Coffee.... As Decor?

In case you don't know, I am a hot tea fiend. As in I drink 4-5 cups a day. Well the way I jones for a cup of tea is the same way Mr. Meerkat feels about his coffee. We get up in the morning, we make a cup of coffee and tea. We finish dinner, we make more coffee and tea. Before we even start a movie we make coffee and tea. Our coffee and tea addiction is so prominent that it was even mentioned during our wedding ceremony.

So as I am going Google search crazy trying to find cost effective ideas for our decor, a thread on our very own Weddingbee boards pops up with this image (thanks to mamasita2004).

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Oh yea my friends, those are coffee beans. The root of Mr. Meerkat's addiction. So of course this image sent me out to do a Google image search for coffee bean centerpieces and did I ever strike inspiration gold.

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But I found one example that stood out above all the rest.

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Serious swooning is going on over here. The lovely blogger who made these even did a price breakdown and each table only cost her $18 (minus the coffee beans which she got as a gift). 

My only worry now is how to find some cheap, bulk coffee beans because let me tell you now that I have this idea I am totally going to play up the coffee beans everywhere. What do you think? Cost effective and classy or completely lame?