Nah-na-na Bamboo

Tyler and I (well, mostly I) sat down with the guest list the other night to update it. When I brought the inital list home last month, my parents informed me — as I knew they would — of some people I had left out. Now the list is at 199. Ouch. It's great to have so many friends and family who we want to share the day with, but we also need to be considerate of our budget and of ours and our parent's sanity. Serving dinner to 200 guests with no catering help seems like a nightmare.

Then today, I got word of a deal on bamboo plates. We decided to go ahead and order 150 plates, but we're going to take a look at the guest list again and see if it makes sense to invite our closest friends and family to the ceremony and dinner, and open up the reception to everyone else. The reception is the most important part anyway, right?!

So here are our plates, which many of you will be eating off of. I'm very excited, because they were cheaper than renting glass plates, and they satisfy my desire to not use paper plates that we'd throw away. We can wash and reuse the bamboo plates, or sell them to another couple down the road. The best part is that they are 100 percent organic bamboo. They'll biodegrade in four-to-six months. And, there are no harmful bleaches or dyes.