Saturday, May 22nd Wedding

After raining all night and that morning it was an easy decision to put the ceremony on the patio, although, the family was able to enjoy the sunshine later that afternoon.

The mother of the bride arrived first with her daughter and other bridesmaids following closely behind. They were greeted with the Bella Package set up in the bride’s room for them. Yummy fruit, cheese, and crackers with of course ingredients for mimosas! The girls wasted no time getting ready when Jennifer Rand from Face Body and Beauty www.facebodybeauty.com arrived to do hair and make-up.

The guys were anxious to hang out in the Belvedere Groom’s room, with the Foosball table and Budweiser they ordered. They were also pleasantly surprised to find the Mother of the Bride had surprised them with customized beer steins for each groomsman.

While everyone was getting ready friends and family helped decorate and set the tables. We made it a little easier with the tables in place and set up with white linens rented from BeckenRidge. The decorations were fun pastel colors of green, pink, yellow, purple and blue. Coincidentally, (planned of course) the bridesmaid dresses were each of those different colors. It was great when they placed on the tables bowls of Easter colored M&M’s they had stocked up on just for the wedding! It was smart that they thought about that earlier, when things are only seasonal, you have to get it when it is available. Good thinking on their part. The M&M’s were accompanied by bowls of peanuts and chex-mix they brought. Also rented from BeckenRidge, was our white Italian chairs for all the tables inside and the ceremony seating outside on the patio.

Before we knew it, the bride was walking down the isle. Johanna Respini www.johannarespini.com, not a stranger to BeckenRidge, officiated the wedding. She has worked up here many times before, and was happy to find out the bride and groom choose BeckenRidge as their venue.

The DJ, a new vendor to us, but one we would definitely recommend again was Jeffe from True Love sound Mobile DJ and Multimedia Services http://www.truelovesound.com/ (541) 684-4598.

He and his wife were great. They came to rehearsal and did a great job on the wedding day.

After the ceremony the bridal party sneaked away and ready themselves to be introduced to the guests. The bridal party reentered through the front doors and the DJ announced who they were and a little bit about them. This is a cool idea that we are seeing more of this year.

While things were happening inside the main room, BeckenRidge and family helped move chairs off the covered patio after the ceremony. Later in the evening the food buffet tables were placed on the covered patio to allow for more dance space inside. They did all the first dances and even a money dance which was a huge success, some who were waiting to dance with the bride and groom didn't get to by the time the song finished. :(

As said before the sun came out and warmed us towards the end of the evening making for a great send off for the bride and groom.