Cuisinart will chop you
Whoops. I started a post today at work, and then I got distracted (probably by genuine work), and I forgot to save and upload my post. Oh well. I don’t think it was anything groundbreaking.
We got the quote from the caterer. Yikes! It looks like we’re going to have to trim back, because it’s pretty expensive, and that’s before beer and wine. That’s disappointing, because I really love food and I was excited about having such a great menu. I don’t know…I guess we could only provide beer and not wine, and that would take a big chunk out of the food/drink budget. We’ll have to think about it. I like wine almost as much as I like food, though! It’s a pickle.
Or lack thereof.
In good news, I took Danny’s invitation designs to the print shop and they made me some proofs on nice paper. They look really good! I’m very excited about them. At the last minute, I asked Danny to do a version where the type is in blue. Being the long-suffering designer he is, he gave in to my whims, but he was pessimistic about how well he’d be able to match the color with just a web image for comparison. Well…he did a great job. I actually really like the color version a lot. It’s more expensive to print color, of course, so we’ll have to see how the old budget is doing, but they look really beautiful.
Pantone is the solution! The print shop should have a Pantone swatch book, so you can find the blue, and then just plug the Pantone number into Photoshop.
All hail Pantone! It’s fun to say!
Just serve the wine without beer. Why not?
Because her dad and uncle are home brewers of distinctive beers.
Also, beer is way cheaper than wine, at least through the provider we’re required to use. We can’t bring in our own alcohol, unfortunately, or I bet I could find some good bargains. Removing beer wouldn’t have much of an economic impact, whereas removing wine would.
I’m going to combine two comments into one: The blue I used on the invite is Pantone 2757 Uncoated. I did my best eyeballing job. I tried a 10% fill of it on another element of the invite, but it just looked like a powder blue tuxedo. On homebrewed beer… somebody needs to mix up a batch, hold it up to a Pantone swatch book, and name it “Pantone 459”
Yeah. That’s a pretty strong point. It almost seems like you should just serve the beer due to the economic and family factors.
*sniff* I wish MY relatives brewed beer.