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Mrs. Lovebug Mrs. Lovebug, Tucson Age and Occupation in 06: 31, Writer Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, Professional Game Show Contestant Engagement Date: February 18, 2007 Wedding Date: April 19, 2008 Venue: Historic Inn About Me: Likes: blogging, wikis, semi-colons, cuddling, fragrant flowers, syntax, and spooning. Dislikes: typos, dangling modifiers, flypaper, citronella candles, and run-ons. If I had my druthers, I'd exchange simple vows in a candlelit library. But I lost my druthers long ago...anyone seen them?
 
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Mrs. Lovebug, Tucson Age and Occupation in 06: 31, Writer Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, Professional Game Show Contestant Engagement Date: February 18, 2007 Wedding Date: April 19, 2008 Venue: Historic Inn About Me: Likes: blogging, wikis, semi-colons, cuddling, fragrant flowers, syntax, and spooning. Dislikes: typos, dangling modifiers, flypaper, citronella candles, and run-ons. If I had my druthers, I'd exchange simple vows in a candlelit library. But I lost my druthers long ago...anyone seen them?
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Uplighting It Is!

April 17th, 2008 @ 11:32 am by Mrs. Lovebug

I blogged a couple weeks ago about my lighting indecision. About how I was unsure if I wanted light trees aimed at our dance floor. Super fun and dance-inducing…but would they ruin the vintage vibe I’m going for?

Well, thanks to you guys, I was turned on to some awesome alternatives. Danielle and an Excited Bride introduced me to the mighty Gobo. I was all over this idea. I even had invitation goddess Tara of Ephemera knock together a ridiculously cute design:


But a) I still wasn’t sure a rotating light would complement the aesthetic I want, and there’s really no good place to project a single, stationary Gobo; I’d have to buy a pair (which I think would start to look too special effect-y)
and b) last-minute decisions involving money stress me out.

So we killed that idea. Instead, we’re picking up another awesome idea offered: uplighting. For $15/light, we can do something like so:

This photo is off the website of our dj. Obviously, we wouldn’t want to go HOT PINK with this. So Luke, the music/lighting maestro, directed me to this website, which has 6 pages of colors to choose from.

Well, we chose a pair of soft pink gels, which will be projected onto the walls projecting out on either side of that middle mirror:

…right behind where the dance floor will be.

Hopefully they’ll be a nice, soft effect that won’t compete with either the candlelight or the chandelier lighting (which is on a dimmer - yay!). It’ll only cost $30, and if we hate it, we can always unplug it. :)

But some of the names of the colors of gels are so hilarious, I had to share. Just so you don’t think I’m making them up:

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So, is yours more of a Salmon-illa kind of wedding? Or a Bludgeon Red? And I wonder what color you get if you cross Spanked Pink with Submissive Lavender??

14 Responses to “Uplighting It Is!”

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KatieB says:

Lets not over look Fatherless Amber!

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swtlmt says:

Cool! So how does this work? Are you setting it up or is your DJ?

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prettykatie says:

Fatherless Amber? The actual name is Bastard Amber… I guess they were trying to be PC.

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Mrs. Kiwi says:

WHAT THE HELL?? Fatherless AMBER? As if my name isn’t bad enough with all the hookers taking it as their nom de plume ! Dang!

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jnicholea says:

$15 a light isn’t that bad, I never realized that uplighting could be so inexpensive. That gobo is so cute, I am sad you aren’t using it!

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abomb26 says:

Hi, can you please explain how this works, who is setting it up? Do you just give it to your venue and they turn them on…I want them for my May wedding.

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Emilie says:

I’m also really curious as to how you’re setting this up for only $15 per light. We’re using a lighting company to do uplighting for us, and it’s around $2000! We will have more like 40 lights instead of 2, but still - that’s a big price difference.

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an Excited bride. says:

Have you ever seen the Ellen stand-up where she’s making fun of the various paint colors? She’s discussing painting a wall “yellow,” and then goes on to say you just can’t paint a wall yellow because of all the paint names, you know there’s “smoker’s teeth.”

Okay, that comment had nothing to do with your color decision, but I fully support uplighting and think it will be BEAUTIFUL. I hope you’re getting pumped for the big day!

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bich huyen tran says:

We’re hoping to do uplighting in the barn where we’re holding our reception. Can you give us more details as to who’s doing the setup, what equipment you need, etc?
This would be so great!

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Miss Cherry Pie says:

AHAHAHAHA. Those names. I’m surprised they don’t have “pee pee yellow” or something like that. Wow.

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Miss Lovebug says:

abomb and Emilie: I’m afraid I don’t know too much detail about the logistics of the set up. I only know that $15/light is what our DJ is charging us to buy/set them up. But I promise to take photos and post afterward - Emilie, if you’re using a lighting company, it’s probably a much more complicated (fancier!) set up. Sorry I can’t be of more info yet. :(

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lunapark says:

@ prettykatie - I’m glad I wasn’t the only one thinking “wtf!? It’s Bastard Amber!” when I read that post :D

As to all the wacky names…lighting folk (and other performance art related techies) have twisted senses of humor…just think of it as one little way they can all keep amused…

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Mary says:

Ms. Lovebug, you mentioned an elaborate music list for your DJ so that he would have concrete direction. I wonder if you’d mind sharing your list? I’m no music expert, but I agree that music makes or brakes the reception. I need your help!

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Mrs. Lovebug says:

Mary - not at all. I actually posted the list in a post called “Lovebug’s Playlist”, on April 4th. :)


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