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Places to Eat and Things to Do
For those of you coming into the wedding early, here is some information on the area to help you enjoy your stay.
Hope & Olive
44 Hope Street
Greenfield, MA 01301-3308
(413) 774-3150
Located around the corner from the movie theatre in Greenfield Center, Hope & Olive serves modern American food with a focus on local and seasonal ingredients. Try their burger or their goat cheese ravioli, and don’t forget to order a Caipirinha from the bar – wouldn’t wouldn’t be out of place in Boston or New York.
People’s Pint
24 Federal Street
Greenfield, MA 01301-3302
(413) 773-0333
As the name suggests, this brewpub has a focus on beer, but the food isn’t to be missed as well. Their standard pub fare is sourced from over 25 farms from around the Pioneer Valley. Try their Fish & Chips, and if beer isn’t your thing, it’s a great place to try a West County hard cider.
The Montague Night Kitchen
440 Greenfield Rd
Montague, MA 01351
(413)367-9580
Tucked away in the historic Montague Mill overlooking the Sawmill River, The Night Kitchen is about 15 minutes away from Deerfield/Greenfield, but it’s worth the trip. You’ll dine overlooking old Mill Falls (call ahead to book an outside table) on dishes like duck breast coated in green peppercorns with local honey and balsamic glaze. Don’t forget dessert.
If you’re looking for a great coffee shop during the day, the Lady Killegrew Cafe right next store to the Night Kitchen, serves gourmet coffee and housemade sandwiches. Great for a relaxing Saturday afternoon.
Other Things to Do
Historic Deerfield
Our wedding is located on the original Main Street of Old Deerfield, first settled in 1673, on land originally inhabited by the Pocumtuck nation. It has been left essentially as it was in the late 1700’s, and features eleven historic original houses of that period. Tour the town on your own, and visit the old burial ground just down the street from the Dining Hall.
Yankee Candle Company
25 Greenfield Road
South Deerfield, MA 01373
Visit the flagship store of the ubiquitous candle company. It’s the world’s largest candle store, and the interior is part Disney World ride and part interactive candle-making experience. It’s definitely a unique and interesting place.
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Everyone Attending Our Wedding is Required to Learn this Dance.
Members of the 82nd Airborne, stationed in Afganistan, threw together this video. It’s been watched over 3 million times on YouTube, and NPR reported that the Army surprisingly has a sense of humor about the whole thing.
“Telephone” will be played at our wedding. Come prepared, people.
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Meet the Bridesmaids!
Writer’s note: It is hard to condense a friend into just a few sentences. I could have written pages upon pages for each of these wonderful ladies, but as Shakespeare said, “brevity is the soul of wit”. Read on.
Megan Fraker – Maid of Honor
Megan and Liz met at age three in nursery school – just a third of a mile down the road from the Brick Church. Megan admired Liz’s fuzzy Oscar the Grouch coat and the rest is history. Having now been friends for 30 years, they can recount endless stories that they alone find highly amusing, stories like “The Egg in the Road”, ”The Origin of the Crow”, and “Megan Walking Around Old Deerfield on a Hot Summer’s Day in a Pith Helmet”. These days, their interests have matured a bit and they enjoy trying out different cocktails spots around Boston and coveting other people’s dogs. Megan lives in Somerville and is Dean of High School Placement at Excel Academy, a charter school in East Boston, where her hard work has improved the lives of hundreds of underprivileged kids.
Sarah Sheridan
Sarah and Liz also attended nursery school together, but the real bond began during summers in high school when they worked together at Deerfield Academy (DA) cleaning dorms. There’s nothing like cleaning toilets to foster a friendship. Though the work was certainly not glamorous, the days went by much faster with great conversations and a lot of laughs. (It also helped when soccer camps stayed at the school, thus providing attractive and fit young chaps to look at during lunch). Sarah had a an epic wedding at Deerfield Academy just a few years ago which involved much vigorous contra dancing. She now lives in Montclair, NJ with her husband Alex and dog Maggie, and is a speech pathologist. Sarah has one of the best laughs you have ever heard.
Karen Taylor
Karen is Deerfield/Whately born and bred, and she and Liz met in second grade at South Deerfield Elementary School. They had similar eight year old tastes: a love of frogs, lengthy trivial pursuit games, faux fishing in the stream behind Liz’s house, making snow forts, annoying their older brothers, and most importantly, petting Liz’s particularly fat cat, Adrian. These days, Karen is a Lab Manager in Nutritional Sciences at UConn and lives in Salem, CT with her husband Craig, son Andrew who will be 2 in July, cat Maverick, and dog Emma. ps. If you are a fan of kielbasa, sausage or any other smoked meat, stop by Karen’s family’s store in South Deerfield – Pekarski’s Sausage. This place gets raves!
Sarah Toner
Sarah and Liz began their freshman year together at DA: Sarah as a border and Liz as a day student. Age 14 is always a bit awkward, but they recognized each other’s potential fabulousness and that was that. Over the years, the two had Ms. Williams’ English class together, played on the same field hockey and lacrosse teams, and were DJ’s on the school radio station when the Samples were in heavy rotation (a tape still exists if anyone is interested). Illicit trips to Friendly’s and the movie theater in Greenfield became part of the repertoire once Liz got her license – illicit because day students were not allowed to drive borders around. And senior year, they decided to skip the prom and instead hang out in Northampton, a tradition they have continued every year since. Sarah currently lives in DC and enlightens middle schoolers on the glories of literature.
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Full Menu Released!
April 2 Update: Okay, okay – that was a joke. We won’t be serving school lunch food at our wedding. But please read my latest post on something more serious about school lunches.
We’ve spent nearly four months working with dining services at Deerfield Academy to develop a menu that we think you’ll love and that will serve everyone equally.
But remember – we’re partying in a high school dining hall. And as the theme of our wedding is a learned one, what with books and literary references on the tables, and whatnot, we wanted to keep up the theme when designing the menu. We hope you like it!
Cocktail Reception – Passed Hors d’Oeuvres:
- Chicken Nuggets, Dipping Sauce
- Tater Tots, Catsup
- Meatloaf Bites
- Peanut Butter Cookies
First Course:
Salad with dressing choice: Italian, Creamy Italian
Main Course, Choose:
Meat:
Sloppy Joe’s over Instant Mashed Potato, side of vegetables
Fish:
Fish Sticks and Frites, side of vegetables
Vegetarian:
Cheese Lasagna, side of vegetables
Dessert (choose one):
Red Jell-o
Green Jell-o
Choice of Regular or Chocolate Milk served during dinner.
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Meet your Groomsmen
Meet your groomsmen! These are the guys in the tuxes standing next to me. In case I die, one of these fine gentlemen get to stand in and take my place! Learn all about them!
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Invitations Out, Website Redesigned!
Wedding invitations have a set of etiquette rules that border on the Victorian. The wording should be one way if you’re having the ceremony in a church. It should be addressed differently depending on who is paying for the wedding, who addresses the envelopes, and whether the reception immediately follows the ceremony or not. It’s enough to want to just send an Evite and be done with it.
We decided to start our invitation the way we greet our friends and family. With greetings.
Last Monday, the wedding invitations were officially sent out from the Deerfield post office. If you haven’t received yours yet, you should be receiving it shortly.
The invitation design was a collaborative effort between my brother Mike, Liz, and I. We found an invitation online we liked, and we riffed on it until we had exactly what we wanted. We want to thank Mike publicly, because we were possibly the worst clients he could have asked for. We think the end result is contemporary yet classy – just like us (we’d like to hope). As a result of the invitations, We redesigned this website. DIY, FTW.
In order to save you all trips to the post office, we thought we’d provide a way to RSVP online. We’ve also started adding information about the wedding here, so if you’re looking for a place to stay in town, or you’re wondering just we mean by “meat” or “fish,” you’re in luck.
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The Wedding Registry
Liz and I went down to Crate & Barrel this morning to register for our wedding. We thought you’d enjoy it if we took some video of our experience and shared it with you. We were probably wrong.
(For those of you that are curious: We’re currently weeding out all the crap we scanned. We’ll make the registry public by the end of the week It’s available now.).
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We Want Your Photos and Video
First of all, let us say that we can’t thank all of you that attended our wedding enough for coming.
It wouldn’t have been the same without any of you.
Now that it’s over, we want to formally request that you send us your photos and video you took at the wedding! We know you’ll likely be posting photos to Facebook (friend Liz and Bryan up) or other places, but if you could, join the Flickr group we set up and add them there.
A special note about video: Make sure that, when you upload video, you allow the original to be downloaded – we want as much video as possible so we can add it to the final cut of our wedding video (which will be completely crowdsourced by video you took).
It felt so good to be able to provide an opportunity to reconnect with our friends and family. Thank you again for making the day so special and memorable.