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house plant them with pansies.
They served as centerpieces for the Shabbat dinner at Knollwood Country Club in
West Bloomfield the night before the ceremony.
After the dinner, "I took the pansies and set them outside Beth Ahm and took
them into the shul the next morning. I did the whole bimah in pansies. As soon as I
brought them home I planted them in my garden."
For both the Shabbat dinner and kids' party, Katzman planned simple food with
no excess. "I wanted Friday night to be like a Shabbat dinner in my house. We did it
family style times 110 people."
Invitees were close enough to have had a photograph taken with at least one
Katzman-Relle family member some time in the past.
I went to the Dollar store and got all kinds of 4x6-inch frames. Not only was the
photo their place card, but their take-away," Katzman said.
For the kids' party, there were no centerpieces on the kids' tables and "the food
was incredibly calculated," she said. "I had to tell Knollwood, 'You can leave it out
until it's gone. It doesn't have to look good."
"We didn't serve large portions," confirmed Jessica Waxman, Knollwood club
house manager. "She wanted us to leave the food out longer than we normally do,
because the kids might want to nibble later. She really wanted there not to be any
waste. It was not a matter of cost."
Instead of hard-to-dispose-of signs, the family used metal gobos that projected
Daniel and Tess' names and the party theme onto screens. Overhead lights were
dim. "I tried to make the lighting as energy efficient as I could," Katzman said.
Relle acknowledged his wife's green spirit as part of his formal remarks to family
and friends. "Who else would have thought of having growing flowers as centerpiec-
es for tonight, symbolizing spring and life?" Relle asked. "And who else would have
thought of plantable invitations?"
Katzman recently received a call from Liz Elkus as the Bloomfield Hills woman
considers a theme of tikkun olam (repairing the world) for her daughters 2009 bat
mitzvah party.
"I'm carrying cloth bags to the grocery store because my daughter asked me to,"
Elkus said. So an environmentally conscious celebration Is not too far from who
she is."
The Elkus family already has some experience with a green celebration theme.
"For our son's bar mitzvah, we planted a garden in Israel and everyone left with a
plant."
Using sustainable materials "is very timely, with all the recycling and global
warming issues that are happening," Elkus said. "It is really just a beautiful idea,
instead of adding to all the waste in the world."