Wedding Update: Venue, Caterer, Cake, and Dress
Just putting out a kind of update on the whole wedding process for me so far. Some of the things I did a great while back, so I don't remember details.
Venue: The reception and ceremony will take place at the Krippendorf Lodge in the Cincinnati Nature center. The 'lodge' is an early American built house with a huge wrap around porch and a stone patio in the back with low stone wall (think around knee height). The ceremony will take place on the stone patio, and the reception in doors. The lodge is nestled in the woods, with nothing but trees to see.
Caterer: The Krippendorf Lodge is held hostage by an exclusive caterer, Elegant Fare. They are a more pricey sort, but there food is excellent (something my mom is insistent upon). We have gone to a tasting, which included myself, my future sister-in-law, my fiance, and his best friend. We had several hor'durves which included heart shaped mush room pastries; tomato, mozzarella, and basil pesto on a stick; steak and a hard bread with a reduction; cocktail shrimp; seared salmon with a wasabi sauce; and a brie and cheese platter. For the dinner part was grilled vegetables, baby potatoes tossed in a butter sauce, salmon roulande, carved New York stripe with a horshradish sauce and a reduction. There were three different salads to choose from. A more citrus/sweet one, one with a lot of cheese, and one with nuts. That's all I remember of that. For dessert was little chocolate and yellow cup cakes, these cheesecake cookie things, lemon cookies, and chocolate dipped ginger cookies. Plus a coffer bar with fresh whipped cream, rock sugar stir sticks, and other fun stuff.
Still have yet to decide a menu and talk about set up.
Cake: We are getting the cake from Marribelle's. We had a cake tasting of about 6 different cakes. Wont go into detail of them all.. I believe they were (basically) lemony, strawberries/yellow, white/chocolate mocha & raspberry, pistachio/almond, and chocolate/truffle. I'm missing one, but I can't remember >_<. We decided on a three tiered cake bottom is strawberries/yellow, middle is white/chocolate mocha & raspberry, and the top is the pistachio/almond. Going to leave the appearance description out for now :D.
Dress: I don't know who I'm more angry at. Myself for my weight, or the dress companies that think all girls come in size 2-9. I know if I was even at an acceptable weight, I would still be to large to get in these dresses. So needless to say the entire shopping experience wasn't as fun as expected. The first day I went I took my mother and sister. Which was a HUGE mistake. They both have very similar taste, which ISN'T mine. My sister was off looking at bridesmaid dresses (which WTH, I don't even know what MINE looks like yet! How am I supposed to concentrate on that?) and I was trying to cast a line to get anything out of my mom. She kept telling me that she didn't want to influence my decision, go with what I like ect. I'm like O.O;;; I need help! So I think I find the dress, but am not sure (I've only gone to 3 shops). But this one dress at the last shop looks EXTREMELY promising. So I decided to bring the people that would actually help tomorrow, my future sister and mother-in-law.
So we go around to about 4 other shops the next day, but my mind still going back to that dress from before. They haven't seen it, so the next day I bring them again to see/order the dress. So now I have 4 people to help me see if this dress is right for me. Granted, on the way up that day my sister and I get into a HUGE fight and it practically ruins my day. I'm so angry with her I want to cry. I flat out tell her, I dont want her to come in with me. So with my two mothers and other sister, I (well, they) pull out my dress and IMMEDIATELY they they gushing over it. How it was defiantly the one, it was so me, ect. Beck (future sister) is able to slip it on for me, just to see how it looks on a body (much better then what I have been doing that weekend, holding it up to me -_-). And it's my dress and everything. But I just.. can't be happy because of that fight. I probably would have cried over my dress, but I was just to tense from earlier. I hated it. I really did. And I hate her sometimes for ruining that experience for me. I dont think I could have done it without Ryan's family. Mom just didn't really say much (like the previous days), so having two people really gushing on you... it was nice. Instead of just standing there in silence, a million things going on in your head.
Next up I need to get going on flowers, doing my invitations, jewelry and other such things..
Venue: The reception and ceremony will take place at the Krippendorf Lodge in the Cincinnati Nature center. The 'lodge' is an early American built house with a huge wrap around porch and a stone patio in the back with low stone wall (think around knee height). The ceremony will take place on the stone patio, and the reception in doors. The lodge is nestled in the woods, with nothing but trees to see.
Caterer: The Krippendorf Lodge is held hostage by an exclusive caterer, Elegant Fare. They are a more pricey sort, but there food is excellent (something my mom is insistent upon). We have gone to a tasting, which included myself, my future sister-in-law, my fiance, and his best friend. We had several hor'durves which included heart shaped mush room pastries; tomato, mozzarella, and basil pesto on a stick; steak and a hard bread with a reduction; cocktail shrimp; seared salmon with a wasabi sauce; and a brie and cheese platter. For the dinner part was grilled vegetables, baby potatoes tossed in a butter sauce, salmon roulande, carved New York stripe with a horshradish sauce and a reduction. There were three different salads to choose from. A more citrus/sweet one, one with a lot of cheese, and one with nuts. That's all I remember of that. For dessert was little chocolate and yellow cup cakes, these cheesecake cookie things, lemon cookies, and chocolate dipped ginger cookies. Plus a coffer bar with fresh whipped cream, rock sugar stir sticks, and other fun stuff.
Still have yet to decide a menu and talk about set up.
Cake: We are getting the cake from Marribelle's. We had a cake tasting of about 6 different cakes. Wont go into detail of them all.. I believe they were (basically) lemony, strawberries/yellow, white/chocolate mocha & raspberry, pistachio/almond, and chocolate/truffle. I'm missing one, but I can't remember >_<. We decided on a three tiered cake bottom is strawberries/yellow, middle is white/chocolate mocha & raspberry, and the top is the pistachio/almond. Going to leave the appearance description out for now :D.
Dress: I don't know who I'm more angry at. Myself for my weight, or the dress companies that think all girls come in size 2-9. I know if I was even at an acceptable weight, I would still be to large to get in these dresses. So needless to say the entire shopping experience wasn't as fun as expected. The first day I went I took my mother and sister. Which was a HUGE mistake. They both have very similar taste, which ISN'T mine. My sister was off looking at bridesmaid dresses (which WTH, I don't even know what MINE looks like yet! How am I supposed to concentrate on that?) and I was trying to cast a line to get anything out of my mom. She kept telling me that she didn't want to influence my decision, go with what I like ect. I'm like O.O;;; I need help! So I think I find the dress, but am not sure (I've only gone to 3 shops). But this one dress at the last shop looks EXTREMELY promising. So I decided to bring the people that would actually help tomorrow, my future sister and mother-in-law.
So we go around to about 4 other shops the next day, but my mind still going back to that dress from before. They haven't seen it, so the next day I bring them again to see/order the dress. So now I have 4 people to help me see if this dress is right for me. Granted, on the way up that day my sister and I get into a HUGE fight and it practically ruins my day. I'm so angry with her I want to cry. I flat out tell her, I dont want her to come in with me. So with my two mothers and other sister, I (well, they) pull out my dress and IMMEDIATELY they they gushing over it. How it was defiantly the one, it was so me, ect. Beck (future sister) is able to slip it on for me, just to see how it looks on a body (much better then what I have been doing that weekend, holding it up to me -_-). And it's my dress and everything. But I just.. can't be happy because of that fight. I probably would have cried over my dress, but I was just to tense from earlier. I hated it. I really did. And I hate her sometimes for ruining that experience for me. I dont think I could have done it without Ryan's family. Mom just didn't really say much (like the previous days), so having two people really gushing on you... it was nice. Instead of just standing there in silence, a million things going on in your head.
Next up I need to get going on flowers, doing my invitations, jewelry and other such things..