**Wedding- Cockatil Hour
Description
Quickstats
Playlist Length
0 days, 2 hours, 1 minutes
Playlist Followers
3
Source
Playlist Last Updated
February 27, 2017
Mood
Mixed Mood
Track Popularity Rating
Somewhat Popular
Style
Varied
Average Release Decade
2000s
Main Genre:
Mixed
Reddit Info
Reddit Post
I have so many more pictures and I want to post them all but am too lazy to edit & black out faces. Better late than never right?? Boy was it a world wind of emotions. I started to type out a whole long post about everything leading up to the day of but, it was getting a little too winded so I’ll give a breakdown below and if anyone has questions I’d be more than happy to expand! We had a very intimate ceremony (immediate family only, with the except of my favorite aunt on my husband's side of the family) and reception (only close friends and immediate family, less than 40 people). **BUDGET** <$6,000 **TOTAL COST** $5800 (ish) Most of the total cost was my dress and his suit. We did a breakfast themed buffet and had mini donuts and muffins and cookies. We only invited immediate family to the ceremony and close friends to the reception. I think we had about <40 people ish at the reception and it was glorious. I had time to eat and mingle and not worry about "did I talk to so and so" blah blah. Did DIY centerpieces with bulk flowers from Sam's Club and some giant ass lanterns from World Market, random candlestick holders from lots of thrifting adventures, and some good smelling candles that were on clearance from Target. **What went right** * I got to marry the love of my life * The photographer did an AMAZING job of capturing our wedding ceremony and I didn’t even realize she was there most of the time. Sneaky snake taking good pictures! * Nothing got set on fire!! A lot of the candle stick holders didn’t have anything to catch the wax dripping so we had to set mini paper plates under them. I wasn’t thrilled about this but didn’t end up caring once all was said and done. * All 6 sets of my parents showed up (noticed I said my parents… you’ll see what I mean in the ‘what went wrong’ section) * Everyone had a blast and got up to dance and mingle and no one was singled out/ignored. * The food was DELICIOUS and we had an abundance of food/treats. We did a breakfast buffet including egg casserole (probably least eaten food, kind of was expecting this), biscuits & gravy, hash browns, bacon, and sausages. For deserts we were all about mini-everything. Mini blueberry & lemon poppy seed muffins, mini orange rolls, mini cinnamon rolls, mini cake donuts with buttercream frosting & maple bacon frosting, and decorated cookies. Thankfully I didn’t have to push them off on other people they asked to take some home. * It was 80* and sunny! For those of you unfamiliar with Iowa/Midwest weather, who the heck knows that the weather will be like. It snowed three days before our wedding and I started to panic because our wedding was an hour away from the reception and the reception area was half outside. I took a leap of faith that the weather would cooperate and thank the stars it did. * I spent MONTHS getting the playlists perfect. I mean MONTHS, and only had it perfected about two days before the party. Any spare moment I had was being put into this because I wanted everything to flow well and had to consider what music we liked, what our guest would like (since we had quite the age mix). The music was a huge hit with everyone there and I’ve had several people ask for the link to it. * The Bluetooth speaker was just big enough that it was literally perfect for the amount of space we had. Just loud enough for the dance party, but not so loud that the people on the other side of the lodge couldn’t hold a conversation without yelling. * No seating charts meant people can sit and talk to whoever they want to! I wasn’t about to make so and so sit by so and so because so and so didn’t want to sit by so and so. **What went not-so-right** * I HATED the photographer who did our engagement pictures. His pictures were nice enough but he was getting ready to move and I feel like just didn’t put any effort into getting nice pictures and some were over-edited….. He didn’t really listen to the type of pictures/feel we wanted. He was also a bit of a creep. I’m glad we went with the photographer we did for the actual wedding day. * We had a dinner the night before so all our parents could meet. I’m adopted so I invited my bio-mom, my mom and stepdad, my dad and stepmom, husband’s parents (who are divorced but back together, it’s a long story), husband’s brother, and both of our nephews. Husband’s mom was super rude and just not very nice the entire dinner and left early without even really saying anything. I have a hunch that she was (and still is) mad that I took her sweet precious baby away from her. * We were late to our own wedding (only by 10 minutes) but still. When you get married in the middle of nowhere, make sure you download or print a map because your phone will lose signal and you’ll miss your turn. * Husband’s mom came dressed like she was trying to out dress me with a more adult-y prom dress. * Husband’s parents didn’t show up to the reception because they thought they weren’t invited. (they were, they even RSVP’ed what song they wanted to be played! We even talked to them about it the weekend before!) * We planned for about 50 people from the RSVP’s and only had about 35 guests. A few people called us the night before/that morning to let us know they had an emergency/work thing and couldn’t make it. Understandable, but still bummed. And then husband’s parents and brother just decided to not show up. * TONS of food leftover. We lived off the remaining breakfast food for almost two weeks’ worth of dinners. We also ate our deserts over the course of 2-3 weeks, that is also after I brought some to work to get rid of. We were breakfast & treated out to the max. I couldn’t do it anymore and just decided to throw what little was left away. * We could only get the Bluetooth speaker to pair to my husband’s phone. I had the Spotify playlist downloaded onto my phone and computer and naturally we didn’t pair it with either before the party. This wasn’t a huge deal but I was concerned it would become an issue due to being in the middle of nowhere and not getting reception. * We forgot a wine bottle opener!!!!! I had to send my dad to go to the closest store (about 10-15 min away) to get one. * We under estimated how many people liked the white wine we got and it was gone in about an hour. I’m pretty sure we still have 5 bottles of red wine in our garage. All of the other alcohol was gone before the end of the night. * The glow sticks we bought off amazon were awful. Okay, let me rephrase… the glow sticks were great! The glow sticks glasses set we bought didn’t glow for shit and I ended up returning them after opening 10 and not having any of the glow sticks glow. We improvised and used the regular glow sticks as a substitute. TLDR: My semi-casual wannabe 90’s rave wedding party was a huge hit. Here is a link to the DIY spotify playlists (I broke it up into 3 sections: Cocktail “Hour”, Dinner, Dance Party) [Cocktail Hour](https://open.spotify.com/user/littleeeeone/playlist/5NdT1D0saCyto8vw9cO9nO) [Dinner](https://open.spotify.com/user/littleeeeone/playlist/4xDGSFlRrgbqRoDw1pcv0S) [Dance Party](https://open.spotify.com/user/littleeeeone/playlist/6XoUiBnypVnixyu2YqAHwi) Edit: Formatting
Upvotes
10
Subreddit
weddingplanning
Reddit Username
Littleeeone
Reddit Timestamp
7/26/17 11:18
Reddit URL
Genres
New: Click a genre to explore further
Top Artists
Click an artist to open on Spotify