Ok, so I'm not very good at making the time to update this. Oh well, I have to wait for our Easter breakfast casserole to get out of the oven, so I have time now.
Updates, updates.... Lets see. Well, from what I can remember-
- We struck out big time with a cake person we went to go see. We talked back and forth via email about dairy free cakes, she said she can do it, we get there and after tasting one of the samples and mentioning how difficult it's been finding someone who can make a dairy free cake, she tells us the samples are not dairy free. Then she gives us a quote for a 4 layer cake, not decorated- cause we are just having flowers put on it, said the price would be $340, then sent a quote with tax and some other charges added in, it was $365- worked out to be over $3 per slice! No way! Not gonna happen. I just emailed another lady who said she can do dairy free. She actually owns a baker in GR that does mainly gluten free, but said she can do dairy free also. She was out of town til tomorrow, so hopefully we'll be able to meet with her sometime. We are actually thinking of doing a small cake that would be dairy free and then doing sheet cakes, I don't really want to, I want a big nice cake- but if we get another crazy expensive quote, it's not gonna happen.
-We ordered our Save the Date magnets, and that was a major pain in the a**. I don't really like this company at all. They have very poor customer service. I'd been emailing back and forth with a few people from there, I always answered their questions, but rarely did they answer mine. We had ordered the magnets separately from the attachment cards and envelopes. They apparently did not get the other order, which I find out a month later. This is stupid because I had emailed quite a few times asking about the order and they never told me they didn't have the order, they just ignored the questions. We also mailed them 2 separate checks. They certainly never questioned that. Which brings me to my next problem, we sent them the checks a month ago, and they still have not cashed them. Major pain!!! Oh well, they said the magnets should be shipped out to us on Monday, so hopefully they are fine and we can move on.
-We found flower girl dresses!! Mom, I sent you, and Scott's brother/sister in law an email with these same pictures. These will be the dresses Alexis, and Scott's niece, Naomi will wear. We got them for $9.99 a piece at Meijer.
- I don't know if I put it on here before, but we do have a caterer now. We really like them too! The owner is super nice! Here is the menu:
AppetizersGazpacho (Dad will be making this)
Pineapple Luau display- LOVE IT :)
Beverages
Pink lemonade garnished with lemons
Sparkling white punch, garnished with oranges
Assorted cans of pop/juice boxes
Buffet menu
Marinated Portobello Mushrooms
BBQ Salmon
Grilled chicken breasts, with BBQ and Sweet and Sour sauces on the side.
Hot dogs, for the kiddos
Garden tossed salad
Garden rotini pasta salad
Corn on the cob
Baked Beans
Escalloped apples w/pecans
Dinner rolls and bread w/ butter
We also bought some plates from Sam's Club when we were in Lansing before, but I don't know that we are going to keep them. Turns out when we were transporting them from Lansing to Grand Rapids somehow some of them were damaged, cracked, broken, etc. Well Scott took that one back and got another one, after seeing other damaged ones on the shelf. Well we get it home look at the rest and there is a crack in another one. I told him, I am just not interested in babysitting these plates, if they are that darn fragile, I don't want them. So we are looking at a couple of options with our caterer. They are going to email me how much they would deduct if we brought our own plates, and also how much extra to add if we switch from the foam plates (which are included) to a clear plastic plate.
-The owner's of my company are back from Florida. Their flight got in Friday at about 6 pm, so I haven't seen them yet- but this will throw a serious wrench into my daily activities, but when they left my days were a bit screwed up for a while too, I just gotta get back into the swing of it. See for most people, it won't affect their days, but I'm their assistant, so when they say jump- well, you get the idea. Before they left they hired some decorators to re-do our offices. For the most part it looks fine, but there are some problems with it, and since they have not seen it, only heard about it, that should make for a very interesting Monday. Be thinking about me around 10:30 am, that is usually when they come in. If they don't like it..... ack- don't even wanna think about that.
-Saturday Scott and I went to Grand Haven. We went to the Grand Haven city beach, then decided we wanted to go check our North Beach Park. Grand Haven City Beach was the original spot we were thinking we'd get married at. Then late last fall we found North Beach Park and thought that was a definite possibility. Well, when we went yesterday that thought was pretty much cemented. It was horribly windy yesterday, I'll start off my saying that. So, even though it was in the 50s and sunny, the wind made it feel like the 30s. We were NOT dressed for it at all. It was sooo cold. But at the city beach there was a decent amount of people there. We went to North Beach park and there was one other person. By the time we left here were 4 cars there total, and this was at 2 pm. We decided that if we have the wedding at 4:30 pm, that would be the best place to go. Obviously we are going to head out there as much as we can between now and September, just so we can gage the best time of day and spot on the beach. Right now they still have their snow fences up, but we did see that the public bathroom they have at the beach opens next week and will stay open until mid October. That was one concern, that after Labor Day, when they stop charging an entry fee, they'd close the restrooms too- but now we know they don't.
Alright, well here are some pictures of our day at the beach!
The two pictures above are from the City Beach.
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These are from North Beach Park! :)
Had to post this one! It cracks me up, I told him he looks like a little kid :)
This is across the road from the beach, there are HUGE dunes on the other side of the road, there is actually a bunch of steps that go really high up on top of the dunes. On a side note, you can tell how windy it was because there is sand like covering the parking lot.
Here is the parking lot. It's pretty big, so that is a good thing! The city beach has VERY little free parking so it's usually taken pretty darn quick.
Scott sitting on a dune at the beach.
This was a sand dune that was on the beach, it's pretty big, but not nearly as big as the ones across the street.
Scott and I made Easter sugar cookies yesterday. They started out pretty basic, then we got more creative. Oh and they aren't cooked dark, I made them using wheat flour.
In the above picture, the top 2 Scott made. The one on the left was real cool, he made an Easter basket then the other one is suppose to say Bunny love. lol what a dork! Then the bottom 3 I made.
In this picture Scott made the bunny on the bottom, then the other bunny to the left, he said its' supposed to be a bunny juggling easter eggs, but he made too many eggs, he should've stuck with like 3, but he made him juggling like 7! :)
Well, thats all for now! We are going to head to the zoo for a bit, Scott really wants to go. Then back to make Easter dinner. We are having stuffed mushrooms, ham, a rice pilaf with oranges and walnuts and sauteed asparagus and fresh pineapple. Happy Easter!!
