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Posts Tagged "Weddings"
I love 100 Layer Cake. I religiously visit this blog daily! There’s everything from real wedding photography to DIY projects to color schemes….It’s amazing! My fellow Adventurers- Even if you aren’t getting married any time soon, check out this site for some daily inspiration!  From 100 Layer Cake
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As I mentioned early this week, I am a fountain of knowledge about all things adventure and possibly all things BRUNCH WEDDING. So, folks, if you’ve ever wondered about . . . THE BENEFITS OF BRUNCH, . . . let me fill you in. Today’s wedding is a spectacular (and expensive) event and many of the brides we work with seem sad to see the fun end. They’ve usually been planning for the big day for a year (or more!) and it goes by quickly. A ‘day-after’ brunch is an awesome time to connect even more with loved ones; especially out-of-towners who have journeyed to the wedding. It is a wonderful idea to surround yourself with love during your first day as a married couple. 1. Cheaper: Brunch food is just cheaper, I think this is because we live in a dinner-archy. Dinner is considered better, more awesome and more important and is therefore more expensive. But who cares? Take advantage of the dinner-centric culture, Go Big and Go Brunch! (and maybe Go Home to do it, or at least in the backyard of your fanciest friends house, or better yet, the home of an older, wiser family friend who loves to garden)! 2. Unexpected: Your friends will love you if your brunch is a ‘day-after’ thing. Good friends love to re-hash everything and if they want to squeeze in as much time as possible with the far-flung old buddies from camp, from high school, college or whatever, a post-wedding brunch is an unbeatable choice! 3. Not so much drinking: No one will get embarrassingly drunk on mimosas or bloodies the way they might on the open bar vodka sodas. Just sayin’, could be good for people who are not as interested in an all night wedding turned frat party. 4. Diversifies décor options: Some folks might want to ditch nighttime rented elegance for brunch in favor of sentimental, folksy or bright and cheery handmade décor. A bunch of family quilts and dishes from home is totally awesome and expressive of the couples’ lifestyles and individuality; less inhibiting than the traditional evening wedding. 5. Better for including kids: Little children can be a more active part of the festivities as it is not past their bedtime and perhaps the brunch reception will be a less formal affair or the ‘day-after’ brunch may be a fun way to hang out with kids who were asleep or with the babysitter during the wedding the night before. 6. Booking entertainment could be cheaper too: Feel free to wheel and deal with your favorite bands! They probably aren’t too busy and a day-time setting could call for smaller groups. An accordion duo in the park or the backyard during brunch would rule! CONTINENTAL BREKKIE AT HOME
GOURMET RUSTIC PICNIC 1. Hire a wedding planner to really get your gourmet brunch the attention to detail it deserves. The Adventure School is available. 2. Take out from a favorite casual dining spot and a performer, for example; Paseo, every body will love this, have a flamenco guitarist strum along while you eat! Indian food in the park with saris spread on picnic tables or on the grass would be awesome! Hire an Indian Classical dancer to strut their stuff for a thrilled crowd as they drink bottomless chai! A performer can add an awesome surprise element for just a few hundred dollars. 3. Make a smorgasboard of desserts, it’s informal so everyone can share. Cupcakes from the new Cupcake Royale on Pike street on Capitol Hill brought to Volunteer Park for a casual post wedding brunch would be ideal! Get Top Pot donuts, bring vegan sorbet. Check out the new awesome Domestic Architecture designed Cupcake Royale. 4. Use whole foods, (not the store). Bring a knife and cutting board and cut hunks of cheese, bread, meat. Everybody can get down with great big hunks of food, you can let your hair down and place some petanque with a baguette in hand. 5. Bring jars or food tins (get some used food tins from local grocers or tea shops) and fill with local flowers from Pike Place Market. Extremely reasonably priced. Get a bunch of sweet pea blossoms for five dollars! If you feel like outsourcing hire Marigold and Mint to do a similar wild flower look for your wedding picnic! 6. Hire a bartender or barista! Seems extravagant, but will set an awesome tone to an informal brunch! No one should be without a drink! Ask your favorite local bartender to do it and get a $10 banquet permit from the liquor store, after all, it’s a private event in your own backyard. Fancy non-alcoholic drinks rule too! Caffe Vita has coffee carts ready and willing to come to your event. Cute! 7. Foraged and Found Edibles! Get them involved! You will have the wedding of the year! So Locavore it hurts! Back to the land young lovers and the loved ones who love them! Also, check out Christina Choi’s restaurant, Nettletown. 8. Make specialized brunch totes by ordering and monogramming Boat & Totes from LL Bean! Get them embroidered to say I Love You or The Jones or something else. (I think you can have up to 10 characters). FOOD CARTS So many great food carts right now in Seattle. Marination mobile, Maximus Minimus, skillet, Veraci pizza, Tako Truk and Rancho Bravo just to name a few. They add a huge dose of whimsy to any event. Personalize the experience by having them plate up the goods on containers in the theme. Have a circus experience with red and white stripes and checked items from Cash and Carry. Ask them to use mason jars for your down-home folksy shindig. Incorporate a band that compliments the mood of the food cart: slide guitarists with marination mobile. Add a cotton candy machine to the mix; have someone funny staff it. Go totally DIY and build a funny tent and serve your mom’s pies out of it. Go green with corn plastics or thrifted dishes, flatware and cups. BRUNCH IN A RESTAURANT A restaurant buy-out is intimate and shows you really care; an awesome option for foodies!
You want it? We have it in spades. Every week, The Adventure School is quoted in several national internet publications about wedding planning and event planning in general. The latest slew of articles are all about adventurous honeymoons. So, if you are in Philly or Chicago or San Antonio you will get some tips from me! But, faithful readers, of course, your best source for Adventure Tips is right here on the adventure blog. With that being said, right now (and always) I am in to saying to people, start your marriage right . . . with a wicked awesome ADVENTURE! A quote from the source article . . . “Go scuba diving and snorkeling in Puerto Rico: it is tropical and beautiful with extremely consistent perfect summer weather year-round. Easy-going honeymooners can choose this option using USA driver’s license and dollar bills as it is an American territory that feels like a far-flung land. The beautiful diving spots offer fun for honeymooners who are doing it for the first time or are very experienced, lovers might spot bluehead wrasse, French angels and batfish or sea horses, coral shrimp and arrow crabs! Puerto Rico has some of the best beaches in the world and it’s just a short flight for under $100 from NYC. Drink rum and luxuriate after a long day of floating in warm tropical waters. Your own secret tropical land! If you want to revel in time alone together head to Big Sky Country and bike Montana for your honeymoon. An economical choice that is anything but short on beauty and luxury. The www.visitMt.com website lists more than 38 scenic bicycle tours rated from easy to experienced for both road and mountain bike riders. Spotting Elk, Bighorn and Buffalo by day and relaxing in gourmet steakhouses and top-notch lodges by night is the ultimate start to a marriage full of all types of experiences from 4-star massages to teamwork on the roads! Very adventurous lovers should hike Kilimanjaro! It is Africa’s highest summit surrounded by wildlife preserves. You can do double duty by rounding out your hiking adventure honeymoon with a safari through the Serengeti Plain and Ngorongoro Crater. Every marriage should start with an epic story, for those who honeymoon in Tanzania, it won’t just be about who obsessed over the sunscreen it will be about who was the best at spotting lions from the jeep”! ADVENTURE EXPERTISE, get into it!!
Meet Jenny Jiménez, sweetheart of The Adventure School and one helluva photographer. The secret ingredients that give Jenny’s photos that extra oomph is a sense of humor and talent for capturing real, unconventional moments rather than canned, stage-y poses. If you like Jenny’s work as much as we do, swing by Jenny’s show, Show Me Your TIFFS, this Thursday featuring some clever specialty cocktails for those of us with the right initials: Double D (i.e. Dorcas Doolittle), Double J (i.e. Jenny Jiménez!), and Double You (i.e. Barbie Babbit or MitcheLL, KnoxviLLe.) Identification courteously requested. Oh, and there’s also gonna be a wet t-shirt contest. Yeeeeeeeeah! Check out the rest of Jenny’s excellent portfolio on her website and keep up with her comings and goings on her blog. But first, read her Adventurer Profile!
What skill do you want to learn? Food and drink you donʼt want to live without? What’s the scariest thing you can think of? What is your favourite party supply? Your favorite book of the moment? What is the evil version of you like? What gives you confidence? Name four essential elements of a good party. What do you appreciate most about a party host? Favorite adventure supply? Describe the best party you ever attended. Hotel room or campsite? Do you have a style icon? Where is your next adventure destination? If you could teach a class about anything in the world ever, what would you teach? Your motto? What is your spirit animal? *Photo courtesy of another friend of The Adventure School, Sean Flanigan
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