Aguacate!

Aguacate!

April 19th, 2010 @ 10:57 am by Mrs. Taco
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Like proper California people, we love the mighty avocado. It’s delicious, nutritious, it peps up a salad or sandwich in no time, and, oh GUACAMOLE. There’s that. We even have a large, Styrofoam avocado (from the free pile at work) living in our kitchen. The long-range plan is to fill it with guacamole for parties galore, but it’s now just an oddity above our cabinets. Or art. Yeah, let’s call it art.

Once the wedding-planning train left the station, we thought it would be fun to pay homage to the avocado. So, at our first meeting with the caterer, we pitched the idea of an avocado-based, cocktail-hour appetizer. It didn’t work out for some reason; either the caterer didn’t have one already, we didn’t like the ones they had, and/or we didn’t care enough to have them make a special one for us.

It would have been fun, though:

We’re getting married in a green room (called, appropriately, the Green Room), and sage green is one of our colors. And let’s not forget the Tacos’ appropriate and unbridled love for Mexican food and their taco-heavy ‘hood.

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What were your ideas that ended up on the cutting-room floor? I’m talking about serious ideas, not those random ones that got rejected immediately.

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24 Responses to “Aguacate!”

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gcwest (message) 599 posts, Busy bee

Aw, I’m sad avocado cocktail hour didn’t work out! I would love to be a guest at that!

4/19/10 @ 11:00 am (reply)

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Miss Hamster (message) 4,046 posts, Honey bee

Aw man - that’s too bad! I looooove a good avocado.

4/19/10 @ 11:05 am (reply)

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Miss Lace (message) 702 posts, Busy bee

Ooh I would’ve eaten that all up! So far, nothing major has been scratched, but time is running out so we’ll see!

4/19/10 @ 11:07 am (reply)

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Mrs. Pug (message) 3,753 posts, Honey bee

oh avocados. so creamily delicious. one of my self-rejected ideas that i worked kind of hard on was a fauxtobooth. oh well!

4/19/10 @ 11:11 am (reply)

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Miss Octopus (message) 1,446 posts, Bumble bee

Oh man, I LOVE avocados. I could make an entire meal just out of chips and guac. Anyway, I had big plans about how I was going to make these cool, unique, quirky table centerpieces myself, and then when a florist offered to do something simple for $20/table, I dropped my DIY centerpieces like they were on fire.

4/19/10 @ 11:19 am (reply)

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amariem25 (message) 3,733 posts, Sugar bee

We wanted to have guitar hero at the reception. We would have had a song where all the bridal party members played. But it just didn’t work out. Would have been too difficult to set-up.

4/19/10 @ 11:22 am (reply)

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Miss Sewing (message) 2,701 posts, Sugar bee

mmm. avocadooo~

i might have to drop my reception video idea, which makes me sad, but I don’t think it’s going to work out at this rate..

4/19/10 @ 11:28 am (reply)

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Mrs. Bear Cub (message) 1,566 posts, Bumble bee

mmmmm! I love me some avo.
In Chile, they don’t call it aguacate - they call it PALTA. I like Palta

What’s your favorite “palta” dish?
Mr. BC & I had a stellar chilled avo soup when we were in Mexico recently.

4/19/10 @ 11:30 am (reply)

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Miss French Fries (message) 2,218 posts, Buzzing bee

We were going to do ice cream cake/sundaes at the reception at one point, but sadly the logistics weren’t working in our favor.

4/19/10 @ 11:31 am (reply)

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UCLAMeghan (message) 118 posts, Blushing bee

You should get one of these: http://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/regProduct.asp?order_num=-1&WRN=-1086048786&sku=14748440

4/19/10 @ 11:50 am (reply)

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Mrs. Espresso (message) 1,310 posts, Bumble bee

oooh me and the Mr. love our avos. Is there any way you can work it into the rehearsal dinner?

4/19/10 @ 12:07 pm (reply)

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alohababy28 (message) 466 posts, Helper bee

We had two recently. One was going to be a card box made of papier mache books (they sell them at most craft stores; they are hollow inside) that we were going to paint, make up cute titles for, then stack up, and glue together to form one big hollow pile of books that people could drop cards into. That got scrapped b/c my aunt gifted us a 2nd hand card box that for some reason she was going to be offended by our not using. So now we’re trying to cover that in fabric b/c it’s otherwise ghastly (and fairly beaten up). The second was going to be handmade, lilac colored and scented soap wrapped in patterned paper that matched our invitations, with ribbon and lace wraps. This idea was scrapped due to time, and because we found lilac colored Peeps for 37 cents a box (equaling 5 cents per favor), and you can’t beat that with a stick. Our favors now cost us $7 instead of the $40+ the soap would have cost! I’m sure there were many more ideas we had to scrap, but these are freshest in my mind.

4/19/10 @ 12:25 pm (reply)

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alohababy28 (message) 466 posts, Helper bee

Miss Octopus reminded me, we were going to make our own bouquets, but when we got a puppy who destroys EVERYTHING in sight, we thought better of it and hired someone. SOOO glad we did!

4/19/10 @ 12:27 pm (reply)

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bohemianbailie (message) 980 posts, Busy bee

In last months Food Network magazine they had a recipe for avocado pie, it is supposed to be like key lime pie! I have not had the guts to try it but now I must have some guac for lunch!

4/19/10 @ 1:16 pm (reply)

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