Our Food?

Could you see this brunch in 11 months? Who knows? Not me! Haha. Any thoughts?

I prefer a different menu only due to the addition of a Mickey waffle bar! How cool is that! But this is more realistic...and reflecting my changes in a few areas for the benefit of Don and our guests. Aka bye bye fishy and hello chicken instead

Any bets on if this is or anything close is actually served in December?

Cocktail Hour

Champagne Sabayon with Fresh Seasonal Berries served in Champagne Flutes

Premium Cheese Display with Grapes, Crackers, and Baguette

Cinnamon Rolls, Danish Pastries, Croissants, and Hard Rolls

Whipped Butter, Jams, and Preserves

Brunch Buffet

Tomatoes, Mozzarella, and Basil with Balsamic Drizzle

Grilled Chicken Breast with Mandarin Orange Glaze

Pasta with Wild Mushrooms, Roasted Tomatoes Confit, Spinach, and Asiago Cream Sauce

Carved to order:

Brown Sugar Baked Ham with Honey Mustard and Spicy Pineapple Compote

Cheddar Cheese Shredded Potato Gratin

Petit Vegetable Medley tossed with Citrus Olive Oil and Sea Salt

Hardwood Smoked Bacon

Egg Cookery Station:

Made-to-Order Omelets, Choice of Smoked Salmon, Ham, Bacon,

Cheddar Cheese, Onions, Mushrooms, Peppers, Asparagus, and Egg Substitute

Brioche French Toast with Caramelized Bananas Foster and Whipped Cream

Assorted Juices, Coffee, Decaffeinated Coffee, Iced Tea, and Selection of Teas

Our View of the Wedding Chapel

I just had to snap this picture while we were waiting for the monorail. Grand Floridian wedding chapel looking magnificent. We spent a lot of time on the monorail and were in heaven every time we passed by the chapel.

I also snapped one of the Grand Floridian as a whole. So beautiful! Can't wait for December!

I Made a Decision!

The first real decision of the wedding has been made! I said in one of my previous posts that I had ordered two sample invitations. Well, the invitations arrived while we were in South Carolina. I was actually really surprised that they both looked almost exactly like they did online. I ordered a sample of my favorite purple invitation, and a sample of my favorite invitation overall, which is actually a khaki-gold type color. As noted, my mom decided that she hated both online. BUT, she actually came over from the dark side and LOVED the gold-ish one. It also helped that the purple one was a lot smaller than we thought....guess we didn't look at the sizes!

DECISION MADE!!! I haven't placed the order yet...but it is nice to feel that one decision is finally OVA. I was going to take a picture and attach it, but then I realized that a picture would ruin the surprise.

Merry Christmas + One

Cody Claus says "Merry Christmas from the soon-to-be Snyders!"

I am celebrating my last few days of my last full year as a Prager. By next Christmas, I will officially be a Snyder (of Scheider, according to members of my family). We spent a wonderful week in South Carolina with our family.

We have our mini-engagement party tomorrow, and then we are heading back home just a FEW Legos heavier.

We would like to wish everyone Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays.

STEVIE aka Cody Jr

Please welcome Stevie, or Cody Jr. to the family. I just saw this picture and realized I have not shown the world this amazingly cute puppy. My parents just got him a few months ago. He looks eerily similar to Cody, and is just as smart and outgoing. Stevie loves to play Catch Cody when Cody comes to visit.

A Paula Deen Catered Wedding

New Dream in Life: Paula Deen caters our wedding.

Reality: Not gonna happen. BUT, I will try and make my home the nearby Horseshoe Casino as much as possible to eat at the Paula Deen Buffet.

Don and I ate there last night when we were at the casino. The picture is of her bread pudding. Well actually it is the remnants of my plate of bread pudding that I attempted to shovel into my mouth at warp speed. SO AMAZING. If I had known how good the bread pudding and sauce were going to be, I would have literally just ate bread pudding. It was like a praline bread pudding extravaganza.

Everything else was awesome too, but they tried to trick you at the buffet. First of all, the plates were tinyyyy. I picked one up, and said to Don: "Okay, here's the salad plate. So where is the main plate?" But no, the tiny plate was the main plate. Well sorry Horseshoe, you can't dupe us, because Don just got two plates to start with. And I got 1.5 plates (aka small plate and smaller bread plate.) But that is not the end of the cunningness. So, most people do buffets right to left, as that is how people feel comfortable. Well, they put all the filling starches right at the beginning. Essentially my first plate was shrimp and grits, mashed potatoes, and mac and cheese. Small plates combined with starches meant I basically filled up with three tiny scopes of food. AKA Horseshoe makes a lot of money since I basically ate nothing. Then the prime rib is all the way at the end, so you NEVER get there! The salads were over there also so you didn't get your salad plate first. You get the filling carbos first. Sneaky sneaky. Don won though. He was eating so fast I am pretty sure he never swallowed until all his plates were done.

Bottom line: Buffet = AWESOME. Horseshoe = SNEAKY. Don = HAPPPPPPY. Amanda = DREAMS OF BREAD PUDDING.

Well if you REALLY want to know, I didn't like it

My wedding Invitations day guests for Charlene & Kenny
Originally uploaded by Salicia

"If you guys have an ugly baby, and you ask me if you're baby is pretty, I'm not gonna tell you your baby is pretty. You guys better make sure you have a pretty baby." Linda Prager's baby policy from 5 seconds ago (this has nothing to do with this post, but she was saying it as I started posting so I thought it made a good addition)

So I went on a wedding rampage today. I FINALLY got some things done for the wedding.

1) I got the wedding guest list done. Somehow...since this occurred in the midst of another Amanda-Linda showdown and a Michael budget ultimatum.

2) I have ordered to invitation samples. Which my mom hates apparently. She said nothing at the time, then as I ordered them decided to let me know that she didn't like them. Queue the ugly baby rampage. Apparently if things are ugly she won't tell you until you ask...unless you have an ugly baby in which case she is perfectly happy telling you that you have an ugly baby. Which makes no sense, but that's my mom. But I like both the invitations. One is purple and following the wedding colors. The other is beige, more neutral, and falling more along the lines of our imagined oldies glamour theme.

3) I have started a wedding budget. My dad is expecting some sort of a professional powerpoint presentation extravaganza in order to convince him to increase my wedding budget. Yeah...I will get right on that! Seriously...I need a bigger budget so I will budget away until this is done. I wonder if $10,000 for flowers will slide by his eagle eyes...

Ahh, the joys of planning a wedding. Just shy of a year out and I already feel jaded. It will be lucky if I even show up for this in the end. ;)