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Expert Profile: Gary & Teri

Expertise: My main specialties are invitations, catering, and banquet locations or in general, wedding receptions. Started as a family business over 75 years ago I now own and operate a catering & banquet facility for over 30 years and have catered small cookout events to large formal ones with everything in between. I even had an event that was attended by the President of the United States. I have been involved with over three thousand weddings and have been told that I have seen and done it all. I must reply almost, because something new always pops up.

Experience in the area
I have preformed almost every service needed at a reception from invitations, hosting and catering the event to photographing, dj and honeymoon plans with the latter being special circumstances. I have worked and hosted weddings up to 750 guest and other functions up to two thousand. With well over 30 years experiance of consulting with brides I have seen much of what works and does not.
I have also been involved with many business and orginizational functions and also have been listed in "Who's Who" business and executive edition.

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What do you like about this subject? I get to see and experiance many different functions and places as well as meeting many interesting people.

Something interesting about this subject that others may not know: There is a lot of work as well as a lot of in depth planning needed to have an event go smooth. Much of this and a lot of stress can be eliminated by hiring good qualified and experianced services. Catering has, many food safety issues that many people just do not realize as well as realizing what the outcome could be. Again a good caterer knows what to do and proper handling procedures.

Something controversial or provocative about this subject I have seen couples plan receptions that were nothing to remember to ones they really could not afford. In reality you can have a great reception a step or two down from a full lavish top of the line one and possibly save thousands, while on the other hand for possibly a few hundred more a basic gathering can be a grand reception to be remembered without the work.

What do you still hope to achieve/learn in this field? To teach people they are better off hiring a professional caterer that specelizes in banquets rather than getting someone or some business that just does it on the side or attempts to do it themselves.

Average Ratings
Prestige Points: 11128
Knowledge	9.94 Best of the best
Clarity of Response	9.94 Best of the best
Timeliness	9.96 Best of the best
Politeness	10.0 Best of the best
Number Of Questions (in Past 24 Hours)		0
Max Questions to be Asked (in 24 Hour period)		5
Total Questions (since joining AllExperts)		604

Recent Reviews from Users

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10	10	10	10	09/15/08
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User Comments

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(Trish on 08/03/08)

THANK YOU!!! that solves a problem
(Judy on 08/02/08)

That really is good for planning
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Recent Answers from Gary & Teri

2008-11-14 color scheme: Hi Bianca, You realize this is nearly impossible without actually seeing the colors involved. But as a general rule I always thing that orange and brown are best suited together. With this down different...

2008-09-07 picnic reception: Hi Genny, I don't know when you asked this but I didn't get any notification. Sorry if has been a while. I don't know the reason for your aunt's statement but besides heat, cold, rain, wind and humidity...

2008-08-20 wedding reception food: Hi Robin, It can be fine the only thing is a menu like that is simply not a formal menu it is more for a picnic type event. Reasoning against it is they are typically more sloppy for a formal event or...

2008-08-13 bringing wife home for holliday after getting married in the philippines: I am going to guess that you mean your wife is a Philippine citizen and you want to get married and honeymoon on labor day. You really need to speak to an immigration official as I know it takes time but...

2008-08-11 Invitation Question: Hi Pam. Proper etiquette says everyone or couple deserve their own invitation.The bridal party should be included but in many cases when the bride was running short of invitations this is the first place...