How to make a wedding chuppah

make a wedding chuppah

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Before renting a wedding chuppah, consider making one yourself using common materials found around your home or at your local department store. A chuppah is traditional to Jewish weddings and symbolizes the new home that the couple will make once they are married. The wedding chuppah has four open sides that close friends or family members hold during the wedding ceremony- however, it is becoming popular to have the chuppah standing on its own and ready to go for the wedding.

Things You'll Need

• 4 large flowerpots
• 4 2-foot-long PVC pipes 2 inches in diameter
• Cement
• Masking tape
• 4 1 1/2 inches wide by 7- to 8-foot-long wooden dowel rods
• Soil
• Flowers or plants
• Large sheet of fabric

Instructions

1. • 1

     Patch any holes in the bottom of the flowerpot with masking tape. Place the PVC pipes in the center of each flowerpot.

   • 2

     Hold each PVC pipe firmly in place. Pour in the cement to fill one-third of the flowerpot with cement. Allow the cement to dry overnight.

   • 3

     Insert the wooden dowel rods into the PVC pipes. Ensure that the dowel rods are standing straight. Add more cement if there is too much weight on the PVC pipes.

   • 4

     Fill each flowerpot with soil. Add flowers or plants to the soil to hide the PVC pipe and the cement.

   • 5

     Measure the large sheet of white fabric. The length of the fabric depends on how far apart you will place the flowerpots.

   • 6

     Make two rows of flowerpots, placing two pots in each row. Measure the pots to ensure that you place them at an equal distance so that the wedding chuppah is not off balance.

   • 7

     Attach the wood dowel rods to the fabric. Use a washer and screw on top of each dowel rod, and puncture the corners of the fabric to attach it to the rods. You can also sew loops onto the fabric canopy, or glue foam to the end of the dowel rods and secure each corner of the canopy with a zip tie.

   • 8

     Decorate the flowerpots and dowel rods. You can stain the dowel rods a different color, add ribbon to the flowerpots or drape tulle around the flowerpots and dowel rods.

Tips &- Warnings

• Ask friends and family members to decorate a square piece of fabric for your wedding. Have the fabric squares turned into a quilt for your wedding chuppah.

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