If you weren’t already filled with joy just by being on Nantucket, your heart will overflow with abundance attending a wedding or getting hitched here yourself on island. The beauty of the isle is able to provide the perfect backdrop to what is considered the best day of one’s life in many cases. Surrounded by family and dear friends as you vow to your special someone, everyone will surely be ready to celebrate your union with you. With wedding season upon us, choosing what to drink at your reception is almost as important as what to eat. Being that the two oft times go hand in hand, Advanced Sommelier Jenny Benzie offers some wedding reception bliss advice to get your new life as one on the right track. PARTY STARTER Upon arrival at the wedding reception, greeting guests with a fanciful signature cocktail that is symbolic of the bride and groom’s courtship is a perfect introduction to what lies ahead. ...Read More >
Summer on Nantucket is filled with momentous occasions. Your best friend from summer camp is getting hitched at the First Congregational Church in town and you are in charge of getting cigars for all the groomsmen. You and your wife are receiving congratulations on your new bundle of joy that just arrived at the Nantucket Cottage Hospital and you dole out cigars to share the good news. Smoking cigars and ceremonious celebrations have long been linked together for many centuries. Cigars are often considered similar a trophy for “winning” or obtaining a milestone in your life, and who isn’t just plain winning when you are spending time on Nantucket? Adding a cigar to some of life’s most important moments will only elevate the status of what you may currently be experiencing. It also is able to create a special bond between those you are sharing this life changing moment with in your life. Nantucket provides us with a multitude of...Read More >
WEDDING SHOWER GIFTS: STOCK THE BAR She lives in New York, he lives in Boston and they met on a balmy summer night at a lively cocktail party on Nantucket. Fast forward through their whirlwind long distance courtship and the fine gent has decided to propose to the woman of his dreams at Steps Beach with family members crouched watching from behind the dunes. Their parents host a lavish engagement party for them at the historic Dreamland Theater with the picturesque harbor view from the rooftop deck located in the charming downtown Nantucket. Couples these days tend to be the combining of two people who have already flown the nest of their childhood home with Mom and Dad and made a new life for themselves somewhere else that includes all the furnishings and fixings of a place on their own. The merger that ensues includes negotiations about which set of flatware to keep, whose bedroom set will end up in...Read More >