# 1 Best Wedding- I forget her name but she was the daughter of a privately held Fortune 500 Company . Dad had died and Mother was heir and arranged her wedding to a Greek shipping Company President’s son. My Company VP knew her but I was tasked with her honeymoon so I got a wedding invite. Honeymoon was Concorde to Paris , then private jet to Nice a week at Hotel Du Cap, Private jet to Rome, boarding a Silversea cruise of the Med 14 days. On the cruise two things that were hard.- One Mom wanted 4 dozen hot pink roses at every port. Europe has red roses, white roses, yellow roses, white roses and even pink roses, but NOT hot pink roses which are a US product. So I had to arrange a foreign expediter to work with the florist I found . Besides the customs issues, I had to arrange fresh timed for arrival at each destination port and make sure the flowers were in a refrigerated truck. Each port shipment was thousands of dollars . O.K. second problem the Greek groom was 6'7" and didn’t fit in the standard king cruise bedding which is usually two queens together. Not only did I have to find a custom mattress maker but regulations are strict about a marine certified mattress by the Europe Maritime commission. So I had to find a custom ship EU Maritime certified mattress maker that had experience helping to get it shipped to the boat and coordiate the whole thing with the Cruise Line and get it taken off the ship after ( Mom thankfully didn’t want it shipped back to the Us, so I had to get it off loaded by a salvage company) . That cost her a pretty coin.
The actual wedding.Mom is based in Atlanta but chose Chicago for the reception. Ritz Carlton Ballroom .Respectable enough but “Mom” didn’t like the drapery fabric and the banquet chair upholstery, so she had designer fabric made for all the ballroom floor to ceiling windows . I forget who but I think it was Ralph Lauren. She also had the cahir upholstered in matching fabric. Thank God that all was done by the wedding planner ( Who had totake it all down and put back the original fabrics
It went off well . I heard she offered a big tip but Jeff said “no”
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| Ritz Carlton Chicago Ballroom |
# 2 best wedding. My bosses daughter wedding at the Intercontinental Hotel Michigan Avenue. Marriage in the ballroom and then out to an ante room for appetizers and Hors d'oeuvres. It was set up with different stations . There was a
“Homestyle” which had burgers, Mac n Cheese, Chicago style hot dogs, fries . A frensh station with braised scallops, escargot, lamb lollipops, stuffed mushrooms, and asparagus stuffed puff pastries. An Italian station with mini pizzas, prosciutto wrapped melon, Salami and fig crostini, and Caprese salad cups. And finally a Chinese table with egg rolls, cocunut shrimp, won ton and plum sauce, and potstickers.
“Homestyle” which had burgers, Mac n Cheese, Chicago style hot dogs, fries . A frensh station with braised scallops, escargot, lamb lollipops, stuffed mushrooms, and asparagus stuffed puff pastries. An Italian station with mini pizzas, prosciutto wrapped melon, Salami and fig crostini, and Caprese salad cups. And finally a Chinese table with egg rolls, cocunut shrimp, won ton and plum sauce, and potstickers.
Then back into the rearranged ballroom lit on two levels with candles, an orchestra on stage with two vocalists and three gorgeous women violinists. A multi course dinner was served with breaks for the talent and dancing. At the end a sumptious Jewish dessert table laden with unimaginable treats. It all was black tie and I heard that ll the Michigan Avenue boutiques were sold out of designer gowns
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