Weddingbee Blog

I’ve posted a couple of times in the past about the chuppah my mom and aunt made. A couple of weeks ago, Momma Puff and Puff Daddy came to visit, and they brought a whole bunch of wedding stuff with them. One of those things was the chuppah! Before we got a chance to look at it, we started discussing the ceremony decorations, and we both got a little worried that there was too much color and that the whole thing was going to end up looking like a giant circus. This is not the fault of the chuppah, mind you, but more a combination of the bridesmaid dresses, the chuppah and the lanterns.

Originally my mom and aunt made some colorful knot-things to hang off the side of the chuppah, and we were especially feeling doubtful about those. We really needed to put the whole thing up to see how it looked, but we had no way of doing so because we don’t own any poles. We decided to take the chuppah to Afikomen, the Judaica store in Berkeley were we are renting the poles and stands for the chuppah, just to try it all out. Thankfully, the wonderful people at the store had no problem with our setting up a chuppah in their back lot.

We tried it with the colorful knot things (unfortunately not pictured), but they really didn’t look good. I suggested using white knot things, but we didn’t have any. The only white we had was a table cloth, which weighed one side down so far that it fell on Momma Puff and we couldn’t seem to get it upright again! As it turned out, the white looked like crap, too, so we are going to forget about the hangy things.

So we tried the chuppah naked (without any knot things). We were a little bit worried that the 8 foot poles looked too stark without anything hanging off the sides. However, we also realized that during the ceremony, people (the Puff Parents) will be standing by each pole, so maybe that didn’t matter. The poles will only be naked for a short period of time.

After we took the knot things down, we were a still worried about the color. We were kind of concerned that it looked tie-dyed. So, we asked some advice from one of the women who worked at the Judaica store. She liked it, and after looking at it long enough, we decided we liked it too.

I have since decided that I love it, and I must have been on crack to be worried about it (although I am really glad that we ditched the idea of the colorful knot things). Instead, we’re going to add another bit of white ribbon to each side (see where the colorful ribbons are blowing in the wind? Right there). We realized that because it will be an outdoor ceremony, there will be a lot of green and outdoorsy colors to distract from the brightness of the bridesmaid dresses and the chuppah. I think it will look awesome.

Our multicultural chuppah. I guess I hadn’t showed FMIL Puff the chuppah, because when I showed her this picture she said, “OMG! How did they make the double happiness?!” She was very impressed. And so am I.