We’ve been going full speed on the wedding ship over the past seven days and I nearly forgot to document our meeting at Club Longwood to go over reception details. Bethany had traded emails and phone calls over the past few months regarding some of the finer points, but this served as an occasion to formally sit down for a good hour to ensure everyone knew the plan for July 1. 2006. For all you future brides and grooms, Bethany and I received an itinerary for this meeting and going over it the night before proved to be very beneficial especially in the food area. Here’s a recap of the meeting where I think we nailed down 80-90% of the day.
That’s a wrap for now and you’ll probably here some more on some of these topics in a future post
- The conversation opened by building off the food tasting from the prior month. While all the dishes tasted delicious we decided to narrow our main course to the filet and sea bass with an available vegetarian option. We also needed to sort through the twenty or thirty h'or doeurves and I think we came up with a diverse mix for everyone. There will be chicken, meat, vegetable and of course the scallops wrapped in bacon
- The always interesting bar decision loomed as the next topic. Personally, my vote went to the open bar based on my past wedding experience, but it’s not completely my decision. It’s nice to do it for the guests and I think everyone has reached the age where they won’t treat the venue as a fraternity party. After some discussions leading up to this meeting, it had been determined we will be offering an open bar and deciding on the wine/champagne service wound up being the major discussion. One of the cooler results is we will be having servers working the room during the cocktail hour with trays of wine to help alleviate the wait at the bar.
- Bethany’s father has a friend who will be decorating our cake, but the in house catering service will be providing the layers for him to work his magic. As most of you know, I despise carrot cake more than any food out there so clearly we would be looking at another route. I have to confess I can’t fully recall what we went with once I knew one of the layers would be chocolate. I’m sure it will be delicious and the cake will look wonderful
- The reception hours will be 4:00-10:00. As you may or may not know, we will be offering shuttle service from our home base of Harvard Square to the reception in Brookline so please make the appropriate plans by reviewing the hotel options at the top left side of the page. For those of you who will be returning home after the wedding, parking will be available with more details to come at a later date
- For the seating layout we will be sitting ten to a table and the tables will be around the very crowded dance floor. The DJ will be in the room, but we will not be banishing him to the balcony. It would be kind of amusing though if he dropped a bucket where we could send up requests or his dinner.
That’s a wrap for now and you’ll probably here some more on some of these topics in a future post
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When do all guests show up for a choreography lesson? I was thinking there would be a scene like in "She's all That" where the entire dance floor is line dancing to a fat boy slim riff. Perhaps we can go old school and everyone can do the "teenwolf".
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