post-vacation update
May 7th, 2007 by thryn
It’s been a little while since my last post. My fiance and I went on a short vacation down to my hometown where our wedding will take place, and it was very productive!
The first exciting thing we did was buy the fabric for my wedding dress with my mom (who will be making it). She was very supportive of my wishes not to use polyester, even though it’s considerably less expensive.
We also met with our officiant, and we are really happy to have him performing our ceremony. We had never met him before, and we were a little nervous about how open minded he would be about the kind of ceremony we want and don’t want, and about our different religious backgrounds. But he was very nice and supportive of all of our ideas and we feel very lucky to have him.
We also met with our caterer and went over menu ideas. She too was very supportive and is fully behind our wishes to have as much of the menu made from locally bought food as possible.
And we finally got a chance to see our location in person and meet the director there. She showed us the huge closet they have full of items we can use for our decorations like vases, candle holders and more!
I was already very excited about the location before, but when I found out that that they have all of these things available for every event to use and reuse, I loved it even more. Not because I will be saving money (although that is always nice), but just knowing how many new decorations are saved from being purchased and possibly thrown away or never used again, is so wonderful. They could so easily leave everyone entirely on their own, but they choose to have these things available for every event to use at no additional cost!
So things are looking pretty good at the moment, ethical and eco-friendly-wise. There is one remaining aspect that I’m worried about though, which is the rehearsal dinner. We’re having just a simple cookout at my mom’s house, and it seems like we can’t feasibly use non-disposable dishes. My folks certainly don’t have enough dishes for everyone, and even if they did (or we borrowed some), no one wants to deal with washing all of them.
What to do? I told them we would have to get compost-able dishes if we have to get disposable, but I still feel bad about wasting.
Sounds fabulous, Thryn! That’s great that the venue are so geared up to lend stuff out to clients.
Tricky one about those plates… I guess there’s no company you can hire them from in the area? That way you wouldn’t need to wash them.
I’d be tempted to try to borrow the dishes from neighbours and find a couple of local / family teenagers (even scouts?) who would wash the dishes in exchange for a reasonable sum or donation to charity. More expense, I know!