On May 31st, we kicked off the start of our wedding season with the first event: our stag & doe. It took several days of prep gathering 50 bottles of pop (we only used about 20), things for the raffle prizes, alcohol, and odds & ends like tickets, aprons, signs etc.
I also took a full week off for food prep: pulled pork, meatballs, corn bred, cookies, and brownies.
We also spent some time prepping our cowboys hats for ourselves and our wedding party! Everyone was labelled! We even invested in a hot glue gun for these for the ribbon...
We rented the hall a bit early for set up. We are super lucky to have a super helpful wedding party and everyone helped with food, came early to prep, and initiated pizza orders. We had so much help from everyone to actually make this day happen with making a profit!
This is the beginning trying to get everyone's attention to set up games, raffles etc. for the night. We found it worked better to talk to everyone over the mic!
This is clearly the best picture to post because everyone's face is full but mine...
Group shot! The wedding party minus a couple: Andrew & Alyssa (the sibs). Plaid cowboys hats, and jean shorts (daisy dukes?)!
Al sporting the best farmers tan ever.
2 x 4 jager shots! With our awesome bartender who created the "signature drink": because I had leftover grenadine in the cupboard that I wasn't going to use... used it all that night! The signature drink was a hit: vodka (or rum), sprite, and grenadine.
Warren made the 2 x 4 shot device with little circles to fit the shot glasses.
The door crew! These peeps were diligent in watching the money box at all times and also had the duties of alcohol ticket sales and the King of Hearts game. Ticket sales were mostly done in advance with our cooler of booze prize!
For a good portion of the night, we had the best pregnant bartenders of life. Perfectly fitting with the theme, we put the preggers with the alcohol. I just felt bad having them work so hard for so long when Chelsea pretty much could have had a baby right there.
Our first game of the night! The balloon stomp! For $2 a balloon, everyone tied the balloon around their ankle and tried to be the last standing balloon by popping everyone elses. The grand winner was Alyssa's boyfriend, Jon and they won dinner & a movie!
This is the best game to watch...
The second game of the night: hammer the nail into the tree stump! After neck and neck tournaments, cutting the people who finished second out, the lady on the left, Ashley killed it and took home the lcbo gift card. No surprise that the winner for the men's was Paul Brown... he basically shouldn't be allowed to participate...
And... our final game of the night was the toonie toss! We had a Texas Mickey of rum up for grabs and the toonies just kept going and going (obviously we were 100% ok with this).
My bro Mike was on a mission to get his toonie closest, and was so close until it got stolen at the end! This is Mike monitoring my Dad to make sure his toonie doesn't get hit out of the way...
At the end of the night this happened. It was a little extreme if you ask me. We had jars that people filled with money based on who they wanted to see have a pie in the face. You can clearly see in this picture who is the big fat loser of the pie in the face. I mean... this is NOT pie in the face... this is pie in the face, hair, arm, and every other place.. jerk.
This.... this is how it happened. I was actually expecting that I would be pied in the face but it was actually Aleksy that got the most money (thanks to my awesome fam and friends who protected me. After learning that Aleksy was to get a pie in the face, my lovely sister then filled the pie pan with tons and tons and tons of whipped cream. That's when my best friend, now exfriend Chelsea added $25 to my jar so I'd get pied. And that's how it happened.
But then I forgive and forget way too easily and now we're friends again (Cadence was born shortly after so I had no choice...)
At the end of it all we made enough to cover our florist, photographer, and minister (with some extra to contribute to our driveway!)... an awesome night, which was super helpful to financing our wedding.
We had tons of leftover things from the stag & doe like pop, plates, cutlery, cups, and tickets and I even sold those on kijiji to get some money off them and made an extra$75!
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