No gifts, please. Feel free to tip your wait staff at the reception! Your time and travel expenses are more than gift enough. If you can't make it, we know you are with us, in the spirit of the occasion.

Beth, the bride, will do her best! Phone/text: 913-558-3272. Larry, the groom, is also available, if your question is about music, lighting, sound or bar: 816-896-2039.

Only if you have it. You are the decorations!

Both the wedding Mass and the immediately following reception are at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church, 2700 E. Mechanic St, Harrisonville, Missouri 64701. The reception hall/old church precedes the wedding Mass /new church, as you enter the church parking lot, exiting from Mechanic Street. The new church is a lighter-colored brick featuring a gleaming, silver steeple. There is a short walk between the two, with a benched, praying statue grotto in between.

Tossed salad with dressings. Roasted vegetables to include broccoli, cauliflower, carrots and red peppers. Jamie Oliver entrée recipe, chicken or salmon (based on rsvp, per guest): Scottish salmon and mushroom stuffing in pastry. Basil butter sauce. Breast of chicken and mushroom stuffing in pastry. Honey mustard sauce. (Sauces are interchangeable, both available, on the side). If mushroom-allergic, please contact Beth phone/text 913-558-3272. Executive chef Gary Hild will prepare your entrée without mushroom stuffing.

See Travel/Lodging tab: Comfort Inn & Suites, Harrisonville is clean, attentive staff and good coffee. Pittman/Weatherly wedding block rates are good through 7/19/25.

3:50 pm: Fr. Dan will make general, parish-related announcements. 4:00 pm: Mass will start. Song numbers (Entrance, Offertory, Communion and Dismissal) will be listed on the Song Board, front, left corner of the church. Pro tip: this is also a good place to sit, to view the altar and congregation, simultaneously. The Breaking Bread books' (found in each pew) Table of Contents is on page 1. The Order of the Mass is listed, pages 1-29. Heritage Mass service music index, bottom, left, p. 938. Selected Bible readings start on page 206 (the 21st Sunday in Ordinary time). During Communion/Sacrament of the Eucharist (guidelines, page 331): if you are not Catholic, feel free to sit, pray or come forward for a blessing, with your arms crossed over your chest. The Mass ends with The Prayer to Saint Michael, found on the back cover, top, left.

Best are in new church, 3:30-5:15 pm. One (each sex) at reception, main level, right, as you enter, 5:00-10:00 pm. Several (per sex) , lower/kitchen level, left, as you enter reception.

Yes, 7:00 pm, cake cutting and serving. Vanilla, a three-tier with buttercream. Chocolate, in single-layer.

7:30 pm. A couple of slow dances to introduce the wedding party and family. Then, let's go! See the Song/Karaoke List page, copy the URL into a separate browser. Request from the DJ any song to listen, dance and karaoke. Examples: Lean on Me is a staple, we will play and sway with arms intertwined on the dance floor around 7:45 or 8:00 pm. Girls Just Want to Have Fun was also requested for girls all dance.