Hunter Valley Wedding Recap {Part 4} ~ Bridal Party Day Out & Welcome Party

~ Friday ~

 Girls Spa Day

I booked a local spa for the Friday afternoon and arranged a champagne lunch, manicures & pedicures for the ladies.

Unfortunately a few last minute dramas (the boys suits were lost, cake issues meant we didn’t know if it would arrive on time & even if it did we definitely knew our cookie favors were not coming, still had welcome bag notes to change by hand with the new Brunch details before the hotel could distribute them) meant I wasn’t able to get there till right before the end (just in time to clean up!).

I was pretty upset that I missed the day as I had been looking forward to it & they all had a lovely time but thankfully I was able to get all the welcome notes changed, replacement suits sorted, favors for the reception and a backup a cake option organised instead.

Friday ~ Boys Day Out

 

The boys day out started off a little rocky when the venue we had organised the golfing day & lunch with cancelled. Instead the boys moved activities to our house and had a  relaxed afternoon and BBQ lunch before heading off to the Welcome Party in the evening. 

 

 

Welcome Party

The week before the wedding we had a call from our welcome party venue (also the place we booked for the Boys Golfing Day Out) to say they had taken a corporate booking and we would no longer be able to have the use of the golf course for the time we had booked & also that our welcome party would have to start at least 2hrs later. My first reaction was “is this some weird wedding humour that you think is funny? our wedding is next week & we booked this MONTHs ago?” after a few uncomfortable minutes of silence I realised….

No it wasn’t a joke

Yes they were very serious

No they didn’t see this as unacceptable or unprofessional at all and

Yes they expected me to suck it up & move our party start time to 9pm

Needless to say that would not happen! so we needed to find a different venue and it took all of 5 minutes to work out who to call for help. Enter Naomi from Peterson’s Champagne House, our amazing reception venue. Without hesitation Naomi offered Peterson’s and a few emails later we had selected the menu and with a quick change to our (already printed) welcome notes we were back on track!

In the end the party was brilliant, the food was fantastic & it was the perfect start to the weekend

Next up... WEDDING DAY!