Last Academy Awards Party post. Although the Awards show happened last night, I thought these centerpieces are good for a variety of occasions so I decided to post anyways. I’ve been throwing parties for many years now and until recently, I hadn’t discovered the fab source of Dollar Stores. Now it is a first stop when doing party décor planning and then I fill in other items from stores and Amazon.
These centerpieces are nothing I’d planned but when I saw the carnations at Dollar Tree, I thought they’d be an easy, cheap and make ahead option. I’m not a huge faux flower fan but carnations are one type that look pretty darn good. Each $1 vase was filled with marbles (already had these from Halloween displays) and then I bound 3 stems together with strong string and clipped the stems with a wire cutter. SO EASY! Next I used the foil hanging stars from Amazon (shown a few posts ago) as a tracing guide on black glitter paper. I usually opt for seated food service but somehow that felt too stuffy for this party so instead we used tall bar tables and decided to skip bar stools. The girls just grazed on finger foods so no need to take up more space or spend money on them.
Each table had a $5 rented red tablecloths, layered with a 50 cent matte gold plastic square tablecloth (from Dollar Tree & cut in half so each cloth made 2 toppers), then a $1 black star with a $ 4 centerpiece on top. And voila! $10.50 total for an awesome looking table.