Weddingbee Blog

No, this is not a post about THAT! (I’ll leave that to you Miss Cheese!)

What I’m talking about is a little tradition that started in my group of friends back in 2006 when my friend L got married. I arranged to steal the key to their hotel room and set Mr. Tiramisu up with the task of decorating it for them. He set up rose petals, bubble bath, and candles in the room for them, and gave the hotel staff a bottle of champagne to put on ice and place in their room right before they got back. Take a look at his handiwork:

L. and her husband liked it so much that it’s become something that we try to do at every wedding that we get to be in. I talked Mr. Tiramisu and a fellow fiance-of-a-bridesmaid into decorating my friend Carolyn’s hotel room in Philadelphia last May with rose petals, and she and her husband loved it as well. In September, my friend Kate was married in Maine, and a group of us covered their bed in flowers in a crazy heart pattern with their initials in the middle. I’m so mad that we didn’t get a picture!

Given my history in this department, I wasn’t surprised at all when we walked into our hotel room after our wedding and found balloons, streamers, flowers, and candy decorating the place. Across the bed was a carefully crafted message to us made out of daisies and Twizzlers. Again, I can’t believe I didn’t get a picture!

Here are the ones I snapped the next morning:

We almost missed this little treat left out on our balcony!

I think what I love the most about this tradition is that while it’s always the girls behind the idea, due to the fact that they are busy being bridesmaids, it is their significant others who carry it out! It just cracks me up to picture a couple of guys coming up with how to best make a romantic display.

Any crazy hotel room decorating stories out there?