Tea lights on tables
We got an email this morning from a couple who are still on honeymoon in Zanzibar, and it starts by saying "Thanks very much for the part you played in our big day. If Ann hadn't stamped out those embers on the carpet it could have been memorable for the wrong reason!!"
That's a reference to the incident during their wedding breakfast when a napkin caught fire on a tea light and a passing waiter obviously thought that the best thing to do with a burning cotton napkin is to wave it about vigorously so that pieces of it fall in flames onto the carpet.
Last time we saw that happen it was a menu that caught fire and it was me that put it out, but that's twice we've seen things set alight by tea lights on dining tables in this year alone.
So, it's perhaps worth bearing in mind that tea lights can look very nice on dining tables, but they can and do set fire to napkins, menus, foliage and sometimes the most unlikely things ...
posted by Dan Johnson at 9:29 AM
1 Comments:
Our reception venue were not going to let us have tealights on the tables for this very reason - I think they had had one burning napkin too many in the past.
In the end I bought frosted votives from Confetti and put the tealights in those so flames were nicely protected. The venue were happy with this and I got my twinkly lights. I couldn't convince them about indoor sparklers though!
They also drew the line at bubbles for the tables as they mark the ancient upholstery.
It's definately worth checking with the venue quite early on to see how relaxed they are about these sorts of things.
Post a Comment
<< Home