Weddings/Expert Profile

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.

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.

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.

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.