The room was set and decorated for 200 people (which nearly all tables were filled). We were greeted with a string duo playing some beautiful clasical music. Teddy and I were pleasently surprised that they were from the same company that we had hired to do the music for our ceremony, Affinity Music. So, we got a live preview of what it would sound like. Then they had a DJ playing music during the dinner portion.
The room had a full buffet of cold hors d'oeuvres when we arrived, so we were able to see a sample of what the cheese and veggie table would look like and sample some of these cold hors d'oeuvres. Then they had waitresses passing champagne and a full open bar.
Soon after sitting, they opened a full buffet of all but 1 of the selections of hot hors d'oevres to try. We of course tried them all!
On this plate starting at the top left is Chicken Coconut with some sort of sweet sauce, a Cheddar Cheese Puff, Black Bean & Cheese Empanada, Artichoke Beignet, Chicken Sate, Sausage Stuffed Mushroom Cap, BBQ Meatball, Beef Sate, and a BBQ Pork Spring Roll.
Wow, that was a lot of food, and remember this is after a plate full of cheese, veggies, cold shrimp crostinis, and bruschetta from the cold table. I was already full, but it was great to be able to taste pretty much every option of the hors d'oeuvres to make our choices for our cocktail hour. We decided on keeping the cheese & veggie table and then we'll have passed app's of shrimp crostinis, sausage stuffed mushroom caps, chicken sate, and artichoke beignets. Yum!!
Then after the appitizer trial, they served us all soup. Every other person got a cup of either chicken wild rice or garlic sun dried tomato. Both were delicious, but we decided to go with the chicken wild rice. Although there was some heavy debate about the other soup options that they didn't have available for the tasting.
Next came the salad. It was similar to the soup trial, and every other person got a caprice salad or house salad. The caprice salad was romaine lettuce with mozzarella cheese, red onion, black olives and tomatos. The house salad was spring greens with dried cranberry, crumbled bleu cheese and pecans. Here's a picture of the house salad.
It's a little fuzzy (poor photography) but the house salad was yummy. We also could choose from a plain garden salad or a caesar, but all 4 of us thought the house tasted great.
While they were serving up the soup and salad they were getting the hot buffet turned over for us to try a whole bunch of starch and main course options. They had the following items available for tasting:
- Veggie mix (zucchini, yellow squash, carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, etc)
- Vesuvio Potatoes
- Garlic Red Skin Mashed Potatoes
- Red Roasted Herb Potatoes
- Wild Rice
- Angel Hair Pasta
- Cowboy Mashed Potatoes (these were weird - mashed with corn and carrots mixed in - not the most appitizing sight...)
- Champagne Chicken
- Chicken Vesuvio
- Chicken Dijon
- Almond Crusted Chicken with Rasberry Sauce
- Salmon w/ Ginger Teriyaki Glaze
- Beef Filet
- Pork w/ Mango BBQ Sauce
Ok, so, you can probably tell from that list that the plates got a little full in trying to taste all the potential items we might decide to serve. Here's an example of mine
Yes, it's a little ridiculous. Pretty much everything tasted great. The big winner for our dinner will be a duo of beef filet and champagne chicken with garlic red skin mashed potatoes and the veggie mix. YUM!!!
Now at this point we needed wheelbarrows to roll us out the door because we were SO FULL, but they decided to bring out samples of wedding cake. Oh boy. One of the selections was exactly what we chose for part of our cake, devils food chocolate with chocolate mousse filling and buttercream icing. EXTRA YUM. Both our moms were excited to taste part of what we had chosen for the cake.
As we were straining to get up and head out, we noticed they had filled a full sweets table so we could see what it would look like on the big day. We couldn't possibly stomach any more food, so Teddy just took a picture of it.
There are two chocolate fountains, one white chocolate and one dark chocolate. The table is filled with things to dip in the chocolate: rice krispie treats, pound cake, marshmallows, pretzels, fruit, etc) and there are trays with all sorts of pastries: (lemon tarts, cannoli's, carrot cake, mini cheese cakes, eclaires, cream puffs, and on, and on and on). I must say I was anti chocolate fountain, much to Teddy's dismay. But after seeing it all put together, it really is quite nice, so we're going to chocolate fountain it up.
One thing is for sure, our guests are going to be well fed! I was so impressed that Ruffled Feathers basically put together a mock wedding for all of us to see what the day will look and feel like in the room we're getting married in. We got to try every course, taste the wine selections, taste the champagne selections, even see live all the options for bow tying for our chair covers.
These are just 2 of the 10 options available. We're getting even more excited about the big day especially now that we feel like we did a run through at the location. Only 4 1/2 months away! We can't wait. :)
It looks and sounds delicious! Can't wait!
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