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I love my venue… but my ballroom is very oddly shapped. My favorite part is that there is this huge expanse of floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking a forest preserve. It looks like this:
But then there is the other side of the room, where there is one looong wall which I hate. I think it is soooo ugly!! It looks like this:
Of course these 2 pictures look vastly different because the first one is decorated for a wedding, and the second is just the empty shell of the room. But regardless, take a look at that funky grid pattern all along the wall. I’ve been pondering ways to disguise this, and initially all I could come up with was renting special lighting to cast an amber color-wash against the wall. I’m still looking into that option and requesting quotes, but lighting still wouldn’t hide the weird grid.
Then today I saw the post by Mrs. Bee about the Rasterbater, and I had an *epiphany!* What if I blow up gigantic images of Paris and somehow mount them on the wall?! Of course I can’t cover every inch of it, but I think it would help, right? With the Rasterbater, you can create images even up to 10 feet high, so maybe this will work after all…
I would use pictures like this that we took during our trip… I turned them Sepia for a more vintage look.
So I just rasterbated the Eiffel Tower pic above to about 6 or 7 feet high, and can’t wait to go home and put it together tonight!
But my first question is: How do I put this together? It printed out on 28 sheets of paper, each page is covered in dots (imagine large pixels), and they are not numbered. I have no idea which order the pages should go and I’m no good at puzzles.
And my second question is: How would I mount these to that wall?? I don’t think the hotel would appreciate a ton of little thumbtack holes in their wall. Hrmm… this may be more difficult than I thought, haha! 
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I run a residence hall at a university and the students here can’t use thumbtacks either. We use postermounts for the job. They’re square sticking things with adhesive on both sides that will hold your poster up–it’ll take a few for something that large–but it won’t damage the walls or the paper! I’d try the internet or officemax/depot to find them.
blue painter’s tape on the back
Oh I love the floor to ceiling windows and am really loving the forest preserve! Gorgeous!
Our venue also provides floor to ceiling windows and past the windows is a european garden. Good enough for me! -)
you could try attaching them to a large piece of inexpensive fabric–might save some time on the wedding day setup.
awesome idea!
you could also try draping cheap sheets like curtains… not sure if that’s practical.
when you blow up the pictures, you could also do a checkerboard pattern or do just the middles of the wall… don’t know how to explain it, something like:
[][][][][][][]
[]XX [][]XX
[]XX [][]XX
[][][][][][][]
Read the fine print in your reception contract to ensure it’s allowed….
i agree w/ amy…the blowups won’t have to cover the entire wall..it can be centered…
and i think using postermounts would be a great idea~
When you print the rasterbated image, it will print in order, but it does take a little figuring. I think ours (I blew up a a wedding photo, just for fun) printed left to right, bottom to top. Try it a couple ways, take a few steps back and see if it looks right. It’s pretty cool when it’s done!
Miss Emerald… how did you print them? Did you print them on your home computer or take them to a place like Kinko’s? I am really interested in doing this.
Jen, my suggestion would be to go to Kinkos. I printed a smaller one, about 8×8 sheets of paper, a few years ago, and it ate my entire ink cartridge.
Err… I have to admit that I printed it at work!! We have one of those mega printers that do everything *guilty look* hehe But otherwise, I’m thinking Kinkos is the next best thing. You just have to download and save the rasterblasted image onto a CD or something (it saves as a pdf).
I like the idea of mounting it to a sheet. I think that it would really help the day of, and you can play with the spacing of the pictures ahead of time.
Maybe mounting it to plywood, a canvus or a styrofoam sheet [a huge one... lol] would be sturdier than a sheet? *shrugs. But the rasterbating sounds cool, though! I just wish I could pick a picture to rasterblasssst…. hMM!
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Mrs. Emerald, Chicago
Age and Occupation: 26, Wedding Planner
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 26, Paralegal
Engagement Date: October 8, 2006
Wedding Date: September 2007
Blogging Since: November 29, 2006
Venue: Hyatt Lodge, Oak Brook IL
About Me: I have been dreaming about my wedding forever, and flipping through bridal magazines since high school, so I am in my element! I am calling our theme "Vintage Inspired French/Asian Fusion." Mr. Emerald is very involved in the planning process, but of course he generally defers to me cuz I have a strong opinion of how I want everything to be :-).
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