Wedding Blog

Right now, Mr. Snow and I are in a bit of wedding limbo. We’re too far out to be ultra stressed about our DIY projects (or at least we think we are!), and we’ve already booked all the major vendors. I’m sure the pace of things will increase rapidly after Christmas/New Year's, during which time we’ll finally meet our aforementioned vendors and shoot engagement photos, in addition to seeing family and enjoying the whole Christmas thing.

One last stop before the wedding day! I thought this would be a good time to show you all the "papery" details from our wedding. I say it in quotations because we didn’t get many real life photos of our menu, ceremony card, etc., so I have a few screen captures from Illustrator instead.

I left you last, hanging in suspense, dying to hear what I ended up with for a catering service (right?). :) Before I continue with the story, I wanted to talk a little bit about my expectations for the food. I already mentioned our bare-bones menu ideas in my last post. Here is what I did not want, under any circumstances:

This past week, I had the opportunity to attend two shows. The Chocolate Show was an exhibition of all things chocolate - cooking demonstrations, book signings, chocolate fashion, and TONS of samples. The Wedding Salon was an exhibition of all things wedding - makeup demonstrations, pamphlet giveaways, wedding fashion and… SOME samples. So how did the two compare?

1. Price
The Chocolate Show was $35, and…

When it comes to food, I know what I like. I am one of those people who LOVES food. I definitely live to eat.

Anyways, when it came time to talk about the menu, Mr Trail Mix and I had a pretty clear idea of what we wanted. Since all the food will have to be cooked without access to a kitchen (our venue is essentially a field), we wanted to keep it simple and easy but tasty.

*This recipe actually belongs to Bridesmaid Georgia’s mom and was only featured in The Cowboy Boots’ out-of-town bags. Luckily, The Georgias were generous enough to share it with us! Believe me, this is good, people! There were trades going on like taffy for more granola, because people loved it so much.

As we’re in the midst of picking a caterer and all the madness that comes along with designing a menu within our budget, I wanted to share my idea for dessert. Mr Trail Mix and I decided almost immediately that a big, fancy wedding cake was just not in the cards for us. I love wedding cakes; many of them could be pieces of art,…

Potato Head & I have a thing with pizza. We could eat it for breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, and brunch. Especially brunch. One of our first wedding brainstorms was to figure out a way to serve up some ‘za at the wedding, like this gorgeous couple:

Mr. GT thinks I’m planning an excessive amount of food for MOH-Ho’s shower, and dared me to do a post asking your opinion. I ain’t scurred! While I’m at it, I’m gonna show you the setup of it all, too.

Here is the main buffet table that will feature 10 desserts:

It’s hot as Hades here in SoCal, so I thought I’d whip up some gazpacho for dinner. I didn’t want to leave the apartment to get ingredients, so let’s just call it a chilled Mediterranean soup. It’s probably not a real gazpacho, but at least I had all this in my fridge.

Chilled Mediterranean Soup

• 2 large tomatoes
• 1 cucumber (peeled and seeded)
• 1 red, yellow or orange bell…

I promised recipes for the citrus shower going on this weekend, but the truth is that there aren’t many to report. My co-host is from out of town, and we’ll only have a few hours in the morning to really put everything together. So, rather than stress over cooking, I’m trying to do as much ahead of time, use frozen foods, and set aside tomorrow…

I love food. I even told Mr. Ramen that the perfect proposal would be for him to take me to Napa to eat at French Laundry, and then for him to just hand me a ring. Ha ha. His proposal was much better than that, but only by a little bit... quite obviously, food means a lot to me, and to Mr. Ramen as well (I’ve converted him into a food snob, mwahaha!). The food is what Mr. Ramen and I usually remember most when we go to weddings.

Now that you have seen the bags we are using for our treat/candy bar, I wanted to share with you the things we have decided to include. As I mentioned in my bag blog, one of my bridesmaids’ moms has offered to spend the day baking with me a few days before the wedding to help create the candy/treat bar. I am so thrilled that…

We’ve been married for almost a year and a half. In that time, we’ve found a lot of uses for some of the items for which we registered. The plates, glasses, cups, flatware - we use them every day. The pots and pans, most days in a week. The mixer, about once a week.

But none of those things really changed our lives. We did just…

Mr. DD’s favorite food is cheese, and mine is ice cream.

Yes, we’re very pro-dairy around the Dew Drop household.

Clearly we needed to incorporate our love of dairy products into our wedding. But how? We briefly considered just tying a cow outside the venue door, but, of course, I was concerned about the cow clashing with our theme and colors. It’s wrong to paint a cow turquoise and gold, right?