Russian Wedding

Yesterday we went to my cousin's wedding right outside of Philly. He's a cousin on my dad's side, meaning he is Russian (as is his new bride), meaning it was a traditional eat-and-drink-until-you-explode Russian wedding. Here is our table when we first entered the reception:

Things to note about this photo:

1. This is the cold appetizers, and the cold appetizers only. Those two stands are there so they can bring out more plates and have multiple levels of cold and hot appetizers going on.
2. In addition to the three bottles of wine on the table, there is also a large bottle of cognac and a big bottle of vodka (in the back, by my dad). There was this much alcohol at every table (as in, one large bottle of vodka for every eight people, in addition to all the wine and cognac).

I didn't really take pictures of the various courses as they came out because I was too busy eating, but the entrees were lamb, beef, salmon, and ravioli. Notice that I said and - those weren't the options you could choose from, there was a giant platter of each of those things at each table. By the time all those courses were done it was about 11:00 pm and they started clearing all our plates - we thought it was time for dessert, but it was time for shish kebabs! All meat, too - chicken and more lamb. It wasn't time for dessert until closer to midnight, but it's a good thing we had some time to digest because this was the dessert table:

This is just one half, there is an equal amount on the other side of the cake.

We got home around 1 am, but the party was still going strong when we left - it probably went until 3 or 4, and they probably made it through all of the alcohol.

Also, before all the festivities started, Ben and I attempted to take a nice picture since we don't usually dress up. Here's how that turned out:
I guess it's not surprising that we don't have more nice pictures together...