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flowers and food
The flowers were the last thing I did on Friday night. They're, you know, ok.
My prayer book bouquet. I forgot to buy ribbon for holding the flowers on the book, which was just stupid. I had to use something which wasn't quite the right color, from the room decorations. Ah well. The sreamers are silk satin 1/8" ribbon, with knots and green glass beads scattered randomly along them.
Ryan's flowers turned out pretty well, I thought. Handtied bouquet, roses, stock, alstromeria, and daisies:
The corsages I made were just scary and the less said about them, the better. It was like prom night in Hell. Everyone who got stuck with one was a good sport about it, though. Here is my mom having a good time, even though her corsage is about to try to choke her and steal her drink:
My friend Peggy, who is the chef at St. Ned's, made tapas and sangria and it was amazing. Carnitas on a tortilla chip! Salmon rolls! Little bites of chicken, cheese, and horseradish...it was all delicious. I know this because I stopped back in the kitchen at one point and she gave me food; otherwise, I probably wouldn't have eaten.
The sangria was yummy, too. It was served out of a big glass jar, which wasn't actually labeled as sangria, so I know of at least one kid who tried the punch. There were plastic cocktail monkeys all over the beverage table, so most people had at least one monkey on their drink.
The monkeys came in red, yellow, green, and blue, but I didn't think the blue ones went with the color scheme so I took them out, which was sort of weird and obsessive. Eventually, the kids got ahold of the monkeys and figured out a way to make monkey chains, which they hung outside in the courtyard. Oh, and there's no special reason for all these monkeys (the stamps on the invitations were the Year of the Monkey ones, also) - we just think monkeys are funny.
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