Sunset Ceremony

Last sunset, I promise

Table setup

Our Cooking Tent, getting ready for the party

We decorate the passing trays

More passing trays with fresh flowers

Last tray, I promise

Pool Deck used for the buffet and bar

Tent we used for cocktails

Ceremony on the beach, sunset setting...very pretty

Alexander Event Caterers and Party Planning

http://www.AlexanderEvent.com

(561)-243-ALEX and (561)-502-6168

This past weekend we did a beautiful wedding down in Key Largo.

We used the Bayside Inn’s private beach and pool deck. The owners of the hotel and their staff were very easy to work with and very accomodating.

Room rentals are affordable as well, compared to the other properties in town. Key Largo was just a short drive ( under 45 minutes) from Miami, so it wasn’t bad at all.

Here are some pictures I took, please keep in mind that I am no professional photographer.

Whether is a Wedding in Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach and anywhere in between, we will gladly assist you.

Our state of the art mobile kitchen capabilities makes the difference. We cook evrything on site, that way all food is just as fresh as it can be.

Your Catering Miami specialist, Chef Alexander of Alexander Event Catering Miami

Our Main Website: http://www.AlexanderEvent.com

Phone: (561)-243-ALEX and (561)-502-6168

We look forward to serving you.

Key Largo Caterers, Alexander Event Caterers

Your Almost-Comprehensive Guide to Planning a Wedding

by

A ALEXANDER EVENT CATERERS

http://www.AlexanderEvent.com

(561)-243-ALEX

Getting married? The first order of business is… congratulations, of course! But next comes a little piece of advice: hold on tight. Because it’s going to be a wild and bumpy ride.

        Planning a wedding is a little like marriage itself. Just when you think things are going as smooth as fresh-whipped cream, everything gets… well… as bumpy as cottage cheese. There’s so much to do that, unless you have tons of money to spend on an expensive wedding planner, it’s practically impossible to make everything turn out perfectly. So before you set even one little plan down on paper, put down your pen, take a deep breath, and repeat after me: “It’s my wedding and it’ll be a beautiful, magical day– even if it’s not perfect.”

All done? Good. Grab that pen, print out this guide to planning a wedding, and let’s get started.

Wedding Pre-Planning

1. Your vision. Before doing any real planning, you need to sit down with hubby-to-be and discuss what you want from your wedding. Are you both dreaming of an intimate ceremony with just family and friends? Or does your 200-guest dream wedding clash with his idea of a “no stress” ceremony?

2. Your budget. It may be unromantic and ordinary, but it’s a necessity– you have to have money to plan a wedding. Calculate a budget and do your best to stick to it.

Planning the Ceremony

1. Date, Time, and Venue. These are the big ones. While you probably have a time of year in mind for the ceremony, the exact date you choose will generally be dependant on the availability of the ceremony and reception venue(s). Tour several venues to decide which you like best, and book your favorite early.

2. Your wedding party. As a madly planning bride, it can be easy to lose track of what a wedding is about: the people. Discuss with your fiancé who each of you want as part of the wedding party, and ask them to take part. Bridesmaids can be a big help in the planning process– get them helping early on.

3. Your gown. This is the fun part! You’ll want to start shopping for your wedding dress early. Find one you love? Ask the botique’s advice on when is the best time to order. Start thinking about tuxes and bridemaid’s dresses, as well.

3. Your guestlist. Especially if you’re planning a small wedding, you’ll be amazed at the way the guestlist tends to… bloat. This one may take a long time to finalize, so you want to get started early.

4. Save the date and invitations. As soon as venue, date, and time for your wedding are firm, send “save the date” cards out to guests– especially those from out of town. Also start planning your invitations, but don’t rush. Invitations don’t need to go out until 6-8 weeks before the wedding.

5. Book ceremony services.

• Photographer. Great photographers book up quickly, so be sure to shop for the one you like best early. Keep in mind that budget is a big concern here–photography can be one of your most expensive items.

• Florist. Florists also get booked early– if you find a florist who can meet both your tastes and your budget, book her right away. Doing the flowers yourself? Start looking into wholesale flower services.

• Officiant. If you’re getting married in a church, the officiant probably comes with the venue. If not, you’ll generally have to book a religious or civil officiant for the ceremony.

• Music. You may want a band or instrumentalist to play at the beginning or end of the ceremony. Start shopping now.

5. Rehearsal dinner. Start planning the guestlist, venue, and menu for the rehearsal dinner.

6. Your vows. You want to leave time to both write and memorize your vows. Don’t plan on writing your own? Sit down with hubby to be and go over your options, deciding what kind of vows you tend to like best.

Planning the Reception

1. Your food and drink. Here comes one of the most expensive parts of planning a wedding… feeding your guests! While a full-course dinner and terrific open bar are ideal, sometimes they don’t fit in the budget. Calculate what you can spend, and begin shopping for:

• Miami Caterers
• Bar services
• Tableware and place settings
• The wedding cake

Book a caterer early and start discussing the menu ASAP– it’ll have a huge impact on your budget.

Catering Miami scene.

2. The music. First, decide if you want a band or a DJ. Then start checking out your options. There are tons of wedding bands and DJs out there, and they may not all be to your taste. Find one you like? Book him before he’s taken.

3. The tables. Unless you’re doing open-plan seating, you’ll need to decide where everybody is sitting. This can be a big job, so get started early! You’ll also need to create and decide on:

• Place settings
• Place cards
• A seating chart
• Table centerpieces

4. The transportation. If you’re using a limousine service (especially a specialty limousine service) to take you to and from the ceremony and reception, you’ll want to book them early.

5. The favors. Decide on wedding favors for your guests. Design them around a theme and get started early if you’re making them yourself.

Planning for After the Wedding

1. Your honeymoon. After all the stress of planning a wedding, you’re going to need this! So get planning your honeymoon early. Trying to get Dad to pay for the honeymoon as a wedding gift? Get schmoozing right away.

2. Your name change. If you plan on taking your hubby-to-be’s name after the ceremony, start looking into the paperwork you’ll need beforehand.

3. Thank you notes. The best time to order thank you cards for your wedding is when you order invitations. Get them addressed and ready to go beforehand, and try to send them out two weeks to one month after the wedding.

The Married Life

Congratulations on your engagement! While planning a wedding can be a crazily stressful experience, it’s also a really rewarding one– after all, you’re marrying the man of your dreams. So when you’re feeling a little daunted or a lot overwhelmed, sit down with your hubby to be, have a glass of wine, and relax. If you don’t let yourself get carried away with the details, the stress of planning won’t carry you away.

Good luck!

For a free Wedding Catering Miami quote, please contact one of our sales associates at

(561)-243-ALEX or (561)-502-6168.

We look forward to serving all of your Miami Catering needs.

by Chef Alexander of A Alexander Event Caterers

http://www.AlexanderEvent.com

(561)-243-ALEX

Tips for Arranging a Wedding Reception

        Reception is the occasion or a party after the marriage; it can be in the same day of the marriage or after one or two days of the marriage. This had become a ritual by some societies. A wedding reception can proceed for not more than three or four hours. Finding a hall for this reception is a risky task, because you have to get a wedding hall on that particular day with all your requirements and it should be sufficient for all the guests mainly it should come under your budget. It should be quickly accessible by all.

Choosing a Wedding Reception Hall

     Choosing a perfect location for the reception is the most important task. For that you can refer phone book or you can browse the internet for wedding reception halls. You will get the web address and the phone numbers. After you got the address, look for the information’s like how many people can accommodate, price, menu and the size of the hall etc.,

         After collecting these information’s you can select first five halls, which you think it is fulfilling all your requirements. Visit the Catering Miami venue hall with your friends or relatives. While going for a visit go along with the paper and pencil to make a note of address, contact numbers, contact person and other notes of the venues which you have visited.

          After compiling all the information’s definitely you will find a venue, which is suitable for your requirements. Then check if the hall is available for the particular date and time you are supposed to have your wedding or reception, if so book the hall. If you think you got the perfect place you can book the hall, before booking a hall you should be aware if there are any hidden charges or any extra charges for cake cutting. Ask them if the cost of the reception hall is including the food etc.

Kinds of Locations

          There are two types of wedding locations. They are on-site Locations and off-site Locations. In on-Site Location your requirements will be available under one roof. In this category you can get all the facilities at the location itself like food, beverage, staff, music, cakes and staffs also. This will happen only in restaurants, clubs, resorts, historic settings and some community centers. This location is suitable for couples those who are looking for very large affairs. You will get all the things in dedicated manner because all are very much equipped with this kind of occasions, and they are professionally made for that. Miami Catering venue selection is available by calling one of our sales associates at (561)-243-ALEX.

                There will be no service providers in Off-Site Location; you have to arrange for everything including food, beverages, and florist. For each and everything you have to make a decision. Some special caterers can prepare the food that you prefer; some caterers are special in some food items so they are able to prepare that kind of food item only. There are difficulties in Off-Site location. But the satisfactory factor in this off site location is you can have the part at your way, it is better to consult a wedding consultant in this manner.
 

Catering Miami specialist, Chef Alexander of Alexander Event Caterers

Wedding Videography

Capturing moving images in an electronic media is called Videography. The name videography is derived from Greek and Latin words. The introduction of digital imaging on the beginning of 20^th century shaped the difference between cinematography and videography. After the arrival of Internet there was a great advancement in the field of videography and it covers many more areas other than just capturing images with a camera.

Videography in Wedding

Videography plays a major role in wedding because all will view this videography record of the most memorable day. Every one will preserve this recording as long as they remember the occasion. In the early days of the wedding videography, it was a very difficult for videographers to capture the motions, because they did not have the modern equipments that they have today. So the videographer had to be a well trained professional. But today, anyone can do videography by making use of the latest equipments. They can capture the images as per the wish of everyone, particularly by the couples. They need not wait for better lighting or technical aspects, because all the advanced methods have been invented. Please feel free to contact one of our Catering Miami professionals at (561)-243-ALEX

Videography Before and After Wedding

Before wedding, there are like engagement Videos, Photo Scrapbooks etc. In engagement Video there will be a short film about the proposal or the groom asking the bride for wedding. most of these films will be captured without the knowledge of bride. Photo Scrapbook is one of the modern videography rarely used in wedding it is nothing but some stills will be there in the video with some sound bits.

There will be an interesting capture called as Love Story. In that   there will be a small conversation between bride and groom about how they met, and what are all the future plans and the family life etc. There will be some additional coverage of some romantic sound bits with some special visual effects in this videography. There will be Concept Coverage; in other word typically both bride and groom tell a story about both of them. There will be some video recording of pre-wedding ceremony and post-wedding ceremony. This will be broadcasted after the wedding as a recap of the memorable occasion.

Miami Caterers by Chef Alexander of A Alexander Event Caterers, (561)-243-ALEX

Tips To Select Wedding Albums

Wedding Albums

Marriage is an unforgettable moment in everyone’s life. Generally all the couples love to share their lovable moments to everyone. It is not possible to recap all the moments after the marriage. wedding albums are the main tool to get the memories alive all the time. The wedding albums are available in various sizes and colors. Wrap and paper may vary to album to album. Couples can select their album by colors sizes, text and verse to make their album unique. The most common paper colors are white, silver and gold. The pages inside the albums are protected with the sheet protectors. This will maintain the photographs neat and clean even after generations.

Tips To Select Wedding Albums

It is important to decide the photography that you desire. If you are looking for a traditional photography or you like to have some frank shots to make your album attractive, then you have to look for the photographer who is perfect in all these things.

It is better to have a contract with your photographer (i.e.) he should not be absent for the occasion at any cost and also ask your photographer to make a note of it. First you make a list of photographers those who are considered best by you, and select some of the photographers and call upon them.

Decide the level of you photography as some couples may need photographer just for two to three hours while others may need for the whole day, including pre wedding ceremony and dinner and bridal portraits etc. It is advisable to make a decision of how many photographs you need for your wedding occasion because some photographers will offer only 100 or 200 images from your wedding function. However, some of the best photographer will offer you 1000 to 3000 photographs of your unforgettable occasion.

Please feel free to contact your Catering Miami professionals for a detailed quote.

(561)-243-ALEX

Some couples have a plan to capture their wedding occasion in video tapes or disks. But after some years this will not give you a clear picture comparing to photographs. It is important that your photography expenses should not exceed more than 12 % of your total wedding expenses. Now a day the photographs are used in calendars, T-shirts and mugs. So decide how you are going to use your photographs. You can just purchase an album or you can use the images as wall hangings or you can use the images in invitations etc. Miami Caterers has the ability to outsource all of your wedding services.

It is better you can ask for a negative from your photographer if you decide to have a multiple prints of your images in future. If you have some innovative thoughts and you wish to publish your photographs in website you can better preserve the images in CD-ROM.

Wedding albums are the most important tools to make the function complete. Albums are like mirrors that reflect the joy and sorrows of the wedding. So it is important to preserve the albums for a long time without any damages.

We look forward to speaking with you.

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Catering Miami

by

A ALEXANDER EVENT CATERERS

http://www.AlexanderEvent.com

(561)-243-ALEX

Tips For Selecting Your Wedding Cake

Wedding Cake

Selecting a cake for wedding is not simple. It should be suitable for all seasons. For example, if you have planned for your wedding in summer season or the location is hot, it is better take advice from a baker about the types of cakes which can be used for particular seasons.

Size of a Cake

Normally Wedding cakes come in several models and sizes. Traditionally there are cakes which have more than one tier. While determining the size of the cakes, the number of guests who will be there at the wedding should be taken into account. The Cake must be distributed to all the guests.

Flavor and Icing

The main attraction of the cake is the Icing work on the cake and the flavor of the cake. Mostly the icing will be in light colors. But many couples like to match their wedding cakes with wedding theme and the wedding dress. But you can get more ideas from internet about the modern Icing and kind of flavor. Some couple like the cake with different flavors in each tier.

Display

The major attraction in the wedding is display of the wedding cake. There are some decorum to decorate and place the Cakes. There are

• The Cake should be displayed in front of the guests, which will be visible to all without blocking any guest, the view of the bride and groom.
• There should be a decorated knife on the table near by the Cake.
• The Cake cutting ceremony should happen after lunch or dinner.
• The announcement about the cutting should be prior to the cutting
• The Cake must be cut together by bride and groom.
• After the ceremony Cake should be taken away by the family and friends and it should be cut in front of the guests.
• Finally the Cake will be served with coffee or tea.

Important Tips to Select a Baker

It is very important that selecting a right baker to create your dream wedding cake. It is better to ask your baker to display all the pictures of wedding cakes that they previously designed. This will help you to know better about the baker’s innovative thinking and art of work.

Ask your baker for tasting before ordering for wedding cakes. Usually the bakers will offer you the icing fillings and frostings to taste. Ask you baker itself to deliver and decorate the Cakes because he will have his own ideas about the decorations and delivery styles. Better ask the Baker about the payment conditions if there is any advance payment before he starts the work. It is very important to check the delivery of the right cake, which was ordered by you, with colors and flavors. Finally check the exact cost of the cake which was promised by you including the extra cost.

Feel free to contact one of our Catering Miami professionals for a free consultation.

Tips For Selecting Your Wedding Dress

Wedding Dress

Dressing is the main part for any wedding. The dress is one of the major attractions, which will express the wedding mood. But you should be very careful in selecting a wedding dress and also you should have little knowledge of wedding dress. But now a days selecting is not much difficult because you have lot of magazines available in bridal shop that afford lot of information’s about wedding dress. You must make your mind up on outline of your wedding dress because the wedding dresses come in various shapes. So you have to choose the dress which will suit you. For example, the gowns particularly Ball gowns will suit to any type of body.

There are many types of gowns for brides like Empire waist gowns and a Cinderella-esque dress. In Empire waist gowns will have a skirt just below the breasts and also there will be lot of waistline types. These kinds of gowns are usually made upon flowing and light fabric and are really suitable for pregnant brides because they have extra space in the waist.

Figure of Wedding Dress

In wedding dress there are nearly five figures that are traditional.

• Sheath Dresses are the most common and are always made upon soft and flowing fabric like crepe and georgette and are absolutely suitable for tall and slim brides.
• Princess or a Line Shaped Dresses are very much suitable for brides with broad hips and large thighs with small waist.
• The most common and traditional wedding dress is with floor length skirt and it suits church wedding. This kind of gowns is suitable for brides with slim waistline.
• A Fishtail also called mermaid, shows bride taller and slim. If you are naturally slim and tall, this type is really marvelous for you.
• Also there is one more outline called An Empire Line Dress. It is really best for small kaput brides and also it enhances the beauty of bride.

Right Dress For Right Body

It is very important to select your wedding dress as per your comfort, because it should fit for your shape. This is because some brides are fat and thin and some are tall and slim. So it is very important to select the dress. And also there are various types of dresses. So it is very difficult to choose. Watch out for hump, which will give an unhappy position when you sit.

Miami Caterers is your one stop shop for all of your wedding needs. Please feel free to contact us at

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Venues for Wedding

Wedding Region

Selecting an area for the occasion is must for wedding. Venue will decide the success of every occasion it may be a wedding or a party or it can be a special occasion or a corporate affair. Selecting a wedding venue is an overwhelming job; it requires considerable time and responsibilities. You can find the perfect wedding venues thru online wedding sites too.

FOR A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE OF AREA’S VENUES,

PLEASE CONTACT

A ALEXANDER EVENT CATERERS

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About Wedding Site

There are some mulls over when considering a wedding location such as event type, event length, event size and facilities. It is very important to select an event type because there are some wedding types such as casual, formal and romantic. So you have to select a place for the particular mood of wedding. And also you should be careful about the location because the area must accommodate all the guests. There should be a consideration about travel and parking facilities. The size should be capable to accommodate all the guests. The wedding ceremony is not only the wedding celebration, apart from wedding ceremony there will be some more activities. Some of the ceremonies will take more than a day, so the length also should be considered. More over, the facilities should satisfy all the guests who are attending the function.

Various Venues for Wedding

There should be a venue for wedding. It depends upon the budget of the bride and groom. Middle class people have to think about the wedding location which will be available with the budget which is affordable to them. Generally you can have the party at the restaurant because you will have some private rooms and a grassy garden behind the restaurant, which can be used for a dance party after the occasion. The venue can be a park, because it is very easy to book a park with nominal fee, more over you can celebrate the occasion in a place with fountains and grassy grounds. The venue can be a performance theatre, because there will be several lobbies and you can use those areas. In  moderns days wedding venues are totally different and unbelievable like wedding in balloon, under the Sea, in the Airplane, and in a roller coaster, in the Sky, in a Bus and in a Trains etc.,

Tips for Choosing a Wedding or Reception Hall

Finding a suitable venue for the occasion is really a tough task, initially you have to visit lot of venues to gather all the information about all the locations. Then bring together all the details and choose the venue that is suitable for you. It should contain all the facilities under you budget. You should be careful in settling the amount for the hall. Make sure that the rent is including the decorations, flowers and furniture’s etc.