Leading Up to the Big Day

DAYS AWAY!!!! Wow- I know it has been a little while since I have written and I am sure you all know why. I have been in a wedding whirlwind! Lets start with the last time I wrote. The wedding was 4 days a way and life was already getting really crazy. My husband and I (I love the way that sounds!) had a lot of family and friends in town and everybody was getting excited for the big day.

Well I have to say that the 3 days leading up to the wedding were by far the craziest days of my life. On the Wednesday before the wedding all of my family got into town. My mother had a small wedding ceremony that night at her house - she got married the same week as we did which I thought was pretty cool. Since it was her second marriage she did not want to have a big wedding. Wednesday started the festivities that led up to the big day.

On Thursday was my now husbands bachelor party. Now I did not by any means agree that he should have the bachelor party so close to the wedding but because of the way it worked out with his friends coming into town that was what worked best for everyone. I went out with my two sisters that night so that I was distracted from thinking about the party.

Unfortunately this tactic only worked for about half the night. Needless to say the bachelor party got a little out of hand and it ended earlier then expected because of some major drama. I wont go into all of that because it will just stress future brides out I will say the whole party was supposed to stay the night in a suite downtown but because of their rowdiness this did not end up being the case.

Friday was the rehearsal and rehearsal dinner. We did our rehearsal at 3:00pm and everything went pretty smooth. After the rehearsal it was time to eat. We had our dinner at a local bar and grill and ended up renting out the entire upstairs for our event. Everything went really well at the rehearsal and tomorrow was the big day!

Food Tasting

Let me tell you being a bride is hard work! One of the duties my fiancé and I are in charge of is choosing the food for the reception. My fiancé and I decided to do a plated dinner for all of the guests. The salad was the first thing we had to taste.

We tasted 3 different salads to decide which would be the best choice. The first salad was a spinach salad with vinaigrette, hazelnuts and blue cheese. The second salad was a regular garden salad with vinaigrette and the third salad was spinach with craisins, red onion, slivered almonds and vinaigrette. The minute my fiancé and I tasted the last salad we both agreed it was the best choice by far!

For the main entre there were a couple dishes we tried to decide which ones to go with. We want our guests to have the choice of a chicken dish vs. a steak/pork dish. We tried two types of chicken dishes. The first dish was sweet chili chicken with pineapple and the second dish was teriyaki chicken with mango. Again after the first bite of the sweet chili chicken with pineapple we knew that was our first choice for the chicken dish.

As for the steak/pork dish we had two choices. The first choice was steak served with as a duet plate with salmon. The second choice was a pork dish, which is only served with pork no other combination. After tasting the steak dish we both knew again that it was by far the best choice.

Our Final menu:

Spinach salad with craisins, red onion, slivered almonds and vinaigrette

Your choice of:

Sweet Chili Chicken with Pineapple served over white rice and grilled asparagus

Or

Steak and Blackened Salmon duet plate served over mashed potatoes and grilled asparagus

Yummy!