Went to a wedding last PM, held in a very historic building. Way too few
seats for the assembled (never attended SRO nuptials before! LOL) but
the atmosphere and the sheer gorgeousness of the space helped soften
that blow. Luckily we had seats, although not the best. The groom is a
sweet man, a friend of my son's who recently returned from a year in the
desert.

Friends of the young couple did the food. Pretty simple, low cost stuff.
Veggie platters, cheeses, meat trays, mini rolls to make sandwiches,
meatballs (Nancy Young-grape jelly and chili sauce! I asked!! They were
actually pretty good. The only warm item on the table), and of course a
gorgeous bridal cake on one one side of the room, and the typical UGA
symbol grooms cake on a buffet on the other side of the room. Bakeries
around here must do at least 2 of those a week, LOL. The tables were
ornamented with floating candles, flowers and netting which looked nice
at night.

I so wanted to "fix" the buffet table for those folks. The large oval,
antique table was set with some items on both sides starting with the
plates (inplying two identical sides so folks could move down on either
side and not miss anything, but then they had the napkins only on one
side, and both platters of the meatballs on only one side. So people
were weaving in and out, and then having to go around the other side for
the meatballs.Someone just didn't think that one out. They used clear
plastic plates and utensils yet I have to say they were much nicer than
ones I've usually seen for sale in the store? I'm always torn about all
that trash in the landfills versus renting (with washing/transport)
which entails different energy use.

I gagged a bit when one woman came out to refill the large bread "cubes"
on the platter that held spinach dip held inside a gutted large round
loaf of pumpernickel bread and bread cubes around it. With her bare
hands she grabbed huge handfuls of the bread cubes from the replacement
platter and squeezed them into place on the serving platter, smashing as
needed to get them to mound and stay in place. In some cases ignorance
is bliss and even if she had to use her bare hands to maul the large
cubes, I would have preferred it to be out of my sight. Perhaps taken
back into the kitchen or rotating two platters on the serving table so
she could replenish out of view yet not leave the table without one
while the other was in the kitchen.

The open bar was in another room. The bar tender (owner of a liquor
store that does this service for hire) had a HUGE tip bowl out.
Terribly out of place, and if I were the parents of the bride I would
have been very embarrassed and upset by this tacky bit of extortion.
Good wines (I enjoyed a lovely Spatlasse from Germany) but for the mixed
drinks it was all bottom shelf liquor which might matter to some? I
didn't try the punch in the fountain but it looked to be a citrus punch.
The bridal party seemed to favor bottled beer, LOL.

All in all though, it was still a lovely wedding.