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Post by justbecause on Jun 4, 2018 9:27:40 GMT -6
That mom has four kids in her care. The preschool teacher is always explaining this stuff to her.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2018 9:28:02 GMT -6
I have weekend hangover of the best variety. I seriously had one of the best weekends in a very, very long time. Back to the grind of work and it’s going to be a tough week. But at least I have my happy weekend thoughts to carry me through.
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Post by shadows on Jun 4, 2018 9:29:54 GMT -6
It's here. Come take it please. It's too hot with the sun out. It rained here for 2 weeks and cleared up over the weekend. Now, it's 90s and 1000% humidity. I was dripping sweat unloading the kids this morning. Yay, summer...
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Post by Cher on Jun 4, 2018 9:30:38 GMT -6
It's called cocktail HOUR for a reason. 90 minute cocktail time just doesn't have the same charm. Also hard pass on 90 minutes of standing around waiting for dinner. It’s 2 hours. And there’s a shit ton of food at the cocktail hour. Truthfully, it should be my dream, I just always forget and don’t plan appropriately. This is like jabbers groomsmen story. It’s probably more a problem with my limits than the venue’s fault.
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Post by tipsyturvy on Jun 4, 2018 9:31:25 GMT -6
A 90min cocktail hour was our solution for dealing with a Catholic gap.
But we had heavy apps and a fully stocked open bar.
What is a Catholic gap? Sometimes the church will restrict on time of the ceremony, so you might have to have a 2 pm wedding mass, then an evening ceremony. Back in the day, my sister's wedding in 1960 something, my family hosted an open house after the ceremony and serve punch, cookies, and guests can look at the displayed wedding gifts.
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Post by frantastic on Jun 4, 2018 9:31:30 GMT -6
A 90min cocktail hour was our solution for dealing with a Catholic gap.
But we had heavy apps and a fully stocked open bar.
What is a Catholic gap? Catholic churches will often only allow weddings at a certain time on Saturdays because they have Saturday services later in the day. We had to start our ceremony no earlier than 2, no later than 3. Sometimes it results in a gap of time between the ceremony and the dinner/reception, if the dinner is scheduled for a normal dinner time.
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Post by Bubblegum on Jun 4, 2018 9:33:35 GMT -6
Oooohhhh right. I know the break happens but I didn’t know the terminology. I once went to a wedding that had the church ceremony at 12 and then the reception was in another city 5 hours later.
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Post by cribs on Jun 4, 2018 9:33:49 GMT -6
Catholic churches will often only allow weddings at a certain time on Saturdays because they have Saturday services later in the day. We had to start our ceremony no earlier than 2, no later than 3. Sometimes it results in a gap of time between the ceremony and the dinner/reception, if the dinner is scheduled for a normal dinner time. unless your wedding starts at 3 and goes to 9 with six hours of open bar. All we wanted was booze and food
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Post by cribs on Jun 4, 2018 9:34:21 GMT -6
We also had after booze
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Post by bunnyfungo on Jun 4, 2018 9:35:54 GMT -6
The last wedding I went to was a cash bar. I didn’t have any cash because it just didn’t even occur to me. We also had to wait like 3 hours for the wedding party to get to the reception because they did their pictures afterwards. And of course I had all of my kids there. Everyone was hangry and sober. It was not great.
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Post by pobre on Jun 4, 2018 9:36:02 GMT -6
I have weekend hangover of the best variety. I seriously had one of the best weekends in a very, very long time. Back to the grind of work and it’s going to be a tough week. But at least I have my happy weekend thoughts to carry me through. Same!
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Post by jaidit on Jun 4, 2018 9:38:54 GMT -6
We had technically 2 cocktail hours, one was after the ceremony at a cider house on the beach, followed by another at the reception. People didn’t have to go to either but most did, and yes everyone was super drunk by the end of the night 🤷♀️
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Post by adelbert on Jun 4, 2018 9:45:14 GMT -6
I took the boys to camp this morning, grocery shopped ALONE, and now I’m sitting is silence until I have to pick them up. Bliss. Sounds amazing!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2018 9:46:34 GMT -6
One of my biggest wedding regrets is that we took posed family pictures during our cocktail hour and basically missed the whole thing. A couple of the pictures are great, but many of them are just a complete waste. Like they look dated now (14 years later) and have my BIL’s ex girlfriend in them.
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Post by Cher on Jun 4, 2018 9:50:09 GMT -6
We had an hour gap due to a Catholic ceremony. So everyone went to the Palm for drinks since it was in the hotel I had my reception at. I get to cocktail hour and everyone is like, “Cher! The NY Giants were drinking at the Palm. Look! We have pics of us with Victor Cruz!” And I was just, “should we leave the reception and go back to the Palm?” Which everyone told me I could not do but yes, I wanted to leave my own reception for a minute. It ended up being a lot of fun. I’m glad I stayed.
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Post by Bubblegum on Jun 4, 2018 9:50:18 GMT -6
You guys want to hear about Polish weddings? They're big and loud and last all weekend. It starts with a traditional Catholic ceremony, there's a civil ceremony the day or week before. The groom will drive to the brides house and pick her up. There's usually some games involved here and they drive to the church. The bride and groom walk into the church together and there's no bridal party - just 2 witnesses. Everyone attends the church ceremony. Guests bring bouquets of flowers and you give it to bride after church. I don't know what they do with all the flowers after. You go home to change out of your church clothes into your party clothes. Then there's the reception, usually at a banquet hall. No seating assignments, you sit wherever. There's always a Polka band. Typically there's no bar, you just have bottles of alcohol on your table and its self serve. Most people just do shots all night. The bottles are replenished throughout the evening. The food is insane and never ends. There's always a soup course, salad course, the main entree is served family style and always includes chicken, pork, beef, fish, potatoes, and other sides. Then there's dessert course. Dinner is followed by dancing and they usually play games, dirty games like pass a banana down a line of people using your thighs. No speeches, maybe a few shout outs and thank you for coming. Then more food such a cabbage rolls or pierogi. Then a deli buffet with assorted kiebasa, cheese, pickles, and bread. Then wedding cake which is usually served by the bride and groom. Then there's always a whole roast pig that is presented around midnight. The party usually ends around sunrise. You begin the whole thing again on Sunday and this is called "poprawiny" which translates to "do-over" You get another party to fix whatever didn't go as planned the night before. Again there's a band, more food, more drinking and more dancing. You get take out containers for all the food and guests help themselves. You also go home with a bottle of vodka. There's no registry, everyone just brings envelopes of cash.
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Post by shadows on Jun 4, 2018 9:51:06 GMT -6
Pretty much everyone here only does beer and wine. I think I've only been to a couple of weddings here that served liquor. Our wedding caterer wouldn't serve alcohol, so we were able to buy everything ourselves and hire a bartender to serve, so we were able to save $$$ that way. Also, every wedding I've ever been to here has a buffet with carving stations, etc. I actually prefer it to the sit-down dinner weddings I've attended.
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Post by frantastic on Jun 4, 2018 9:51:50 GMT -6
Catholic churches will often only allow weddings at a certain time on Saturdays because they have Saturday services later in the day. We had to start our ceremony no earlier than 2, no later than 3. Sometimes it results in a gap of time between the ceremony and the dinner/reception, if the dinner is scheduled for a normal dinner time. unless your wedding starts at 3 and goes to 9 with six hours of open bar. All we wanted was booze and food There are Catholic weddings that open the bar at the beginning of the ceremony?! Huh. TIL.
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Post by angelashly on Jun 4, 2018 9:52:58 GMT -6
At the end of the day, I will still come to your wedding, dirty dance and get blackout at a cash bar. I would just really prefer not to. And if you’re going to, give a heads up. Yes. At the end of the day if I am invited to your wedding I am coming and will celebrate you. I would like to know a head of time if I have to have cash or a bottle in my purse
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Post by tipsyturvy on Jun 4, 2018 9:53:10 GMT -6
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Post by Bubblegum on Jun 4, 2018 9:54:28 GMT -6
Polish people also don't do thank you cards.
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Post by jaidit on Jun 4, 2018 9:55:00 GMT -6
I went to a Greek Orthodox wedding a few summers ago, in which we had to stand in Greek summer heat for 2 hours in the Church. We got outside and saw these shots all lined up on a table, thank god.
Nope, just overly sweet almond water. We did not get food or drinks for an hour after. It was too much.
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Post by angelashly on Jun 4, 2018 9:55:56 GMT -6
The closest I came to a cash bar was a wedding in the south of France. Which, I know. L-O-L. I forget all the details because #drunk so jaidit can probably tell me what I’m mis-telling. But the weddings there go all night. So around 3am, they said they ran out of wine. At which point, my family and friends were basically throwing Euros at them. Then, surprise! More wine was produced. I’m pretty sure from that point until the morning, we bought bottles of wine. The French people at the wedding said that was pretty standard. So, just like a Midwest wedding, right? See, this is why FIL was team all the wine at our wedding. At SIL’s wedding, the red wine ran out before the cheese course. His family still talks about, and shakes their head each time. It was 8 years ago 😂 We over purchased, but had drinks flowing until 6 am. Plus, we didn’t have to buy wine for 6 months after the wedding. So, win win. This was my sister too. They bought the wrong size bottles of liquor so when they bought their house later that year we had lots of parties with all the extra booze
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Post by jaidit on Jun 4, 2018 9:57:05 GMT -6
This was the same Greek wedding that played traditional music for the first 6 hours of the reception, it was insane. Like, the same 3 Greek songs.
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Post by badwolf on Jun 4, 2018 9:57:53 GMT -6
Y’all would’ve hated our wedding. It was dry. H wasn’t 21 yet so I would’ve had to “give him permission” to have a drink and I would’ve had to give it to him. We also would’ve had to hire a police officer for our venue. We decided to pay for other things. Pretty sure my uncle was serving drinks out of the back of his truck in the parking lot lol.
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Post by brux on Jun 4, 2018 10:01:54 GMT -6
That sounds so fun Bubblegum! My sister and her H were invited to a Polish wedding in Poland by an acquaintance. They certainly weren't close enough friends to justify actually attending, but then they heard how ridiculous the wedding could be, so they decided to go and they had the best time.
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Post by skategirl128 on Jun 4, 2018 10:02:36 GMT -6
It’s our first full week of summer break. DS is at camp this week so it’s my niece and I are hanging out doing some girly things. On tap today is an at home mani, muffin baking and some water color painting. She’s having a blast and is excited for DS to be home later.
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Post by shadows on Jun 4, 2018 10:03:51 GMT -6
The baby started daycare today. She was asleep when I dropped her off, so I'm sure she was upset when she woke up in a strange place with strange people. But I know she'll be okay. Dropping off 3 kids is an event - I'm going to have to start getting up earlier.
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Post by adelbert on Jun 4, 2018 10:22:59 GMT -6
adelbert that’s so exciting. Is it beach weather in Jan? That’s another place I plan imaginary trips to but I always question if it’s warm enough in the winter. I would love to hear all your plans so I can get in MH’s ear about it. Our anniversary is the 15th of December and we have ski holidays in March so our goal is to go between Jan and March. From what I've read there is no "bad" time. They don't have any tropical storms or anything like that but they do have more rain in December/Jan so we'll probably do Feb. The weather is pretty much always 75-85 degrees and the water is also warm. Reliable weather is one of the reasons we're considering it. I won't need a tour operator for this trip but I've been drooling over all the family trips I want to take from the Scottdunn website all day. Just need the youngest to be 1 year older so that flying isn't such a hassle.
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Post by emma on Jun 4, 2018 10:26:04 GMT -6
I never understood having a giant full buffet cocktail hour followed directly by a 3 course meal. Like why the need for both?
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