Question in Preparation for My Sister's Wedding

[debka_notion]

 How does one go about finding/buying/making a chuppah?  I'm having a feeling that my sister and her fiance are not real likely to be interested in the tallis option.  I imagine that making one could also just involve some dowels with nails on top and a piece of fabric with loops, but if we did want to buy/rent one, how would we find such a thing?  If we were to make them one, does anyone have any tips? 

My parents sent me the question, and so I in turn am asking you...

Comments

[debka-notion.livejournal.com]

Making one isn't sounding too hard from what everyone is telling me, I think I got scared by that friend or penpal or whatever of yours who was having a miserable time managing to make one. Who knows, maybe it'll be a late summer project for me, and then it can just sit around and wait until next summer, and we won't have to worry about it (and then there could just conceivably be one in the family, not like there's going to be So much use for it, given that the cousins aren't actually Jewish...)

[hatam-soferet.livejournal.com]

It really isn't. If you're trying to do something super-complicated, that's another story, but it's perfectly easy to make one in a day - shopping in the morning and putting it together in the afternoon.