A Matter of Taste

Last night, my parents, Jack and I went to the Rosewood for our tasting.  All I can say is YUM!  Well actually, that isn't all I can say. ;)  If anyone goes home hungry after our wedding, I have to believe it will be through no fault of ours.  They had told us ahead of time to allocate three hours for this, but we ended up being there for longer.  We were served a glass of both of their house wines, 4 salads, 2 options for a course after the salad, three different entrees, 4 potatoes, 3 veggies and 4 "upgrade" desserts.  Needless to say, we did not go home hungry.  And although I had had a lunch or two there due to my job, I had never had a full dinner.  But once we started to tell people where I reception was going to be, we received numerous comments from friends that have said the food there is excellent and, now having tasted it, we could not agree more.

Lucky for us, we all generally agreed on our preferences and were able to come to decisions on our menu pretty easily.  I am not going to tell you what it is though because for the elements that I can keep to a surprise, I plan to so that the majority of our guests enjoy it the night of the wedding.  I'll say again though, it was delicious!  One of the nice things about their service also is that they are very understanding of dietary restrictions or anyone who requires a vegetarian meal.

After the actual tasting (and our host packaging an extra dessert for us to go), we sat with one of the event managers who explained all of our food options throughout the meal and he rattled off what seemed like 30+ questions on things we had not even thought about or discussed, but that he wanted to try to nail down that night.  For example, we had to pick what kind of cake, what kind of cake filling, are we having chair covers, how we want the head table set up, do we want monkeys as entertainment, etc (He didn't ask us about monkeys - I am just trying to see if you are paying attention) and for the most part with brief discussion, we were able to answer most of what he wanted.  And throughout these questions he asked if we had different vendors already booked, which quite often was answered with a "no", so at the end of the night, he gave us a list of places that he has worked with and would recommend so that will definitely be helpful.  He asked if I had a cake in mind (as far as the decoration goes) and I hadn't spent a ton of time on that yet.  I wish I had known what he was going to ask or at least had a list of questions from them so that I knew what to expect and could have thought about things for a while.  I have a tough time making very quick decisions.  But we managed and I am very happy with everything.  By the time we left, we were full and I felt like we were truly able to accomplish a lot in one night.

I am finally feeling like this is fun and like we are really getting married. :) HOORAY!