The world of Organza
Jan. 28th, 2019 07:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
primsongWow, so many details in a wedding - I'm SO glad I've had some time ahead to work on this thing, here we are a month-and-a-half to go already. It reminds me of child-rearing, how you start all idealistic (MY child will never play with THOSE...MY child will only eat organic...) and end up just happy if they are safe and can give you five minutes peace at the end of the day.
We started off with "None of that icky tulle! Only real cloth table covers, real candles..." Now we have tulle swoops because frankly it's cheap and this is a big space to cover. Battery powered tea candles that don't have to be tended and will stay on for hours, and I spent yesterday ironing the wrinkles out of cheap organza table covers because 25 tables of real fabric was waaay too expensive no matter how we did it.
I swore I wouldn't use any of that cheap Dollar Tree garbage but here I am with centerpieces that are mostly made of Dollar Tree pieces. >_< They are pretty but my inner principled "shop local" person is generating some cognitive dissonance on my little Cognitive Dissonance machine when I really look at them.
Why are so many weddings notoriously covered in tulle and organza? Now I know!
We started off with "None of that icky tulle! Only real cloth table covers, real candles..." Now we have tulle swoops because frankly it's cheap and this is a big space to cover. Battery powered tea candles that don't have to be tended and will stay on for hours, and I spent yesterday ironing the wrinkles out of cheap organza table covers because 25 tables of real fabric was waaay too expensive no matter how we did it.
I swore I wouldn't use any of that cheap Dollar Tree garbage but here I am with centerpieces that are mostly made of Dollar Tree pieces. >_< They are pretty but my inner principled "shop local" person is generating some cognitive dissonance on my little Cognitive Dissonance machine when I really look at them.
Why are so many weddings notoriously covered in tulle and organza? Now I know!
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Date: 2019-01-28 05:57 pm (UTC)For my niece's wedding last August, she put the whole wedding party to work making centerpieces and bouquets of flowers to save money. Everything worked out great.
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