Monday, August 26, 2013

Decorating for a wedding on a tight budget

I just spent the last few days down in Ashland Virginia for the wedding of my nephew at the Center at Hanover Arts  .  I was asked a few months ago to do the staging of the wedding venue.  The couple was on a very tight budget, so creativity was what we all went on.  Photo below by Kathlyn James



I painted this antique frame for the Bride in
 Annie Sloan Chalk Paint - The Sun Glasses were
drawn by my grand-daughter age 7


Close Up...

There were a few others, that we used for introduction, menus and bar selection


a close friend of the family did all of the calligraphy 




The bar sign was made by hot gluing wine corks together

All of the grooms men and the fathers had these cleverly made
cork boutonnieres 

I had this great little helper...some of the table
cloths were a little wrinkled by the time they were placed
on the tables but  it was cheap child labor.

Oh no, oblong tables and round table clothes...well... pin them up
 and make them looked draped...each table came out a little
different

our staging area at the beginning we could see no end


Thank goodness I brought some white ribbon, I went
around clipping greens to hang around the outside of the building

Simple but pretty....I think these were actually on the
neighbor yard!


A simple sign placed at the roadway

The beautiful couple photo by Kathlyn James

They actually had a freight train come through
during the exchange of their vows! photo by Kathlyn James



























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