<p>What, no wedding threads lately? Well here ya go–another one!</p>
<p>So, my more competent friends, we have tulle in two colors, we have 15 eight-foot strings of white lights. We have a medium sized room with great big glass windows almost all the way around, with hooks along the perimeter, except some of the hooks are about ten feet higher than the others, cuz those wndows go up higher. We have the thought of garlands where possible (you SEE what I just did there!), and streamers going down of tulle and lights at the jointures between windows.</p>
<p>Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to describe how you’d put tulle and lights together, and where you might and might not drape it. And anything else you might suggest.</p>
<p>You have four days–go!</p>
<p>PS–I just learned in the last couple weeks how to pronounce “tulle”–apparently not like Jethro Tull. I hope my incompetence is clear.</p>
<p>Moving it to the Cafe for you, **Garland **-- but my ability to help stops there! (Your plan sounds lovely but I am not an experienced artsy/decorating person.)</p>
<p>My very best wishes to you and your family for the wedding, though! :)</p>
<p>Are pictures of the venue online? What are the dimensions of the width of the windows?
Where are the electrical outlets and how many strands of lights can you safely connect? You may have to wrap the lights around the tulle and drape it as “garland” and forego the streamers. If you do that, you could use just the tulle to make large bows at the points where you hook the garland.</p>
<p>Have you googled tulle and lights? There are some good ideas there! Our D1 had lights and tulle draped across the ceiling at her reception venue.</p>
<p>I have seen some awesome backdrops made with hanging lights from a bar and then covering them with strips of tulle.</p>
<p>Garland- I would look at Pinterest. They have all sorts of ideas. There is a wedding section. I know I have seen lots of tulle and light pictures. If you look carefully at the pictures you and figure out how to put together a great look. </p>
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<p>I have been to many receptions where they tie 2 different colors of six foot tulle strips in a big bow on the back of my dining room chairs.</p>
<p>I could picture the lights inside the tulle as a swag in the windows, with the garland (white flowers?) and ribbon streamers coming off the point where the swags meet. Is that what you are thinking?</p>
<p>One hint is that you fold the tulle where you want it gathered as you would a paper fan. You can do this fairly quickly by grabbing the spot on one edge of the tulle ( both hands) and grabbing up a finger’s length at a time, over and over until the full width is folded. I hope that makes sense.</p>
<p>That action makes sense, but I don’t know what you mean by “where you want it gathered.” I’m more thinking of long garlands of it somehow wrapped up with lights, but how to physically do that is where I got confused.</p>
<p>I can’t visualize this kind of thing well but I can be practical. Get lots of extension cords in varying lengths and in whatever color will best match the walls, brown, white, whatever. Make sure your pretty lights will plug into them and vice versa. Sometimes the connections don’t work with Xmas lights.</p>
<p>If you want the lights in bunches, fold them so all the lights are together, then use a rubber band around the wires. Attach to the hook where you want lights. Then drape the tulle loosely around the lights, tuck ends into rubber band. Use separate lengths of tulle to create bow and streamers. It should look like a bow with lights in the center. If you don’t want the bow, just add the streamers.</p>
<p>If you want fewer lights in one place, lay out the tulle on the floor (or a long table), lay the string of lights down the center. Fold tulle in half, enclosing the lights. Now you have a long strand of tulle that will light up–you can swag it, etc. If you wand to “close it”, glue dots might work. I don’t like to sew tulle, but you could just do a running stitch up the edge. Binder clips will help hold it all in place. I use binder clips for lots of things…</p>
<p>Sorry, I’m useless in this area. I’m just thank my s.t.b. DIL knows what she wants. Tulle and lights sound lovely, though. I can see them altogether and draped at the windows if there are no other window treatments. Ask the folks at the venue. I’m sure they’ve seen it all.</p>
<p>Garland, how much time before the wedding to you have to decorate? I can’t see adding swags and lights overhead before the wedding at S & DIL’s venue – not enough time. I will be thankful if I can get some strands on the ballet barre going around the room (and I probably need to get some more; not sure six strands will be enough).</p>