Barber Straws Are Here!

These puppies came ridiculously fast! I tore through the box and they were in pretty packaging...I would totally recommend ordering from Garnish!

They are perfect, and exactly what I have been dreaming about!

I only ordered 100, even though we are looking at a bigger guest list than that. My rationality is that, we are having 4 signature drinks. We can use these straws for which ever one is in a tall glass. That way, it will give it even more of a personality. 

I kind of want to use one now just for kicks!

Has anyone else wanted or ordered barber straws?

Barber Straws

Here is a prime example of little details that I go crazy over...barber straws.

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How cute are they!? When I first saw them I knew I had to have them, but anywhere I looked I found them for anywhere from 14 cents to 20+ cents......I am not paying that much for a straw!

I gave up the search after a while of coming to one dead end after another. With our colors being dark purple, lilac, and silver...I was thinking a grey straw would be perfect. But, low and behold, any place that I did find a decent price did not have my color. (insert sad face)

So like I said...I gave up. Then out of the blue, I came across Think Garnish. They are this great store that sells all sorts of packaging products and.....barber straws! That's right...in red, blue, and grey!

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And they were a steal at only 5 cents a straw! Since not everyone will use them I just ordered 100 of these beauts, at a whooping $5! It sucks that shipping was more than the straws but I will live. So now we are playing the waiting game for these puppies to come in and to make the verdict.

But I can just see them set up around the bar looking oh so cute.

Is there a little detail that you obsessed over?

Nom Noms Galore Part 2

I apologize....I tempted you with pictures of yummy, mouth watering food, and instead I talked about flowers and Michael Buble. I got side tracked! It will probably happen again, a lot!

Anyway, I promised pictures and here you go! We had around 12 passed hor devours that were all amazing. I wish I took a picture of our sheet with markings, it consisted of a number system of 1-5. On the really good ones Kevin decided to give them numbers like 6, 10, +5.....totally making a mockery of our established number system. It was food chaos!

Us excited to eat free food!

When it came to the entrees, we had a gajillion choices (yes that many), we split it up between our plates to do some serious work!

We marked our cards accordingly. Seriously, everything was amazing! I don't think there was anything we tried that we didn't like. Next up we got to try their sorbet that you can serve. We are not having it, but you can see how delicious it was....I had to turn it around, being a bad blogger I began devouring it and then remembered with 2 bites left.

And after was my FAVORITE part! Cake!!!!! Seriously, I love cake! Like LOVE! We got to try their black satin, with chocolate and raspberry filling, with white frosting, carrot cake, and traditional white cake with strawberry filling and white frosting.

So yummy! After 2+ hours of gorging ourselves, it was time for the parents to leave and for us to get down to business! Kathy came over to talk to us about table layout, linens, food/wine/beer choices, cake, chairs.....everything!

Why I love Classe Catering so much is because they will customize everything for you, and work with you. If you didn't want any of their food, but instead had a couple family recipes you wanted...they would do it. Dinner served Beauty and the Beast style....they will do it. Fire breather....they would do that too.

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We get three beer choices, they had a list but even if it was not on the list they would do it, no extra charge. Being a huge Saranac fan, we wanted to have some Saranac brew! Kathy informed us that since they make a ton of different brews that we could pick 2 or 3 and it would still count as 1 beer selection......what?!?! So you're telling me we would have 5 beers total for the price of 3? Kathy I love you! So our thinking is Adirondack Lager, Pomegranate Wheat (love), and Summer Brew (double love!)....if they can get it, because it is ridiculously hard to find in the summer!

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An awesome combination of beer and lemonade!
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She said they know the distributor and will try to make it happen! Double awesome! Same held true for our wine selection, whatever we want! 

As for the food we need to do our homework, they have a lot more choices than just what we tried at our tasting. So it comes down to, pick what we tasted and was good, or take a blind leap of faith on something we didn't....even though I'm sure it would be good also.

But we do know that we will be having a passed midnight snack! Maybe some mini sliders and milk shake shooters! Yumm!

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As for the cake we have to go through who they work with so we will leave that for another post. Although I will show you our inspiration pic!

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But what put my mind at ease the most, was our sparkler dilemma. In our contract with the casino we are not allowed sparklers....now obviously inside that is a no no, but outside in the park as well? What about the gigantic sparklers I bought in PA on my move back from OH to NY? They are collecting dust in our spare room! She told me it would not be a problem, they would keep them under their supervision so no children would take them.

You see a kid playing with a sparkler...I see her burning down our historic building!
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So now we can have pretty send off pictures like this!

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Did anyone else have a meeting where they just felt completely taken care of and all your worries went away?

Something Blue

Sorry this post isn't about one of the four somethings that I will need on my wedding day. No this is about another blue, a more fun blue! Just like the something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue I will need that day, the bar will also have the four somethings as well. That's right, four drinks that will be suggested to our guests. We already have a grasp on our old and borrowed. New will be our signature drink, still brainstorming on that one. But the something blue, we are totally at a loss for.

The caterer is supplying all of our liquor and beer, the problem is that there is no blue liquor in our package; no hpnotiq and no blue curacao, or any other blue liquor. No problem, thought optimistic me. We will just mix juice with clear liquor for a yummy concoction. Lets just say right away....FAIL. Every juice combination we could try....even straight up blueberry = fail. All of them had a red tinge to them.

We finally gave in and accepted that we would not be able to have a "something blue" drink, unless we upgraded to the more expensive liquor package, which for one drink would be ridonkulous. So we decided to name it a "something not so blue" instead.

While I was back in Ohio with my mom and aunt for the annual Country Living Fair, that's right, they have a fair! We stopped out for dinner. While I was pursuing the menu I came across the answers to our blue drink dilemma. A lemon twist martini! Now I know what you are thinking, Amanda you are crazy, a lemon twist martini is not blue?! I know it's not, but it is when you add blue cotton candy. Now I know you are all looking at me like I have three heads, but it is true.

I forget what chain it was but that is exactly how they serve it. You put a fluff of cotton candy in a martini glass and then add citrus vodka and lemon juice. The cotton candy acts as the added sugar and dissolves completely when the liquid is poured on top. Plus, how awesome would it look to see martini glasses lined up on the bar, with puffs of cotton candy in them!

The recipes range, you could even use lemon juice, rum and vermouth. really whatever the bartender suggests. Sorry that I don't have a picture of the after product, I guzzled it down. Warning though, this is a potent drink, since there are no mixers in it, it can put you on your ass pretty quickly. And that holds true for your guests as well. So tread lightly if choosing this drink.

But the possibilities are endless, even if you didn't want a blue drink. Just the presentation in itself is awesome, and there a rainbow of cotton candy colors out there!

Anyone else find a unique way to do a "something blue" drink?