Wedding Fun

One of Spencer's good friends from residency, John, got married this past weekend. John and his now-wife, Mandy, have been our friends since we moved here. Spencer and I rarely get out together to hang out with his group of friends but when we do we always enjoy our time with them. They are really great people and Spencer will miss them when we move to Nashville, although a few of them have already moved and will most likely move after he is done as well. Anyway, we were so excited to go to a wedding since it has been entirely too long since we attended one! We got a babysitter for the kids, which Ella Ann was extremely excited about, who arrived at 4 p.m. Saturday afternoon. The wedding was downtown at the Biltmore Hotel, which I knew would be super nice and I was looking forward to seeing the historic hotel. The ceremony was very small and intimate, about 150 guests. The room the ceremony and reception was held in was absolutely amazing, as you will see from the pictures below. After the ceremony, the guests were moved to an adjoining room for a cocktail hour with very yummy appetizers like grilled shrimp and crab cakes. After cocktails we were ushered back into the room the ceremony was in for a wonderful sit down dinner. We had Ceasar salad with a cruton ring as an appeptizer and the main course was salmon with a lemon sauce, fillet with Gorgonzola cheese, cheese risotto and vegetables. Dessert was wedding cake, which was red velvet with cream cheese icing and and another layer was vanilla with strawberry marmalade and buttercream frosting. The grooms cake, which was a gigantic golf ball with the Ohio State emblem on it (obviously John is a golfer and since he's from Ohio and went there for college he is a big Ohio state fan) was chocolate with cookies n' cream buttercream frosting. To top it all off was a big candy bar that was the guests little parting gift. We filled clear plastic bags with ALL kinds of fantastic candy. I made a bag for Ella Ann and she was so excited to see that on Sunday!

We stayed until around 9:15 p.m. and then headed home. It was so great to be out on the town (at night without kids!), enjoying a wonderful time with our friends, eating amazing food at an amazing place and celebrating John and Mandy's union!

Cocktail hour.

The ceremony and reception room.

Each table was named for parts of Atlanta. Each table had a beautiful flower arrangement as the centerpiece and each one was different.

One of Spencer's friends (and mine), Karen.

John and Mandy cutting their cake.