Frazzledbride reached out to fellow Epi members yesterday. Her wedding brunch plans have gone up in, er, tailpipe smoke now that her fiancé’s truck needs urgent, expensive repairs.
“I am planning a small family wedding (60 guests) on Sunday morning, August 29, which will be followed by a champagne brunch. My fiancé and I are both students and will be paying for the wedding ourselves. We had allowed a $2,000 budget for catering and were deciding between our two favorites when just last Friday my fiancé’s truck died and now requires $3,000 of work….So needless to say, we are now without a caterer,” she explains.
Thankfully a friend has offered to help out with the catering, but she needs ideas for a menu. “Does anyone have suggestions for some amazing brunch foods that would be good for a wedding reception? I really would like to keep this classy and elegant, and any ideas are much appreciated,” Frazzledbride adds.
We have a Wedding Planner with recipes, wine, and party-planning tips for the reception, and even a DIY wedding cake (pictured) that’s sure to impress.
Have you tips for catering your own wedding on a budget? Any easy, delicious, inexpensive recipes to share?
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The prevailing story of Jennifer Lopez’s film career has been one of decline, the promise of “Out of Sight” collapsing in a string of simple romantic comedies. Watching these post-Soderbergh movies as a group, though, reveals that Lopez is actually a sly, insolently funny performer, and one who repeatedly selects roles that are defined by their work. Lopez has played a wedding planner, a maid, a dance instructor, a temp, a caterer, a dog walker, and she’s actually depicted on the job.
Hollywood generally prefers to ignore the day-to-day expertise that goes into cleaning a room or serving an appetizer (a telling sign in “Maid in Manhattan” reads, “strive to be invisible”), but Lopez actively seeks out these moments. “The Wedding Planner,” “Maid in Manhattan,” “Shall We Dance,” and “Monster-in-Law” are a remarkably similar quartet in this respect, presenting Lopez as the rare actor who can be read as an auteur (she’s returning to the big screen this weekend with a new rom-com, “The Back-up Plan,” after a four-year absence).
Lopez was famously raised in the Bronx by her Puerto Rican parents, and dropped out of Baruch College after a semester in order to take dance and voice classes. After some work on TV (a backup dancer on “In Living Color,” a supporting role in “South Central”), she shifted to film, landing some minor parts before breaking out with the lead in “Selena.” She plays the late Mexican-American pop star with disarming naïveté, an immaculately carefree teen oblivious to the traps that fame has set for her.
Immensely proud of her heritage, Lopez seems to explode with energy in the films set in the Latino community (the aforementioned “Selena,” “Mi Familia” and “El Cantante”), while in her mainstream Hollywood productions she becomes more withholding, mischievous and sarcastic. Perhaps fearful of falling prey to the “hot-blooded Latina” stereotype, Lopez’s romantic comedy roles present her as a series of fiercely independent loners, in love with their jobs more than the men they inevitably marry. Working well within the clichés of the genre, Lopez still manages to offer a more nuanced vision of modern womanhood than her competitors.
Katherine Heigl, the current rom-com queen, is a pleasantly stiff actress, but has never played a character that could possibly exist without a man, or even hold down a job with actual responsibility. In the workplace, which is invariably a brightly lit modernist office, Heigl or Aniston or Bullock wear titles of “editor,” “executive” or “attorney” like a designer dress, their only duty to pursue connubial bliss. In “27 Dresses,” Heigl is solely defined by her “always the bridesmaid” guilt, in love with her boss at an environmental non-profit, which apparently employs her to pine away at a lucite desk. In “The Wedding Planner,” Lopez is at the top of her field and close to making partner. She’s shown expertly corralling a drunk father-in-law, feeding a speech to a nervous best man, and composing the shots for the wedding video.
Heigl is abjectly miserable where Lopez is merely melancholy (and very busy). The plots end up in the same hetero-normative place, but the crucial difference is that Lopez’s eventual marriage is a matter of choice, whereas with Heigl (and Aniston, and Bullock, and so on), it’s posed as a metaphysical necessity. And it’s this freedom to Lopez’s characters that make her comedies so much more fun and revealing, lifting these otherwise rote genre exercises into the category of what Andrew Sarris termed “subjects for further research.” It is what makes her career worth investigating.
This freedom would mean little if Lopez was a bore on-screen, but she has a nifty comedic repertoire. She tends towards arrogance and insolence, hair pulled back and head tilted high, as she steamrolls her way through the workday, a grin creeping in through pursed lips when she lands a verbal or physical blow. When she finally cracks up, it’s with staccato monologues and impulsive bits of violence.
In her best film, “Maid in Manhattan,” she’s a harried hotel maid and single mom, cutting down Amy Sedaris after an offhand racist slur, casually smacking her with the bedspread while in the act of folding. Partly set in the Bronx, it’s an homage to the industrious spirit of her parents, a class-conscious “Cinderella” story that never patronizes its working class characters, and halfway earns the storybook ending. (Notably, in the end credit montage, she’s shown making the cover of Hotel Manager magazine with no bridal publications in sight).
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When you are looking for a caterer ask lots of questions, there are no “stupid” questions. You must feel comfortable with whomever you are doing business with.
!. Choose someone who is not overbooked for your wedding day. It is not uncommon for caterers to have multiple functions on a given day. Pick someone with no more than one or two bookings. No matter how big the company, the more functions the more logistic problems that can arise.
2. Pick a caterer that you have heard good reviews about, such as from friends or family.
3. Choosing someone, because they are the only company that you can think of may not be enough of an endorsement.
4.Choose a caterer that can address your requirements. All caterer do not do outside weddings for example or have limits on there ability to travel outside of city limits.
5. Remember that you are the boss, not them. Choose a caterer that does not have an “attitude”.
6. Pick a caterer that is upfront about pricing, includes everything in one price, and does not try to surprise you with last minute additions.
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The rehearsal meal shouldn’t be about whose obligation it is to be the host (it’s usually the groom’s parents) but how much fun everyone is having.
Who, When, Why, What
WHO
Everyone who is participating in the service will be invited to participate in the fun.
-the bridal couple
-all attendants
-singer or musician performing at the service
-anyone giving a reading at the service
-parents of children in the wedding party
-guests who have travelled from afar to attend the wedding
WHAT
It’s a relaxed party. Why not make it a beer and jeans party? Wine and fondue? Punch and buffet?
There will be lots of laughter, starting at the rehearsal, as everyone practices walking down the aisle and jockeying into place.
The fun will continue at dinner. Include some raucous and naughty toasts.
WHERE
Have it anywhere you like. A BBQ in the back yard. A diner. A country club. A picnic in the park. Or even a picnic in the home, with checked tablecloths, potato salad, slaw, hot dogs and burgers.
WHEN
It’s almost always the evening (or afternoon) before the wedding to allow out-of-towners to be on hand. This is ideal. If, however, the clergy or site can’t fit you in, it may be two days before the wedding, but usually not any earlier.
WHY
The custom of having a rehearsal, followed by a party, is a long tradition that makes good sense. It brings everyone together, perhaps for the first time, so the duties of each for the following day can be reviewed. More importantly, it sets a spirit of comradeship that will jump-start the wedding day.
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Avoid thinking of registering as a terrific birthday party. An unlimited gift grab. Don’t blow this opportunity to make serious choices that will reflect the lifestyle you are going to share.
The bridal couple needs a healthy spirit of cooperation if they are going to do themselves and their guests a favour.
Four Steps
1) Sit together and talk about the lifestyle you will share. Does one of you enjoy cooking? Do both of you like to cook? Do you expect to do much entertaining? How will you entertain? Sit-down dinners? Buffets? Barbecues? Will your lifestyle be super-casual or somewhat formal?
2) Now start making practical notes:
-How large is your home?
-Note the size of each room
-Decided on a colour scheme for the home ( and specifically for each room)
- List the items in each room that you already have. Then list the things in each room that you will want or need
3) Go to a store, together, with your list in hand and browse. You may find ideas that are new and fresh, so this is the time to delete, change and add to the original list
4) Now is the time to register. Take your revised list with you. At this point, you will have defined your lifestyle and shared your perceptions of what your home should express.
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