The joys of working for catering

Today my boss Nicole gave me the "order forms" for our reception. We have to fill out all the information about our reception and then once she gets it back, then we can start the contract process. I am happy that we are getting great food and quality table linens/decorations for such a bargain. I was going through my wedding planner and the average couple spends $9,000 for catering/reception. We will be spending under $3,000.

Two weeks ago I was working and the job for the day was setting up a lobster fest in the fire hall for alumni weekend. They had ordered chair covers with pretty satin bows. I talked to Nicole about it, and since they are a reasonable price, I am going to go for it. I hope that when people walk into the fire hall they say "woah!" That is my goal- to make the reception as pretty as possible.

Today at work some of us co-workers were cleaning up the main room during some of our spare time. Shane found an entire crate filled with napkins that had pine cones and pine trees on them. There were at least 2oo napkins and they are now in my care. They will make perfect cocktail napkins. I am glad we came across them otherwise we would have had either boring plain napkins, or costly personalized ones.

Invitations

My mom works as a substitute aid at the elementary and middle schools back home. She knows tons of people who remember me back when I was a tiny kid. She was talking to one of the officers at the middle school, Carilee, about the wedding. Carilee just so happens to do wedding invitations. So my mom hired her right on the spot. We are very lucky to have her do it for us. Her and my mom have been going back and forth about it for the past couple of days now, and we have already decided on a design. It looks great and goes perfect with our Christmas theme. I am glad that we don't have to worry about them anymore. She is also doing save the date cards, rsvp cards, and table placement cards. For those of you who want to see a picture of the invitations, well you're just going to have to wait until you get invited :-P

Cousin's Wedding

My family went to our cousin's wedding a couple of weeks ago. The church that they were married in was not at all what I expected. I expected something big and lavish, but instead it was all tiny, cute and cozy. Going to their wedding helped me make a lot of decisions about what I wanted at my own wedding such as reception music. I was worried about how to decorate the church. How many flowers, where to put them, yada yada. But then I went to their wedding and I realized that you don't need that many things in order to make it look beautiful. The focus should be on the bride and the groom, not how many flower arrangements there are. Here is a picture of the church they were married in.