Long story short- she only had very tall/skinny eifel tower vases which were a joke with our branches. So she tried to help by taking out some other vases they use for headtables to see what would work with what we had. After several minutes of her running back and forth grabbing vases and gem fillers- she made a mock display for us... and let me tell you- everything was just OFF. I wanted the branches to be mostly bunched together in a straight up and down fashion while she had them fanning out all over the place. I wanted to use a "snow" like vase filler and she was using those glass gem things. As if that wasn't stressing me out enough- she then proceeded to explain that unless we added color- our centerpiece would be boring. (Did she just say my idea was BORING?!?) She suggested adding colored branches or lights... LED's and whatnot. ::: um, what?? :::
Now ok. I really do like our coordinator- she's pretty awesome. And I know she was just trying to help. But... at that point I was upset. I felt like she had dismissed my whole idea and wasn't getting "my vision". We thanked her for the help and suggestions and got out of there before I had a mini breakdown. When I got home I immediately started researching LED lights, colored branches, different size vases- the works. And to my dismay- everything was super expensive and I just couldn't make anything I did find work with what I had in mind. It shouldn't have been a big deal- but to me, I was back to square one with my centerpiece and that made me a little nutty because I don't like the unknown. (yes, I'm crazy like that.)
Fast forward to Monday... after obsessing and scouring the internet all day- I decided to stop by Old Tyme Pottery on the way to my mom's house that night. I ended up picking out a vase that I thought *might* work- (a pretty big feat considering the rows and rows of glass vases that inevitably all start to look the same!) and decided to make my own mock display. Grabbing the only thing I had in the house that resembled snow (COTTON BALLS) so I could show it to Dale- I went to work on my vase. As it turned out, the vase I picked was perfect for the branches, just perfect. The size, the shape. Ahh. And amazingly the cotton balls I used as a filler totally worked and looked like snow! (2 for 2 now!) It was still a work in progress, but it had the most important thing- potential.
So last night Dale, B and I took a trip to Michaels to get a few other things to use in our centerpiece. The finished product went something like this: we tied a beautiful blue ribbon around the vase, dusted the cotton ball "snow" inside the vase with glitter, and then set the whole thing on a square mirror. We added some light blue gems scattered on the glass and 3 tea lights (we have votive holders for the real thing- the tea lights were just to test it) and stood back to scrutinize our work... and...
Lo and behold- it was beautiful... and exactly what I had envisioned! The candlelight reflected the glitter on the branches, the blue ribbon and gems added enough color to make it POP, but not take away from the simple elegant beauty of the branches, and it just felt like "Winter Wonderland" to me.
I'm sooo glad I became an obsessed crazy person who just had to make MY centerpiece work. Otherwise I might have impulsively starting ordering colored branches and LED lights and I would not be happy. We are going to have the centerpiece we want, and we're saving ourselves a lot of money. Take that coordinator lady!
I can't wait to show my future MIL tonight to get her opinion... hopefully she loves it as much as I do!
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