Davis Islands Garden Club
Selected Photos by Jon Montis Photography
Every wedding couple has their own "time line" for deciding how to proceed in planning their wedding. For some it is the small details they have collected on their Pinterest wedding boards. For others it is the overall design of their chosen wedding venue. But cuisine is now a much more important component for wedding celebrations now.
Courtney and her bridal party and family took this seriously in the 18 months she allotted to plan her wedding by attending as many of our client only tastings as possible.
Unlike many caterers who offer "cookie cutter" tastings for potential or booked wedding clients, we take a different approach: after making the commitment to become a client, we offer bi-monthly tastings where we rotate our regular menu items in a themed environment with added specialty cuisine that may have been requested by current brides and grooms.
Courtney's valuable input following each open house helped us create a truly unique culinary experience on hers and many other clients' wedding day.
Unexpectedly, the décor elements were easily decided as Courtney got closer to her wedding day.
We are excited to share Courtney and Ethan's very special eggplant and blush pink wedding at Davis Islands Garden Club.
Décor translates beyond the surroundings. It is a part of food presentation as well. Above, we took hand-passed appetizers and displayed them on a color-coordinated platter with texture with matching garnish.
After the food choices were made, everything fell right into place for the look and feel of the wedding.
Vicki helps cue bridal party members for the ceremony which was focused in natural setting along the waterfront.
An amazing new connection was forged between Courtney's florist, Ampar, who is a traveling florist from Dallas. Her business name is Fleurs & and Events. Courtney connected with her via a family member. I was impressed with the quality of flowers Ampar was able to put together in our in-house containers, from many miles away. As a result of our connection, we collaborated on a photo shoot in Dallas for a new event venue.
Courtney was as much concerned about comfort as she was about presentation. Besides renting the in-house cushions from the club, she and her mom provided comfy purple pillows that were placed around the patio social hour space.
Our small fish bowls were available to Ampar for accent pieces in the patio area.
Guests found their seats via guest table "clothes line." The practicality of this was that if there were last table assignment changes, only a 5 x 7 card had to be reprinted. These were in visible enough that guests could take their time in pin-pointing their table location.
All guest tables were consistent with white floor length cloths, deep purple main runners with gold and white damask accents down the center. Yet every other table featured a different centerpiece look with variations in florals and containers.
Texture is a great way to pull together a color scheme yet offer some variation.
What a cake from Goldie's Goodies!
Our Gold Medallion menu items were displayed in the front foyer. One of Courtney's past tasting favorites was our Paella. Jon Montis captured it perfectly!
Presentation is so important. Below, we featured our version of BBQ via our Smoked Pork Chop Station where guests could add crunchy onions, cole slaw, and favorite BBQ sauce to their hand-chopped smoked pork on a slider roll.
The party moved on beyond the food and because of well planned timing, Courtney and Ethan were able to have lots of dancing until the end of the event.
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