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| - We're so happy we chose Special Moments to cater our wedding this past April. We had an outdoor wedding at Saguaro Lake Ranch, and right after the ceremony it started to rain. It only ever rains in Arizona when we are there it seems, because it also rained when we first visited the site in September last year... Anyway, the rain was unexpected and we didn't have a coordinator or a real contingency plan in place. But the servers like clockwork got the food under cover and then moved up to an alternative area inside the main lodge of the ranch without any direction from us. They made everything work amazingly well despite the hassles and everyone had a great dinner without a huge delay. This was a buffet dinner for just under 100 people and the food was still delicious and hot by the time everyone sat down to eat.
Also, we didn't get dessert from them and instead bought lots of pies from a wonderful pie shop called Piefection. So we assumed that our guests would have to take care of serving themselves dessert, but the head server from Special Moment would have none of that. He asked if it would be ok for them to do dessert service for us, and of course I said yes. So they got our pies served out and everyone had dessert brought to them.
As for the food itself, it was just delicious. Their menu of choices seems limited, but everything we had at our tasting was great, and their chef was so much fun to chat with. The standouts were the basil Chardonnay linguine, the grilled Tri-tip with yummy bordelaise sauce and the meatballs. Our guests raved about how good the food was! (My family is picky about good food by the way, so this was not empty praise.)
My sister is a bartender and she mixed drinks for the cocktail hour before dinner, and they were even nice enough to lend us some drinks towers free of charge when we asked if they could throw them in for free.
I recommend this catering service wholeheartedly and would book them again in a heartbeat. Bri was our contact person within the company and she was great, and I do wish I knew the head server's name because he was a gem.
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