Drama on a Dime
I don’t know about you but our reception site is literally a blank canvas looking for a lot of love. I like to think if it as park pavilion meets garage. So I’m not exactly in love with it, but in this case it will have to do as our original reception site was maimed by the renovation powers that be. (story for another time)
That being said I have a lot of work cut out for me. The biggest challenge is the ceiling. It is gigantic (50 x 80) feet and rafters really leave you wanting something more. Because the ceiling space is so large anything you hang has to make a statement otherwise it will look incredibly underwelming.
(see giant spacial black hole-like abyss) {source}
Now the logical step would be to simply drape the ceiling so it looks something like this:
{Source} Anna Rose Photography
But this is not the most cost effective way as it can average somewhere between 2 and 3 thousand to pull that off. And I don’t know about you but I’m sort of done dropping stacks. I’m at the point where I’m looking to save money anywhere I can. So my first idea was to use crepe paper like this:
{via Merriment}
What I like about it is it brings the ceiling down a bit and adds some dimension. That and they used crepe paper which is by far the most cost efficent means to get that done. The problem is when I mentioned it to April, she said it would take a gazillion hours to try and do that because our ceiling is so big. She was also worried about the crepe paper tearing and becoming one big mess. So on to plan b.
Here is what I’m thinking and tell me what you think. Even though I want my decorations to make a statement, I also don’t want them to take forever to put up. So my plan is to do something like this:
{via Style Me Pretty}
Instead of assembling them at the site, I would pre-assemble pieces to hang from the ceiling. I broke the ceiling down into 20 x 5 foot sections. Using a combination of string and crepe paper, I want to create a grid with the string and pre-hang the crepe paper. That way when it comes time to hang it, all we’ll have to do is carefully unfold it from the boxes I stored them in and hang them. I think that should work pretty well. If anything we’ve cut down on the amount of time it would take to hang them because the crepe comes ready to hang.
But am I missing anything? What do you think? Should I shelve this idea and rethink it or should I keep it because it’s pure genius? Do you have any ideas? I’m all ears…
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