Maybe with floating candles in them.
Or maybe birch pole arches with mistletoe or kissing balls on them for people to kiss as they walk through.
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| Yes, this is a chuppah, but use your imagination! |
However, on our second visit, we noticed that there are 4 doors into the hall. That would be at least 8 trees, which is almost $1K in trees. That seems like a bit much. But, we did see that the doors open into the hallway and would be a great place to hang wreaths, so we're planning on that now. Lance's cousin's child's school sells them as a fundraiser each year, so that's a great way for us to get what we need and give back at the same time. Lance's mom even found some awesome battery-powered lights that we can stick on them to make them glow a bit.
I also remembered the dance floor stage as a really, really giant hole in the wall that I was planning on covering up with a fabric backdrop (which is a little prom-ish, but we're talking about a BIG hole). After looking at it again, though, it seemed all right. It has uplighting in it, and if we stick the DJ on the stage, we don't have as much room to make up. I thought about sticking candles along the edge of the stage for about 30 seconds, because if you look that direction from the tables, there will be a weird candle-less dead spot. However, we will have kids at the wedding, and for some reason people really don't watch their kids at weddings (once I saw kids using a candle-heavy head table as a base for tag, and I was just waiting for the candles to fall over and catch the lace on fire). I don't want to do anything that could set fire to a child or the building, so that's out. Maybe I'll stick a birch tree with floating candles on either side of the DJ. Or maybe we could rent some white couches to stick in there to make a very loud lounge/club area (I'm not that cool, but maybe our friends are?).
I was also planning on sticking candle luminaries outside of the hall, but looking at it again, there really isn't a place to put them! I think we will end up throwing some extra lights on the bushes out there, but mostly the grounds are already decorated for Christmas in December.
Other than that, we are planning on 2 bunches of 3 Christmas trees with white lights on either side of the hall. One bunch will be a backdrop for the cake (and a place for people to take pictures once it's cut). The other bunch will be for guests to put gifts under.
Next to the gift trees, we will have a mailbox for cards [very Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening ;)]. I've asked my younger cousin, a carpenter, to make the stand for me, and I'm going to paint the actual mailbox with our names or a phrase like "Cards for the happy couple." maybe we'll wind some garland around it, and maybe I can find one of those awesome feather cardinal ornaments to stick on it.
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| This is an escort card display, but I like it as a card box. |
We're planning on putting family photos in black and white frames on the fireplace mantle in the foyer, and we need to find something cute to stick in this weird little shelf in the hallway, but then we're done!
We found some awesome stuff at the after Christmas sales, too! Sparkly cotton "snow" tree skirts for our trees and the mailbox, thousands of white lights for the trees, a handful of white balsam candles for an evergreen smell, jingle bell wreath hangers, some pine cones for the mantle, and some ribbon.
This is two layers of fluff with two strands of lights in between. It looks a little sloppy here because I didn't take the time to make sure the top layer covered the bottom layer before I took the picture.
The red ribbon is for stringing jingle bells for the kids. I just liked the blue and silver; I don't know what I'm using it for yet.
That's all for now!
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