Here is a great list of seasonal ingredients from The Food Lovers Kitchen. Our chefs at Epic Weddings are always inspired to use fresh local ingredients in their menus. We are very lucky to have access to so many local farmers markets. There is nothing better than being one step away from having farm to table produce. Enjoy!

Local See Canyon Apple Tarts With caramel sauce, cider glaze and Tahitian Vanilla whipped cream

Fresh Berry Tarts With vanilla whipped cream

Country-Style Apple Cobbler with vanilla bean ice cream

Chocolate Bourbon Pecan Pie with Homemade Vanilla Whipped Cream Chocolate Decadence 3 Layer Chocolate Decadence Cake with Chocolate Sauce, Fresh Berries and Kahlua Whipped Cream

New York Style Cheese Cake with amaretto whipped cream

Pumpkin Cheese Cake With spiced whipped cream

Strawberry Swirl Cheese Cake With fresh berries, strawberry coulis and vanilla whipped cream

Pumpkin Spiced Crème Brulee

Vanilla Bean Crème Brulee

Coffee and Kahlua Crème Brulee

Assorted Fresh Baked Cookies

Chocolate Chunk Brownies

Duo of Fresh Baked Cookies and Brownies with carafes of cold milk

S’more Pops

Hot Chocolate and Brownie Bites

Kahlua Tiramisu

Chocolate Mousse Lindt dark and white chocolate layered in a martini glass with fresh seasonal berries and a sprig of mint

House-Made Chocolate Truffles

Sundae and Float Bar Vanilla ice cream with chocolate, caramel or fresh strawberry coulis served with fresh whipped cream and choice of toppings. Choice of two sodas for your floats served in large martini glasses

The Epic Weddings Team is always searching for new and improved ways to provide more than just great food and service to our clients. We realize that presentation and style is just as important as having wonderful taste, friendly and professional staff.

Last wedding season we started exploring the possibility of expanding our own “in-house” inventories that will compliment several different styles and trends. We wanted to be able to offer a little something extra to our B&G’s by providing a touch of style to our food and beverage presentation that will complement the style they are going for.

Epic Weddings can now offer our wedding clients 3 different styles to choose from:
Vintage Chic
Vintage Rustic
Wine Country Rustic
Modern

Our ECO Friendly style is in the works… this will include bamboo elements and various recycled materials.

We will also work with our B&G’s florist to help incorporate a large centerpiece or small floral accents on the food and beverage tables to put true patina on the presentation.

We look forward to incorporating more style into all of our 2012 B&G’s special day!

There is nothing like a warm spring day…. The sound of birds chirping, many vibrant colors blossoming and all of the wonderful fresh seasonal produce has inspired our chefs to create this light and refreshing spring menu…

Hors D’oeuvres

Farmers Market Gazpacho

Strawberry Goat Cheese Bruschetta with fresh thyme and baby arugula

Salad

Spring Baby Lettuce Salad with a goat cheese crostini, pink grapefruit segments, dried cranberries and toasted walnuts with a pink texas grapefruit citronette

Entrée

Herb Marinated Airline Chicken Breast pan seared and topped with a fresh fava bean salsa

Miso Marinated Black Cod with a coconut red thai emulsion

Sides

parsnip and yukon gold potato puree

roasted asparagus

artisan breads with a parmesan, garlic and basil dipping oil

Dessert

Try serving….

 Strawberry Rhubarb Short Cake in stead of a traditional wedding cake

ENJOY!!!!

A Wedding style trend that started becoming very popular in 2011 and now into 2012 is “Vintage”. This can play into several old styles… but most popular is rustic/country.

There are many fun ways you can incorporate this look into your theme. A fun way to incorporate the vintage theme is having glass soda bottles displayed in an old galvanized ice bucket with a bottle opener attached to the handle with some twine. At this wedding, we had an empty mason jar placed next to the bucket to collect bottle tops.

Another very popular one is cookies and milk… Who doesn’t love cookies and milk?

This makes for a great late night snack or a fun addition to a dessert station. A lot more brides are choosing to have a dessert station vs. a large wedding cake. If you are looking to still incorporate old traditions, such as, “the bride and groom cutting of the cake” you can serve a single tier cake as shown below. It presents beautifully and allows you to still be creative with the rest of your dessert menu.

To add a personal touch, handmade old wood signs to hang on the back of the bride and groom’s chairs. Paint them to say “Bride and Groom” or “Mr. and Mrs.” as you can see in the picture below. This was extremely simple to do. My husband found an old wood shelf, and brought it home to me. We broke it down into pieces and cut ourselves a few boards from it. The wood was perfectly weathered to give us the old rustic vintage look we were wanting. I had one of our very talented event captains hand paint Mr. and Mrs. on each sign. We drilled holes in the upper corners and tied twine to the board so we could hang it. I added some brown ribbon and lace to give it an elegant/chic look.

Our team of Wedding Specialist here at Epic Weddings will help you bring your vision to life. We keep in our own inventory several different styles that will complement the look you want to achieve. If we do not have exactly what you are looking for, we will work with you to get it. We pride ourselves on having quality food, service and presentation. Everyone wedding should be unique and reflect the Bride and Groom personally.

Now that we are in April, we are excited to say that it is officially wedding season again. This is Epic Weddings at CateringUnlimited.com’s most exciting, yet challenging time of the year. (As all wedding vendors know…) For the next 8 months we will be working closely with our 45 brides and grooms to create a memorable experience that is stress free.

Our team here at Epic Weddings prides themselves on providing our individual clients with the utmost quality of customer service, tasteful cuisine and flawless execution. We are passionate about what we do and care about each one of our clients as if they were family. Because of all of this, we were awarded The 2012 Brides Choice Award.

I am a recent bride myself…. just a little less than a month ago I said “I Do” to my best friend and the love of my life. There wasn’t a question in mind that we were going to have Epic Weddings at CateringUnlimited.com cater our wedding. There were times I was afraid that I wouldn’t be able to check out of “work mode” on my special day since I’ve been with Epic for over 9 years now. But I have to say, I felt so calm and at peace when I arrived at our location, Windfall Farms. Our team of wedding specialist and chefs, (my family away from home) went above and beyond to bring my dreams to reality. All of my wedding vendors went above and beyond to help make our day complete and I can’t thank everyone enough. (I’ll have to write a separate post because I can go on and on about how awesome everyone was).

I have taken several things away from being a bride. One of those things is that it helped open me up to so much more and has gifted me with more knowledge and understanding of a brides feelings as they plan their special day.

Myself and the entire team here at Epic Weddings is so blessed and thankful for having the opportunity to be of service to all of our past brides and grooms and look forward to making new memories with our 2012 B&G’s

  Alicia and Nathan exchanged vows at the luxurious Monarch Club at Trilogy in Nipomo on March 26, 2011. Although they had less than ideal weather, their day was filled with love, yummy food, wine and most of all good times. This passionate and stylish couple chose a menu true to their tastes. A sit down dinner of Rosemary Encrusted Rack of Lamb with a sweet mustard sabayon and Chicken Roulade with a roasted red pepper cream sauce. After dinner they treated guests to the Chocolate and Coffee Divas. These ladies know how put on a show and provide treats that are ridiculously indulgent. The picture below is of their super classy coffee machine. I wish they were at all of our weddings!

We’re spoiled in the fact that we get to cater at the Central Coast’s most amazing venues and the Monarch Club is one of our faves. Hidden amongst the Eucalyptus groves, it’s the location to the Monarch Butterflies that flock here every year…quite the photo op. Nestled up to the rolling green hills of the golf course this venue is where we love to be. With several locations on the property, one can spread out and make the property their own. Check out the Monarch Club’s amenities to see where you can plan a wedding off the charts….Danica will take great care of you!

Many thanks to Jonathan with Blue Photo for sharing his amazing photos.

Meet the Epic Weddings and River Oaks Events team Sunday, April 10^th at the Spectacular Spring Bridal Show taking place at the Madonna Inn Expo Center in San Luis Obispo. Come see us at booths G11 and B17 in the Northwest area of the Expo Center. This is your chance to take advantage of some great deals as you become closer to finalizing your wedding details and tie up all of those loose ends.

Featured at the Bridal Faire will be our new “Eco Station” for the environmentally conscious bride with green style and comfort food tastes. The Mac N’ Cheese Station…always a hit, will delight your taste buds and surprise you with this unique twist on comfort food. And you definitely don’t want to miss our newest release of small bites, the “Perfect Pairings”. You’ll be perfectly satisfied with a bite to eat with a bevy to wash it down.

So make sure to take advantage of all the great specials, deals and prizes this Bridal Faire will bring to make your big day as unique and as special as your love for one another! Looking forward to seeing you there!