Weekend - June 25-26, 2005

On Saturday, we (me, Shawnna and Mike) catered a wedding in Isleton (west of Lodi; population 925). The bride originally found Thyme Deserved through the web and after a tasting, hired us. The wedding was for 90 people and was held at the bride and groom's house. They have a good sized lot and the back, where the ceremony took place, looks out to a corn field.

They had a local hotel drop off the prime rib and chicken. The bride and her mom made a bunch of pies (apple, peach, cherry and coconut cream). For the reception, we set up a spread with cheese, crackers, fruit, veggies and dip. For dinner, we provided the roasted potatoes, vegetables, salad, bread, cut up the prime rib (which was the most difficult part) and displayed all of the food on the buffet.

In between the ceremony and dinner, we had to move the chairs and set up tables for dinner. Each table had a table cloth, table runner, three vases of flowers, ten votive candles, matches, silverware and water glasses. The wind wasn't helping and neither was the fact that the wedding pictures were being taken where we needed to set up, but everything was ready to go before dinner.

We set up the dinner buffet and I served the prime rib while Mike replenished the food and Shawnna released the tables one at a time to come eat. Everything went really smooth and when people finished eating, Mike and I began bussing the tables while Shawnna loaded the dishwasher. Next was the cutting of the pie (yes, they cut pie instead of cake) and we dished out pie to everyone.

As the night went on and the drinks flowed, there was plenty of dancing, the bride's sister sang a song and the groom and his dad did burnouts on their Harley's in the garage which created a ton of noise and smoke. We finished retrieving and washing all of the dishes, glasses and silverware and left just after midnight. It ended up being a very nice wedding and all the comments about our food and service were very positive.

Sunday was a day of sleeping in, running errands and getting things ready to start another week.