The piles. And this isn’t even that bad. I spent a good half day organizing and compiling all this fun into the neat, compact piles pictured here. Initially, it was a truck bed full and mid-size sedan’s worth of haulage that we painfully unloaded the next morning.
Everything is boxed or bagged up neatly and ready to return/donate/sell. Whee! Now to document and post it all…
[Do not fear, beer connoisseurs! There is Newcastle and Sam Adams in that Pacifico box.]
Dear Bartender [singing: I’m with the baaaaar-tender...],
Thanks to you not following your boss’, my coordinator’s, and my directions NOT to put all the white wine on ice, we now have cases of white wine (the husband prefers red) as shown above (and then some, not all of it fit in the picture) due to our liquor supplier not being able to take back bottles with water-damaged labels. We also have multiple bottles of mixing liquors we will never use (TWO bottles of triple sec with barely more than a few shots poured from each?), as we’re more of a carbonated liquid + liquor type mixed drinkers, unless we throw the type of party at our place we are wont not to do (the wedding was an exception, and we didn’t have to clean up afterwards). Ah well, we have a fully stocked bar at home now, so thank you anyway. You also were quite friendly, kept the drinks flowing and our guests happy, and your boss/our caterer did an overall awesome job, going over and beyond in many areas. Cheers to you!
Cheers [again],
Mr. + Mrs. Lime
[The ghetto fabulous cups are another story for another day. Photo copyright M. Norwood Photography.]
Dear Guests,
Thank you for your generosity in contributing to this pile. This pile only represents maybe 1/3 of the boxes we received. In fact, we need to make yet another trip to the ILs’ soon to pick up the remaining boxes. We will try to get on those thank you notes in order to express our gratitude to you individually as soon as they’re all unwrapped. While we appreciate your generosity in the pictured regard, we need to thank you even more for witnessing our vows, celebrating with us, making the party fun and lively, and making sure that other pile a few photos above wasn’t quite as large. We honestly had the time of our lives, and our day wouldn’t have been as beautiful without each and every one of you there. Thank you for your love and support throughout the years as well.
Warmest regards,
Mr. + Mrs. Lime
In the end, all the DIY and semi-BYO was worth it. We got lots of comments from our guests on how they noticed and loved how the personalized touches brought everything together, and we did save quite a bit of green. Some guests thought I had even baked the cookie favors from scratch. Nope, sorry, Diddy Riese did, but you can assume what you want! Also, I did have help from Mr. Lime and other friends on a lot of the DIY projects, so all that time spent doubled as some good bonding time. yAy for happy endings!
Are you selling any leftover supplies online? What do you have?
Mrs. Lime,
I’m a DIY’er myself, but I’m just in the beginning stages, will you post a list of items you are willing to part with?
Wow, I bet you will believed when you have that cleared out of your home.
Someone from the local knot board hooked me up with some of her leftover supplies and in lieu of payment I made a donation to an animal organization she is involved with. I thought it was an amazing deal and creative way to exchange leftover supplies and do a little good.
It looks like your house is now the place to be 
My reception hall is also BYO. Would you mind sharing how much alcohol you brought? And the number of guests? I totally don’t believe what my caterer is suggesting (2 bottles of white, 2 bottles of red, and a full liquor bottle…per person!) Taxi anyone???
Looks like everyone is getting Wedding pix and white wine for Christmas now! HA!
Are you going to post on here for items that you have left over to sell? Since you have the sample colors as me I wanted to see if I can use anything!
I hope I didn’t miss a 2nd post of more pix from the wedding. I saw the first one! I wanted to see more detials!
Good to hear about DIY being worth it! Definitely a moral booster!
Noticed that you are in the LA area. If you are looking to get rid of your opened bottles of alcohol maybe I can help since we are bringing in our own alcohol at our venue. E-mail me at audreyon@yahoo.com.
Melissa, Alicia, and Audrey, I will post it here once I get it all photographed and uploaded. I was afraid I wouldn’t be able to sell stuff due to my less-popular color combo, so I’m really glad to know there’s interest.
bunnybride, that’s an awesome idea. I’ll have to consider that.
AOEBUckeye, I have the final invoice of all that my guests (quite a few of whom are quite the lushes) drank at home, so I’ll try to post it at some point. What your caterer is suggesting seems a bit much. I had my liquor supplier (hence the “semi-BYO”) calculate it all for me as they do these types of party orders pretty often. They’re a higher end wine shop & liquor store who provided all the mixers, soda, juice, ice, napkins, garnishes, and delivery so that I could not deal with the hardest part of BYO.
karebearlbc, they’ll be up soon! Yes, cheap, bulk white wine Christmas presents for all, it is! I keed. ;). You didn’t miss anything. I need to start posting pro pics.
Mrs. Lime, Los Angeles
Age and Occupation in 06: 25, Design
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 25, IT
Engagement Date: July 7, 2006
Wedding Date: August 5, 2007
Venue: An historic estate
About Me: Between work and wedding planning, I try to squeeze in napping, drawing, random spurts of craftiness, tennis, and eating lots of Sprinkles cupcakes, dark chocolate, and noodles of all kinds. Mr. Lime and I have spent our adult lives growing up together, and we're very excited to finally be getting married!
I am working on a post about all my boxes and the wedding aftermath as well! There are boxes of stuff everywhere! I consolidated all the piles into one giant pile in my office last night. I don’t know what I am going to do with all of it. Like Mrs. Bellpepper I might do a shadow box and throw out the rest.