Red, White, and Blue Wedding

Joann ordered cookies for the Cookie Table at her daughter Sarah's wedding. Cookie Tables are tradition in Western PA and Ohio Valley region where the bride's female relative bake cookies to be served at the wedding reception. Sarah and her fiance Jon, an officer in the U.S. Army were having a Red, White and Blue themed wedding. I made 14 dozen cookies for the wedding reception and another dozen cookie favors for the bridal party. The cookies were an interesting mix of patriotic hearts and stars; autumn pumpkins, leaves and acorns; dairy cows, barns and red tractors. Jon's family owned one of the oldest dairy farms in the area established in 1847.

After the wedding, Joann called to thank me for the cookies. I was pleased and proud to hear that although there were 14 trays of cookies leftover there wasn't a cutout cookie in sight.