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Mrs. Mary Jane, Grand Forks, ND Age and Occupation: 26, Instructional Designer Fiance's Age and Occupation: 26, Lead Programmer Engagement Date: February 28, 2009 Wedding Date: September 2009 Venue: City Hall About Me: I'm a career woman on the surface and a homemaker at heart. I love fast cars and high heels, and my favorite food is cake. Mr. Mary Jane and I are both full-time employees and students, and we just bought our first house. We love to curl up on the couch with buttery popcorn, Sour Patch Kids, and the latest Netflix arrival -- whenever we can get a break from everyday life.
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Well folks, that was it for my pro photos (aside from the family-shots, but did you really want to see those? Yeah, didn’t think so. You don’t know those people anyway). Shawna and Kory did an excellent job capturing our wedding, and Mr. Mary Jane and I were so glad to have them there. They took basically the entire afternoon out of their day to record ours for us, and then provided us with a ton of photos: 3 times more than I was expecting. Kudos to them.

But don’t worry! This isn’t quite the end of the recap train. I’ve still got a little more to share.

After we finished snapping pictures in Hillsboro, we parted ways with our photographers and headed back up to Grand Forks to meet our parents, siblings and friend at L’Bistro.

L’Bistro is a restaurant attached to the CanadInn hotel in Grand Forks. Attached-to-a-hotel makes it really beam with ambiance doesn’t it? It’s actually a really quiet, adult atmosphere with jazz playing softly in the background. It’s one of the few places in town where we figured we

  1. Wouldn’t encounter a bunch of screaming kids
  2. Could still dine at with Mr. MJ’s youngest brother (other choices were 21-and-over-only).

Well, it turns out we were right on only one of those points.

Mr. Mary Jane and I have been to L’Bistro on multiple occasions and have never been less than impressed. Good food, fast-enough service, very quiet/private. So imagine our surprise when the wait staff set up our wedding dinner tables directly next to a family of 10 (including 2 babies and other young children of various ages). Apparently, this was the only part of the restaurant that could accommodate our party of nine.

We got to spend the first half of our dinner hour (actually, dinner lasted 2+ hours, but I’ll get to that in a moment) listening to babies scream, little kids complain about their meals, and a couple of women hushedly discussing how odd it was that someone would get married on a Wednesday (umm, I’m sitting 3 feet from you. I can hear you.).

To make it more interesting, our waitress was training a new waiter. Great, 2 wait staff to help us! Except, we think that each of them assumed the other was taking care of our table. Most of the night, the pair were nowhere to be found. Our food took over an hour to arrive after ordering, and if we wanted anything (like a drink refill), we had to locate and grab one of them to ask for it. Not impressive. At least the food was good. I had the Baked Seafood Penne. My husband (!) had the Classic Italian (a hot sandwich).

Then, it was back to our house for… cake! Delicious cake.

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And did I mention: Wine? We had not planned on doing any toasts, and I didn’t buy flutes. But Mr. Mary Jane’s grandma gifted us these ’Precious Moments’ flutes at the bridal shower, so we definitely wanted to use them.

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One day when we were visiting our jeweler, they were setting up for a downtown ’art and wine walk’. I made some kind of crack about the dozens of bottles of wine they had, and they surprised us by giving us a bottle of Moscato d’Asti! That’s the bottle we opened on our wedding day.

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Speaking of things we had not planned for: cake-cutting. Obviously we planned to eat the cake. But cut it? Naw. Never even thought about that.

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We did manage to find something suitable to use (a steak knife, I think) and commenced slicing.

Mr. Mary Jane fed me some cake…

… and then I fed myself some. Because I like cake.

No one took any photos of me feeding him. It’s quite possible that didn’t: I was probably too busy taking advantage of having his extra hand to help me shovel more cake in to my own mouth faster! Like I said: I like cake.

After cake, the nine of us hung around in the living room, chatting, laughing, and complaining about how full we were. At around 10 o’clock, everyone filtered out. Mr. Mary Jane and I cleaned up the dishes, put the leftover cake in some airtight containers, and headed off to bed, exhausted. We were married.

Looking back, doing the cake-cutting and ending the evening at our home was one of my favorite parts of our wedding day. Hanging out with the family, eating off of our own dishes, feeling right at home (because we were!). It was a really special experience that I’m frequently reminded of when I step in to our dining room.

The wedding day is done, but don’t fret: I’ve got one more recap! Up next… the picnic.

Previously…
1. Leading up to the Big Day
2. Cake, and DIYing the Bouquet
3. Getting Bridal
4. A Surprise for the Bride
5. Portraiture
6. Marriage Time!
7. Portraiture, Revisited

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26 Responses to “Country Courthouse Coupling: Did Someone Say “Cake”?”

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Miss French Fries (message)  732 posts, Busy bee

I like cake, too. A lot. :) Sorry that you had a less-than-stellar wedding dinner situation, but it sounds like the cake cutting more than made up for it! (Also the part where you talked about the women discussing your Wednesday wedding…”I can hear you.” — That made me laugh.)

 
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Gilneas
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Gilneas (message)  1,029 posts, Bumble bee

Aww, your cake is beautiful! I love the photo with the cleaver! Totally my favorite.

How rude of the family next to you to judge your wedding. That sucks!

 
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Mrs. Mouse (message)  3,301 posts, Sugar bee

Your cake is so adorable! I loved your recaps–they were totally a reflection of the two of you as a couple. I can’t wait for the picnic!

 
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Miss Frozen Yogurt (message)  865 posts, Busy bee

That cake looks delicious! I would take advantage of the extra hands too. :) I’m sorry about the dinner, but at least the food was yummy!

 
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IA_Snowflake
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IA_Snowflake (message)  1,608 posts, Bumble bee

That sucks about your dinner, but at least you got to wind the night down at your home and it sounds like fun.

 
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Miss Snow (message)  159 posts, Blushing bee

I love the meat cleaver/ pizza cutter picture. Your facial expression is priceless.

When I worked in restaurants, we always rolled out the red carpet for wedding parties, so I’m pretty shocked at the service you received.

Great recap.

 
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Mrs. Taffy (message)  2,598 posts, Sugar bee

I love your cake!!!! The picture with the pizza slicer is hilarious. :)

 
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tea
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tea (message)  2,616 posts, Sugar bee

i didn’t realize there was only one day that was socially acceptable to get married! the things you learn. haha

i love your wedding. what a wonderful day you had!

 
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CHK (message)  398 posts, Helper bee

Um, the wedding stuff is great, but DUDE, your windows in your dining room!!! I’m in LOVE. So cool!

 
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Miss Moonbeam (message)  1,328 posts, Bumble bee

Sorry about the dinner situation, you’d think they’d try a little harder for a wedding party. But at least you had the lovely cake at your house to end the evening.

 
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lallison

i love that you got married on 09/09/09! it’s a really fun date, plus it was my 25th birthday, so i’m probably biased. ;) also, i’ve been in love with your dress and all of it’s tiered loveliness since first sight! and moscato d’asti is amaaaazingly good.

 
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LatteLove (message)  4,094 posts, Honey bee

oh, sorry your post-wedding dinner wasn’t as calm or quiet as you imagined…but I’m craving seafood penne right now! Too cute about the cake!

 
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pmerr
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pmerr (message)  1,184 posts, Bumble bee

Your cake is pretty! Great pics of the dinner! I love the pizza cutter one!! :)

 
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Mrs. Swan (message)  386 posts, Helper bee

I love the meat cleaver! If we had gone our other route, we would have done a restaurant reception. I would have given those ladies the evil eye for ya. I love the at home dessert idea. Everything sounds so much fun and intimate.

 
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RecessionistaBride
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RecessionistaBride (message)  3,342 posts, Sugar bee

You’re hilarious! Um… women are so catty! I can’t believe they’d talk about your wedding when you’re seated at the next table!

They might not understand it, but then again, I’ve never understood why women bring their screaming babies out to a nice restaurant either. I guess I’m just as ignorant as they were.

 
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periwinkle

You look so perfect in that dress, and I love your cake & topper! The pizza cutter/cleaver picture is priceless.

 
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Soon2BeeMrsLewis
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Soon2BeeMrsLewis (message)  507 posts, Busy bee

Moscato d’Asti is our fave!! It’s part of the BevMo 5c sale right now so we’ve stocked up on a few bottles :)

You cake turned out so cute!

 
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jmc
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jmc (message)  469 posts, Helper bee

I think your cake is my favorite wedding cake ever!

 
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fiftyfootbride
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fiftyfootbride (message)  3,683 posts, Sugar bee

Such a pretty cake!

Also, I think you should have gone with the pizza cutter. :p

 
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KMSull
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KMSull (message)  2,670 posts, Sugar bee

Aw how sweet is your cake topper?!?!?! I am so in love with it! Pizza cutter would have rocked.

 
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jtg

Your cake was adorable!

 
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mrspaetz
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mrspaetz (message)  1,707 posts, Bumble bee

Such a pretty cake!

Bummer about the restaurant, but I’m glad the evening still rounded up so nicely. i like how these pleasant memories remain in your very own home!

 
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Miss Parfait (message)  588 posts, Busy bee

Mmmm, cake~~ The Precious Moments flutes are too cute!

 
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alishaneva
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alishaneva (message)  1,524 posts, Bumble bee

It sounds like you guys really enjoyed yourself despite the silly restaurant blunder! And the cake is awesome - it looks so great even with the slice cut into it!

 
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Miss Poodle
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Miss Poodle (message)  3,020 posts, Sugar bee

the pictures of you with the pizza cutter is way funny, the cake looks great!!

 
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Heather @ Sweetart

The cake and both of you are fabulous, love the little cake top models, so cute!

 


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