I have to mention this place, just because they have the best patio in town and they serve the best pizza, too. The plain cheese pizza is my favorite, though that night people were getting whatever they wanted. I would say that the best thing is that pizza is still the cheapest option for a rehearsal dinner, so I didn’t feel bad when my future brother-in-law offered to pay for everyone. The one draw back is that it does get busy and you need to make reservations. We had reservations for almost two months.

We were able to find this place online that makes custom made golf balls and tees. It was a bit more pricey than what we wanted to pay for these things, but most of our family members golf and they appreciate tokens and souvenirs like this. I actually couldn’t think of anything better. The company we ordered from was good, no problems with ordering or delivery.

We hired the same DJ that did my husband’s parent’s 35th wedding anniversary. DJ Wes was great. We put him in contact with the hotel that we were having the reception at, and then our wedding planner was more or less in charge from there. My husband and I had a list of songs that we wanted to listen to, and it was good music all night.

My husband and I went to three lessons, an hour each, in the hopes of learning the tango. The lesson’s were at the instructor’s house. This was a pre-wedding present from my sister-in-law. I think it was a good present, and I think if we had more lessons we could have gotten really good. I think Mariallan was great and an amazing instructor, but we were too shy to have our tango as our first dance at the wedding. We needed more than three lessons. My husband and I both felt that after three lessons we still weren’t good enough. Since then we have gone to two more lessons and we’re better.

We chose the clubhouse at Overton Park because it is an old Golf Clubhouse, I think it is the oldest in the city, and it is beautiful. We could have had the whole reception here, too, but we would have had too many restrictions. There was already enough work with rental teams and florists to get this place looking how we wanted it to for our ceremony. It is also not an easy place to book since it is cheap and high in demand.

We decided to have some appetizers for the ceremony, since there would be a few hours between the ceremony and the reception. We decided this about two months before the wedding date, but luckily this place was able to make some great appetizers for us. We were expecting less than 120 guests, and they made some good suggestions on what would be easy to transport, keep well, and easy to eat. I really appreciated their help and insight, and they did a great job on making all the trays look great.

It was my mother that suggested cupcakes instead of an actual cake, because she said it was easier for people to serve themselves. I liked the idea, and the cupcakes they made were beautiful. I can’t get over how beautiful the cupcake table was. They did a great job of making each cupcake perfect, and the set-up was better than anything I could have imagined.

The whole wedding day was suppose to be fun, so I wanted fun bridesmaids dresses. I also didn’t want my bridesmaids spending more than $100 on the dress since they would still need to get shoes and purses and jewelry. My mom hated this, but we bought really beautiful silk dresses from the Gap. The dresses were exactly what I wanted, really modern looking and beautiful prints and they fit the girls well. The dresses cost more than $100, they were $129 only because I didn’t want to wait for them to go on sale.

I was really shocked by how much was going on and how crazy other brides could be. I would go again just to watch the other brides freak out, and then the vendors who would be really pushy. I think there are lots of normal people here, but the whole day was a sensory overload. The good thing was that I met the person who would be my wedding planner, and the florist I would end up using.

I had my mother’s wedding dress and I wanted to wear it, but my mother’s dress was a size 12 and I am a size 6, and there was also some big alterations I wanted done, like taking off the sleeves and such. She did a great job. She had made my sister’s prom dress, so we knew she was good, and she did an amazing job of retailoring my mother’s old wedding dress for me.