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I must say that my cousin's wedding at Bethpage State Park last weekend was quite nice! The main room overlooked beautiful green, rolling hills. It was a good, not-overly-done up place with an appropriate fall color scheme of chocolate brown and creamy white. And most importantly, the food was very, very good!

The cocktail hour after the actual ceremony (which was a mixed Jewish and Christian affair) was a full meal in and of itself: delicious juicy pineapple and a large fruit & vegetable table, a varied cheese spread, a mashed potato bar, potato pancakes, 2 kinds of caviar, stewed mussels, calamari, steak, assorted cold cuts, an antipasto table, shrimp, scallop appetizers and as according to be, the *best* baked clams he's ever had! Additionally, there was full bar service, a martini room and a vodka shot area.

Dinner started with a mixed baby greens salad, roasted corn & onion salad, a crabcake and assorted rolls with butter. My mom and be were already so full from all the seafood they consumed during the cocktail hour, they couldn't even finish the extra crabcakes my sister and i didn't eat! For the main meal, the choices consisted of filet mignon, grilled chicken or macadamia-encrusted mahi mahi. My sister, be and i opted for the vegetarian plate which contained: deliciously creamy risotto, layered grilled mushrooms & vegetables and assorted side vegetables like baby carrots. I also saw a ton of kids with fried chicken and french fries!

My cousin's wedding cake was a light hazelnut cream-filled one, which went so well against the "molten chocolate cake with dueling sauces" and fresh berries. The molten cake was so rich i could only eat half of it! Everyone was also quite full from the cocktail hour and full dinner; otherwise i would've had some ice cream, too!

I was overall very impressed at how good the food was, and how the extraordinarily good live wedding band effortlessly performed songs from various decades. be thinks it was the best wedding he's ever been to! Lastly, the place card holders were hinged Lenox silver fortune cookies, and the wedding favors were little tins of loose English breakfast tea. Congratulations to my cousin!

posted by beXn @ 1:16 AM