Got home last Thursday night, been very preoccupied with stuff but felt I needed to let all know ho well the cigar part of the wedding went...it was a yuuuuuggggge success!
As I assumed, the folks at the Hemingway House and Museum encourage cigar smoking during events, they ask only that we not leave the cigar butts around the grounds as the many cats that call it home would get at them. Easy enough to comply.
So the groomsmen, all between 33 and 37 years of age, included a few who were fairly well seasoned at this passion we share, yet even most of them were unaware of the Fuente/Hemingway connection, or at least had never smoked them. It was pretty cool talking with them as we puffed away, they were politely attentive to my pre-light suggestions, thought the "nipple" foot amazing, peppered me with questions, and all that were smoked on site burned very well. One guy took my talk of long ash to an extreme and his ash reached past where the (removed) label would be.
I had placed a large 65 Boveda inside the box, placed the box and a few other Bovedas in a zip lock freezer bag, placed the bag in a dresser drawer of an unused bedroom at home, and there they stayed since I received them...and they were in primo smoking condition the night of the wedding. Could not have worked out better.
Youse guys are the bestest! Can't evah thank you enough.
