For ceremony music, we have the choices of two guitars or violin/cello. We have decided to go for violin/cello (string duo), because I am a (pretended) classic music fan. For some reason I don't really like guitars at all. Plus string duo and classic music just sound much more appropriate for a 600 year-old Renaissance Palace.
We got a promised play list through our wedding planner Kike: Pachelbel: Canon D, Bach: Air, Haydn: Serenade, Schubert: Serenade, Boccherini: Menuet, Mozart: Andante. I am familiar with all the pieces, they are very typical for wedding ceremony, but I was surprised that they don't have Wedding March (Midsummer Night's Dream) by Mendelssohn or Bridal Chorus by Wagner. I requested them to add these two and Beethoven's Ode of Joy to the playlist. Beethoven's Ode of Joy was one of my favourite during my childhood, so I thought it's important to add that.
Traditionally, bride walks down the aisle with Bridal Chorus and the newly wedded couple leave together with Wedding March. I think Bridal Chorus (here comes the bride) is a beautiful piece of music, but it's a little too cliche (plus the story behind it doesn't have a happy ending http://www.oracleband.net/Articles/wedding-march.htm). I am torn between following the tradition or picking a piece of music that I truly love. Speaking of truly loved music, Pachelbel's Canon D is my adulthood favourite and it has nothing to do with the novel/movie Twilight. We picked my favourite to be our first dance music. Bear and I both really like Bach's Air as well, so I am thinking if I am not to use Bridal Chorus, I might choose Air as the bridal entrance music.
All the decisions seem to be harder when you have too much time to think about it.
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Monday, June 06, 2011
Wedding Menu
We will be hosting our reception dinner at Restaurant Dubrovnik. If you search for "Restaurant Dubrovnik" on Google, there should be a lot of results, but those restaurants are all in Canada!!! The one we are hosting our wedding reception in is really a restaurant in Dubrovnik! The only info we can really find online is the review on TripAdvisor. http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Restaurant_Review-g295371-d1484121-Reviews-Restaurant_Dubrovnik-Dubrovnik.html The restaurant is ranked as number one in the review in the area. It's not a super high end restaurant, but according to the review the food is very good! As much as I like pretty things, I think since it's a dinner, the quality of food is also very important. That's why after reading the online reviews, Bear and I decided that we will host the reception in Restaurant Dubrovnik.
We got some wedding menus from last year as sample menus:
Menu 1 (with 3 different options):
MEAT MENU:
Cheese cream with pumpkin oil
Prosciutto and melon with mint
Beef soup with noodels and cognac
Home made pasta with mushrooms and truffles
Beefsteak in green pepper sauce
Strawberries with green pepper and ice-cream
Coffee
FISH MENU:
Cheese cream with pumpkin oil
Marinated anchovies on rocket salad
Fish soup
Home made pasta with cream of shrimps
Fish trilogy (seabream, red scorpion fish, scampi) on swiss chard risotto
Strawberries with green pepper and ice-cream
Coffee
VEGETARIAN MENU
Cheese cream with pumpkin oil
Croatian cheeses with honey, walnuts and grapes
Vegetable soup
Home made pasta with mushrooms and truffles
Tofu with sauce of mushrooms and julienne vegetables
Strawberries with green pepper and ice-cream
Coffee
Menu 2 (with 2 different options):
FISH MENU:
Dalmatian fish soup: Traditional fish soup, served with fish meat and rice
Creamy shrimp risotto: Rice and shrimps sautéed in olive oil and garlic
Grilled John Dory fillet: served in olive oil, pepper and lemon sauce with boiled potato and swiss chard
Wild rocket and chicory salad
Creme brulee Dubrovnik Style
MEAT MENU:
Mozzarella with tomato: Mozzarella served on finely sliced tomato, flavoured with olive oil and balsamic vinegar
Cannelloni with chicken meat: Gratinated cannelloni, stuffed with chicken meat, served with tomato sauce
Beef fillet Wellington: Fillet of beef wrapped in puff pastry with mushrooms, red onion with additional flavouring ingredients, served with grilled vegetable
Tomato salad
Chocolate mousse cake
These menus all sound very good and the prices are reasonable (especially they are wedding menus). We really like the fact there are at least two options for each set of menu. I know that at least one of our guests is severely allergic to seafood. And it's not uncommon for that encounter Taiwanese people that don't eat beef due religion or family tradition. Having the choices between fish and meat makes things a lot easier. As far as I am aware, none of our guests are vegetarians, so we will eliminate the vegetarian option.
Back in April, we got some of this year's menus. They are pretty good but not as exciting as the menus we got previously. (something totally unrelated to us: we have also accidentally discovered that catering outside of the restaurant cost at least twice as much). They also added buffet menu option, however the food they provided for buffet doesn't sound nearly as interesting. In May, the restaurant still didn't have more menus for us, the wedding planner told us that we can just mix and match and menu in anyway we want. Flexibility is good, but not always true for us the indecisive ones.
It was such an hard decision Bear and I had to make. There are total of 4 sets of menus (2 from last year, 2 for this year) to choose from. At the end, we both think we should respect the chef's expertise, and keep the menu as it is, because they should know which items go together the best. We picked menu 2, because the main courses in both fish and meat option seem a bit fancier than the other set menus. I am very interested in trying out Beef Wellington. One small variation we asked for is to replace the dessert in menu 2 with strawberries with green pepper ice cream. The reasons are:
1. I know ice cream is very famous in Dubrovnik, and strawberries with green pepper ice cream sounds like something you won't encounter anywhere else.
2. We are serving cake after dinner, so ice cream is probably better so people don't get overwhelmed by desserts.
We will try out the menu on the day we arrive Dubrovnik.
We got some wedding menus from last year as sample menus:
Menu 1 (with 3 different options):
MEAT MENU:
Cheese cream with pumpkin oil
Prosciutto and melon with mint
Beef soup with noodels and cognac
Home made pasta with mushrooms and truffles
Beefsteak in green pepper sauce
Strawberries with green pepper and ice-cream
Coffee
FISH MENU:
Cheese cream with pumpkin oil
Marinated anchovies on rocket salad
Fish soup
Home made pasta with cream of shrimps
Fish trilogy (seabream, red scorpion fish, scampi) on swiss chard risotto
Strawberries with green pepper and ice-cream
Coffee
VEGETARIAN MENU
Cheese cream with pumpkin oil
Croatian cheeses with honey, walnuts and grapes
Vegetable soup
Home made pasta with mushrooms and truffles
Tofu with sauce of mushrooms and julienne vegetables
Strawberries with green pepper and ice-cream
Coffee
Menu 2 (with 2 different options):
FISH MENU:
Dalmatian fish soup: Traditional fish soup, served with fish meat and rice
Creamy shrimp risotto: Rice and shrimps sautéed in olive oil and garlic
Grilled John Dory fillet: served in olive oil, pepper and lemon sauce with boiled potato and swiss chard
Wild rocket and chicory salad
Creme brulee Dubrovnik Style
MEAT MENU:
Mozzarella with tomato: Mozzarella served on finely sliced tomato, flavoured with olive oil and balsamic vinegar
Cannelloni with chicken meat: Gratinated cannelloni, stuffed with chicken meat, served with tomato sauce
Beef fillet Wellington: Fillet of beef wrapped in puff pastry with mushrooms, red onion with additional flavouring ingredients, served with grilled vegetable
Tomato salad
Chocolate mousse cake
These menus all sound very good and the prices are reasonable (especially they are wedding menus). We really like the fact there are at least two options for each set of menu. I know that at least one of our guests is severely allergic to seafood. And it's not uncommon for that encounter Taiwanese people that don't eat beef due religion or family tradition. Having the choices between fish and meat makes things a lot easier. As far as I am aware, none of our guests are vegetarians, so we will eliminate the vegetarian option.
Back in April, we got some of this year's menus. They are pretty good but not as exciting as the menus we got previously. (something totally unrelated to us: we have also accidentally discovered that catering outside of the restaurant cost at least twice as much). They also added buffet menu option, however the food they provided for buffet doesn't sound nearly as interesting. In May, the restaurant still didn't have more menus for us, the wedding planner told us that we can just mix and match and menu in anyway we want. Flexibility is good, but not always true for us the indecisive ones.
It was such an hard decision Bear and I had to make. There are total of 4 sets of menus (2 from last year, 2 for this year) to choose from. At the end, we both think we should respect the chef's expertise, and keep the menu as it is, because they should know which items go together the best. We picked menu 2, because the main courses in both fish and meat option seem a bit fancier than the other set menus. I am very interested in trying out Beef Wellington. One small variation we asked for is to replace the dessert in menu 2 with strawberries with green pepper ice cream. The reasons are:
1. I know ice cream is very famous in Dubrovnik, and strawberries with green pepper ice cream sounds like something you won't encounter anywhere else.
2. We are serving cake after dinner, so ice cream is probably better so people don't get overwhelmed by desserts.
We will try out the menu on the day we arrive Dubrovnik.
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