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| - This review is long overdue! We had our 170 guest wedding reception here, following our ceremony which was at Springs Preserve. I cannot say enough about our wonderful Catering Coordinator, Cindy Yang. She was absolutely a dream to work with. Out of all the vendors I worked with, she was the ONLY one who was seamless all the way through. She responded ultra fast to all of my husbands dozens and dozens of emails. She arranged the most lovely tasting for us before the wedding and met with us numerous times at our request, always pleasant and smiling. After each time that we met up with her, we would stay and have lunch afterward. Every meal we ate at the cafe was soooooo yummy, making me feel very confident that the same level of detail would translate to our reception dinner.
My whole life I have attended weddings with crappy food. Now, I totally get why people most likely skimp costs on food, being that I spent an arm and a leg on my own wedding meals...but one of the things I swore I would never do was have bad food at my wedding!!! It was high priority to me.
We ended up kicking off with a cocktail hour, including open bar and a fruit and cheese display outside on the balcony. I was not present for this (taking photos) but I heard it was wonderful!! The dinner for our guests started with Caesar salad, followed by a plated dinner with a double meat entree of steak and turkey (I LOVE turkey, hate chicken!) with garlic whipped potatoes and asparagus. Our vegetarians were delighted with the chef's creation of a light, fresh orzo pasta in place of the meat (it was DELISH!!!!!) I have to say... our food was DIVINE! EVERYONE complimented us on how delicious our food was and how it was the best wedding food they had ever had! This pleased me beyond measure! Also, knowing that my guests weren't leaving and hitting up In and Out Burger after they left our wedding made me feel that it was all worth it!
Diving Cafe had such a professional staff, and the head chef overseeing our dinner executed a perfect dinner. The cafe has such a spectacular view of the entire strip from the balcony and the the venue itself is so lovely. It fit perfectly with our "desert" themed wedding.
Other things to note, they supplied the table linen and tableware. BONUS!
Thanks for everything DIVINE CAFE! You were the shining star of my wedding!
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