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With the guest- and family-table linens selected, we moved our attention to the cocktail tables. If you know anything about the Pretzels, you know that we love beer. Of paramount importance—a perfect place for our guests to rest their glasses of Leinenkugel’s Fireside Nut Brown. YUM, I can’t wait to tap that keg! Oh, I digress! Our venue offers black spandex cocktail-table covers…not really fitting with our rustic fall-themed party.

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Looking at our color palette, cherry red seemed like the natural choice for cocktail-table linens.

Red linens with burlap square and burlap tie

The linens for the guest tables ran around $7 each, so imagine my surprise when I found out that linens for our cocktail tables would be $20 each. Whoa. But in the scheme of things we decided the price was worth it. I cut 16-inch squares of burlap to lay on top of the tables.

Burlap, frosted jar, and Ikea frame

Mr. P made the frosted jars for our wedding rehearsal dinner. He read about sun jars on Lifehacker and wanted them at our reception. I love that we are going to be able to reuse them at the hometown reception. We decided that the LED lights that we used at the RD weren’t bright enough, so we switched them out with battery-operated tea lights.

The Ikea frames are also from our wedding. YAY re-use! Each frame will feature both signs (they are double sided).

The first sign encourages our guests to write questions for our newlywed game.

The second sign is from our Seattle reception prodding our guests toward the photobooth. But, do they really need prodding? Our booth was busy the whole night in Seattle, and I don’t expect any less from our hometown reception.

Not too shabby? I think replacing the spandex table covers with cherry red linens will do wonders!

How are you dressing up your cocktail area?