Things are moving along well in terms of the wedding planning. Are you totally sick of hearing about it yet?!? I hope not because that wouldn’t stop me anyways ;)
Things we are currently working on:
1. Trying to finalize the music for the reception. We have our first dance song picked out (When I see you smile by Bad English), and we think we have the mother/son and father/daughter dance picked out (Thank you for loving me by Bon Jovi). We decided to combine the mother/son and father/daughter dance into one. Now we just have to find a song for the wedding party dance. We’re thinking the wedding party would dance with their respective dates instead of the traditional way of doing it (best man with maid of honour, etc). What do you girls think about that? Any suggestions for a song?
2. We need to meet with the ceremony musician. I haven’t worried about this too much yet since she is a family friend. But, I do think it’s time we discuss the ceremony music.
3. Need to book a place for the rehearsal dinner. CT’s mom asked me to look after booking it since she’s out of town and doesn’t really know about booking a place. CT’s parents will pay for it, but she wants me to find a place. I’m thinking the back room at Kelsey’s would be nice. They have a separate room that we could have. And since the wedding meal is going to be formal, I thought the reception dinner could be more casual. I’ll have to look into booking that room.
4. Need to make reception cards to enclose with the invitations.
5. Need to book flights for honeymoon. I just checked today and they dropped in price, so I’m thinking we should jump on them now!
6. We need to meet with the officiant for our second appointment (of three). I’m going to try to set that up for sometime in the next 2 weeks.
7. Going to bottle the white wine for the wedding on Saturday. And we need to make labels for the wine. Turns out we are going to have LOTS of wine at the wedding. CT’s dad is making 3 cases of red! I think we’ll only use 2 for the wedding though. 2 cases of red and 1 of white will be plenty of wine. That’s like 80 bottles of wine for 100 people! And some people don’t drink, so it’s pretty much 1 bottle per person. It’s gonna be a good night ;) Of course, we don’t HAVE to use all the wine, anything we don’t use, we can take home. I would just hate to run out. There is a bar there too if people don’t drink wine.
Okay, here’s a question. I know it’s “bad etiquette” to make people pay for drinks at a wedding, but if we have that much wine available for free, plus non-alcoholic beverages for free, do you think it’s acceptable to make people pay for other alcoholic beverages they may want? My mom is really scared to have an “open bar”, she thinks we’ll be left with thousands of dollars to pay in a bar tab. That’s why I thought if we have all that wine available, if people really need a different type of beverage, they would need to pay for that. That way we won’t be surprised with a crazy bar tab.
If we could get that all done in May, I would be one happy camper! Things are coming along well.
7 comments:
Nah, lots of weddings have cash bars. I don't think it's tacky, especially if you have free wine and non-alcoholic drinks. :)
As for the wedding party dance... well, I'll probably be coming alone so I don't know what to suggest. Maybe if you play the song "dancing with myself" by Billy Idol... hahaha I'm just joking. I guess it doesn't matter. Whatever you decide. :)
No worries nej, if you are coming to the wedding sans date, there will be lots of men to dance with. You can have your pick ;)
My family friend Mike would be a good suggestion since he's in the wedding too (he'll be doing some readings), he won't have a date either, and he's a really good dancer.
We could go the traditional route too and just have the 6 of us (wedding party) dance. No worries, we'll figure it all out :)
Cash bars are not bad etiquite in my mind - especially in today's day and age. Weddings tend to be bigger which potentially equals huge tabs for those picking it up.
My parents didn't want an open bar (another downside is your party insurace goes up if it's an open bar) but didn't want guests to pay full price either. So, we did a "Toonie Bar" - the guests paid $2.00 for alcoholic drinks/parents paid $2.25/drink; non-alcoholic drinks were free for guests. The other option we were given, but didn't make use of, was buying a bunch of tickets to give out to guests we wanted to have free drinks.
Ya, unfortunately, our reception venue doesn't have those options. It's either open car or cash bar. That's why I thought we'd go with cash bar, but then bring in lots of wine, which would be free to guests. And I want to have non-alcoholic drinks free as well, because I think that's important for people who don't drink.
I think the guests understand that you and carlos are paying for the wedding and won't be too upset if it isn't an open bar.
As for the first song. No clue. No help for you. But if you played something cheesy, Jen and I can dance together while arash takes advantage of the free wine ;)
You sound super organized for your wedding. I can't think of any songs right now but I will be sure to let you know if I have any good ideas.
Re: open bar. I'm personally just be happy with free wine :)
Oh... by the way... I'm not sick of hearing about your wedding planning! :D Keep the posts coming.
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