Wedding

What do you do when your daughter decides in mid October to get married five days before Christmas?  You quickly plan a wedding.  Actually here in Utah Valley a two month engagement is a very common occurrence.
Before my daughter decided to get married my year had been full of tennis and other things that didn't involve any creativity.  I hadn't done anything creative for months.  The challenge of taking a church cultural hall with ugly burlap looking walls and basketball hoops and transforming it into something beautiful got my creative juices flowing again.

We chose to have the wedding reception at our church because it was just blocks from our home and within two miles of 80% of the people who would be coming to the reception.  We realized that five days before Christmas nobody wants to travel more than a few miles from home.

So how do you transform a church gym into a place for a wedding reception?  Well thank goodness for Pinterest.  That is where I got most of my ideas.  We hung lights across the ceiling and then hung paper lanterns, all different sizes from the lights.

Costco had the flameless candles on sale right before Christmas so I bought boxes and boxes of them and placed the candles all over the tables.

We brought a few pieces of furniture and a rug from home to provide different seating.

Earlier in the year I made a wreath from rolled up flowers made from book pages.  I took that idea and made rolled up flowers from sheet music and art paper and set them on the tables.  We also used burlap on the tables to tie in the burlap looking walls.  We Made a beautiful backdrop with Christmas lights, sheer drapery panels, PVC pipe and burlap.

I'm Sherri the one in the middle.  I'm from Orem, Utah the mother of five.  I love Art, baking and tennis.  My favorite kind of art to do is colored pencils, photography and mixed media.