Incorporating fruit into a centerpiece or arrangement, is a very hot trend right now. I've noticed it at several parties and love using fruit because it's cheaper than having a professional florist, and less expensive than purchasing several bouquets and arranging them yourself. You can have gorgeous, professional looking decorations ready in under five minutes:
- Fill vases, preferably in various sizes and shapes, with the fruit of your choice (tomatoes are pictured here).
- Add water so the fruit bobs and bounces buoyantly.
- Wrap a thick satin ribbon around the vase and secure in place with a tiny squeeze of hot glue.
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1One of my girlfriends had a small outdoor wedding a couple summers ago and purchased a bunch of vases and placed one goldfish or beta in each and put them on tables under the heat - simple, inexpensive and entertaining!!! She told the guests to take them home when they left.
2Cute idea. I like your vase with grapes the best.
3I think simple, elegant centerpieces, like these, are the best kinds! I do a theme centerpiece for every event I host and I love using edible items. Thanks for sharing party! CestLaVie, my friend was going to do the fish thing at her wedding but she was afraid no one would take them home.
4how long will the fruit last? the same amount of time as regular fruit or does the water keep it somewhat fresh? or is there a concoction that will keep the fruit lasting very long? anybody know?
5I've always decorated using fruit and vases. It so simple and easy. I love it!
6LaLaLaurie06: I say that it would last a few days. My dad took them out that night and some of them had gotten a little shriveld so we threw them out and used the rest to make homemade salsa and guacamole.
7ahhh! good idea party! i would probably have just thrown them out, but the salsa would be delish!
8Festive fruit! About it lasting, I would think just for the event that you're decorating for, yeah?
9Tomatoes floating in a vase of water? Are you kidding me? I'm sorry, but that is to upchuck. It also looks awful, and the first thought I would have about someone who decorated a party with waterlogged tomatoes was that she was too cheap to go out and get a bunch of daisies at the corner market. Give me a break. It's also a pretty terrible waste of food -- if you have a bunch of extra tomatoes, instead of making a barf-worthy centerpiece with them, how about donating them to the local homeless or battered women's shelter, so people can, you know, actually eat them?
10I think it would be cute with a few drops of food coloring added.
11Hey! Good thinking, JessBear. I was thinking the same thing, but I do not know if it will stain the vase or not and discolor the fruit.
12If it's a glass vase thent he food coluring won't harm it at all. It would eventually colour the fruit though. But if you used a good mixig colour it'd be better. Like for tomatoes I'd use blue. Then the tomatoes wold eventually be a purple-ish colour and the water a dark blue. Would look interesting.
13Homemade salsa! Yummy!
14I don't know about the tomatoes floating in water...it seems too much like something you'd see in a biology lab!
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