Musings
an Online Journal of Sorts
By Alyce Wilson
January 8, 2007 - Playing with Space
City of Tomorrow from Epcot Center
This Saturday, The Gryphon and I met with our event coordinator at our ceremony/reception site. Mostly, we were there to discuss table linens and decoration ideas.
While we were talking, I showed her a picture of a futuristic city from a book that The Gryphon had on Epcot Center. I asked if we blow it up large on the wall, but we all agreed that would cost too much.
Then I got another idea: "What if we could project it?"
The event coordinator said that they have a built in wall screen and a video projector, so we went down to the room to look at it. I could definitely see how we could work it into our decoration scheme. In fact, we decided to look for images and create a slide show that could be projected from The Gryphon's laptop. The images could run on a loop, or in random order, throughout the evening.
We returned to the lobby and started looking through the linens books. When we suggested looking into renting more modernistic chairs, she suggested a cheaper solution: spandex chair covers. Now, The Gryphon doesn't like typical chair covers, because they look like someone put dust covers over the furniture for the winter. I think it also looks like a chair with a butt bow.
The event coordinator went online and found some chair covers to show us, which looked really cool. She's going to look up pricing info and get back to us, but if it's comparable to regular chair and table covers, it will be a cost effective way to achieve our look.
While we were there we asked her some other logistics questions, such as whether it will be possible to have our DJ play music during the cocktail hour. She says it will, and she said that if we give her his contact info, she'll take care of the legal issues, like having him sign a subcontractor's contract.
She's also going to look into renting canister lights, which can be a great, simple way to create a dramatic effect.
After we were done, her next appointment was arriving, but she helped us make a payment on our account through the front desk, and then she told the restaurant to give us lunch on the house.
I chose a portabella, vegetable and cheese sandwich on focaccia bread with a side salad that was so filling I had to box half of it.
On Sunday, while The Gryphon was at his weekly PAGE (Philadelphia Area Game Enthusiasts) group, looking through images for some to use.
Here are a few we're considering using.
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Moral:
With a little creativity, you can create the space you want.
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