matty and mel’s big day is saturday!
i cannot BELIEVE how excited i am getting. this is one of those HUGE life events, and i’m so pumped! i’m being so weird. i’m telling perfect strangers that MY SON IS GETTING MARRIED ON SATURDAY! god, what a dork.
my sisters and i are putting on the rehearsal dinner on friday night at the resort where the wedding is being held. bill and i have rented a 3-bedroom condo where we’ll host the dinner on friday evening, an after wedding party for our friends on saturday (the real reception ends by 6 p.m.), and have bagels, coffee, and orange juice on sunday morning after golf.
here’s our rehearsal dinner menu:
fried ravioli appetizers; polenta, chicken, or beef shishkabobs; italian potato salad; caramel corn on the cob; grilled pineapple with chocolate sauce; bill’s chocolate chip cookies; matty’s favorite chocolate cream pie; beer, pop, iced tea
we’re keeping it simple for saturday night: a big pot of jambalaya, chips and dips, whatever goodies we have left, beer, pop, iced tea. bocce and euchre planned.
here’s the schedule for this week for ME (and as the mother of the groom, my schedule is EASY!):
tonight: alternate shoe shopping, rehearsal dinner outfit shopping
tuesday night: lists, planning before rest of the week frenzy
wednesday night: grocery shopping for rehearsal dinner, make desserts for rehearsal dinner
thursday night: cook and prep like crazy, i should have lots of help (my sisters, bill, jax, maybe mark and kt, and some friends. i also have to get my nails done at 7:45! then we’ll have to package everything up and refrigerate it before packing up in coolers on --
friday: pack up, make the drive to hidden valley (about 3 hours), check in, unpack, dress, rehearsal, and then dinner, CRASH!
saturday – THE BIG DAY!: my guys are having a round of golf early that morning so they’ll have plenty of time to get ready for the 2:00 ceremony, reception immediately following, and then our after-wedding little party, CRASH!
sunday: matt and mel will leave for punta cana very early, bill’s golfing again with friends, our little breakfast, pack up, head back to cleveland, CRASH!
tmi, i know. sorry. i’m so excited it was either start calling friends to talk about this stuff or blog.
ENJOY!!!!
-d
You do have a frenetic week ahead but its a nice kind of frenzy knowing that at the end of it, something beautiful is going to happen. Please don't forget to take lots of photographs.
Erm, the reception isn't over until 9 (and dinner isn't over until 6:30 with cake after that, so you probably won't need to feed everyone a second time) and hidden valley is an hour past my parents house, so it's going to take a bit longer than 3 hours to get there. matt will call you today with details!
Posted by: melly mel at August 5, 2003 09:37 AMAlso, Matt was supposed to send you a copy of the schedule with the times and everything but apparently he didn't. I will have him get it to you today.
Posted by: melly mel at August 5, 2003 09:38 AMsheesh. matt! now!
Posted by: stacey at August 5, 2003 11:18 AM