Vacation begins?

[littlelotte]

Yesterday was (supposed to be) my first day of vacation. Due to family issues, our FOH manager couldn't do the Taste of the Chamber event for the Chamber of Commerce with Nick. I got a frantic phone call from Nick about this at about 1:30 while downtown at breakfast with Dan, Erin, and John (Erin is one of Dan's very close friends/co-worker/boss, and John is another of their group). I did the "I really do care about my job" thing and forfeited my first day of vacation to work the event with Nick. We took some of our spinach and crab dip and some of our spicy queso dip, dressed all nice and played friendly with the Chamber of Commerce people. Have I ever mentioned how much I hate social events like this? I'm aware they are necessary, but that doesn't make it any less painful.

Anyway, the event this year was at the Kalamazoo Country Club. The room it was in was gorgeous!













It was fun, and a good experience (just like the Girl Scout dessert competition event last year), but I still hate social events like this. I did enjoy decorating the table, though :-D

<Nick laughing as I sprinkle sunglasses over the table>
Me: They're like confetti!
Nick: They are like confetti.

Oh! Also, Black Swan had a table there, and they had poached pears stuffed with marscapone and covered in a marsala glaze. Oh. My. God. They were amazing. Amazing to the point that you quite literally say things like "Oh my god" when you take the first bite. We still hadn't gotten around to trying Black Swan, but it's suddenly become a priority ;-)

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[leandra-nyx.livejournal.com]

Corey and I had Black Swan cater our wedding -- it was delicious!

[littlelotte.livejournal.com]

Speaking of which...you had it at Stewart Ave Inn, right? How much was it to rent for the ceremony? Dan mentioned it as a possibility the other night. We'll probably be making appointments within the next two weeks to look at places, but I thought it couldn't hurt to ask. Also, how many guests did you have?

I really really really want an indoor ceremony, though *sighs* Why do we have to have so much immediate family that it's so damn difficult to find?!?!?

</whine>

[leandra-nyx.livejournal.com]

I believe it was $1500 to rent the Inn for the ceremony and reception -- and I think it would've been about half that for only the ceremony (if I recall correctly). It was such a beautiful place to get married, though we had a very small, intimate wedding of only around 35 guests. Both Corey and I are shy so we wanted to keep it was small as possible. A lot of our immediate family got left out, and I think some were offended. Ah, well -- it seems so much of the wedding planning was about compromise.

Because of the small number we were able to get married beneath the weeping birch and still arrange the chairs so everyone could see. More and we would've had to put a tent out on the garden lawn.