Garden Party Reception
Back in England, with pretty much no time to recover from our Canada-trip and the wedding, we began putting together Reception #2. We were absolutely insane to plan an outdoor party here in England; apparently this summer has been the darkest in about 75 years (least amount of sunshine hours), not to mention the rain. We lucked out, however, because we managed to get one of about 4 sunny days since June!Helen and I spent Friday afternoon preparing the food - we did it all ourselves! We made greek couscous salad, potato-and-coriander salad, spicy green bean salad, teriyaki salmon and cajun turkey (the latter two were barbequed by BBQ-wiz, Riccardo!).
Basically everything went really well; all but one of the guests who RSVP'd attended (what a surprise!) and we ended up with a full backyard of about 15 people. The food went over well, and everyone had a place to sit. Riccardo even put together a slideshow of wedding pictures which he projected (with a beamer borrowed from work) onto a sheet nailed to our back fence - it worked out great!
About half the guests left around 10:00, at which time the rest of us moved inside for a (you guessed it!) karaoke party. Combined with some Absolute Balderdash, this made for a great end to the whole wedding affair.
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