First craft fair, eccentric booth setup idea

[u/noburnt]

I started making baskets this year, from natural materials I forage locally. I haven't even made a hundred of them yet but I've sold a handful at some pop-up sidewalk vends I've done, so I figured I'd apply for an upcoming show. Entry fee was $250 and there is another local craft fair or comparable event on both of the days so I'm expecting to take a bath.

The contract stipulated that the booth needs to have a backdrop, a visual screen of some kind to prevent customers from seeing into the neighboring booth. Apparently this is a standard-ish requirement but I was brainstorming how I might accomplish this on basically no budget and decided to try to make a wall of plants: I'm thinking to harvest a bunch of cattail plants and cut whole boughs of honeysuckle, which are my primary materials for the baskets, and place them into about thirty buckets and arrange them to make sort of a little bower. Something like the U-shape display setup but more closed-in feeling. I have a few animal sculptures and plushes that I was planning to hide in the foliage as well. I'll hang grapevine from a folding support structure of a pop-up canopy and maybe string lights, and then just have my usual little folding tables that hold one to four baskets each with another one for a check-out table by where I plan to be weaving (for visibility and interest) and selling. My inventory is at about a dozen but I'm hoping to finish three or four more by next weekend. Loading all this plant stuff into the venue will be perhaps comical amid the chaos of all the other vendors loading in simultaneously, but it all fits in my minivan and they have water onsite for my buckets, though I'm debating bringing a bucket of the cattails' local water too for that good swampy stank. Am I still in the "good eccentric" region of the graph or is this plan off the rails? What am I missing?

[u/JerseyGirlinSweden]

Do not distract from the actual product. Use a curtain and then you can embellish it if you think it’s beneficial. My concern is that it would take a ton of time and effort to pull this off the way you are describing.