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Monday, 28 July 2014

A Northern Wedding

We were in Manchester this Friday (25.07) for a family wedding on my boyfriends side. A big Northern traditional family wedding.

What a lovely day it was indeed, fantastic weather and no rain!

The colour scheme pinks and whites (both light and dark). The brides dress was lovely, very traditional, as was the theme, but I think she could have found a style slight more suitable for her figure!

They started with a Catholic wedding (which I think these days are a little to long), followed by a fabulous reception at Gorton Monastery! We all arrived by vintage bus put of by the bride and groom.

We were welcomed with a glass of champagne in the garden, then canapes - to be honest there was more than one glass per person (which I love). Then we found our tables (all named after places they had visited). The favors: a donation to four charities close to their heart, and we each received a pin representing one!

Red, and white wine were on the table and an extra glass of bubbles for the speeches! The sit down meal: Duck pate, pan fried chicken leg with chorizo risotto and to finish either chocolate mousse or creme brulee.

The groom and best man speeches were emotion and about friends and family, no need to make a joke at the grooms expense. The father of the groom choose not to make a speech??

After this it was a blur for a while... the bar was free :-))) *big plus points*

Then the newly weds took to the floor for their first dance followed by us drunken ladies kicking our heels off and making some shapes to the 80s disco!!

The evening reception was great as well. They had an evening buffet, BBQ style, mini burgers, kebabs etc. A pick n mix station and make your own Mr Whipy ice cream. BEST THING EVER.

After that the night drinks, smokes and chatter, thank god for free bars. A great day and night was had by all.

Tuesday, 19 November 2013

Burrito Breakfast

According to Wiki, the Wedding Breakfast is:

A wedding breakfast is a dinner given to the bride, bridegroom, and guests at the wedding reception that follows a wedding in the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, Scandinavia and some English-speaking countries. The Compact Oxford Dictionary^[1] lists the phrase as only “British”, and the Merriam-Webster online dictionary^[2] does not list it at all. Wedding breakfast custom is occasionally spotted in touristic countries - especially ones that are destination for tourists from English speaking countries. Countries like Poland^[3]have prepared offers to cater especially for wedding tourists.

Nowadays the wedding breakfast is not normally a morning meal, so its name can be confusing. The name is claimed^[4] to have arisen from the fact that in pre-Reformation times the wedding service was usually a Eucharistic Mass and that the bride and bridegroom would therefore have been fasting before the wedding in order to be eligible to receive the sacrament of Holy Communion. After the wedding ceremony was complete, the priest would bless and distribute some wine, cakes, and sweetmeats, which were then handed round to the company, including the bride and groom. This distribution of food and drink was therefore a literal “break fast” for the bride and groom, though others in attendance would not necessarily take Communion and therefore would not necessarily have been fasting. Since usage of the phrase cannot be shown to date back earlier than the first half of the nineteenth century however, a pre-16th-century origin seems unlikely.

So I would like a burrito wedding breakfast, you could have it family style / buffet style / sit down / 'bar' or van so many options, so many foods, get some margaritas! AWESOME.