The Food

Our food was AMAZING, as well as our drinks. Which was open bar and we actually even started the open bar before the ceremony which people raved about. We had the former owners of Silver Palate Bistro do our catering. They used to have a restaurant at Great Neck but now they are 100% catering and located on Providence road with the name Chef by Design. They did spectacular. Everything was seamless, plus the food was awesome.Here are some pictures to get your mouth watering. The mini crab cakes were my favorite!

92 Days!

I can't believe the wedding is only like 3 months away! Crazy! Which also means Ireland is only three months away!

I am very excited about it all. I really think it is all going to come together and be awesome. I just hope it doesn't rain!

We had the food tasting, Everything was awesome! The mini crab cakes were by far the best. We made a few alterations and did decide to change one thing. We nixed the beef satay in favor of beef tenderloin. I just thought the asiany dish didn't flow with the rest of our predominantly mediterranean cuisine. The other things we changed were small little things like olives with no pits in the salad and no mushrooms on the mediterranean vegetable display. Overall I am extremely happy with the food and it sounds like its going to be displayed pretty cool.

I am looking forward to meeting her and the tent company at Don's on Monday to figure out the layout.

I am also hoping to finish the invitations tonight so they can be mailed out tomorrow!

Silver Palate

I am very happy to say that we are 100% going with Silver Palate for the catering! Here is what the menu looks like so far....



There will also be coffee, iced tea, and sodas etc. The food will be buffett style, go up and get what you want, probably do it by table discretely so there isnt a mad rush to the food. Though I think the salad will be plated and served.

Pretty excited!

So now my biggest things are getting invites out and the flowers, plus my dress. I also still have some more cyllinders to find.

Here is what the Arbor we are having built is going to look like...


This image is vinyl but the one we are building will be wood. It will be pretty! I am happy that things are starting to come together and I do not have AS much to worry about. Though there is still ALOT to do.

Progress?

Invites are on their way and should arrive by Friday!

Also I should have Silver Palate's quote soon! I am so anxious to see it and I really hope we can work with them. I am ready to get that decision made and a contract signed.

The anxiety is really starting to set in too. I know I still have 4 months and I have gotten a lot of the big things taken care of but I feel like there is still so much left! I think finishing up with invites and getting them mailed out will be a big relief. Hopefully addressing the envelopes won't be too difficult.

I think I will feel alot more comfortable when my dress has been started too. I know it is a really big undertaking for my grandma. It isn't going to be easy. I pray that my design will actually look good on me. Maybe I should have actually tried on some wedding dresses before coming up with an idea in my head. Granted I love what I have designed and I am sure it will look good. But the dress is pretty important to me. So hopefully it will be flattering and we can pull of making it!

I think the fact that the snow last weekend put wedding planning on hold has gotten me into a frenzy of feeling like I am falling behind since most of my spare time has been spent on planning.

Zach and I also need to order our plane tickets for Ireland before the price continues to creep higher. He did get his passport yesterday though so we are set on that!

My mom and I are supposed to look for her dress this weekend. Fingers crossed we find something good!

Tuxedos

Zach and I both have this weekend off... a rare occurance. We are using this to our advantage though. Saturday we shall go hunting for a tux for him and his groomsmen.I think we will look at Men's Warehouse and maybe this place called Affordable Tuxedo and Bridal shop off of S. Military Highway. Hopefully we can find something!Then that will be one more thing checked off of out to-do list. It may be a party going to look at tuxedos. Pretty sure my mom and his will come along with shea and maybe greg too. Hooray! so far I know we want a slimmer fit black tux , two buttons, and zach wants a bowtie, they will probably have vests as well. Zachs colors may be just black and a white that goes with my dress while we are thinking about having the groomsmen's accent color matching the ribbon that will be on the flower girls and bridesmaids. Its called pansy and is kind of a bluish purple.

Also I have called some caterers, two are putting together quotes the other two I called haven't called me back, if they don't then I guess too bad we don't want to use you anyways! I should at least have two by the end of next week.

I also have schedules a preliminary wedding hairdo test with susie on sat the 16th at 2 pm. I wonder if anyone will come with me? Maybe my mom and maid of honor? I would like second opinions... So hopefully we can have that figured out and another thing done.

Sunday of this week me and all of my bridesmaids minus Alyssa are going to go shoe hunting. (for their shoes) hopefully we will have some luck!