The piles. And this isn’t even that bad. I spent a good half day organizing and compiling all this fun into the neat, compact piles pictured here. Initially, it was a truck bed full and mid-size sedan’s worth of haulage that we painfully unloaded the next morning.
Everything is boxed or bagged up neatly and ready to return/donate/sell. Whee! Now to document and post it all…
[Do not fear, beer connoisseurs! There is Newcastle and Sam Adams in that Pacifico box.]
Dear Bartender [singing: I'm with the baaaaar-tender...],
Thanks to you not following your boss’, my coordinator’s, and my directions NOT to put all the white wine on ice, we now have cases of white wine (the husband prefers red) as shown above (and then some, not all of it fit in the picture) due to our liquor supplier not being able to take back bottles with water-damaged labels. We also have multiple bottles of mixing liquors we will never use (TWO bottles of triple sec with barely more than a few shots poured from each?), as we’re more of a carbonated liquid + liquor type mixed drinkers, unless we throw the type of party at our place we are wont not to do (the wedding was an exception, and we didn’t have to clean up afterwards). Ah well, we have a fully stocked bar at home now, so thank you anyway. You also were quite friendly, kept the drinks flowing and our guests happy, and your boss/our caterer did an overall awesome job, going over and beyond in many areas. Cheers to you!
Cheers [again],
potato + bear
[The ghetto fabulous cups are another story for another day. Photo copyright M. Norwood Photography.]
Dear Guests,
Thank you for your generosity in contributing to this pile. This pile only represents maybe 1/3 of the boxes we received. In fact, we need to make yet another trip to the ILs’ soon to pick up the remaining boxes. We will try to get on those thank you notes in order to express our gratitude to you individually as soon as they’re all unwrapped. While we appreciate your generosity in the pictured regard, we need to thank you even more for witnessing our vows, celebrating with us, making the party fun and lively, and making sure that other pile a few photos above wasn’t quite as large. We honestly had the time of our lives, and our day wouldn’t have been as beautiful without each and every one of you there. Thank you for your love and support throughout the years as well.
Warmest regards,
potato + bear
In the end, all the DIY and semi-BYO was worth it. We got lots of comments from our guests on how they noticed and loved how the personalized touches brought everything together, and we did save quite a bit of green. Some guests thought I had even baked the cookie favors from scratch. Nope, sorry, Diddy Riese did, but you can assume what you want! Also, I did have help from the bear and other friends on a lot of the DIY projects, so all that time spent doubled as some good bonding time. yAy for happy endings!
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