Decorating

We have a small problem when it comes to decorating for our reception and dance. The Days In can only guarantee us that we can be in at noon on the day of the wedding. Yep, you read that right...decorate for a wedding starting at noon. Please tell me how anyone can even begin to get that done.

I talked to the event coordinator at the Days Inn a few weeks ago and she gave me a little more info. Basically as long as there is not an event in the room Friday night we can be in there to decorate at 8am on the day of the wedding. A little better, but something tells me that I will have other things to do that morning.

So Tuesday evening Randy and I met with a couple people that come in and do the decorating for you. She has done several weddings at the Days Inn and has this down to a science. They go in at 8am and get to work and then about 11:30pm they come in and tear everything down. No worries about getting anything cleaned up and taken home.

She has a bunch of lights, white fabric & tulle, table mirrors, vases, and a few other things. She also has access to a wholesale flowers & fabric. If you want, she will order the flowers, arrange them, and make sure they are ready to go for you. What she doesnt have, we can rent in Brookings for pretty cheap. They have a backdrop for behind the head table, ideas for centerpieces, ribbon, cake stands, and about a million other things to choose from. The thing I really like about renting is you don't have 45 centerpieces, 100 strands of lights and who knows what else left over. I can get the renal stuff on Wednesday, the week of the wedding, get everything to the decorators & my job is done.

We need to discuss the price a little further and look a little deeper into how much the rental stuff is going to cost, but I think for the price, we should book her. We are not going to have time to do it...that is the bottom line. Why not have someone come in that knows what they are doing and have it done right. And better yet, we wouldn't have to worry about it.