# Affordable ways to "dress up" a bridal table?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/affordable-ways-to-dress-up-a-bridal-table/610835>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 27, 2012, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/affordable-ways-to-dress-up-a-bridal-table/610835 "2012-01-27T05:29:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![cherry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cherry)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2012, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/affordable-ways-to-dress-up-a-bridal-table/610835/21 "2012-02-07T17:11:33Z")

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I found a lot of wedding type decorations at Ikea. Things like flowers, vases, colored sand, candles and table runners.

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**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2012, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/affordable-ways-to-dress-up-a-bridal-table/610835/22 "2012-02-07T23:40:50Z")

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> [@Queen\_Tonya](#):
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> If it’s being held in a banquet hall of some sort, might be worth asking the venue what they already have on hand. Turns out some folks spend all that money on dressing up tables and never come back to get their stuff after the event.

This is a great idea.  
For my wedding, I borrowed table decorations from a friend who had gotten married the year before. I was one of the last of my cohort to marry, so we had access to a lot of slightly used stuff.

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**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2012, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/affordable-ways-to-dress-up-a-bridal-table/610835/23 "2012-02-09T02:49:34Z")

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Years ago I went to “wedding on a shoestring” They’d made table confetti by taking that curling ribbon in the wedding colors, curling it up, and cutting it into pieces less than an inch long. This was during that period when table confetti was a HUGE deal.

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