Dining and Dancing
And now for the two most important features of the wedding (other than the whole getting hitched part)...the food and the music.
Whorederbs
I love hors d'oeuvres. If I could just eat finger food and nothing else forever I would be happy. We get to design our own menu but at this point we are using their suggestions as a starting point. So far the only custom thing we have come up with are crabcake sliders (yumm). Here are our other tentative selections for cocktail hour passed howeveryouspellit:
Sea scallop wrapped in pancetta
Oriental vegetable summer roll
Satay of chicken with sticky plum sauce and spicy thai peanut sauce
Spinach feta phyllo turnover
Brie and lobster stuffed crimini mushrooms
Stationary Displays
We get to pick 5 stationary displays for cocktail hour but I'm not to jazzed about any of their selections so I added shrimp cocktail (my family loves) and a pasta bar (I love). Here are our other tentative selections:
Dolmas
Sushi
Domestic and imported cheeses, artisan breads and crisps.
Here's a pic of the champagne toast on the patio. It's set up for a fall wedding so just don't mind the leaves.
Appetizers
I'm not sure how many of these guests will get to choose from but here are the two appetizer choices I like (even though I don't know half of these words):
Artichoke and eggplant ravioli with grilled asparagus and tomato tart tatin
Heirloom tomato, avacado and jumbo lumb crap martini's with cilantro lime vinaigrette, tortilla chip confetti
First course
I don't know why the "first course" would come after the appetizers but it looks like it does. I'm going to keep this simple with just a soup or salad but here are the fancy names:
Velvety lobster bisque, apple, leek and pernod essence, peppered puff pastry crouton
Organic greens, crumbled gorgonzola, grilled asparagus, tomato confit, minus 8 vinaigrette
Entrees
Yes if there's any room in our guests bellies' after all that food there will also be the entrees:
Filet mignon with stilton butter, sauteed exotic mushrooms
Pan seared filet of salmon, provencal, tomato, caper and olives
Sesame seed encrusted tuna, ginger white soy glaze, wasabi aioli
Dessert
Hmmm cake. Plus some fancy cookies and a "signature confection" whatever that is. And cordials, coffee and tea. I'm getting hungry just writing this. I like this pic of a birch bark cake but we're just going to get whatever cake doesn't cost extra.
Music
After much research we booked an excellent six piece jazz band. UpstateNY knotties feel free to page me with band questions as I have learned a lot. Here's a pic of the dancefloor where hopefully everyone will get up and boogie.
