic greenery, opened-up blooms, and a mix of neutral white and red petals. They also wanted the event to feel like a chic dinner party, so table lamps with clear glass shades lent a clever design touch to the spread. One final fun addition? Butter shapped to appear like a flower petal, along with touches of real lavender.
2. Vintage Lace and White Flowers
Give your wedding a vintage feel like this beautiful tablescape at an interior designer’s wedding at Blackberry Farm. Sourced lace tablecloths lay the base for this sweet setup, while large white florals in terracotta pots and antique silver vessels bring personality to the table. Pillar candles in hurricanes with etched greenery details add a lovely glow to the outdoor celebration.
3. Neutral Blooms and Colorful Candelabras
Don’t be afraid to get creative with your tablescape décor. For this intimate Lake Como wedding, sculptural Italian candelabras with painted floral and bird details laid the foundation for the tablescape’s colors. Eggplant lampshades tie in hues found in the birds, while gold votives add a gilded glow to the display and white florals add a natural touch.
4. Spheres of Candlelight
Your tablescape doesn’t actually require florals. At this Miami wedding, the circular tables were filled to the brim with spheres full of pillar candles. The glowing center of the table helped illuminate conversations among guests in an otherwise dark room.
5. Pastel Prints and Florals
At this wedding at the Rodin Museum in Paris, the bride hoped the reception space would make the guests feel as if they had stepped into a Fragonard painting—so it’s no surprise why the wedding centerpieces embraced beautiful arrangements bursting with pastel florals. While beige taper candles brought warmth to the display, table lamps with green and beige floral shades were the star light fixture on the tables.
6. Melange of Wildflowers
If you’re looking for an organic tablescape to enhance a beautiful natural backdrop, consider selecting local wildflowers for your tablescape. We love how the arrangements at this Tennessee rehearsal dinner are found in similar glass vessels wrapped in woven rope, yet each bunch of blooms is entirely unique. Playing with height and hue of each arrangement is an exciting way to create visual intrigue.
7. Bud Vases and Blooms
For the wedding, the couple still embraced wildflowers in their floral design. However, lower bud vases mixed with fuller arrangements with pink, purple, and yellow blooms were used to create an unpretentious yet still quite elevated tablescape.
8. Something Blue
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Bride Bernadette Gerrity says the goal for her wedding’s centerpieces was to be “elegant, timeless, and effortless—almost as if I had thrown it together myself.” Silver vessels were filled with white roses, rancunculus, and light blue florals for a colorful pop. Grapes at the base of the arrangement lent that “dinner party” element to the display.
9. Textural Tablescape
Greenery and petite blooms full of texture can absolutely add interest to your wedding tables. This mix of local foliage and flowers lent some edge to an elevated, black-tie event in New York City.
10. Pink and Green Pastels
At Becca Bloom’s rehearsal dinner on Lake Como, the bride chose to have the centerpieces tap into her favorite colors of pink and green. Arrangements played with texture and height, while the tablescape had a dose of whimsical touches with sculptural busts that nodded to the groom’s love of history and birds placed as an homage to the mother of the bride s favorite animal.
11. A Sunset of Roses
For the reception, the couple had hundreds of roses overflowing in arrangements that appeared as if they were garlands down each table. To pay homage to the beautiful Lake Como sunsets, the blooms were placed in a gradient of hues ranging from yellows to soft purples.
12. Tonal Tablescape
The colors of grapes spread across the tablescapes laid down the palette at a stylist’s California wedding. Arrangements using rich green and wine hues incorporated fresh mint, lisianthus, geranium leaves, jasmine vine, pears, and chocolate Queen Anne’s lace.
13. Mossy Mélange
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Moss punctuated with light florals and sea grasses helped create a beautiful, organic centerpiece along serpentine tables at a wedding in Hawaii. Inspired by the natural movement of the sea, this display brought a natural, earthy feel to the reception.
14. Set in Stone
Marble slabs from the couple’s home were an unexpected addition to this stunning tablescape at their vow renewal. The rich material was perfectly complemented by more stoneware vessels and florals with plenty of movement.
15. Bursts of Blooms
For Justin Theroux and Nicole Brydon’s rehearsal dinner, their floral designer created “wild, vibrant, organic creations” that stood out from their woven white table linens. Low white votives added glow to the evening and allowed the vessels of pink, orange, and yellow blooms to shine.
16. All About Orange
For a sangeet dinner in Portugal, oranges were the main character of the centerpieces. The citrus fruits were displayed down the center of the tablescapes on orange linens accented alongside white table number signs and candles. As an unexpected touch, stemmed roses were stuck into the fruits, transforming them into unique vessels.
17. Citrus Style
Don’t be afraid to branch out into other citrus fruits for your wedding centerpieces. This welcome dinner in Thailand created sculptural citrus displays with oranges, kumquats, lemons, and grapefruit with extra punches of color from yellow and purple blooms.
18. Rows of Roses
For the reception dinner the next day in a beachfront cave, each long table was lined with pairs of white roses in their own individual glass vessels. Low votive candles bookend the florals to create a dramatic glow.
19. Sage and Soft Florals
Low arrangements filled with pastel florals are always a win when creating a romantic reception space. We love how this wedding also incorporates sage green taper candles and fringed table lamps to create more cohesion throughout the centerpieces.
20. Warmed Up Whites
While using exclusively white flowers can be a beautiful choice for your wedding centerpieces, don’t be afraid to vary your arrangements to fit the ambiance. At this Santa Barbara wedding, the brides had light peach florals mixed in with cream flowers to add warmth that mirrored the rest of their palette.
21. Wild Greens
At her winery rehearsal dinner, bride Haley Sullivan had the centerpieces embrace the modern. Green grasses, textural florals like amaranthus, thistles, and more create a cool display at the center of tables. Tall, twisted candlesticks with thin taper candles add a surreal feel to the tablescapes.
22. Celestial Centerpieces
Glowing, fluted votives gave a twinkling feel to San Francisco City Hall at this couple’s wedding reception. Singular long-stemmed florals gave a romantic feel to the design, while plates featuring each guest’s zodiac sign brought an additional celestial feel to the space.
23. Fruit Forward
For their wedding in the Tuscan countryside, the bride and groom hoped their tablescapes would have a feeling of rustic, natural abundance. Tomatoes, chestnuts, apples, and olive branches strewn about the table along with vintage stoneware vessels help capture that laissez-faire feel.
24. Mexican Marigolds
For their Mexico City wedding just before Día de los Muertos, the couple leaned into the traditions of the holiday by crafting tablescapes filled with orange marigolds, candles, and other blooms like chrysanthemums and roses in that bright orange hue.
25. Fall Textures
For their fall wedding in Los Angeles, the couple had the 13 reception tables decorated with unique centerpieces in antique vessels that brought variety and autumnal hues to the space. Wispy grasses and ferns, long-stemmed blooms, and larger arrangements helped create an unexpected cohesion to the tables.
26. Light and Bright
You don’t need your centerpieces to be robust to feel complete. At a wedding in Italy, light orange blooms on thin stems called sandersonia aurantiaca stretched around the table to bring color to the rehearsal dinner.
27. Pretty Patinas
A bit of wear on your centerpiece décor isn’t always a bad thing. We love how this tablescape used candlesticks with obvious patina to bring a vintage element to the otherwise clean and crisp table.
28. Mix It Up
You don’t have to use the same floral arrangement repeatedly throughout your wedding reception space. We love this long table at a wedding in France that features multiple centerpieces of lilies and lavender-hued flowers that feel truly unique from one another.
29. Local Foliage
At a Brooklyn celebration, the couple’s floral designer sourced seasonal wedding flowers from Upstate New York to incorporate into their tablescapes. The result was organic, ikebana-inspired arrangements based in moss that made it feel as if the florals and foliage were naturally growing from the tables.
30. Go Green
Anthuriums, amaranthus, artichokes, and other green-hued florals absolutely made the centerpieces sing at this cool wedding along the Santa Barbara coast. Leaning into those hues with green glassware, ceramics, and napkins made these eclectic arrangements feel complete.
31. Beautiful Neutrals
At a fall New York wedding, the centerpieces on each table in cream ceramics were filled with dahlias, chrysanthemums, foliage, and other petite florals in soft shades of ivory, peaches, and light browns. While the colors leaned more neutral, the organic feel and variety of each arrangement made the tablescapes full of life.
It s important to consider how your guests will be seated at your wedding reception if the centerpieces will prevent them from conversing with others at the table. Low centerpieces can be a safe bet as you won t obstruct the eye line across the table. However, well-placed tall centerpieces can work as long as they rise above most guests heads and they don t have too thick of a base. If you want to create some variety across your tablescapes, you can select tall or low centerpieces to be alternated across different table sizes and shapes.
It s best to get your floral design figured out early, you won t be able to fully finalize your wedding centerpieces until you get a proper look at the guest count and floral availability. Once you have an idea of how many guests will be present and what seasonal flowers can be sourced, you can confirm all centerpieces about two to three weeks in advance of the big day.
