Weddingbee Blog

In addition to the beer and other spirits that we will be serving at our wedding, we are going to personally select wines for our guests to enjoy at our reception. Our plan is to select several varieties of wine that have meaning to us both separately and as a couple.

For instance, we visited Maryhill Winery on a whim while traipsing through Washington with Mr. Pony’s brother a couple years back. It was my first time visiting a winery and I loved it! Had we not had to fly back to Illinois the next day, you bet your ass we would have brought several bottles back with us to enjoy.

We are also planning to serve wine from the winery we are getting married at; a winery we visited in Bloomington, Indiana with friends; one from Oregon close to where FMIL Pony grew up; one from the Umbria region of Italy where Mr. Pony’s brother lived and they visited a few years ago; and one from West Tennessee where Mr. Pony grew up.

I realized as I typed this that most of these wines represent Mr. Pony and his family, but lest you think I will not be represented in our wine selections, we are going to class it up at our reception with my newest favorite wine cooler, some Peach Sparkletini:

Image Credit: Wineoland (Cheap, tasty, and classy. Love it.)

Thus far, we plan to have about nine different wines, including four reds and at least five whites. To explain our choices to our guests, we will make cute little signs to explain the background of our seemingly random choices, much like this adorable sign from Mrs. Peep Toe:

Image via Mrs. Peep Toe

We are very excited about this “project,” mostly because it includes tasting a lot of different wines to find the perfect selections for our wedding. Yay, drinking lots of wine!

Mr. Pony is pretty much a wine snob, whereas I adhere to the Michael Scott school of fine food and drink, only differentiating between reds, whites, and Boonesfarm, so this might be an interesting project to complete. Somehow we will power through. Somehow.

Our first tasting selection was this weekend, as we were tasting two different pinot noirs from the Willamette Valley region of Oregon where FMIL Pony grew up.

Personal photo

Do you have wines special to you and your SO? Does anyone else drink Peach Sparkletini and LOVE it?