FAQs

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What is the menu?

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Pulled pork, mac & cheese, hash brown casserole

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What type of alcohol will be served?

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Signature drinks such as an old-fashioned, Manhattan, Whiskey sour and a French 75 will be served. Wine and beer will also be served

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How will the evening flow?

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Guests are welcome to arrive between 4:30-5, and grab a French 75 or a glass of champagne and mingle. Sometime between 5:00-5:15 ish, everyone will be asked to do a gather around standing ceremony. After that appetizers will be served while Kate changes and we grab a few photos! After that we will eat and dance!

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What kind of seating will there be?

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This will be a cocktail style reception. We will have high top cocktail tables, a couch, and barstool seating! Once dancing starts the cocktail tables will be moved to the edge of the dance floor!

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Will there be non-alcoholic beverages?

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We will have water and lemonade

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Is 20 era clothing required?

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You are not required to come in Gatsby or 20 era clothes!! However who doesn’t like to dress up? We will have a few prizes for best outfits!

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Is there any interesting history to 221 Event Center?

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Well.. yes there is !! it was originally built in 1924 by Joseph cook and it is still in the family. The lower level, just around the corner from the front of the building, at 221 Cumberland has a very interesting history. It’s history from 1950s incarnation is its most noted. The Huddle Tavern was a bar with flair. In a time when liquor by the drink was illegal, local citizens may have been able to quench their thirst as they wished in the Huddle. Most famously, The Huddle Tavern is depicted in Cormac McCarthy’s Suttree. It is into this historic space, filled with the ghost of Suttree, you are invited!!

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Who would we like to thank?

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We would like to think Heidi Davison for catering and for our cake, Marc Gamble and Lennox and Light photography for photos, and we would like to thank Emily Parton Crawford for her guidance and help with planning/coordination! We’d also like to thank our friend Stephen Darnell and his band for music as well as KC Entertainment!