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Hello all - I just got the price quote from my florist for a Bedenken Chair & Chuppah and almost hit the floor.  HOWEVER, it might be "reasonable" and I just don't know.  Can someone sha
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Hello all - I just got the price quote from my florist for a Bedenken Chair & Chuppah and almost hit the floor.  HOWEVER, it might be "reasonable" and I just don't know.  Can someone sha
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Bendenken Chairs & Chuppahs

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 Hello all -

I just got the price quote from my florist for a Bedenken Chair & Chuppah and almost hit the floor.  HOWEVER, it might be "reasonable" and I just don't know.  Can someone share with me - what they paid?

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 We made our own chuppah, in part because the quotes we got for renting one were so ridiculous.  If you want to check out alternatives in this area, here are some local chuppah sources:

• Huppahs.com
• Elli-Chai's One-Stop Judaica Shop 301-933-1800
• Washington Jewish Bookstore    301-942-2237 
• Women's League of Conservative Judaism   301-946-4043 Charlotte Zeidman  $150 (hangs in hallway at Tikvat Israel in Rockville)
• Shirley Waxman   301-299-5526 www.shirleywaxman.com
• General Rental (Chantilly)    703-941-3520  various styles
• Charm City Chuppahs    410.549.5490/877-856-5490     Mona Freedman

Another alternative would be to DIY one.  I have plenty of resources for how to do that, if you are interested.
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 If you don't mind sharing your DIY version.... this might be a perfect option!  I can't believe they are charging $500 - $1000 for a chuppah!  We REALLY want a traditional one with just a covering (my father's tallit) and poles.  We DO NOT want the "new" type of Chuppah with flowers, fabric etc.

But - obviously - no one is listeing and giving me pictures that are NOT what we are looking for - even after I go over it and over it.


Also - what did you guys do for a Bendenken Chair....... $600 - $1000 for that is also RIDICULOUS!!!!  I can't see spending that type of money on that.

Thoughts?????  Pictures!!!!!
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 I need resources for  MIAMI BEACH as that is where we are getting married.

Thanks.
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 Hi Eva (love your name btw!),

My Chuppah was within that range, but like you said, it had a ton of flowers on it and all that jazz. 

You can usually get the simpler ones for much cheaper.  You should ask around at local shuls, JCCs, Chabads and other florists to see if you can rent one.  My florist had a lot of options for chuppahs and in different price ranges.  You could even post an add on craigs list.  Where I live we have a Jewish list serve on Yahoo, I am assuming there has to be something similiar in Miami, if there is you could post to see if someone would be willing to lend or rent you theirs.

For the chair, your venue might have something you can use.  All it needs to be is a large, special chair, right? 
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 Oh also, I just realized that my SIL had a really simple, DIY chuppah for her wedding.  It was just 4 hand held poles with the tallis for the cloth part and some cloth flowers wrapped around the poles.  You can buy curtain rods for poles at Lowes or a similiar store.
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 My father is making my chuppah, insofar as it needs to be made. He'll borrow 4 umbrella stands, get dowling of the right diameter and height, and screw eye-hooks into the top. Then we'll tie the fringe to the eye hooks.
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 Who is marrying you?  If that person is associated with a shul, s/he may have access to something you can use for a chuppah.  Do you want a chuppah that stands on its own, or one that is held by 4 people?  Our chuppah was a quilt that my aunt made for us that we tied to 4 wooden poles that DH and one of our friends made from saplings, and we had our brothers carry it.  

For the chair, we just asked our venue coordinator to make sure there was one nicer and more comfortable chair in the ketubah room than what everyone else would be sitting in, and that worked fine for us.
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 Our poles came from my parents temple (where the rabbi who married us is an emertius rabbi). My mom made us a chuppah cover using H's Bar Mitzvah talliet and their chuppah. We just used the same chairs everyone else was in.
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 We are making ours....4 closet poles put into large potted flowers/plants. There's only one place in Tampa that rents chuppahs and they COMPLETELY take advantage of that fact. They were going to charge me a ridiculous rate for the fugliest chuppah I have ever seen.
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 You might want to Google "DIY chuppah."  There are lots of ways to do it:

  • • Mine (picture below and instructions at this link) was built on the frame of a portable popup gazebo.  We live in DC and got married in Massachusetts.  Our chuppah could be folded up and easily transported, and was also easy to set up once we got there.
  • • This one relies on putting each of the four poles into PVC pipe set into a flowerpot partly filled with concrete for stability.
  • • This one is based on using a lattice for the ceiling, which stabilizes the whole structure so as to make support for the bottoms of the poles unnecessary.
  • • This one has a wooden frame at the top, held up by lattices at each of the corners.
  • • This one is based on birch poles put into umbrella stands.
  • • This one is not free-standing, and would need to be held by four people during the ceremony.  However, it uses bungee cords to attach the four corners of a tallit to the four poles, so that the fabric of the tallit won't get torn if the pole-carriers aren't perfectly in sync.

Hope this helps!


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