Recycled Flower Vases

For a friends wedding, we needed 20 very tall flower vases for the reception tables. The tall glass ones would have been great, but also very expensive. We came up with this economical version instead. I started with large cardboard tubes; the kind that holds plotter paper for drafting printers. I sprayed each with silver metallic paint and then a sealer. The sealer really is necessary. I learned the hard way when the paint began to rub off on my hands! Inside each tube, we placed a weight (it isn't seen, so it can be anything) and then arranged a few flowers and ivy.