Not Green, But in Between? (1)
May 22nd, 2009 by Diar A.
Here’s the progress so far after my giving up.
Ceremony site
Jezebel’s Kiss ipod After changing the site without my knowledge, my father decided to change his mind, to my very surprise. I didn’t ask why, I just felt winning 
So the mosque next to my parents’ house will be. We never mention anything about decorating it, so maybe it won’t be decorated. The lime green and light gray colors of the inside walls are already beautiful, I love them. Those colors are adequate to me.
My family live in a complex with about 200 households, so the mosque is for public, particularly for us who live in the complex. I suppose we could use it for free. But I don’t really know about the regulation. My father is the one who takes care of the permission.
Still, I’m very certain it doesn’t cost significantly.
Reception venue
No change. Still my parents’ house. The living room will be transformed into my and my husband-to-be’s ‘throne’. It is a common thing for Indonesian weddings to have couples sit still for hours in a kind of dais with parents next to them. What do we do? Sit and watch guests eat, then stand up to shake people’s hands and get our picture captured together.
I know. That kind of wedding doesn’t really have character (even boring). But there’s nothing I can do anymore to have another way round.
No expense in using the house as the reception venue, except maybe additional expenditure for extra power/electricity.
Tents
Rented tents will be set right in front of the house (it is normal for weddings in my country to transform the road before their houses into a guests area). I don’t know what kind of tents my parents rented. I’ve told them that I wanted brown hues with a touch of green, but they never said anything to me about their choice on tents. Oh, let it be.
Amos & Andrew download There’s one tent rental service near the complex where we live, but my parents didn’t like the tents offered there. They then opted to choose the most famous tent rental service downtown (we live in a regency area, the vicinity of the capital city of the West Borneo province), but apparently too expensive. I don’t really know about their last choice.
Chairs
I assume my parents will rent chairs from a police department near our place (they’ve got a connection there, so it won’t be too pricey). I have no idea whether or not they will have upholsteries for the chairs (they like the idea of glamorous wedding). It’s up to my parents now.
Decor
All wedding makeup artists here offer the very similar packages (basically comprise makeup + rented outfits for the couple and their parents + rented décor). Even though you opt to choose only one of their offers, for instance, you still have to pay in full.
So my makeup artist will take care of the décor (when I say décor, it includes only décor for the dais and for the food tables—that’s the common offer).
To my surprise, my parents let me and Mr. H chose the dais by ourselves. But we got to choose only from a small number of options (and only from photos). I actually don’t want any of the options, as I think the décor is just too much, but I can’t choose to do that.
Mr. H preferred a dais with dark-colored bamboo background and I followed his choice to make things simpler.
I can’t get the very simple whole décor I always dreamed of, but at least the tents, chairs, and dais are rented. Using rented things is green, isn’t it?