Candle and Wineglass Arrangements |
Planning a celebration? Wine and champagne glasses make excellent candle holders. You can create centerpieces with the
glasses you already have at your disposal, instead of spending time and money on hiring or buying extra candle sticks.
A large or medium-sized wine goblet holds a ball or egg-shaped candle beautifully.
The graceful stems offer extra decorating opportunities. You can tie ribbons
around, attach flowers, etc.
Only tapers will fit into narrower champagne glasses. Wedge them in firmly using coarse salt, crystals, or florists' gel.
Upside down wine glass centrepieces offer you even more scope for creative
display. They hold almost any pillar or ball candle.
Here are some pictures, and ideas, to start off with: |
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Create a makeshift candlestick with a votive and wine glass. Attach the votive glass to the overturned wineglass with a dab of Presstik. (For a permanent arrangement, you can glue the two together).
Decorate the stem. We threaded transparent pink, and pearl beads onto sturdy crochet cotton, using a very thin embroidery needle, and tied the beads around the glass's stem.
Insert a tealight into the glass. Tea lights decorated with glitter give a nice sparkle. |
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Make a candle and flower arrangement in a wineglass.
Taper candles are ideal for deeper, narrower wine glasses, and small pillar candles for wider, shallower glasses.
We used roses and carnations, but you can use almost any smaller flower heads.
Have fun experimenting with different flowers! |
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Miniature flower arrangements, in upside down wineglass candle holders, make unusual center pieces.
We used cheerful pansy faces, but you can use any small
flowers or buds. Flowers with firm stems are easier to work with.
You'll need:
Candles
Wine glasses
Flowers/buds
Saucers/small glass dishes
Tweezers
Arrange your chosen flowers in each glass. Stick in one flower at a time, with the tweezers.
Position the stems towards the glass's rim.
Place the saucer/dish onto the glass. Turn it over carefully.
Pour a bit of water into the saucer. With the stems in the water like this, your arrangement lasts for days.
Place a candle on each glass. |
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You'll need:
An egg-shaped candle
A wine glass
A rosebud, carnation and any other colourful flower
A ribbon
Presstik
Turn the wine glass over. Form a posy with the flowers, holding the stems firmly together.
Tie the posy to the stem of the wine glass with the ribbon. Tie a bow in the ribbon. Cut V-shapes into the ribbon's trailing ends.
Stick a small piece of Presstik onto the wine glass's base, and stick the candle firmly onto this.
Other flowers and foliage you can use: ferns, pansies, asters. Any other small flowers. |
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Don't do this with hundreds of glasses (unless you enjoy punishing yourself)! You'll have to use millions of glass nuggets and it will take an age to get the nuggets into each glass.
Perfect as a single centerpiece for a small dinner party or celebration at home.
You'll need:
A wine glass
A cylinder candle slightly narrower than the base of the glass
Glass nuggets
Extra candles (optional)
Fill the wine glass with nuggets. Place a mirror tile or glass pane over the glass's opening.
Turn over carefully and place it on your table.
Put the cylinder candle on top of the glass base. Decorate your table with more candles and serviettes of the same color. |
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You'll need:
3 champagne glasses, (same design or pattern, different heights)
Taper candles
Crystals or florists' gel
Arrange the glasses in a circular shape. Wedge the tapers in firmly with crystals or florists' gel. |
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An ideal party centerpiece. You can substitute coloured, or untinted salt or coconut, for the green-tinted sugar we used.
Coffee granules also work very well, for an earth-toned colour scheme.
You'll need:
Wine glasses
Egg-shaped candles
Sugar
Lemon juice
Food colouring
Pour lemon juice into a shallow plate. Add a few drops of food colouring.
Dip the wine glass's rim into this lemon mixture. Pour sugar into another plate.
Dip and rub the glass into the sugar until well coated. Place a candle into each glass. |
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You'll need:
Wine or champagne glasses
Small silver cylinder candles
Lime-green paper napkins
Silver, metallic ribbon
Broad, lime-green organza ribbon
Cut a piece of silver ribbon for each glass about 80cms long (32").
Separate the napkin's 2 layers. Place one layer on top of the other, turning it slightly, to form 8 points.
Place an upside-down glass into the napkin's center. Gather the napkin up around the glass's stem.
Tie the silver ribbon around.
Tie a bow. Drag the scissors' edge over the ribbon's underside.
This gives the ribbon extra curl.
Place a candle onto each glass. Decorate the table with lengths of gauzy ribbon. |
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You'll need:
2 white tapers
Crystals or florists's gel
An oval glass dish
2 wine glasses
Flowers and leaves (we used a pink rose, white carnation, yesterday-today-and-tomorrow, and deep blue pansies)
Glass nuggets
Place the 2 glasses in the oval dish. Pour crystals into the glasses. Wedge the candles in firmly.
Layer the bottom of the dish with glass nuggets.
Pour water into the dish, up to the stems of the glasses.
Arrange flowers and leaves in the water under the candle glasses. |
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In this centrepiece, wine goblets support a pane of glass holding candles.
You'll need:
At least 3 wine goblets
A glass pane, at least 30 cm (12") in diameter, and 4 millimetres (1/6th") thick
A variety of cone, ball and pillar candles
Glass beads
Presstik
Place 3 wine goblets in a triangular shape, with spaces between them. Use more goblets for bigger glass panes, arranging them in a circle.
Place a dab of Presstik onto each rim.
Place the glass pane onto the goblets, pressing down gently, to make them stick.
Arrange candles on the pane of glass. Surround the candles with glass beads. |
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The refractive qualities of pressed glass, cut glass, or crystal, with deeply-etched designs, cast shimmering patterns of candlelight, in a way no ordinary glass can.
Display a group of these sorts of wineglasses, with tealights, and you have a dazzling, hurricane-candle-holder-style light-show.
Place a glass circle, at least 30cm (12") in diameter, onto a white cloth. Or use a mirror tile instead, (on any colour cloth).
Arrange a variety of glasses, (different shapes and sizes, same or similar patterns), on the glass/mirror.
Place a tealight into each glass. The effect is quite beautiful, but can look cold, (despite the glowing candlelight).
Surround the glasses with flowers,
beads, ribbons, or whatever other decorations you fancy. Colourful flowers, particularly, bring this type of centerpiece to life. |
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