Weddingbee Blog

A few weeks ago we finished up the last of our wedding festivities with our home reception at Vines. We had such a great time partying it up with about 80 people who came out to celebrate. The food was a hit, although I literally got 2 toasted ravioli, 1 coconut shrimp, and zero cake. Everyone else got cake though. Lucky duckies.

It’s OK though, I found out that it’s hard to balance hunger with a dress you can’t breathe in and trying to have a decent conversation with that many people in 3 hours! We started out the evening hanging with Amy and her awesome cake creation…

The centerpieces were set up and although Vines’ presentation was a little lackluster, the centerpieces did the job and that’s all that mattered in the end. Insert silent grrr here.

My creation/Their, um, creation

Ah well, what can you do if you can’t do it yourself and make it perfecto? At least they made some of them look nice…

And 30 minutes into the party I realized they forgot to add the floating candles. Not a big deal in the long run, but I paid $40 for those babies, damn it, and they were going to be used!

OK, enough of my centerpiece rant, back to happy thoughts. The most important thing is that we had a fantastic time with everyone. It was kind of surreal having everyone from all the different facets of our lives in one room…

(that’s Mrs. Deviled Egg’s clutch I’m holding)

(and Mrs. Tiramisu’s bracelet made another appearance—I was decked out in Bee goodness!)

And when it was getting close to 11PM, our event coordinator approached me and let me know that we were under the minimum $5,000 we would be paying no matter what. And the difference equaled a whopping 56 shots! I told her to bring them on out, we were paying for them anyway!

Cheers! Uh, that’s my boss below on the left, hehe – I love a good blackmail photo. I smell a day off coming soon…

11PM rolled around quickly and we were presented with the bill…

…and I almost had a heart attack - it was about $1,500 more than we were told it would be! I was ready to hurt someone until the coordinator came over and realized the bill was wrong. She gave us the correct check and we happily signed. The evening ended with a smile, and we headed back to our place with a few friends for some 4AM beer pong – the perfect end to the perfect party.