Wedding Reception

Hello,
Are you wanting more of the snack food style or do you want more of the sit down style of food? Are you planning to have this catered or are you going to do this? Do you want to use silk flowers or fresh flowers? Or are you not wanting to use flowers at all on your tables? As for party favors, there are tons of stuff you can do. One idea is to take little square boxes and put candy that is of your colors and wrap them in paper that matches your colors. Like white chocolate or candied almonds and wrapped in a navy wrap. I have also seen sheen little bags with candy in the tied with a small bow.
I hope this helped a little, and you can email me at angwillard@yahoo.com if I can help you with any ideas.
Have fun..:)
Ang

I have several ideas. We have one place we can have our reception there. It`s a Very Nice Hotel in our town. It`s a sit down dinner, tea or what ever drink they want, appatizers, they do all the cleaning up and their there at your becon call. Tax included will be $2, 500. And we can take all our pictures there, they have a stair well red carpet it`s georgeous. LIke a cinderella type ordeal.

Another option is having the reception at our church fellowship hall, it is big also. Cost to rent that is $150. I`ll have to have people to help with cooking the food or preparing it. Worry about cleaning up, getting gifts for people who help. So i just need to know some idea`s about some food we could have at the reception at our church. So I can compare price and stress.

On flowers I want to do mostly white and since were going with Navy I would like some blue flowers mixed in with my white flowers. I was thinking about either having a bouquet or holding my flowers in my arm? what`s your option.

As far as favors the last wedding I went to they gave away candles. I would like something beside candy. I like something personal.

Hhmm,
Most weddings I have been to the bride has enough on her plate to do besides cooking food or preparing food also. To me it sounds like you are leaning towards the hotel area. If you can afford it, then why not. Plus you will not have to recruit people to help you cook and clean up. Also how many people are we talking about?
However, if money is the issue than I suggest the second place. Maybe there could be people at your church that would be willing to help serve and clean up for you. You could do the sit down dinner, snack food stuff or hire a caiter. What I call reception food would be like little quish, mini spring egg rolls, chips, dip, veggie tray, cheese tray, and small sandwiches with ham, turkey or roast beef. Or in other words snack foods. Then the sit down type of dinner would be stuff like a hot veggie, roasted potatoes, a couple types of meat, salad, bread, pasta salad or some thing along that line. Then if you do that type you would have to think of ways to keep the warm food warm and be able to cook enough to feed everyone. If you want to do this way.. I strongth suggest you get a friend or family member who would be willing to take this job on.
As for flowers blue delphinium would be a dark blue. There are also other blue flowers that would go well with your navy and white theme. Hydrangeas have a great hue with the blues. Plus there are others also like Anemone, Cornflower, Delphinium, Eryngium-blue thistle, Gentiana, Hyacinth, Iris, Misty Limonium
Monkshood , Nigella, Scabiosa, Trachellium, and Veronica. It would just depend on if you just wanted dark blue or would like the other shades of blues. There is tons of white flowers that you can choose from. Just depends on what you would like or dislike. White Star gaziers are beautiful for wedding flowers but the have a very strong scent to them. Then as for style of bouquet some flowers do better as a hand held bouquet rather than holding them in your arms. Callas are very pretty and do good for the arm bouquets. But there is also the fact of cost of the flowers. There are the ones that will cost more than others. If I knew more of that you like and wanted I could help you more with the flowers. But just saying I want white and blue flowers leave a huge area of the spectrum to deal with. :)
If you are not sure about what flowers are what.. Visit your local florist and see what they have or surf the internet for flower growers. If that does not help you, please let me know and I will email you some pictures of different things that I have named or others that I think might really work well with what you want.
Hope this has helped.. Btw when is your wedding and what state?
Smile, it will not be that bad.. :)
Ang

Thanks for your replys. I live in Indiana and my wedding day is March 13, 2004. I just found another place where to do our reception. I think it is going to be great. It is $150. For set up fee which includes tables, liniens, napkins, centerpieces. And you pick if you want o`euvres, appetizers, or if you want to go with a meal. No minium you have to spend. So that sounds really great. It`s at a very "NICE" hotel also. So me and the groom to be will go check that out here soon. It sounds like a great deal.
Thanks for the tips about the flowers. I will have to look at some pictures because truthfully I have no idea what they look like. If we have it at a fancy place like that do you think we still have to give out favors at our reception? Just a thought... I`m still thinking about some favors though just incase.

The groom is sick so we haven`t talked or planned much together. I`m just trying to come up with things and when we do talk mention to him what I`ve found so far. Also I was wanting to have my brother in the wedding. We could come up with guys all day, but the problem is girls. I don`t know alot of people up here, I`ve just lived here in Indiana a year, but I`m only really close to my maid of honor. So... We already have 2 ushers. And what if I can`t find any more bridesmaids besides my maid of honor, and we`ll have our best man. I think that`s all we decided to go with. What else could my brother do, so I could include him in my wedding? Any suggestions.

Cool... I live in Indiana also.. :)
So maybe if you want we can talk on the phone sometime and depending on where in IN you are at, I might be able to do your flowers if you want to for cheaper than most florist. I do know what it would cost to go to most florist shops because I work in one.. :) I have done several weddings and can show you pictures, but I dont have any on line as of yet.
As for not know alot of girls in Indiana, do you have a cousin or closer friend that could come here, that you would want to be in your wedding party? If not, I dont think there is anything saying that your brother could not stand up with you guys without having the same number of girls. I know one couple that also had an odd number of girls to guys standing with them. They still had fun and it made their day special.
Email me at angwillard@yahoo.com and we can talk more..:)
Ang