You may spend a good portion of your engagement agonizing over the tablecloths, chair covers, and placecards. It's true that your guests will spend most of the reception seated at their tables, but consider that many do run to the bathroom to "freshen up" too. Wedding elegance is easy to bring to even the most basic restroom.
Instructions
1. Consider your blank canvas: the restroom at your reception site. If it's a simple set of toilet stalls and sinks, you must get creative. If it comes complete with a lounge area, granite sinks and pretty baskets of rolled organic towels, you may not need to do much.
2. Make courtesy baskets. Take a basket, tie a ribbon on it and for the ladies' room, fill it with tampons and sanitary pads, breath mints, bobby pins, tweezers, hair spray, deodorant, a hairbrush, laundry pen and maybe even a bottle of perfume or extra pair of nude pantyhose. For men, the basket could contain mints or gum, deodorant, a razor, comb and perhaps condoms.
3. Assess whether there will be small floral arrangements at the ceremony site that could be relocated to the restrooms during the reception. If you have room in your budget, you also could ask the florist to prepare small arrangements. Plants surrounded by tea light candles also are a nice touch.
4. Purchase decorative paper guest napkins to be placed by the sink, if the reception site only offers an electric hand dryer or a paper towel dispenser. You might consider bringing a nice bottle of hand soap if the reception site's soap is the typical industrial pink variety.
5. Appoint a decor-savvy bridesmaid and groomsmen to place the baskets, flowers and napkins in the restrooms. The attendants also can bring an assortment of candles to add to the ambiance.
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