For cocktail hour, we had an Asian station, a pasta station, a sushi station, a raw bar, baby lamb chops, and an ice sculpture; all things we added. We also had charcuteries and a tapas station, passed hors d’oeuvres, and two signature drinks which were really fun. One was a dirty gin martini with blue cheese olives, and again Maritime Parc got the blue cheese olives because we requested that. The other one was a spicy pineapple margarita. My favorite items were the sushi and the lamb chops, which were amazing. The grilling station had mini cedar plank salmon steaks, ribs, and skirt steak, which people said was unbelievable.
I wanted everything white and simple. Prestige Luxury Rentals built a mirrored 18-inch stage for the band which was awesome. We had a long table for our friends with 32 people and really big candelabras with 10 candles in each. The middle of the table had more roses and candles. At other tables we had six-foot trees with glass candles hanging down. We also had a lot of white flowers and candles.
We had two entrées. One was a duo of beef with NY strip steak and braised short ribs served with creamed spinach and truffled potato puree. Guests could also choose pan-seared branzino with broccolini and truffled potato puree in a white wine buerre blanc sauce. Both dishes were unbelievable. We did a vanilla cake with dark chocolate ganache filling and vanilla icing. Steven is gluten-free, so they got him a special gluten-free cake. They were really accommodating about that.