Oh and the food!

Last night we went to the tasting for the wedding. It is one of the things I'm really looking forward to when it comes to the wedding.
There were about 40 people there, brides and their grooms. Some parents and even a few bridesmaids. It was funny to see the different people who were all planning their weddings. You had the career-oriented 30-somethings who are just remembering to get married and the people Eli calls the yuppie d-bags. Looking around I could just picture what dress each bride would wear. It would be a strapless poofy princess dress for the woman with dozens of streaks in her straight hair. The tall, thin woman next to me would be wearing something trendy that would cling to her body, perhaps with a mermaid bottom.
Oh and the woman and her daughter who kept asking questions? Nothing will be spared for the princess!
At first I thought Eli and I looked like the youngest couple, but we were sitting next to a pair who looked like they were in high school.
But let's get to the food...
They had six entrees and two vegetarian options. Piles of deserts and cake. Plenty of hor deuvs (I can't spell that word).
Eli did his duty and piled his plate high with everything. He made his way around like a clock, carefully putting each bite in his mouth. He would taste and then explain to me what was good or bad. Oh the mushrooms! They are so hard to find and so delicious! But this potato, yuck. You can barely dig into it.
He cleared his plate one portion at a time, while the mother across from him stared in wonder. How can a man that size put so much food in him?
I ask myself the same question every day as I poke at my own thighs.
And then he went back for a little more. He forgot to get some of the potatoes that went with the beef!
In the end our choices were pretty unanimous. We got to pick two entrees and a vegetarian option.
We picked vegetarian squash ravioli (which was probably the best thing they had out there), bacon wrapped beef filet in a black rasberry sauce and fingerling potatoes, chicken breast picatta with pasta and field greens for the salad.
Yes, our guests will eat well!