Thanks Kath, Punk & Jeanne, the lilacs are silk, had a hard time finding them, but Joann Fabric had these nice silk ones & Hobby Lobby had the white ones. This will serve as my Easter decor too. Had a few leftover that I put in my big cloche with a bunny on coffee table & a few in a vase in bay window. Shopped yesterday & found two things at Kirklands I'm using for Easter, A white pedestal cake stand with pink ribbon ( the one that you run the ribbon thru) have wanted one for a long time & their spring & Easter was buy one get 50% off the second, so I picked out a large mercury glass vase in pink. Maybe I can get pics of them up too.

Hey ..that is NOT silly. See the joy with centerpieces is that there is NO one way to do them. I think it would add extra flair if the centerpiece was smaller than the candles. It would actually look better that way. Here is one I have on my blog...everything on the table are different heights giving an eccentric look.... Hope this helps !!!! Here is a link that might be useful: More Centerpiece Ideas

Wonderful, we always love inspiration pictures, I like the all white best too, but the lemon vase one is very pretty too.

I think lowspark's postcards idea is brilliant. You can arrange them at different heights, perhaps mixed with that curly, spirally stuff called ting-ting, stuck into a painted styrofoam base to make a really inexpensive but cute centerpiece. Look for one of those catalogs like orientaltradingco.com (I think their paper catalog is better, or best of all just call them) -- they have tons of cheap stuff on every imaginable theme, and I know they have paper flags. Think outside the box when searching -- like, use "fiesta" to find things that could work for your Madrid table or "carnival" for Paris. It might be easier if you could get her to expand the theme to "international fantasy" instead of limiting herself to Europe -- then you could also have a tropical island table, a Chinese table, a Japanese table, African, Brazilian, Jamaican, and for that matter New Orleans and NYC, etc. -- then you can start with what you find and choose your cities/countries that way instead of the other way around. Kind of drawing the bullseye around the arrow.