Kentucky Derby or something

I am assuming that all the recent horse-related movies on TCM (Turner Classic Movies) had something to do with an important horse race. And in keeping with that theme, I am in the final stretch of Stephen and Dee's chuppah. The elements are ready, more or less, it's just a matter of figuring out how to configure them on the fabric. The circle with birds turned out nicely, I think. I thought a circular element would offset the rectangular shape of the tartan and words. The dilemma is where to position everything. I have put the tartan words one below the other down the length of the right hand side. (The chuppah is 60" wide by 72" long after I finally had the courage to cut the fabric's length). I have positioned the circle about 2/3 in from both the top and the left hand side. I am now cutting up 1 1/2"-ish squares, circle and triangles and perhaps "pick up stick strips" to connect the circle to the rectangles. My dilemma is the rectangles. If I leave them in the order they appear in the "sheva brachot", they are not visually pleasing. If I shift them around so I can some kind of a curve, either from large to small in he middle and back to large or from small increasing in increments to the largest, it looks much better but isn't true to the text. Since I doubt that either the bride, the groom or their respective families will care, I will do the visually pleasing. And maybe put a binding on it. With rings to attach to the chuppah poles since the banquet hall has no chuppah frame.

Then I am going to try to get started on the baby quilts during the week before and after work.

Next weekend, I will get fabric for Johanna and Warren's chuppah. I think theirs will be much easier since I pretty much know what I want to do and how to do it. It's just going to be B-I-G. The chuppah frame is 96" square! I am planning to do a central panel and "frame" it with light and airy sheer-ish fabrics which can be removed after the wedding.

I look forward to finishing these projects so I can think about other things.