I've been blogging for a few months now, but I realized I haven't mentioned anything about the barbecue that sits in the header of this blog. There will be barbecue at The Backyard Wedding. This has been the understanding from day one.
You see in Texas, 99.3% of weddings include a dinner of either fajitas or barbecue. In fact, at the rare wedding where you end up in front of a carving station instead of some chafing dishes full of smoked meat, you see people get confused and ask where the potato salad or the salsa is. Fajitas and barbecue are just a way of life here.
We won't be bucking that tradition. Originally, The Backyard Groom, who stares longingly at the television while watching "Barbecue University", planned to do the barbecuing himself. As longtime apartment dwellers, we don't get the chance to cook out as much as we would like, so getting the chance to grill a bunch of meat for our friends and family sounded pretty awesome to him. As our guest list grew to 20, we realized it would probably be better to leave the smoking and charring to the professionals and spend our reception relaxing. Plus I don't think any amount of dry cleaning could ever remove that smell from my dress.
So instead of grilling up the meal ourselves, we plan on ordering from the one and only Salt Lick BBQ, practically royalty in Austin. Yuuuuuuuum.
You East and West Coasters can have your celebrity chefs and their fancy restaurants. We'll gladly keep our long picnic tables, slow-smoked meat and liberal BYOB policy.
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The one downside about The Salt Lick is that their catering prices aren't cheap, and when you mention the magic word "wedding" more than a few extra dollars are tacked on. So we're cheating a bit. The Backyard Groom's mom's house, home of The Backyard, is within a certain mileage range of The Salt Lick, so the delivery fee isn't too steep. And since our wedding will only have 20 guests, we're planning on ordering the food for a "party" without any mention of anyone wearing white or saying vows or exchanging rings. And it's not technically a lie, because we are planning on having a rocking party, right?
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