Creating the Menu

One of the biggest challanges for bringing a wedding together is creating our menu. You would think it would be super easy. Pick something you throughly enjoy and go with it.

But then you have to take into account those that might have food allergies (such as peanuts or shell fish). What if someone's a vegitarian? Or they just don't eat red meat?

For us, it was a little bit more complex to find the right balance of things. Spencer and his family mainly grew up on the West Coast and their eating habbits mainly deal with the surf side of menus. My family is from the Mid-West area (I'm never sure why it's really called that since it's more east than it is west...) and therefore grew up on the turf side.

Fettachini Alfredo

Certain members of my family like seafood, while others think it tastes like rubber-along with mushrooms...which his family loves! Making the right balace is really hard...

Tomato with Meat Sauce

Once Spencer, my mom, and myself finally sat down and talked about it...we came up with Italian (if you read both my blog and my sister's...you're gonna swear that we're trying to out do one another. Really...we're not. It's just a common ground thing-we both like Italian food...). Because I'll have more people to feed, and it's kinda cheap (more so when you shop at Sam's where everything is sold in bulk), we figured we'd go with some Fettachini Alfredo, a regular tomato sauce, MAYBE a meat tomato sauce, with your choice of adding mushrooms, broccoli, and chicken or shrimp (everyone likes things with choices).

Garlic Bread

I'm also loving the idea that we'll be able to make all of these things at home! Not to mention...who doesn't like Italian?! Crazy people...that's who!