Challenge of the Day

[bloomery]

Ten centerpieces for this Saturday for a wine dinner with a French theme, colors are to be red, white, and blue. Price - $20 to $25 each. Country club setting for the dinner, tables are regular rounds. Need to be able to carry a conversation across the table without any interference. Suggestions??

 

[aileen_c]

I'm picturing a low cube or rectangular glass with lisianthus, misty, italian pitt, stock and maybe thistle?? something very romantic, loose and airy comes to mind...since it's French themed I think of romance automatically. I'm sure there are other flowers you can incorporate but nothing is coming to mind right now. hope this helps
You can do a single ribbon draped throughout the design somehow?? hmmm....I'll think a bit more on this.

 

[shannonlovesflowers]

get more money

 

[shannonlovesflowers]

what do you mean regular rounds??

 

[SpringCity]

I think regular rounds are like 8-10 people?
More money would be nice but probably not gonna happen, I'm guessing.
Ok Aileens design sounds pretty but does it have to have red white and blue in the arrangement? That's throwing me off.
I dunno, white hydrangea in a cheapie ivy bowl or ginger bowl, with...hm. iris? ugh. No. Ok, blue hydrangea with a red spray rose and white wax? It's a hard one.

 

[Palms]

what about a red and white gerbera in a vase with blue water and a bit of grass? or a cube with blue water and then a red gerbera sitting on top of it and then do half with red gerb and half with white??

fishbowl with the same floating flowers with coloured water.

 

[pottyboutflowers]

i am seeing a large goldfish bowl with small agapathus hydrangea (white) and red roses ..... but i don't know if thats going to work with your pricing otherwise the agapathus with red gerberamini and white stocks in a tall lily vase you could even use some stell grass attach tiny french flags on sounds slightly naff but bet they'd love it :dunno:

 

[theflowersmith]

What about pots of lavender, if you can get them? When the budget is low, I often think plants.

My alternate would be blue iris in tall towers. This picture has Floralight dropped into gel.

 

[bloomery]

get more money

I would if I could. Not possible, though. And, regular rounds are 60 or 72 inch. What I meant is that it wasn't banquet style tables, or squares, etc..

 

[terri]

We love using fresh fruit in our themed dinner arrangements.-Maybe adding grape clusters to your floral design would be interesting.

 

[njgraham]

Yep, that's a challenge. I like the plant idea if you can find the lavender, its a great idea. Otherwise, I think it depends upon how you want to represent your shop. You must have your own style. If you want lots of flower for the money and it doesn't make you cringe, you could use white poms....there are some varieties that have a pretty shape. You could pave them in oasis with red mini carns. For the blue a cool looking ribbon. Weave the ribbon in and out of the flowers letting it round upwards here and there so it adds depth and so that it looks like a mosaic. If you don't want to be old fashioned and boring you either need to use inexpensive flowers in an whole new way or go minimalist, I think.

Another thought would be to not mix the colors together in the arrangements, but do all red, all white and all blue pieces...something different for each table. (I think belladonna delphinium is a much better blue than iris.)

Good Luck!

PS: Love the fruit idea. Go for the grapes.

 

[inferno63]

I don't know if you have "Deals" stores near you, but if you use the grapes idea and want to use realistic faux grapes, check Deals. I just picked up some really nice ones for $1 each that I am using for a wedding this fall with a french theme. I am using the grapes in a low 6" plastic silver bowl with variegated pitt, ivy, lisianthus, and mini green hydrangea. I am doing them in your price range as I am getting the bowls and the grapes back. Good luck.

 

[inferno63]

Here's some pics I picked up on the net:

One is lighted grape lights......I don't know about the rest, but that idea is cool but out of my price range for what I am doing.

 

[Sher]

Ten centerpieces for this Saturday for a wine dinner with a French theme, colors are to be red, white, and blue. Price - $20 to $25 each. Country club setting for the dinner, tables are regular rounds. Need to be able to carry a conversation across the table without any interference. Suggestions??

What about blue stones ( marbles), at base, three red gerbs at different heights, and 2 tall white larkspur? Could still talk and yet have a high style look? Hope this helps.
sHER

 

[IggyFlowers]

If you want lots of flower for the money and it doesn't make you cringe, you could use white poms....there are some varieties that have a pretty shape. You could pave them in oasis with red mini carns. For the blue a cool looking ribbon. Weave the ribbon in and out of the flowers letting it round upwards here and there so it adds depth and so that it looks like a mosaic.
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I have to do something similar to this every year for the Lions club, only get $20 each... I use a designer dish, 1/3 oasis, baker, tree, verigated pit, red carns, white pomps and a sheer blue ribbon or purple statice. They love them.

Iggy

 

[felicityflowers]

Suggestions??

I don't have any suggestions for the flowers but, I would use wine glasses for the container - 1.00 a piece at the dollar store. We did the centerpieces for the winery here a few weeks ago and we used a cluster of five glasses with grapes draped in them and then placed single dark purple dahlias in each vase.

 

[RWK]

I too would use the wine glasses.....maybe three to a table on a mirror.....Blue tinted water, accent of the grapes, Place a red and/or white white germini below the glass rim. - On the mirror itself, one or two clusters of grapes, two or three germin blooms in water vials nestled in the grape clusters.

WHen you said a wine dinner.......sounds to me like more of a wine-tasting.....that was the important clue for these designs.

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Now, if they decide to up the dollars........then use four glasses, 2 with red germin, 2 with white germin, and place a square of clear glass on top of the glasses, then drape some grapes and a few blooms off the glass.

 

[T&C]

How about a 10 inch glass ming dish with 2 white dendrobium orchids swirled inside with blue gravel on the bottom and 1 stem of red spray roses - blooms cut off and floating in the center - 3 or 4 blades of bear grass swirled with the orchids and you are done.

 

[Mocha Rose]

It may be too late, but I'd use blue delph, white hydrangeas and red or burgandy dahlias with purple grapes in a 4" cube with greenery. All of the above are priced fairly cheap in the market right now.

I don't know if they let you tweak the color, but I don't see bright red, white and blue fitting a french wine theme. I'd suggest burgandy, blue and ivory. (and purple grapes)

 

[Brad]

small half cylinder or cube or bubble bowl fill 1\2 way with red grapes one head blue hydrangea one white lilly asiatic placed in hydrangea fill with water grapes float cover stems