Nature-curious and outdoor adventurers themselves, Tiffany and Mark could not have been more excited to host their reception in the Morian Hall of Paleontology at the Houston Museum of Natural Science. In our first planning meeting (and in keeping with the overgrown, prehistoric-forest event aesthetic), Mark requested a boutonniere that included fungi and (only half jokingly) asked that I make it look like it was growing straight out of his chest. Tiffany joked that she would "seat everyone she didn't like in the triolobite fossil section," and we were off to the races. One of my favorite focal points for this event was the escort card display, for which my team and I designed a table-length moss-and-fern "biorama," i.e. a diorama-inspired recreation of a Permian forest floor ecosystem, which was much more artistic interpretation than scientifically accurate model, but it certainly set the tone for the reception, during which guests were free to meander the entire exhibit hall, admiring the story of life on earth through ancient specimens ranging from small a fish who lived 50 million years ago during the Eocene period to pterosaurs skeletons with 36 foot wingspans. Ah, the romance!
