Home from AliasPook's wedding!

Wow! What a great night! Laurie - thank you so MUCH for inviting Adam and I tonight - we had a lovely time. Now I'm not so clueless as to my own wedding's menu. Dawnie and Rebecca - Thank you for your help! It was awesome meeting you!

OK - Rebecca (Eroxgirl) is going to post pictures and a FULL review, but I promised I'd talk about the food.

It was FANTASTIC! I had a lovely evening. The only thing that I REALLY want to bring up is the fact that the waitstaff takes away the food before you've had a chance to enjoy it! This is a good thing though, because if you eat EVERYTHING they give you, then you'll have to be ROLLED out the door! The cocktail hour alone would've been sufficient.

Laurie had a cotton candy machine, and a popcorn machine rolled out at dessert time - that was VERY cool. My favorite part though was the chocolate cups with liqeur (I think that's how it's spelled). Take a shot, eat the cup. I am so excited by that thought, although some of my friends may need to be driven home either from love of alcohol or love of chocolate.

Laurie is a beautiful bride. She looked just beautiful in her dress, and I loved her hair and makeup. The bridesmaids were gorgeous as well - I LOVED their dresses! And for those who helped her design her centerpieces recently - they were amazingly elegant.

All in All, a wonderful evening. I hope all the weddings on this site go as smoothly.

So Laurie - did I give you a good enough review?

Yeah!! Glad she had a wonderful day!! From the picture, they both look so happy!!

That is wonderful, glad she had a great day

They both look very happy!!! She made a very beautiful bride!!!

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Posted by janwinterbridejoy

very pretty!!!! she looked great!! i heard that the waitstaff takes away food to quickly but that didnt happen on my wedding. maybe its something that happens on sundays? maybe its a different staff?

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I just posted about this - at a wedding I went to there two weeks ago - on a Sunday!!

Beautiful.. SO GLAD EVERYTHING WORKED OUT SO WELL.. CONGRATS LAURIE!!!!!!!!

Once I get the pics uploaded from my digital camera I'll post them!! All the good ones are on the 35 mm camera that we brought with us. My digital takes crappy pics...so many of them are dark so I'll post what I can.

The responsibility of the FULL review I'm passing along to Laurie or Dawnie - when I'm a guest, I try to look at everything with rose colored glasses so I don't know how objective I can be... I'll save the judgments for my own wedding review. But I agree about taking things away a little quickly...they took my only alcoholic beverage away before I finished it and since I'm limited to only 1 drink per evening out I was a little sad The food was good though. I'm not much of a food person, so it could have been terrible and I wouldn't really have cared.

Anyway, Laurie's wedding. I was honored to do a reading during the ceremony and I managed not to stutter so A+ for me. I was especially lucky to have nearly memorized it before hand, because it was the first reading of the ceremony, and I still had tears in my eyes because Laurie was so BEAUTIFUL, as you will all see for yourselves shortly, so I could barely see the reading . that and I was blinded by the bling from her jewelry! Brian bought her a gorgeous diamond necklace w/ matching earrings from Cartier as her wedding gift!

But it was her youngest ring bearer who really stole the show. He couldn't have been older than 2, but instead of being nervous or shy, as he walked down the aisle he made sure he waved at everyone in the church, on the left and the right of him!! It was the most ADORABLE thing to see!

Laurie's bo-k was all white calla lilies (my fav!) and her BMs carried burgundy callas with the MOH carrying white and burgundy callas. They were beautiful and stayed fresh througout the night. Since she didn't want floral CPs, she used silver candelabras and had votive candles and rose petals extending down the middle of the tables. Upon walking into the reception, seeing all the candles lit and the tables set gave the room a soft, romantic feel. It was beautiful and different.

As PrincessRose said, the cotton candy, the popcorn, the ice cream station and the liquers (sp?) were a hit!! It all came in just about the time where the guests usually think about going home. Instead, they all got a sugar rush and started dancing again! All in all, it was a beautiful wedding. I had a great time, I was so happy to be a part of Laurie's special day, and I got to meet another wonderful LIW bride!!

I guess that's all for the moment. When my pictures finish uploading I promise to post!!!

Thanks for posting!! She looks BEAUTIFUL!! They both look sooooo happy!! Thanks for posting on her behalf! Congrats Laurie!!

Wow, congrats to Laurie on her wedding day! She looked just gorgeous .. cannot wait to see more pics!!

CONGRATS!!!

She looks so beautiful! I'm glad it was such a wonderful day! Thanks for posting!

Wow, she looks amazing!!! I'm so glad she had a wonderful day