Food tasting!!

Well Jeff and I, along with our parents, traveled to State College this weekend to taste some wedding food. I have to admit, I went into this weekend not knowing what to expect. But all our expectations were exceeded!!!! The food was amazing! And being able to taste helped us finally decide on a menu. The grand ballroom was all decorated with various wedding linens and table setting options, and we got to talk with our wedding coordinator and decide on all the details. It was very productive!

For the cocktail hour, we will be serving mini italian paninis, pigs in a blanket, and little greek flatbreads. The paninis were a huge hit with all of us at the food tasting, everyone might have to try to outrun Jeff to get to the panini server.

The salad will be a mixed green salad with a tastey lime vinagrette. The soup will be a roasted tomato and basil bisque, and the appetizer will be a crab cake! These were also a big hit with the seafood eaters!

Guests will be able to choose between two entrees, a paprika dusted chicken breast with rice and mixed vegetables. The entree is pictured below, we are substituting the wilted brown looking mushroom things for mixed vegetables, the mushrooms were not that good. But the chicken was amazing, very moist and flavorful!


We tasted the grouper and the shrimp/scallop dish for the seafood entree. The grouper was ok, but was served with a very spicey sauce that was a bit too much. The shrimp and scallops, on the other hand, were so good, that we ate all of it before we remembered to take a picture. Ooops...but the shrimp and scallops were huge, and served with garlic mashed potatoes. I think this might be my choice, as long as Jeff promises to give me a taste of his chicken!

And I just HAD to sample all of the cake choices, I mean the cake is a very important menu item right? Well it was all so good, even the almond and I don't even like almond cake. We ultimately decided to do vanilla for one layer, and chocolate for the other two layers. Our cake will be the size of this sample cake:

But that is not quite how our cake will look, the design is top secret until the wedding day! There will also be three different flavors of Creamery ice cream that we still have to decide on.

And we talked linens with the linen lady - that's how I will refer to her because I cannot for the life of me remember her name right now. We are going to have to have navy blue napkins that look like this:


And chair covers and sashes that look like this:


Food tasting was fun! Here is a picture of the happy couple, mid tasting:


After the tasting, we picked out tuxes, got some creamery ice cream, toured around campus, and then we went to Hi Way Pizza for dinner, the rehearsal dinner location. Jeff is very excited that no one has to return tuxes on Sunday - we can leave them at the hotel front desk! The diet starts tomorrow after all the food I ate this weekend. Even though I had tasted food all day and ate lots of cake and ice cream, I inhaled my whole wheat penne with vodka sauce. And then it was time to make the drive home, it all went so fast. A final picture, Jeff and I at Hi Way Pizza:

We are getting excited!!! A little over 4 months until the big day!