Pi or Pie? cont.

At this point in the story, we have just chosen pie to be our dessert instead of cake or brownie sundaes.

My mom called me and told me she and my dad had been discussing what pies should be served at the wedding. They thought there should be apple, cherry, peach, blackberry, and blueberry. My response was blueberry? It was then that I became overwhelmed. I had planned on making all of the pies. (You see, I consider myself a pretty good baker and my controlling nature wouldn't let anyone else even consider making them.) But if there were to be so many different types, how was I to do it all?

Pies

Upon discussing all these pies my parents thought necessary with my sister, we decided there would be too much confusion and too many choices as guests are deciding on what kind of pie they want. My sister then suggested two kinds of pie. Apple for me, and a flavor of B's choosing. Bride and Groom pie. The guests can come to the table and the servers can ask, Bride or Groom. So cute! I loved the idea.

B then decided he wanted cherry pie. I searched for places to pick sour cherries in the area since my parents had chopped down theirs. Unfortunately with the crazy Spring weather Virginia had in 2010, there were no pick your own cherries and the ones available were very expensive. B then thought about his friend C's parent's blueberry farm. Once again I responded blueberry?

Wineberry

So I pushed B to call up C's parents and ask if he could go pick. No answer. He tried later. No answer. I was freaking out a little bit because if he wanted blueberry or berries at all, we had to pick them that Spring/Summer for our June 2011 wedding. B then had a brilliant idea (as usual). The wineberries were blooming all over the county and they were free. He and I began driving all over the county where his parents live and picked wineberries off the side of the road. We then heard of a huge patch up off of Rt. 7 and went to pick there. I left B at his parents for the week to keep picking until we had enough for 13 pies. An by the end of the week, we almost had enough. We will supplement the other pies with blackberries we picked off of my Aunt's property.

For those of you who don't know what a wineberry is, they are basically wild raspberries. Only slightly different.

Would you have picked all of your berries? Or would you have given up and gone with cake? Have you gone to great lengths just to be able to have what you wanted?