Wow! What a week. It is busy! The phone is ringing as people shake off the winter doldrums. Now is a great time to think ahead to spring, summer, and fall entertaining. Outdoor parties and ethnocentric events and menus are the hot items this year.

We are planning an amazing wedding at the Smack-Mellon Gallery in Brooklyn directly across from the Brooklyn Bridge Park. The venue is amazing, an event planners dream. It used to house huge boilers that powered the surrounding blocks. Now, it has been gutted but its industrial feel remains. The floors, simply polished original cement, shine and catch your eye when you enter. The 35’ ceilings offer a real opportunity to create intimate décor – you can hang things, drape, dream… The bride and groom are really excited about the possibilities, and so are we.

Also booked this week is a fantastic wedding on the beach in Westport. A gated estate, no expense has been spared in creating this paradise. We will be using lots of blue hydrangea and elegant linens to create depth and texture on the tables. Guests will dine on the great lawn and dock while enjoying jazz from a world famous quartet – I am really excited about this one.

Lots going on… Please call us anytime!

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This is a big month at The Cantering Caterer! We welcome Donielle Hawley, a new event planner, to our staff. Donielle has an extensive background planning high-end events around the country. She is very smart, very creative, and we are lucky to have her on our team! Welcome Donielle!

Our long anticipated Greenwich office opens. At 151 Greenwich Avenue, 3rd floor, we join Tiffany, Talbot’s, Richard’s, and many other high-end retail shops, showrooms, and offices. Our main facility is in Westport. We rented this unique space as a tool to better serve our clients from Greenwich, Westchester, and New York City. We are constantly on the lookout for new ways to provide better service. We will be hosting an open house shortly – details to follow.

We are doing lots of training with the new additions to our catering waitstaff. We have had several great people come aboard and together we look forward to providing continually better catering and event planning for you. We are always on the lookout for really sharp people to make great pay, work amazing events, and have fun. It is demanding work but it is very rewarding too.

We are catering the Wakeman’s Boys and Girls Club annual fundraiser at the end of the month. 400+ guests from all over Fairfield County and New York will enjoy great music, dancing, and phenomenal food. The event menu is really unique – 6 stations that will change over the course of the evening from light hors d’oeuvre to more substantial fare, followed by desserts and coffee. There will be traditional comfortable food and some more exciting things as well – Tempura Twinkies!?! This is our second year catering the Wakeman’s event and we are very proud to have been invited back.

Just announced! The Grasmere Eldercare Centers (http://www.fairfieldct.org/grasmere.htm)
Fundraiser will be Friday, May, 5, 2005 at The Fairfield Theatre (http://www.fairfieldtheatre.org/). We are donating the food catering and event design for 200 guests with a creative menu and a night of dancing, cocktails, and silent auction. The theme is Cinco de Mayo. This is the Centers major fundraiser for the year and will certainly be a lot of fun!

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