But where can we put the bocce court?
May 3, 2006 by karen
After Alex and I got engaged we talked about how awesome it would be to somehow incorporate bocce into the wedding. You see, we love bocce–how can one not love a sport that allows you play without putting down your drink first? We play on weekends in the park, we play at the beach when we travel and we play in a league in Brooklyn at Floyd, so naturally having a place to play bocce during our wedding reception made sense to us.
After we made the decision to have our wedding at the Foundry, a renovated steel factory in Long Island City, instead of some manor house type place where one can find a rolling lawn perfect for outdoor bocce, we realized we lost our chance of working bocce into the wedding. However, if there is one thing I am not ready to give up on, it’s this. I will let go of the dream of the string quartet, the art deco brown china plates, and the giant tree and luminaire centerpieces, but you cannot have my bocce court. Yet.
I have been researching the idea of bring in sod and laying it down in the all stone courtyard at the Foundry and adding a portable court, or really getting serious about this and asking my Dad to build us a real court, but something transferable that we can take in and walk out with post wedding. The question is, what to do about the four tons of sand we would have to bring in at 2 p.m. the day of the wedding, and clean up by 2 a.m.?
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