The Quartermaster Corps

In military service, the quartermaster is the officer in charge of logistics and provisions.  They don't create military strategy—instead, they get the food and the Jeeps and the tents and the tools to the soldiers on the front.  It's amazing how much stuff they have to muster and move.

We've now retained our own logistical corps for the wedding, led by Quartermaster Melody Squires and her Lieutenant, Patty Kenyon.  They'll be responsible for:

• About ten people (six kids a-laboring, two caterers a-cooking, one bartender tending, and a wedding musician playing)
• A big-ass canopy tent
• Either 130 or 260 chairs, depending on whether they can pack them up from the ceremony and get them to the reception in 45 minutes...
• About 20 tables, with white linens (oh, here we go... we're not into the zebra print accessories yet, but I can feel it coming on...)
• Place settings (NOT with Dixie Cups and Chinet plates...) for 150 or so
• About 20 gallons of beer
• About 50 bottles of white wine
• About 50 bottles of red wine
• About 70 bottles of Prosecco
• About 20 bottles of sparking cider
• About 30 liters of soda
• About 30 liters of bottled water
• transportation for some folks to and from their lodging 

I've never planned a party for more than about a dozen people, so this is a whole new world for me.  I'm grateful that we have a team experienced at putting on multi-day parties for 500.  This little family wedding thing should be a breeze for them...