I love to help plan weddings! I helped my cousin Amanda choose her colors, I made her centerpieces, and I helped pick out the bridesmaid dresses. I am not visually artistic, so I can't ever be a wedding decorator, but I am good at making sure everything is done and ready, so I was thinking I'd love to be a wedding coordinator. Recently, I sort of got my chance. My cousin Garrett married a lovely girl in the Apia Samoa Temple. But he asked me to help his sister plan a reception for him in Utah. The only problem was, his sister lives in Oregon, so it was more me and my mom planning it with us asking her opinion. Here was the catch: we had $1200 to use. How does one do a reception with that amount of money and NOT make it look tacky? It was a challenge, and we did the best we could. Here is what we came up with:
We tried to have a bit of a Samoan theme by using bright colors and tropical flowers. Of course, real tropical flowers in Utah would have been very expensive, but we found these fake orange hibiscus and birds of paradise at Joann's for a dollar a stem.
The real flowers were done at Hepworth's floral. But they did not dye the roses the bright orange color they promised. Instead it was pale and it was pretty upsetting because we emphasized the word "bright" like million times.
All of these photos were taken by my friend Amanda Rumsey. She was the photographer for the night.Here is her blog, but her Facebook page shows more of her work.
It was tough work budgeting this reception out, but for what we had to work with I think we did pretty well.
Now someone let me plan their wedding who had a bigger budget. Haha
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