Aug. 15th, 2008

mercurialsunshine: (formal wear)
    The biggest difficulty with the wedding is going to be the food. I'm doing it all (from drinks, to actual food, to the cake) myself from scratch, but that isn't the problem. See when you have caterers THEY have to figure out how to transport everything and how to keep everything at the perfect temperatures, etc. For me? Well I don't have super expensive refrigeration units or a pile of chaffing dishes and sterno. On top of that all, I live 4 1/2ish hours from the reception. That means all this stuff I'm going to have premade will all need to be driven over there when we go the day before and then kept cool not only for the drive, but overnight, and then the next day on the beach.
    Most of this problem is solved with actual refrigerators. Charles' family is renting a house on the island and will have a full real fridge. Also, we will have at least one if not two mini-fridges in our hotels room. Between all of those, we should be fine. The problem that is left is the transporting of said items during the drive. So here's what you can do.

If any of you that live in Atlanta* have coolers/ice chests/etc. I can borrow, please let me know!

I only need maybe 2 more in addition to what I have because some of the stuff doesn't need kept cold, just served cold. We have a _giant_ tub for the ice and food for the beach, but it isn't insulated and thus the drive would be bad. I looked into buying them and at fricken big lots they were still like $25 a piece for cheap ones. I can't afford to drop $50 on coolers that I will only need for 4 1/2 hours. (

*And no it won't work if you're coming to the wedding and don't live here cause I need them for the drive down.)
mercurialsunshine: (Voldemort)
Holy crap. I have one more midterm left on Sunday (stupid weekend class) and I was thinking something to the effect of "Ah, and then I get a bit of a break from the insanity!"
Except that the wedding is now like 5 weeks away thus I'm getting into the stuff that couldn't be done until right at the end. Also, Dragon*Con is in like, what a week and a half-ish? I _still_ need to remake my outfits since they don't fit right, not to mention I have to help out with the Dawn outfit too, and oh yeah, there's that important "practicing my role" bit that seems to have gotten overlooked. Thank god Willow is like the easiest role in that episode. This definitely means there will be no additional costumes for me that Friday, just normal clothes until the show.
Add into that I have my wedding shower this Sunday _after_ my dining room service midterm *cringe* I'm gonna be wiped out. Then next Friday I have a alumni dinner I'm doing service at for both monies and extra credit, but that means I have to go into work early. And I think with Dragon*Con what we decided work-wise was that I would work a double shift on Thursday so I can have Friday off without losing any hours (since I really can't afford to... it's not like I have that many to start with) but that means that if I'm gonna try to make the rehearsal on Thursday night @ 10 at the con, then I'll have to try to talk them into working from 1-9, then bust on over to the MARTA station, take the train to the right station (I'll have to figure out which one that is... there is a station right there right?) and then go practice, then reverse those steps to get home, crash, wake up early, and do it all over again the next morning in regards to the train and such. Phew.
Man, tomorrow I need to really buckle down and try and get some homework and studying done early.

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