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someone to cater your next wedding? How about someone with the
experience to handle your next corporate event? Ann Rivers of
Great Endings Catering and Bakery has the background and experience to help you. From
wedding planning to corporate catering to lunch to go you need look no further. Give Ann a call right now before she's all booked up!!!
214-390-3989
Ann's Catering Tip of The Week
One of the latest trends when it comes to your wedding reception is to have a coffee and dessert reception, rather than a full meal. If you have your wedding reception during the afternoon between lunch and dinner, or in the evening after dinner, it is entirely appropriate to serve coffee and dessert.
If you do choose to have a coffee and dessert reception, it is possible you can save some money on your wedding catering. Still, just because you’re saving a few dollars doesn’t mean you shouldn’t provide some nice choices for your guests. Sweet treats are a versatile and tasty way to satisfy your reception guests.
A dessert buffet table should nicely complement your wedding cake. Having your wedding caterer provide a dessert buffet table lets your guests mingle while consuming tasty goodies that satisfy their sweet tooth. These deserts are often more enjoyable and more memorable than a full service meal, and will leave your guests with a smile on their face.
You should offer a wide array of choices on your dessert table. You can have simple desserts, such as chocolate mousse cups, and you can have more complex and elegant desserts such as petit fours, mini cheesecakes or fruit tarts. If your wedding has a theme, you can choose desserts that match the theme of your wedding. Choose desserts with colors that match your wedding colors, for example.
One popular element to have catered at your dessert wedding reception is a chocolate fountain. The chocolate fountain can be surrounded by any number of dipping items, such as fresh fruits, biscotti and other items. You might even consider several chocolate fountains with different types of chocolate, from dark chocolate to semi-sweet to milk chocolate.
At your dessert reception, you can place a cookie tray at each of your tables, as well. These trays may include a variety of types of cookies, reflecting your personal tastes or your family and ethnic background or traditions.
Even if you do serve a full meal, you may still consider offering a dessert buffet table. While it was once commonplace to offer a couple of dessert choices along with cake, many couples are choosing to offer more desserts. In some cases, this may allow you to offer a smaller wedding cake, and can help to shave some of the cost off of your cake if you’re trying to work within a budget. This also allows choices for your guests who may not particular be fond of cake.
Other wonderful ideas for your wedding dessert table include things like chocolate cheesecake, gateau, fresh fruits, soufflés, trifle, fresh fruit flan, pavlova, almond slices, profiteroles stack and even cupcakes.
Your wedding caterer should be able to provide you with a variety of desserts to choose from. She may also be able to offer ideas about specific desserts to complement your wedding’s theme, and may be able to help you figure out exactly what desserts would be best for your particular situation. She may also have some ideas about how to make the dessert service more fun and interesting, and therefore more memorable for your wedding reception guests.
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Great Endings Catering started off like many small businesses. Owner Ann Rivers, a young mother at the time, began by making her signature cake rolls in an oven at her home. It was the humble beginnings of what is now a thriving catering business serving corporate customers, weddings, special events of all kinds and even homemade lunches to go at her Great-to-Go Cafe.
Check out Great Endings and Great to Go today or come by and have lunch at Great to Go Cafe at 2433 Walnut Ridge Drive Dallas, TX 75229 . Ann can be reached by telephone at 214-390-3989. She will be glad to discuss any catering needs you have regardless of the type of function or your budget.
