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I found ceiling draping to be way overpriced. We decided to go with chinese lanterns instead, and it was MUCH cheaper. Our florist did all our decorations and gave us an awesome price ($15 per lantern!) Here's a picture of what it looked like. Our ceiling was pretty nice though, if you're trying to hide an ugly ceiling then draping might be better.
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@EmEv: Unfortunately i do need to cover the walls and ceiling, its a gross 70's burlap lining the walls... And the lights need to be softened with something also :(
have you thought about buying some rolls of organza yourself and white Christmas lights? You can do the draping yourself and add the lights in - just get there an extra day to set up early and test it out. I'm sure it would look great. I thought about doing that myself but I've retreated to getting colored chinese lanters to hang above the dance floor instead. Good luck!! and BTW, we are wedding date twins!! :)
Ladies, I think we need to start making these and reusing them! I want to do something for my daughter's wedding. She has Xmas lights and lanterns but I would like to do something decorative with lights to often the really large room. I am going to see what I can do with ceiling drapes. The big expense is the fabric. I'm going to try to make something that can hang in the center of the room and cut costs on fabric. I want to make something light enough to hang and be cloudlike, lay the lights on top of it and suspend with fishing line. Since I sew and am older I'll see if I can't help you gals out and send info and pics.
I saw one very pretty one that is simply sections of fabric with one end attached to a large ring - you can use anything - pick up something at Home Depot and paint it. Secure one end of your fabric and then drape the other end as you like using fishing line to secure to the edge of the room or up to another part of the ceiling. To add lights, it would be a matter of putting two pieces together, marking and stitching lines/channels to put your lights in and then feeding the lights in and securing with safety pins or a couple stitches. Another thought for those of you needing to cover large areas, there are some romantic fabs 118' wide like voile that's floaty and romantic.
When my daughter got her house she got these completely see thru drapes at Ikea. Since she lived with a field behind her, I told her I was going to sew plain sheets to them to block out the view - you could find large pieces of shower curtains or things like this and use them to cover walls in sections. The hard part is so much fabric is needed to cover an ugly space! We opted to use a nicer place and pay $1200.....
so I had a brainstorm to share ladies - I was looking at fabrics and came across this
I wanted to do something to accent the dance floor. I think I can get two large pices of fabric, place the lights inside them and tack in place by hand and then add clips at the outer corners to hang with fishing line. This would look dreamy in sheer fabrics don't cha think?
We really should come up with something and rent it out on the bee.
I found at good site for organza that would hide the wires of the christmas lights better I think.
http://www.cvlinens.com/fabric-rolls-organza-c-34_51.html
I am also changing out the lightbulbs at the hall to blue. This will give a softer effect. If anyone finds a better price on organza please let me know.
I've decorated and draped for a few other weddings and we always used tobacco canvas/cloth. It would be relatively inexpensive to do it yourself, and for the tobacco cloth roll.... Of course I live in the south and have direct access to buying it on the cheap at farm and feed stores.
An alternative to tobacco cloth would also be gossamer....
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Hello, I was wondering if anyone knew of any companies or people that do ceiling draping for halls or gyms. I only found one lady that does it but was quoted $1,800 for just the walls, not the ceiling. Ceiling canopys with lights that drape down to the floor would be $3,200 and that is WAY out of our budget. Or even if anyone has done that before and has any tips or ideas please let me know. This has been a very stressfull process and its basically what my wedding will be revolving around. I just cant afford to shell out that kind of money for it... Thank you!
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