I realize that I wrote a lot about our wedding right after it happened and then I stopped. I’ll say it was wedding overload. Peter and I just wanted to get through a few weeks without hearing the word wedding. It never happened. I have a theory that once weddings are on your brain, you develop a strange ability to pick up the word when you otherwise would’ve tuned it out. Ex., I’m writing this at a coffee shop and a country song just came on over the speakers. I picked out the phrase “wedding dress” and couldn’t make out a single other word. Has this happened to any of you? I just heard a guy across the room say something about picking up a tuxedo. It’s a sickness, really.
Anyway, what actually happen is that we distanced ourselves a bit from the wedding industry and then our friends Caroline and Nick got engaged. This exciting news breathed a new life into the topics of weddings for me and I’m finally ready to slowly start going through the details of our day. Now, wasn’t that an unnecessarily long way of saying that I’m going to tell you about wedding details? Yes, yes it was.
Our caterer insisted that we print menus and put them on our tables. It became quite clear that her ideal client would’ve adorned each place setting with hand calligraphied, letterpress menus. It was quite annoying. In looking for a way to keep our tablescape relatively simple and inexpensive, we decided to print our menus on empty wine bottles. Peter and I like wine quite a bit (it’s usually the only alcohol I ever drink), so it felt like the wine bottle menus served to make our wedding that much more personal. Plus, the green wine bottles were really pretty in the sunlight.
Once we managed to find an appropriate sized label, the project was easy. We bought the 4.25 x 5.5 inch white labels from Onlinelabels.com . We bought huge labels because we were serving a lot of food!! We ended up with a family style meal where everyone got a little bit of everything. Guests ate salad, several sides, bread, and three entrees. In hindsight it was a lot more food than we ever needed!
I really loved these. If you look closely, you can even see that we credited Caroline for making our wedding cake. We still have several sheets of these labels left, so maybe it’s something that Peter and I will do again for a larger dinner party or Thanksgiving. Have you seen any fun menu ideas? I’d love to see them for future dinner party brainstorming! 
Oh, and now that I’ve warned you about wedding posts, expect to see them more frequently. I promise that I won’t write about them too often.
Photo credit Mary Sledd.
I’m sort of torn about registries.There’s a side of me that hated the process, but the rest of me actually wishes that everyone I know had a registry so that I would always be able to buy them the perfect gift. As I recently mentioned, Peter and I registered not long ago. One of the fabulous yet horrible parts of a mordern day registry is that after you leave the store you can make changes whenever you want. Because of this, we put off several main items that we were interested in (like the drill I really want), thinking that we could always add them after we had done more research. The bad part about this is that there is so much to look at. I price checked everything between all the places that we registered to make sure that our guests would be getting the best price and I have tried to find the products that I think will last us the longest. In my researching, I’ve been looking at what some of my friends are registering for. (I guess I’m just at that age when everyone I know is getting married.) Surprisingly, while many couples differ on their choice of brands for china and cookware, every single person I checked in on registered for a Dyson vacuum.
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Keep in mind these people are just my friends and family, so it might not be the most accurate search. It is interesting to me that this vacuum comes so highly regarded. I have never wanted to spend $500 on a vacuum, but with its sleek design and potential ability to tame the giant mounds of fluff that fall out of our dogs, the vacuum has made it on to our registry. (Who knows if anyone will feel compelled to buy it for us.) I’d like to take a moment to step outside my little circle and ask you, is it worth it? Or is there a different vacuum that’s a much better deal for the price? I’d love to hear what you have to say.
I don’t know about you guys but we have some pretty busy weekend plans. First, at some point during the weekend we will be attending the Round Top Antique Fair. Keep your fingers crossed that we will find some cool things!
The other super exciting thing planned for this weekend is the tasting for our wedding!! I’m sure we’ll eat tons of great food and go into a food comma. We’re pretty excited.
What fun things do you have planned for Easter weekend?
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I LOVE dance classes. It’s sometimes difficult to motivate myself to go but once I’m there I always have a wonderful time. Peter and I are taking a couple of classes through Uptown Dance. If you’re a student in Austin and looking for a fabulous deal (what student isn’t looking for a fabulous deal?) then check out Uptown Dance’s unlimited student package. For only $50 a month you can take as many dance classes as you want! No catch. All of Ellen’s classes are particularly great! Check it out.
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