Wedding Weekend & Crawfish Boil

We had a very busy weekend! One of my best friends got married on Saturday at the Tutwiler Hotel in Birmingham, AL. It was absolutely gorgeous! Check out this hotel!

This is a night view of the hotel. Can you image having guests seated in front of the hotel and standing on the front steps getting married... It was beautiful!

A tradition that our friends have started with each other is all of the girls arrive really early on the day of the wedding, have mimoas and enjoy girl time together! This is one of my favorite things to do! We bond and the bride gets to relax a little!

Not only did we have a wedding this weekend, but we also attended a birthday party after the reception. A friend of ours had crawfish boil for her 30th birthday! I love any excuse to eat crawfish! Yum!!

Attending her crawfish boil made my mind wonder... I love crawfish, we have a new house with a large back yard.... maybe we should start having an annual crawfish boil! Love it!

Jenny Steffens Hobick post photos of her annual clambake... I love her ideas! Check out the photos below. You can check out her blog Everyday Occasions.

Everyday Occasions

Really cute simple invitation. Mine would say Crawfish boil instead of Clambake.

Everyday Occasions

I love Jenny's table setting as well! Casual yet elegant. Jenny's clambake setting may be a little too formal for our carfish boil. Typically, we lay newspaper down on the table and dump buckets of crawfish, corn & potatoes all over it! It's a little messy!


Lay some newspaper out, get some cheap buckets from Target & you are set!
 

Cinco De Mayo!!

Today is Cinco de Mayo! It's time to gather your friends together and have some margaritas! Why not try out a different type of margarita today like a beer margarita! Enjoy!

1 lime, cut into 8 wedges

2 chilled 12-oz bottles beer (not dark; preferably a lighter-style lager)

½ cup thawed frozen limeade concentrate

½ cup chilled tequila

Ice cubes

Rub lime wedges around rims of 4 Margarita glasses.

Dip rims in salt to coat lightly.

In a medium pitcher, combine beer, limeade, and tequila.

Fill prepared glasses with ice, then with margarita mixture.

Garnish with remaining lime wedges.

Serve immediately.

Confections of a Foodie Bride also has a Grapefruit Margarita that sounds and looks incredible! We just had a random man come by work selling grapefruits & oranges, therefore, this margarita may have been calling my name long before I even laid eyes on it! I may have to try this one out tonight.



ENJOY!