On Fri, 07 Dec 2012 17:52:50 -0600, Ema Nymton >
wrote:
>
> My firstborn is getting married in March,

Congratulations! Maybe you'll have a grandbaby to spoil in another
year or two.

> and they have not chosen a
> color scheme, flowers, music, photographer, the cake. They found the
> place where they want the reception, and including the food, beer, wine
> and drinks, it will be around $100 per person.

The good news is that if their friends don't have leads for them, the
place where they plan to have their reception probably has a binder
with names of people and companies in every category.

> They have 80 people on
> the guest list and they asked us if there was anyone we wanted to
> invite. To be honest, I thought 80 people would be enough. George and I
> visited the place and it looks nice.

Agreed, 100 max... but it was very nice of them to ask you if there
was anyone you wanted to include!
>
> We went to their house for Thanksgiving. They both sold their houses,
> then bought this one. The house is huge, with high ceilings, and they
> only have one picture hanging on the wall, the place looks colorless and
> empty. They need help.
>
Yeow, sounds like it! Some people just can't decorate. I've been in
too many sterile homes to think otherwise. The good news is that many
department stores, like Macy's, have in-house decorators - so if they
have plenty of money but no decorating self-confidence, department
stores are there to help.

We've never had a problem with decorating the walls because both of us
love art. We started off with mass produced art and upgraded over the
years to one of a kind paintings, mainly by contemporary artists - but
one in particular is quite old and valuable.


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