Happy Anniversary to Mark & Joani (in laws)

And another party successfully on the books! I didn't get a good picture of the couple of the hour, so I put one of us up instead! ha ha!

The dessert table with the candy buffet actually turned out pretty well! Definitely not nearly as cool as what Kate (my cake, cupcake, dessert table, etc guru http://www.andeverythingsweet.blogspot.com/) can do, but not bad for my first attempt. I had various candies, a picture from Mark & Joani's wedding, a picture of them 19 years later at our wedding, candles, bags for people to take some candy home and then I got Kate to provide some cupcakes and cake balls. I'm not sure if the pictures show it well, but the cupcakes had silver liners, white icing and green monograms with M for Moore on top. The cake balls were chocolate or yellow cake with the yummy icing and toppers that said "20" in alternating green, white and silver!

I didn't put a picture of the empty food table but for the first time in my party planninng career, the food was GONE! As fast as I could bring out more, it was consumed. I take it as a compliment to my culinary skills because there was certainly enough food provided for the number of guests! FJ even fried some stuff outside (he's figured out how to fry on a cast iron skillet on the grill) and none of that food made it inside. We actually found more food in the fridge that we could fry (chicken tenders and onion rings) around 11 and made that and I had to pretty much physically fight someone to get 1 or 2 chicken fingers! ha ha! SUCCESS!!!

Most of all, FJ's parents had a blast and were so excited that we put so much effort into celebrating their anniversary. Their friends had a great time and I think it meant a lot to Joani and Mark to have so many people there to celebrate with them!

It was a great weekend and the party was a huge success!! Congratulations to Joani and Mark again on "20 Moore Years!"