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Ideal_Rock
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Since I love hearing about everyone else''s weddings I thought I would share some info from mine!
We were married December 26th in NY. The weather was about 35 degrees with on and off light rain. The ceremony was short and sweet about 15 minutes with a local judge. I walked down the aisle to a string quartet playing Here Comes the Sun, and DH and I had them play All You Need Is Love for the recessional.
After the ceremony we moved across town and started cocktails at noon. For cocktails we had 8 passed hors d''oeuvres including truffle potato croquettes, bacon wrapped scallops, and coconut chicken bites. We also had a fresh fruit, vegetable, dip, cheese and bread display as well as various stations, as well as various stations. During this time the quartet was playing music from the Nutcracker and other holiday favorites. Throughout the night there was an open bar as well as a holiday martini bar featuring a mistletoe martini, eggnog-tini, pear-tini, pomegranate-tini, and white chocolate peppermint-tini.
After the cocktail hour was dinner featuring a mozzarella and tomato salad followed by butternut squash soup. The guests then had an option of rib eye steak, some type of chicken, crab stuffed shrimp and eggplant parm. The quartet played through dinner until the cake cutting. The DJ then took over and we cut our delicious red velvet cake to When I''m 64 and then had our first dance to At Last. The guests then had dessert which was a slice of red velvet cake, cranberry creme brulee, a macaroon cookie and chocolate covered strawberry, with a sugar holly berry garnish. The guests then danced the rest of the afternoon away and left with a lovely favor of a bag of holiday wine and 3 types of homemade cookies while the children left with mason jars of ingredients to make cookies. There was also a to go station with coffee, tea, water and biscotti on the way out.
The good:
I loved our quartet they were absolutely amazing and I highly recommend a quartet to anyone. It was a wonderful touch and they played a wide variety of music.
Our holiday martini bar was a huge hit and got a lot of traffic. It was another great touch to the day and everyone raved about it.
The food was wonderful everyone complimented us on it, I didn''t eat too much but everything I tried was delicious.
The dessert was also wonderful the cake looked great and tasted good too, the creme brulees, macaroon and strawberry was fantastic as well.
The favors were all taken and everyone was so impressed the cookies were homemade. I could tell the favors were appreciated and were well worth the effort.
The bad:
I hated our photographer, he was pushy and we just didn''t mesh.
DH''s family were way too in my face before the ceremony they stalked the photographer and kept pushing pictures we had no interest in.
The DJ was awful and did not follow direction at all.
A lot of DH''s family didn''t bother showing up at the last minute which was frustrating.
Even though DH suggested we do wedding gifts for each other and was really excited when I agreed he forgot and didn''t get me anything
Even though I said from the beginning I didn''t want a sweetheart table and wanted to sit with friend''s DH and his mom pushed one and I hated it the whole time, especially since DH was complaining what a mistake it was.
Overall while the wedding was nice it didn''t feel like mine. I would''ve enjoyed our wedding a lot more as a guest rather than the bride and I wish we had gone with the intimate destination wedding I dreamed of ..... but there''s always vow renewals!
Sorry for the novel, I''ll move onto pictures , here''s my bouquet
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