Wedding Blog

Where will we put the bocce court?

Before Mr. Grasshopper and I got engaged we talked about how awesome it would be to somehow incorporate bocce into our future wedding. You see, we love bocce. We play on weekends in the park, we play at the beach when we travel and we play in a league in Brooklyn at a bar called Floyd, so naturally having a place to play bocce during our wedding reception made sense to us.

After we made the decision to have our wedding at the Foundry, a renovated steel foundry placed in Long Island City, instead of the Wainright House, where one can find a rolling lawn perfect for outdoor bocce, we realized we lost our chance of working bocce into the wedding. However, if there is one thing I am not ready to give up on, it’s this. I will let go of the dream of the string quartet, the art deco brown china plates, and the giant tree and luminaire centerpieces, but you cannot have my bocce court. Yet.

I have been researching the idea of bring in sod and laying it down in the all stone courtyard at the Foundry and adding a portable court. Or really getting serious about this and asking my Dad to build us a real court, but something portable that we can take in and walk out with post wedding. The question is, what to do about the four tons of sand we would have to bring in at 2 p.m. the day of the wedding, and clean up by 2 a.m.?