It's 100 days to go today!
This time 100 days ago we were just getting home from our holiday where we got engaged. so we are half way though our engagement. I can't believe that in the same amount of time again we will be Mr and Mrs Elliott, it's quite scary, I'm feeling more and more excited as the days tick by and also have a strange nervous, excited and ohmygodimgettingmarried feeling in my tummy every time I think about the big day.
It was my birthday on Saturday, and what a gastronomic experience it was! It was our menu tasting at South Farm, so a really original celebration for me this year. Tom's lovely mum and dad drove us to the venue, we'd never seen the venue in the dark before, driving up the drive, the trees were all lit up with little sparkly fairy lights, it just looked beautiful. We entered to Elderlini's and Canapes and sat down to talk to two other couples, lots to discuss, compare and contrast and the night started well.
We then moved on to the barn where it was all set up as if it was a real wedding. It looked so welcoming, warm and friendly and we sat down to the first course. The way that the evening worked was that each couple were given two tasting plates, each with four mini dishes on them, coupled with a glass of wine with each tasting plate. At the back of the room were demonstration plates so that you could see how each dish would look in a full portion size. So all in all, me and Tom sampled 8 different starters, 8 different mains, 4 different wines (as well as house wines on offer all night) and 8 different desserts. As well as two buffet tables set up with lots of other bits and bobs so that you could see how a buffet table would look!
It was such a feast and some of the dishes were absolutely gorgeous, others were surprising and not what we would have thought or anticipated. There were some that were not our thing (mainly the fish for Tom) and others that we loved but maybe were not right for a wedding party. It probably gave us more questions than answers but in a really good way. We have our planning meeting on Friday which should sort out a lot of our queries and we can nail down the finer details
We had a nice chat with a couple of the people round our table and really tried to get lots of people's opinions on the dishes, rather than just our own. I had a couple of 'moments' being in the barn really made me think about our special day; the next time that we'll be doing that - I'll be married - scary stuff! It was really lovely to spend the evening with Tom, we had such a laugh and mostly agreed on everything, which was helpful. We bought a few of the potential wines at half price so that we can sample them later, we need to make a decision on wines and Champagnes: whether we get them from the venue, or source them ourselves and pay corkage - I don't think that will be too much of a chore!
Here is a picture of me; the birthday girl with my yummy cake, made by my mother-in-law to be! My last birthday as a single lady.
Until next week
Helen xx
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