10.11.2009

Lighting & Lounges

Can I just say that I Love (with a capital L) candlelight? Of all things you can do to kick an event up a notch, candlelight gives you the most bang for your buck. I absolutely love this walkway of simple, white paper bags with sand and tealights inside of them... it's a great (cheap!) way to give guests some sort of direction in such a large, uncontained space such as a field:




Also, I love makeshift lounge areas. Whenever there's an open bar, people tend to congregate by the bar, so this breaks up the crowd a little bit by giving them someplace else to congregate. It also gives the event more of a 'home'-y vibe:

I really hope it's in our budget to incorporate both of these ideas. The lounge might be the tough part... we could always do IKEA furniture, but we could save a few hundred bucks by finding some really good yard sale finds... thoughts?


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2 comments:

Juanita said...

I'm newly engaged and have been trying to figure out exactly how we can do the reception the way I see it in my mind. (Which is still quite vague) I was hoping to keep flowers at the reception a minimum and instead do candles and fireflies. I know I'm supposed to have an "if it rains" plan, but I'd really like it to be open to the view of the city and the night sky. I was thinking a lot of light see-throughish fabric and maybe white lights strung... What do you think?

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