Comments on: Faith & Mike’s Food And Community Wedding

By: Cakes Made With Love: Our DIY Wedding Cake Table | Corrie Anne

Cakes Made With Love: Our DIY Wedding Cake Table | Corrie Anne — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 20:19:02 +0000

[...] moms stepped in to help us serve the cake to our guests. I was inspired by a post on A Practical Wedding to use serving the wedding cake as our first act of hospitality as a couple. It also served as our [...]

By: Alexandra

Alexandra — Tue, 24 May 2011 10:40:16 +0000

So awesome! Very nice. Food, faith, community: all great things. :D
(Congratulations!)

By: LC

LC — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 22:58:19 +0000

I know this post is from awhile ago, but just wanted to THANK you for keeping up your wedding website! It is really inspiring me, and I love the details about your families. You have the perfect answer on the “registry” page – I might need to plagiarize!

By: hitchfest 2011 prepping: the goals || tea@elevensies

hitchfest 2011 prepping: the goals || tea@elevensies — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 05:35:05 +0000

[...] setting very honest and meaningful priorities for a wedding and beginning of a marriage, about the reception as a first act of hospitality, about a wedding as a launchpad for life, about anxiety and faith. With those as inspiration, I set [...]

By: Moz

Moz — Thu, 13 May 2010 04:29:22 +0000

I know this wedding was ages ago but I hope you’re still subscribed so you get this. Your weddings is so beautiful and that picture of you just before that last paragraph is exquisite.

Most importantly, congrats on your marriage xx

By: Suzanne The Party Girl

Suzanne The Party Girl — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 20:30:35 +0000

Sweet wedding! I love the addition flash cards for the table numbers, the old library card drawer and the mustache photo booth! Thanks for the post! Suzanne the Party Girl

By: faith

faith — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 12:10:20 +0000

@Val – I don’t think the Smith Bros website is up to date. They had a couple other caterers on the list they gave us, too.

If you are thinking seriously about using the venue (and it is a great location!) feel free to email me – faith (at) apartmenttherapy (dot) com. I would have a couple of comments on my experience there.

By: Val

Val — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:47:18 +0000

I loved reading this story, especially being from Columbus. I looked at the website of the Smith Bros venue and it appears that they will only deal with 2 caterers (Cameron Mitchell and Zuppa Catering). Am I just interpreting that wrong and those are the â€œpreferred caterersâ€? or did you have to get special permission or pay more in order to have the caterer of your choice? I love the location, but am interested in using a private caterer.

By: kahlia

kahlia — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:18:34 +0000

oh, wow. Like everything in this post was so perfect, so genuinely you, so inspiring and so right on on what (we think) we want for our wedding, too… I can’t wait to show this to my fiancĂŠ! Thank you so much for sharing, it was wonderful so see a couple as invested in their community’s happiness as their own!

By: faith

faith — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:08:53 +0000

Thanks again everyone for the nice words.

@karimichelle, family-style service didn’t seem to be too staff-intensive. It’s definitely easier than plated meals, and usually when you do a buffet you still need staff to cover drinks and such. The caterer seemed to imply that the issue is the serving dishes, and they already had these in stock.

One tip on cake serving, if anyone does it this way: we cut the cake ourselves, but it would have been easier to let the staff actually cut it, then for us to serve it. They tried to do that but in my idealism I stopped them! Then after slamming hunks of cake on a few plates I thought I probably should have had a little more help. :-)

And one last note on cheap invites: We bought really nice, heavy (printer-jamming) cardstock with rough edges. We ran it through a laserjet and used the embosser on the inner and outer envelopes. Here’s the paper:

http://www.dickblick.com/products/fabriano-medioevalis-stationery/