Wedding this Weekend

So, I've been picking up catering jobs while I hunt for a "real" job and this weekend I worked at a wedding that was amazing (read similar to what I was thinking of for ours).

Location: A historic SF building with

1. Large main room
2. Medium size room with a bar
3. (2) small bride and groom's rooms


First the front half of the main room was set with rows of dark bamboo chairs with black cushions.




The back of the room was set with some of the round tables for the reception and then those tables were hidden by pipe and drape during the ceremony. The couple got married in front of a fireplace (lit with candles) and draped with white flowers. There were candles throughout the entire room.

The bar room was set up with a couple of small corner tables and then some tall cocktail tables. Their colors were deep blue and silver with white and red flowers. I didn't like the red flowers because it made it feel a little too state dept., but they had terrific table linens

The linens were a blue on blue stripe. It wasn't busy, but added great texture and made everything very classy. While the ceremony was in progress, the catering team set up cheese plates and baskets of bread on the small corner tables in the bar. As soon as the ceremony finished, the guest were let into the bar room for a cocktail hour. Server passed hot apps, while the rest of the staff flipped the ceremony room for the reception.

All of the reception tables had the same table linens, silver napkins, and pretty white floral centerpieces and tall white votive candles.