Southern-Style
A Downhome Perspective on All Things Southern

	Menu Boiled Peanuts (Southern caviar) (in back garden room) Chicken salad tartlets Roast Beef with Rolls Salmon Boiled Shrimp Sweet and Sour Meatballs Chicken Fingers Mashed Potato Bar Fresh Fruit and Cheese Black eyed Pea Salsa w/chips Vegetable quiche Green Bean Bundles Cheese Pecan Crisps Almond Toasties Brides Cake Grooms Cake (in living room)

14.  Cake—Joy Cowart, a family friend, came through with two of the tastiest, prettiest cakes I have ever seen. Fresh hydrangea ornamented the brides cake. The only problem was that the hydrangea were not conditioned as well as they should have been by the flower lady…me! The stems should have been crushed to draw in more water into the stems, kept in the shade and frequently refreshed with ice cubes in the water. The chocolate grooms cake was so good it was sinful.

For the children’s area we ordered a two layer cake from Rolen’s Bakery (our all time favorite for birthdays and special events) with a wedding Mickey and Minnie mouse topper that I ordered from Disney online. The top layer was blue polka dotted on white icing. The bottom had blue stripes. The caterer also put special goodies on the children’s table. The flower girl, our granddaughter, Lily Clare Butterworth, was "in charge" of that area, along with cousins, Hannah, Rebecca, Mallory and Mary Elle Burson. We were not quite quick enough to get a picture of the "whole" cake. 

15.Catering—Faye Jacobs and Carolyn Brown at Pans and Petals came highly recommended by a good friend for whom they have catered three weddings. We wanted a southern menu and that included boiled peanuts. We bought a full bushel of boiled peanuts at McNeil Farms and they were a real hit.  Carolyn suggested just a sample of the food in the dining room, with the full buffet outside.  Faye suggested that we use regular dinner napkins for the buffet, cocktail napkins for the bar and the personalized napkins for the cake. 

This table in our dining room held just enough food to hold a guest over until they made it through the family room to the bar in the sunroom and onto the food under the carport and tables set up throughout the back yard.