Less than 30 days to go!  Today we visited St. Charles and took a sneak peak at someone else’s wedding setup. Our caterer Berwick (who’s the BEST), let us in early to check it out. It was good to see and have a real image in my head of what it looks like for a wedding reception. Up until now it just looked like a really big room with incredibly high ceilings. Of course in viewing someone else’s wedding I immediately saw about 10 things I hadn’t even considered yet. Mints for the bar? Framed photos of parents and grandparent’s weddings? Sparkly table cloths to add color to the white ones? Pretty decorations to wrap around the banisters down the stairs? A list of drinks for the bar? I already nixed the cocktain napkins – phew.

I also noticed the gold chairs they have at St. Charles. They stood out a ton. They aren’t necessarily ugly, they just don’t quite go with the color scheme (today’s wedding was white and light blue). The caterer quoted $3.75 / chair to cover them from a woman he knows, but my mom is going to search for cheaper, because $1125 to cover them up is ridiculous, insane and illogical. (Now ask me later if covering them up is worth $600? $300?).

Last night, we stayed in Dayton with Nick’s parents and his mom and I did a trip to Joanne’s and Michael’s looking for wedding favor bags. I’m stocking up on Swiss chocolate on my trips (I go to Switzerland again in a week), and we found some 3×4 Navy blue organza favor bags that I think will work great.

At Michael’s the bags were $3.99 for 12 (or $0.33 / bag). After a quick search of the internet, Idea Ribbon is having a sale and if I buy 300 I can get them for $0.08 / bag. Luckily, I need 300!

Speaking of numbers… the RSVP deadline was Wednesday the 1st. As of right now we have 226 yes’s, very few no’s and we are waiting on responses from 70 people. It looks like we will surpass my 250 people estimate!!

Happy 4th of July!!

Mary