Weddingbee Blog

Immediately after our ceremony, we took the trip up two flights of stairs at Ladder 15 where servers swooped down with tasty tidbits! Unfortunately, one thing I never asked my photographer for were pictures of the food and wine, so I don’t have any!! I’m bummed about it because one of the most important parts of our wedding was to find kick ass food and drinks and I don’t have photographic evidence of it. So if it’s something you want, be sure you ask!

Mr. Socks and I used the cocktail hour as our opportunity to make the rounds to all of our guests instead of dinner. This allowed us to get the formalities out of the way early in the evening so we could have had the rest of the evening to have fun. I definitely recommend this if you attend your cocktail hour. No, I didn’t get hardly a bite of the food at cocktail hour, but I DID get to munch on everything at dinner!

I love the photos from our cocktail hour showing everyone having fun together!

Seriously, I’ll talk about this later, but I LOVED OUR VENUE. OMG. LOVE. Ladder 15 did everything right. Everything. I highly, highly recommend them if you’re looking for somewhere in Philly that’s slightly offbeat, where you can customize everything, and if you want good food, drinks and service. If I could redo my wedding, I’d choose Ladder 15 a million times over again.

Dad Socks was a serious social butterfly throughout the wedding. He made a point of going up to meet everyone and thanked them for coming. Momma Socks also did a great job of meeting everyone!

That glass of champagne didn’t leave my hand the entire cocktail hour. I didn’t even ask for champagne for our wedding, but I ended up being SO glad that we had it!

At cocktail hour, everyone picked up their escort cards, which had all of the fabric flowers pinned to them that Mr. Socks and I slaved over making:

A wonderful amount of people wore our little pins, too! They made me ridiculously happy and proud as I looked over the crowd and saw how many people put them on!

Before cocktail hour was over, Georgi took some photos of Ladder 15 after it was changed from our ceremony area to our dining room!

The tables looked perfect. I was a little concerned about the narrow space with the differently shaped tables, but really, it just didn’t matter. I thought it looked cool this way and wouldn’t have it any other way!

All Photos by Georgi Anastasov

Our DIY centerpieces were great, too––low maintenance, easy to set up, and produced wonderful leftovers! I’ve kept ALL of the craspedia flowers from our wedding night, and they’re all around our house in those vases! They’re perfect dried flowers, and they still make me cheery. And I have about a bajillion votives left over too. They’ll come in handy someday, right?

Mrs. Socks’ thought for the day: Attend your cocktail hour if possible and make your guest rounds during it. People want to see you, especially if you don’t do a receiving line (we didn’t). Plus, the sooner you do it, the more food you can eat at dinner and the more dancing you can do afterward! Which, for me…was the whole point of getting married.

J/K Mr. Socks, you’re pretty awesome too.