Lunch, Lunch, Lunch, Lunchy, Lunchy, Lunch!

After much debate over what to do for lunch on the big day, I finally made a decision. We are having boxed lunches catered and delivered to our hotel room from the same people that are doing our dinner! :-)

Yum!

ALL THE GREAT OPTIONS FOUND HERE!

Yes. I spent money on this.

I'm sorry, I had to do it. They were just too cute, and too perfect for my rustic, fall wedding.



Pumpkin ring pops! (don't worry, they are orange flavored, not pumpkin!)

MMMMM Cake!

We did our cake tasting on Friday afternoon! YUM!

I worked at Maxie B's most of my college career, so I've always known I'd get my wedding cake there. We already knew we wanted pumpkin chocolate chip for our cake, but I wanted Jeremy to taste other things for our rehearsal dinner dessert, and maybe some cupcakes for the wedding.

we tasted:

Lemon Almond
Strawberry Buttercream
Hummingbird
Devils Food

They were all so good :-)

We're having a cake like this....

but instead of lemons, it will have orange, sugar tulips! :-)

Picture Updates... round 2

Candle holders found at the Winston Marshall's on Monday... $10 each.....



The groomsmens ties found at Belks in Winston on Monday...



Cake plate found for our wedding cake Homegoods/Marshall's in Huntersville on Tuesday...



Cute brown bolero found at Homegoods/Marshall's in Huntersville on Tuesday...
(sorry it's fuzzy)

Copy Cat!

I soooo went on the hunt yesterday afternoon for Atlanta Brides cocktail napkins she found at Tuesday Morning! After visiting 2 different locations, I had TONS of J & H napkins for the bar and beverage jars! :-)



Our guest book came yesterday too!! It's very skinny- I didn't put tons of pages in it, but it has plenty of room for signing! :-)

A 70 Degree Day Called for Lemonade!

Yesterday was SO Beautiful here in North Carolina! I decided I wanted to sit on my porch, read a magazine, and drink lemonade! I tested out my Crate and Barrel beverage jars! They are fantastic!

Dessert Signs....

I figured out that the flap I have to cut off the brown pocket folds (invites) can be used as part of my dessert signs!

Crate and Barrel update...

I went down to South Park Mall to the Crate and Barrel to see what I could get done about my broken beverage jars. The girl that helped me was awesome! Since I had an uneven number of jars and lids, the manager decided that they would make my whole order a loss (meaning all 3 lids and jars were broken upon arrival) and give me 3 new jars and lids! Yeah! That means I'm ending up with an extra jar and 2 extra lids for FREE!!!! YAY!!!

Garden Ridge Finds

I ventured to Garden Ridge last night, not looking for anything in particular. They had all their "specialty" Christmas ornaments 90% off! So I wandered down the aisle. They had these cute brown and orange birds! I walked around the store thinking about them, I finally decided they would look cute next to our cake! As if they were love birds! I will take a picture of them and post sometime!



I also went over to there kitchen section and they had TONS of beige tablecloths for $5! They were oblong, so I'm not sure about them, or how many I will need.... but I thought if we layered them down our long tables, it might give an interesting scallop design on the sides. Any thoughts??

Spigot Jars Update...

A nice big box had arrived when I got home yesterday... it was my Crate and Barrel spigot jars to use at the ceremony.... I picked up one of the tightly wrapped jars..... broken.... I picked up the second jar..... it was good and in one piece..... jar #3.... broken :-(

Now I get to deal with Crate and Barrel's return services.... fun, fun!

Catering

We had our first catering appointment this Saturday. We visited Salem Kitchen in Winston, and met Hope Mabe. She was awesome!!! So sweet and helpful, and the food we tried was amazing! We tried...

1. Something Different Chicken (Chicken breast, seasoned with breadcrumbs)
2. Chicken Piccata (White wine sauce, mushrooms and capers)
3. Pork Normandy (seasoned pork tenderloin)

Sides-
1. Garlic mashed potatoes
2. Sweet potato casserole
3. Harbor Salad
4. Baked apples

Everything was soooo Good! I'm eating leftovers for lunch today! Eating "wedding food" has put me in even more of a "wedding planning mood"

Place Cards or No Place Cards????

I REALLY don't want to do "assigned seats". It's additional work that is just not necessary. But, here lies the problem... Jeremy wants to give people a choice for their dinner option. I don't. You'll eat what I want you to eat.

Well, you can see the problem. If I give people an option, I must do place cards so the servers know who gets what.

We have our first catering appointment at Salem Kitchen on Saturday, I am praying Jeremy only likes one of their dinner options and we can just go with that!

Place Cards-
1. People get a dinner choice

No Place Cards-
1. People can sit with whoever
2. If someone brings an uninvited date it's not obvious

What would you do??

Pushing the "Traditional" Envelope

I've been thinking about this for a while..... and after discussing it with Jeremy yesterday, we've decided to go for it....

His groomsmen will not be acting as ushers and seating guests (I know, I can hear you all GASP!) Since our wedding is outdoors, and casual-ish, we didn't see the need for it. Plus, that means for the 45 minuets before the ceremony, Jeremy will not get to hang out with his guys, as they would be busy.

All the guys and the preacher will be hanging out in the chapel together. So, we decided that behind the last two benches we will place sofa tables (one on each side). One side will have three spigot jars like these, but I won't be spending $80 each on them! Yikes! They will most likely have lemonade, sweet tea, and maybe an orange-ade. With some plastic punch cups and cocktail napkins on a nice tray. I've often thought it would be nice to have a drink while waiting for the ceremony, and during.

The other side will have a basket of some kind, holding our programs, a sign that says something like "Thank you for coming to share this special day with us, please have a drink and seat yourself. Love, Jeremy and Jessica" It will also have a couple of pictures of us, maybe a few of our engagement pictures?



Here's the layout (not to scale) of how this will be set up.... I am a visual person, and have to see to understand!