ideas, tastings, and wedding planners...O MY!

My desk either consists of wedding stuff or homework...depending on the hour of the day

  A few weeks ago my mum, sis and i went to a bridal expo at the sheraton. here we met someone who is going to make our wedding seem like a piece of cake!

  kelly, a wedding coordinator from Country Garden Caterers here in orange county was sent from above! literally! (that morning at church i had prayed that i would find someone who could help me throughout the who wedding shin-dig.) at the start of our engagement i wanted to do everything myself, because i did not want the typical "cookie-cutter" type of wedding with the typical "chicken and vegetable" dinner and so on...i felt that if i used a wedding planner i would get exactly that! but NOPE! not with kelly! from the beginning we just "clicked" (as my mummy said) and she seemed to know exactly what i wanted!

  right after our first meeting at the expo, kelly sent me an email giving me ideas she had for the wedding...AMAZING! she knew exactly what i was going for! we set up a tasting to try her caterer's cuisine and boy was it yummy! we previously wanted Buca di Beppo to provide the food, but after trying her italian food it was a home run out of the park!

  on thursday matt, mrs. shondeff, my mum and i went for the tasting at the Country Garden's catering hall in old town santa ana. kelly had set up a table for us...IT WAS BEAUTIFUL and exactly what i visioned plus more! over dinner we talked about plans for tables, food, drinks, service and budget.

  i don't want to give too many details (a few: olives, burlap and long tables) away about our wedding...but just stay tuned to see all the wonderful ideas that kelly has in store :)