Wedding Blog: BD**2 - 125

[gsabc]

Mesdames et messieurs, it is with deepest pride and greatest pleasure that we welcome you tonight. And now we invite you to relax, let us pull up a chair as the dining room proudly presents - your wedding dinner!

Main course: Three stations set up - one with roast sirloin and roasted potatoes, one with roast turkey with mashed potatoes (no garlic), one pasta station with farfalle, marinara sauce and various veggies to toss in. A chef at each station to serve per request. Appropriate condiments at each station, some seasonal cooked vegetables and caesar salad.

Alcohol: open bar, for which we are paying by consumption. We pay up front a specific amount per guest, then get reimbursed (we hope) or billed depending on how much people have drunk. My family, probably 70% of the guests, don't drink very much. It'll mostly be BD's friends and FSIL and his buds, that latter group being mostly beer and Jack Daniels types (I will help FSIL to graduate to real scotch later on). We are betting that we'll get some money back, since there was an option to have just a standard per head charge. If not, c'est la vie.

Dessert: Cookies and pastries, besides the wedding cupcakes. Coffee, about which GW did indeed complain, and water for tea, both self-serve in urns. We've seen too many affairs where someone asked for tea when the coffee came around, and everyone else was finished by the time the tea arrived.

So everything will be pretty much "go get your own". My mom is the only one who might have some difficulties in that area. She still walks with a cane, and I'm afraid that will remain. We told the coordinator, and she'll arrange to have someone attend her.

[ulysses5019]

Hey, how about some yak wellington for us real meat eaters.

[PlacentiaSoccerMom]

Coffee, about which GW did indeed complain, and water for tea, both self-serve in urns. We've seen too many affairs where someone asked for tea when the coffee came around, and everyone else was finished by the time the tea arrived.

Good idea! As a tea drinker, I know that at most events, they aren't prepared to serve tea and I usually have to wait to get my beverage.