The Wedding

Well, I'm home from the wedding, it was wonderful, fun and beautiful.
The weather was WET. The sun shone for about an hour while the ceremony was taking place and the picnic, but then More rain!
Still, it was a wonderful family time. The welcome dinner was a great success. Sirianni's can be recommended to anyone. And also very affordable. We had pizza, wedges ( cheese bread), antipasta salad (very good), baked ziti, and fresh fruit. The ice was unsweetened, so not to my taste, I like my sugar put in the tea while it's warm enough to melt the sugar completely.
The picnic was catered by Curtis, a friend of a friend of Danny's. The food was absolutely fabulous. He also catered the reception that evening, again, fantastic. He's self taught and wow, he is great. We had roast pork tenderloin, cheese shells (goat cheese), salad, frogmore stew, ratatoulli, and oh my gosh, how good it was!!
The camera is in the truck (Bob is at work) so I can't post pictures yet, but I wil as soon ASAP.
Oh, the cake! I baked the cakes on Thursday, eight of them, chocolate, strawberry and french vanilla. Friday, myself, Karen (BFF), and my sister, Dorris, decorated it.
We made it a mountain. We used Hershey bars for the Seneca Rocks (Karen's handy work), crushed ice cream cones for rock formations jutting out (Dorris' brainchild), ice cream cones for pine trees (my SIL Connies brainchild) covered with icing and painted. Then chocolate covered marshmellows for boulders, chocolated covered peanuts for rocks, a carved styrofoam and covered with icing tent, a camp fire made of fruit slices candy toothpicks, a canoe made from a champagne cork (we had wallaby darns) and painted with food coloring. Karen painted the "Blackwater Falls" and used crushed ice cream cones for the banks. we all painted the mountain to resemble a mountain n the fall.
The cake was a great success with everyone and it tasted great. My new DIL said she had the best weddng cake ever.