Jun 22 2009
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Jordan and Cara Berg Powers
Hingham, MA
June 21, 2009
I’m baaack! Didja miss me? The photo above is the reason that I’ve been mostly MIA from the Coffee Break blog the last few days - the wedding of my daughter, Cara Lisa, to her soulmate, Jordan. The wedding took place Sunday afternoon on the bandstand at Hingham beach, with high, strong winds coming in off the water and rain slashing sideways. The damp day did nothing to dampen spirits, though. As you can see from the bright smiles, the bride and groom didn’t let the weather affect their joy in the least.
I arrived at the wedding venue - the town beach at Hingham Harbor - with the groom and the bride’s sister about two hours before the ceremony. It was wet, windy and wild, with the spray off the ocean combining with the intermitten driving rain. It was also the chilliest first day of summer we’ve had in a few years. The entire wedding party - or at least the female part of it - was wearing strapless dresses and no stockings. Most of them had the presence of mind to bring along something warmer - the wedding pictures don’t show the fact that the entire wedding party - not including the bride and groom - were wearing hoodies!
About forty-five minutes before the wedding was to start, we went in search of coffee. My intent was to buy a couple of Boxes of Joe from Dunkin Donuts so that guests could grab a cup of somethin’ hot when they arrived. Unfortunately, we discovered that Hingham may be the only town in all of Massachusetts that -doesn’t- have a Dunkin Donuts. You have to go to N. Hingham or to Weymouth to find one of the ever-present coffee chain stores. Nor was there a nearby Starbucks, and the two local coffee shops - including a very upscale, chi-chi coffee boutique where I got a hot chai latte - required 24 hours notice to put together coffee-to-go for an event. So… the guests got no coffee at the wedding. Not that any seemed to mind the oversight.
After the wedding, we scrapped the plans for a take-out feast on the common as planned, and were lucky enough to find that the small cafe where we reserved a room for a cocktail hour didn’t have anyone else booked for that room at all for the day - so we had an impromptu wedding reception at the lovely Tosca’s - where we had drinks, but … no coffee!
I finally managed to get a cup of coffee on the way home yesterday evening when we stopped at a Dunkin Donuts drive through. My body is still recovering from the dearth of good coffee vibes yesterday, but I should be back to my usual coffee-blogging mojo tomorrow when I’ll tell you all about the marvelous flavor of local Honey Dew coffee and donuts. Till then - mazel tov!
